SEPTEMBER 2016 –JULY 2017 Director’s Introduction

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One of Britain’s foremost singers, Sarah Connolly, opens the Hall’s new season with regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau, leading listeners through a programme rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and glorious melodies. The recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder, the impassioned lyricism of Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle narrative impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis, and a selection of Schumann songs.

Mark Padmore’s vocal artistry and ability to extract every drop of emotion from poetic texts have secured his place among today’s finest recitalists. Morgan Szymanski, described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player destined for future glories’ joins him on 12 September.

Critical acclaim for Angela Hewitt’s Bach interpretations bears witness to the pianist’s extraordinary ability to connect physically and emotionally as well as intellectually with the dance rhythms and expressive gestures of the composer’s keyboard works. The Bach Odyssey will highlight all of this over the next four years.

Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality. She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös.

Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied forty years of his life. They offer insights into his development as artist and individual, and stand among the greatest of all his works. Igor Levit, now in his late 20s, drew critical superlatives to his debut recording of Beethoven’s late sonatas and has since established his reputation as a visionary interpreter of the composer’s music. His first Beethoven cycle in a major concert hall stands among the must-hear events of 2016/17.

Peter Dazeley I am very pleased that Collegium 1704 will make its UK debut with We celebrate St Cecilia on her annual festival with the greatest of Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, in a programme of arias, songs Purcell’s Odes. Hail, bright Cecilia, the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692, and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis. belongs to a distinctive English tradition of honouring music’s patron Václav Luks and his Prague-based ensemble have secured rave reviews saint. John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their interpretations for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among them. of masterworks by Bach and Handel, invariably find fresh ways of bringing Baroque music to life. Known for her passionate devotion to chamber music, as well as her incandescent concerto performances, Janine Jansen has achieved Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo begin their Wigmore Hall residency worldwide acclaim with music-making of the highest integrity. The Dutch with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas, including the touching violinist, a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience, is a regular visitor Actus tragicus, perhaps written in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s throughout the season. uncle, and Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber Daniel, gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance for Arcangelo’s ace Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female period-instrument players to shine in the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. Composer in Residence with a day devoted to her art. The Scottish composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive creative voice Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a generation of singers and her music’s lyrical beauty. Our Helen Grime Day, on 15 October, offers blessed with remarkable technical skills, musical refinement and the chance to become deeply immersed in her chamber compositions. emotional freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to mine the depths of the contralto range provide the ideal complement to the Over the past decade Alison Balsom has captivated audiences worldwide crystalline beauty of Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore with her lyrical playing, exquisite tone and penetrating musicianship. As Hall with Luca Pianca’s stellar Ensemble Claudiana to perform a programme performer, educator and advocate she has done more for her instrument of works associated with Venice, on 29 December. and the wider cause of classical music than many achieve in a lifetime. ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’, a series of four concerts throughout the Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, first performed in Venice in 1651, blends season, offers the chance to experience the full breadth and depth of comedy and tragedy with music of sensuous beauty and irresistible charm. her work. The opera’s libretto is based on the ancient Greek myth of the nymph Callisto as related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. It will be treated to the Based in Sheffield, Music in the Round is the country’s leading chamber energy and artistic vision of La Nuova Musica and its director David Bates. music promoter outside of London. Renowned for its innovative, informal and engaging performances, we are delighted to welcome its resident Any collection of essential albums of the keyboard works of Bach, group Ensemble 360 to the Wigmore Hall stage for this special weekend, Schumann, Janácˇ ek and Bartók would be impoverished without the which explores the chamber music of Robert Schumann and the ever- recordings of Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s affinity for the music of each youthful compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, alongside composers who composer has matured over many decades, making his three recitals influenced them, and were influenced by them. and three related evening masterclasses one of the highlights of Wigmore Hall’s 2016/17 Season. Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music of the English language has inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard’s verse One of Germany’s greatest-ever singers, Brigitte Fassbaender, returns during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and to Wigmore Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a Stravinsky. Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together with four company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires. And, of outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy course, we continue our survey of Schubert’s entire song output on 14 November. throughout the season.

Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concert It’s impossible for me to mention everything, so please enjoy reading d’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practical through the brochure for yourself. I look forward to welcoming you to experience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music. Wigmore Hall throughout the season ahead. Above all the group takes its lead from Haïm’s imaginative engagement with the bold rhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works, John Gilhooly and the absolute conviction of her interpretations. They make their Wigmore Director Hall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, on 15 November. SERIES ATA GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016

See pages 6 – 122 for full details of these concerts and page 123 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Fri 25 Nov Ensemble Modern Page 58 Sat 26 Nov Arditti Quartet 59 Sarah Connolly and Malcolm Martineau 7 Mon 12 Sep Mark Padmore/Morgan Szymanski Page 8 Sat 10 Dec Nash Ensemble/Christianne Stotijn 68 Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski 8 Mon 19 Sep Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 14 Sun 11 Dec Belcea Quartet 69 Schubert: 10 –11, 34, 45, 57, 67, 86, 89, 92, 98, 104, 110, Tue 13 Dec St. Lawrence String Quartet 70 The Complete Songs 111, 114, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120 Mon 26 Sep Doric String Quartet 17 The English Concert 12, 76, 90, 114 Mon 3 Oct Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen 24 Wed 14 Dec Britten Sinfonia 71 Jeremy Denk 13 Mon 10 Oct Nicholas Angelich 27 Fri 16 Dec Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert 72 Les Vents Français 14 Mon 17 Oct Vilde Frang/Aleksandar Madžar 31 Tue 20 Dec Balsom Ensemble 73 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Kristian Bezuidenhout 16 Mon 24 Oct Nelson Goerner 35 Fri 23 Dec Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 75 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 18–19, 87, 114 Mon 31 Oct Kelemen Quartet 40 Tue 27 Dec Sitkovetsky Trio 75 Max Emanuel Cencic and Il Pomo d’Oro 20 Mon 7 Nov Marie-Elisabeth Hecker 47 Wed 28 Dec Doric String Quartet 76 Barbara Hannigan and Calder Quartet 21 Martin Helmchen Fri 30 Dec Gringolts Quartet 76 Beethoven Cycle: 15, 22–23, 27, 47, 67, Igor Levit 89, 95, 98, 115 Mon 14 Nov Cuarteto Quiroga/Javier Perianes 49 Nathalie Stutzmann and Orfeo 55 24 Mon 21 Nov Garrick Ohlsson 55 Early Music and Baroque Series Anna Bonitatibus and Collegium 1704 26 Mon 28 Nov Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 59 Janine Jansen Perspectives 28, 91, 113 Mon 5 Dec Boris Giltburg 65 Mon 12 Sep The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice 9 Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber 30 Mon 12 Dec Emmanuel Pahud 69 Wed 14 Sep The English Concert/Anna Devin 12 Helen Grime Day 32–33 Matthew Brook/Harry Bicket Le Poème Harmonique 35 Mon 19 Dec Miklós Perényi 73 Mon 19 Sep Classical Opera/Ian Page/Ailish Tynan 14 Schubert in English 34, 46, 68 Rachel Kelly/Kitty Whately/Robert Murray Nash Ensemble: 36–37, 54, 68, Vienna and its Empire 87, 90, 91 Chamber Music Season Thu 22 Sep Freiburg Baroque Orchestra 16 Sophie Karthäuser and Eugene Asti 41 Kristian Bezuidenhout Fri 16 Sep Daniel Hope/Paul Neubauer 9 Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ 42– 43, 73,111,114 Thu 29 Sep Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro 20 David Finckel/Wu Han Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses 44 Maxim Emelyanychev Sun 18 Sep 14 Borodin Quartet: Beethoven and 45, 46, 113 Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage Sun 2 Oct Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55 24 Shostakovich Cycle Fri 23 Sep The Endellion String Quartet 15 Wed 5 Oct Anna Bonitatibus/Collegium 1704 26 Emerson String Quartet 40th Anniversary 49 Sat 24 Sep Aurora Orchestra 17 Václav Luks Music in the Round Weekend 50–51 Fri 30 Sep Renaud Capuçon/Guillaume Chilemme 20 Fri 14 Oct The Cardinall’s Musick 29 Ian Bostridge, Sir Antonio Pappano and Friends 52 Gérard Caussé/Adrien La Marca Fri 21 Oct Le Poème Harmonique 35 Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm 53 Edgar Moreau Mon 24 Oct Phantasm 38 Dunedin Consort 56 Sat 1 Oct Calder Quartet/Barbara Hannigan 21 Ensemble Modern 58 Wed 26 Oct Florilegium/Dame Emma Kirkby 38 Thu 6 Oct IMS Prussia Cove 25 La Nuova Musica and David Bates 60 Thu 10 Nov Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford 48 Fri 7 Oct Pavel Haas Quartet/Harriet Krijgh 25 Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, 62–63, 93, 94, 108 Tue 15 Nov Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm 53 Janácˇek and Bartók Sat 8 Oct Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk 28 Tue 22 Nov Dunedin Consort 56 Philippe Jaroussky and Le Concert de la Loge Olympique 64 Sat 15 Oct Helen Grime Day 33 Mon 28 Nov La Nuova Musica/David Bates 60 Anne Schwanewilms and Malcolm Martineau 65 Sun 16 Oct The Tetzlaff Trio 31 Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe 66 Thu 1 Dec Philippe Jaroussky/Le Concert de la 64 Sat 22 Oct Nash Ensemble 37 Christian McBride Jazz Series 68 Loge Olympique/Julien Chauvin Thu 27 Oct Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius 39 Martha Argerich and Alberto Portugheis 69 Sun 4 Dec Collegium Vocale Gent 66 Arcangelo 70, 85, 108, 121 Mon 31 Oct Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster 43 Philippe Herreweghe Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle 71, 108 Wed 2 Nov Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio 40 Wed 14 Dec Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen 70 Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert 72 Fri 4 Nov Borodin Quartet 45 Fri 16 Dec Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert 72 René Pape Debut 72 Sun 6 Nov Borodin Quartet 46 Mon 19 Dec The King’s Consort 73 Miklós Perényi 73 Fri 11 Nov Ensemble 360 51 Wed 21 Dec Mahan Esfahani 74 Mahan Esfahani 74 Sat 12 Nov Ensemble 360 51 Vox Luminis 75 Thu 22 Dec Vox Luminis 75 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 75 Sun 13 Nov Emerson String Quartet 49 Thu 29 Dec Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina 77 Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina and Ensemble Claudiana 77 Sat 19 Nov Nash Ensemble 54 Ensemble Claudiana Contemporary Music Series 78–79 Wed 23 Nov Truls Mørk/Håvard Gimse 57 Sat 31 Dec The English Concert 76

2 Song Recital Series London Pianoforte Series Tue 21 Mar Nash Ensemble/Martyn Brabbins Page 99 Adrian Brendel/Roderick Williams Fri 9 Sep Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau Page 7 Sun 11 Sep Denis Kozhukhin Page 6 Sat 25 Mar Thomas Adès Day ‘Arcadiana’ 100 Sat 10 Sep Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen 6 Thu 15 Sep Yulianna Avdeeva 9 Fri 7 Apr Jean-Guihen Queyras 103 Sokratis Sinopoulos/Chemirani Brothers Tue 13 Sep Mark Padmore/James Baillieu 10 Sat 17 Sep Jeremy Denk 13 Wed 19 Apr Britten Sinfonia 105 Tue 20 Sep James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook 15 Sun 25 Sep Angela Hewitt 19 Wed 28 Sep Igor Levit 23 Wed 26 Apr Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Sol Gabetta 107 Sat 1 Oct Barbara Hannigan/Calder Quartet 21 Mon 3 Oct Jan Lisiecki 25 Sun 7 May Patricia Kopatchinskaja 109 Wed 12 Oct Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 30 Sun 9 Oct Igor Levit 27 Anthony Romaniuk Thu 20 Oct Christoph Prégardien 34 Tue 11 Oct Llyˆr Williams 29 Thu 11 May Elias String Quartet 110 Christoph Schnackertz Thu 13 Oct Melvyn Tan 29 Wed 14 Jun Arditti Quartet/Eliot Fisk 115 Sun 23 Oct Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn 34 Wed 19 Oct Leon McCawley 31 Fri 16 Jun Jasper String Quartet 116 Sun 23 Oct Jamie Barton/James Baillieu 35 Tue 25 Oct Sunwook Kim 38 Tue 20 Jun Ensemble intercontemporain 116 Fri 28 Oct 39 The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough Sat 29 Oct Philippe Cassard 39 Mon 26 Jun Vienna Piano Trio/Mark Padmore 117 Sun 30 Oct Sophie Karthäuser/Eugene Asti 41 Thu 3 Nov Alexei Volodin 45 Sat 1 Jul Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson 118 Sat 5 Nov Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau 45 Mon 7 Nov Igor Levit 47 The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Sun 6 Nov Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn 46 Wed 9 Nov Christian Zacharias 48 Tue 8 Nov Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau 47 Thu 17 Nov Imogen Cooper 52 Samling Artists Tue 29 Nov Sir András Schiff 63 Thu 10 Nov Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford 48 Sat 3 Dec Richard Goode 61 Wigmore Hall Learning Mon 14 Nov Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano 52 Tue 6 Dec Igor Levit 67 Elizabeth Kenny/Lawrence Power Wed 7 Dec Andreas Staier 67 Sat 17 Sep Open House Day 13, 80 Michael Collins/Adam Walker Mon 12 Dec Martha Argerich/Alberto Portugheis 69 Tue 20 Sep Wigmore Study Group commences 15 Fri 18 Nov Adrianne Pieczonka/Brian Zeger 54 Thu 15 Dec Francesco Piemontesi 71 Sat 24 Sep Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio 17, 80 Sun 20 Nov Luca Pisaroni/Maciej Pikulski 55 Sun 25 Sep Pre-Concert Talk 19 Thu 24 Nov Stuart Jackson/Marcus Farnsworth 57 World Music Series Tue 27 Sep For Crying Out Loud! 20 James Baillieu Sun 2 Oct Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures 24, 80 Mon 5 Dec Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau 65 Fri 2 Dec Wu Man, Sanubar Tursun, 61 Fri 7 Oct Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 81 Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project Thu 8 Dec Stephan Loges/Graham Johnson 67 and Polly Ives Sat 8 Oct Family Concert: Ensemble 360 25, 81 Sun 11 Dec Sir John Tomlinson/Christopher Glynn 68 and Polly Ives Sat 17 Dec René Pape/Camillo Radicke 72 Contemporary Music Series Sat 15 Oct Helen Grime Day 33 We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential Tue 20 Sep James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook 15 Wed 19 Oct For Crying Out Loud! 31 additional support for our expanded vocal series Sat 24 Sep Aurora Orchestra 17 Thu 20 Oct Study Afternoon: Schubert in English 34 Sat 1 Oct Calder Quartet/Barbara Hannigan 21 Sat 22 Oct Family Day: A Knight’s Quest 81 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Fri 14 Oct The Cardinall’s Musick 29 Sun 23 Oct Schubert: The Beautiful Maid of the Mill 34 Sat 15 Oct Helen Grime Day 33 Wed 26 Oct Musical Portraits Band commences 81 Sun 11 Sep Danish String Quartet 6 Fri 28 Oct The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough 39 Mon 31 Oct Artists in Conversation 43 Sun 18 Sep Nick van Bloss 13 Mon 31 Oct Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster 43 Thu 3 Nov Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass 44 Sun 25 Sep Jack Liebeck/Amandine Savary 17 Sun 13 Nov Emerson String Quartet 49 Fri 4 Nov Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass 44 Sun 2 Oct Van Kuijk Quartet 24 Fri 25 Nov Ensemble Modern 58 Sun 6 Nov Schubert: Winter Journey 46 Sun 9 Oct Scottish Ensemble 27 Tue 8 Nov 47 Sat 26 Nov Arditti Quartet 59 Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass Sun 16 Oct Dover Quartet 31 Sat 12 Nov Family Concert: 51, 82 Sun 11 Dec Belcea Quartet 69 Sun 23 Oct 37 The Fantastic City of Music Nash Ensemble Tue 13 Dec 70 St. Lawrence String Quartet Sat 12 Nov Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk 51 Sun 30 Oct Carducci String Quartet 40 Wed 14 Dec Britten Sinfonia 71 Mon 14 Nov Artists in Conversation 52 Sun 6 Nov Endymion 46 Fri 30 Dec Gringolts Quartet 76 Wed 16 Nov Schools Concert: Van Kuijk Quartet 82 Sun 13 Nov Ensemble 360 51 Mon 23 Jan Philip Higham/Alasdair Beatson 88 and Rachel Leach Sun 20 Nov Maximilian Hornung/Hisako Kawamura 55 Wed 25 Jan Signum Quartet 88 Wed 30 Nov Sir András Schiff Masterclass 63 Sun 27 Nov Tai Murray/Silke Avenhaus 59 Wed 8 Feb Britten Sinfonia 91 Fri 2 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 61 Sun 4 Dec Atrium Quartet 65 Thu 9 Feb Jörg Widmann/Mitsuko Uchida 91 Sat 3 Dec Come and Sing: Hungarian Music 61, 82 Sun 11 Dec Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar 68 Sat 18 Feb Scottish Ensemble/Jonathan Morton 92 Sat 10 Dec Early Years: Rumbled 83 Sun 18 Dec Cassard/Grimal/Gastinel Trio 72 Alina Ibragimova Sun 11 Dec Schubert: Swansong 68 Sat 25 Feb Xenakis Day 94 Tue 13 Dec Early Years: Rumbled 83 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Fri 3 Mar Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 96 Wed 14 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 71 Huw Watkins/Oliver Knussen Thu 15 Dec Music for the Moment 71, 82 Fri 9 Dec Christian McBride 68 Fri 10 Mar Pacifica Quartet/Johannes Moser 97 Sat 17 Dec Early Years: Rumbled 83

3 October

Date Start Time Event Page Calendar Sat 1 Oct 7.30 pm Barbara Hannigan/Calder Quartet 21 Sun 2 Oct 11.30 am Van Kuijk Quartet 24 Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures 24, 80 7.30 pm Nathalie Stutzmann/Orfeo 55 24 Mon 3 Oct 1.00 pm Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen 24 7.30 pm Jan Lisiecki 25 Wed 5 Oct 7.30 pm Anna Bonitatibus/Collegium 1704/Václav Luks 26 September Thu 6 Oct 7.30 pm IMS Prussia Cove 25 Fri 7 Oct 11.00 am Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives 81 1.00 pm Schools Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives 81 Date Start Time Event Page 7.30 pm Pavel Haas Quartet/Harriet Krijgh 25 Fri 9 Sep 7.30 pm Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau 7 Sat 8 Oct 11.00 am Family Concert: Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives 25, 81 7.30 pm Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk 28 Sat 10 Sep 7.30 pm Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen 6 Sun 9 Oct 11.30 am Scottish Ensemble 27 Sun 11 Sep 11.30 am Danish String Quartet 6 7.30 pm Igor Levit 27 7.30 pm Denis Kozhukhin 6 Mon 10 Oct 1.00 pm Nicholas Angelich 27 Mon 12 Sep 1.00 pm Mark Padmore/Morgan Szymanski 8 Tue 11 Oct 7.30 pm Lly ˆr Williams 29 7.30 pm The Brabant Ensemble/Stephen Rice 9 Wed 12 Oct 7.30 pm Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 30 Tue 13 Sep 7.30 pm Mark Padmore/James Baillieu 10 Thu 13 Oct 7.30 pm Melvyn Tan 29 Fri 14 Oct 7.30 pm The Cardinall’s Musick 29 Wed 14 Sep 7.30 pm The English Concert/Anna Devin/Matthew Brook/Harry Bicket 12 Sat 15 Oct 1.00 pm Helen Grime Day: Alexandra Wood/Rachel Roberts 33 Thu 15 Sep 7.30 pm Yulianna Avdeeva 9 Philip Higham/Nicholas Daniel/Huw Watkins 6.00 pm Helen Grime Day: Artists in Conversation 33 Fri 16 Sep 7.30 pm Daniel Hope/Paul Neubauer/David Finckel/Wu Han 9 7.30 pm Helen Grime Day: BCMG/Geoffrey Paterson/Mark van de Wiel 33 Sat 17 Sep 10.00 am Open House Day 13, 80 Sun 16 Oct 11.30 am Dover Quartet 31 7.30 pm Jeremy Denk 13 7.30 pm The Tetzlaff Trio 31 Mon 17 Oct 1.00 pm Vilde Frang/Aleksandar Madžar 31 Sun 18 Sep 11.30 am Nick van Bloss 13 7.30 pm Les Vents Français/Eric Le Sage 14 Wed 19 Oct 11.00 am For Crying Out Loud! 31 12.30 pm For Crying Out Loud! 31 Mon 19 Sep 1.00 pm Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Pöntinen 14 7.30 pm Leon McCawley 31 7.30 pm Classical Opera/Ian Page/Ailish Tynan/Kitty Whately 14 Thu 20 Oct 4.00 pm Study Afternoon: Schubert in English 34 Rachel Kelly/Robert Murray 7.30 pm Christoph Prégardien/Christoph Schnackertz 34 Tue 20 Sep 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group commences 15 Fri 21 Oct 7.30 pm Le Poème Harmonique 35 7.30 pm James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook 15 Sat 22 Oct 10.30 am Family Day: A Knight’s Quest 81 7.30 pm 37 Thu 22 Sep 7.30 pm Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Kristian Bezuidenhout 16 Nash Ensemble Sun 23 Oct 11.30 am Nash Ensemble 37 Fri 23 Sep 7.30 pm The Endellion String Quartet 15 3.00 pm Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn 34 Sat 24 Sep 11.00 am Relaxed Concert: Leonore Piano Trio 17, 80 7.30 pm Jamie Barton/James Baillieu 35 7.30 pm Aurora Orchestra 17 Mon 24 Oct 1.00 pm Nelson Goerner 35 7.30 pm Phantasm 38 Sun 25 Sep 11.30 am Jack Liebeck/Amandine Savary 17 Tue 25 Oct 7.30 pm Sunwook Kim 38 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk 19 Wed 26 Oct 11.00 am Musical Portraits Band commences 81 7.30 pm Angela Hewitt 19 7.30 pm Florilegium/Ashley Solomon/Dame Emma Kirkby 38 Mon 26 Sep 1.00 pm Doric String Quartet 17 Thu 27 Oct 7.30 pm Thomas Zehetmair/Ruth Killius 39 Tue 27 Sep 11.00 am For Crying Out Loud! 20 Fri 28 Oct 7.30 pm The Prince Consort/Stephen Hough 39 12.30 pm For Crying Out Loud! 20 Sat 29 Oct 7.30 pm Philippe Cassard 39

Wed 28 Sep 7.30 pm Igor Levit 23 Sun 30 Oct 11.30 am Carducci String Quartet 40 7.30 pm Sophie Karthäuser/Eugene Asti 41 Thu 29 Sep 7.30 pm Max Emanuel Cencic/Il Pomo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev 20 Mon 31 Oct 1.00 pm Kelemen Quartet 40 Fri 30 Sep 7.30 pm Renaud Capuçon/Guillaume Chilemme/Gérard Caussé 20 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 43 Adrien La Marca/Edgar Moreau 7.30 pm Alison Balsom/Peter Moore/Tom Poster 43

4 November December

Date Start Time Event Page Date Start Time Event Page

Wed 2 Nov 7.30 pm Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio 40 Thu 1 Dec 7.30 pm Philippe Jaroussky/Le Concert de la Loge Olympique 64 Julien Chauvin Thu 3 Nov 1.00 pm Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass 44 Fri 2 Dec 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk 61 7.30 pm Alexei Volodin 45 7.30 pm Wu Man/Sanubar Tursun/Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project 61 Fri 4 Nov 1.00 pm Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass 44 Sat 3 Dec 10.00 am Come and Sing: Hungarian Music 61, 82 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 45 7.30 pm Richard Goode 61 Sun 4 Dec 11.30 am Atrium Quartet 65 Sat 5 Nov 7.30 pm Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau 45 7.30 pm Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe 66 Sun 6 Nov 11.30 am Endymion 46 Mon 5 Dec 1.00 pm Boris Giltburg 65 3.00 pm Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn 46 7.30 pm Anne Schwanewilms/Malcolm Martineau 65 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 46 Tue 6 Dec 7.30 pm Igor Levit 67 Mon 7 Nov 1.00 pm Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen 47 Wed 7 Dec 7.30 pm Andreas Staier 67 7.30 pm Igor Levit 47 Thu 8 Dec 7.30 pm Stephan Loges/Graham Johnson 67 Tue 8 Nov 1.00 pm Samling 20th Anniversary Masterclass 47 Fri 9 Dec 7.30 pm Christian McBride 68 7.30 pm Sir Thomas Allen/Malcolm Martineau/Samling Artists 47 Sat 10 Dec 10.00 am Early Years: Rumbled 83 12 noon Early Years: Rumbled 83 Wed 9 Nov 7.30 pm Christian Zacharias 48 2.00 pm Early Years: Rumbled 83 7.30 pm 68 Thu 10 Nov 7.30 pm Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford 48 Nash Ensemble/Christianne Stotijn Sun 11 Dec 11.30 am Adrian Brendel/Aleksandar Madžar 68 Fri 11 Nov 7.30 pm Ensemble 360 51 3.00 pm Sir John Tomlinson/Christopher Glynn 68 Sat 12 Nov 11.00 am Family Concert: The Fantastic City of Music 51, 82 7.30 pm Belcea Quartet 69 5.45 pm Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk 51 Mon 12 Dec 1.00 pm Emmanuel Pahud 69 7.30 pm 69 7.30 pm Ensemble 360 51 Martha Argerich/Alberto Portugheis Tue 13 Dec 10.00 am Early Years: Rumbled 83 Sun 13 Nov 11.30 am Ensemble 360 51 12 noon Early Years: Rumbled 83 7.30 pm Emerson String Quartet 49 2.00 pm Early Years: Rumbled 83 7.30 pm St. Lawrence String Quartet 70 Mon 14 Nov 1.00 pm Cuarteto Quiroga/Javier Perianes 49 Wed 14 Dec 12.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk 71 7.30 pm Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Pappano/Elizabeth Kenny 52 1.00 pm Britten Sinfonia 71 Lawrence Power/Michael Collins/Adam Walker 7.30 pm Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen 70 9.45 pm Artists in Conversation 52 Thu 15 Dec 3.00 pm Music for the Moment 71, 82 Tue 15 Nov 7.30 pm Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm 53 7.30 pm Francesco Piemontesi 71 Wed 16 Nov 11.00 am Schools Concert: Van Kuijk Quartet and Rachel Leach 82 Fri 16 Dec 7.30 pm Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert 72 Sat 17 Dec 10.00 am Early Years: Rumbled 83 Thu 17 Nov 7.30 pm Imogen Cooper 52 12 noon Early Years: Rumbled 83 Fri 18 Nov 7.30 pm Adrianne Pieczonka/Brian Zeger 54 2.00 pm Early Years: Rumbled 83 7.30 pm René Pape/Camillo Radicke 72 Sat 19 Nov 6.00 pm Nash Ensemble 54 Sun 18 Dec 11.30 am Cassard/Grimal/Gastinel Trio 72 7.30 pm Nash Ensemble 54 Mon 19 Dec 1.00 pm Miklós Perényi 73 Sun 20 Nov 11.30 am Maximilian Hornung/Hisako Kawamura 55 7.30 pm The King’s Consort 73 7.30 pm Luca Pisaroni/Maciej Pikulski 55 Tue 20 Dec 7.30 pm Balsom Ensemble 73 Mon 21 Nov 1.00 pm Garrick Ohlsson 55 Wed 21 Dec 7.30 pm Mahan Esfahani 74 Tue 22 Nov 7.30 pm Dunedin Consort 56 Thu 22 Dec 7.30 pm Vox Luminis 75 Wed 23 Nov 7.30 pm Truls Mørk/Håvard Gimse 57 Fri 23 Dec 7.30 pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 75 Tue 27 Dec 7.30 pm Sitkovetsky Trio 75 Thu 24 Nov 7.30 pm Stuart Jackson/Marcus Farnsworth/James Baillieu 57 Wed 28 Dec 7.30 pm Doric String Quartet 76 Fri 25 Nov 7.30 pm Ensemble Modern 58 Thu 29 Dec 7.30 pm Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina/Ensemble Claudiana 77 Sat 26 Nov 7.30 pm Arditti Quartet 59 Fri 30 Dec 7.30 pm Gringolts Quartet 76 Sun 27 Nov 11.30 am Tai Murray/Silke Avenhaus 59 Sat 31 Dec 7.30 pm The English Concert 76 Mon 28 Nov 1.00 pm Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 59 7.30 pm La Nuova Musica/David Bates 60 Booking for all events in the Contemporary Music Series opens to Members on 12 April. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Tue 29 Nov 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff 63 Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. See pages 78–79 for event dates – full Wed 30 Nov 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff Masterclass 63 details are given in chronological order throughout the brochure.

5 WIGMORESERIES AUTUMN SEASON SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2016

Priority Booking opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted by 5 May 2016 (Friends), and 12 May 2016 (Mailing List Subscribers). Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. September

Opening Concert of the 2016/17 Season Sunday 11 September 11.30 am Sunday 11 September 7.30 pm Friday 9 September 7.30 pm Danish String Quartet Denis Kozhukhin piano Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Handel Suite No. 7 in G minor HWV432 Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117 piano Malcolm Martineau Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89 The quartets of Haydn’s Op. 76, first published in See page opposite for full details Messiaen Prelude ‘Cloches d’angoisses et larmes London in 1799, are near-miraculous in their breadth d’adieu’ of invention and vitality. The Danish String Quartet Boulez Piano Sonata No. 2 turns its beautifully integrated sound to serve the Saturday 10 September 7.30 pm set’s meditative fifth quartet before exploring Pierre Boulez’s Second Piano Sonata, galvanised Beethoven’s almost contemporary Op. 18 No. 4, by by its powerful reflections on Beethoven’s Soile Isokoski soprano turns audacious and charming, violent and serene. ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, crowns Denis Kozhukhin’s compelling programme choice. The Russian pianist, Ilkka Paananen piano £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice winner of the prestigious 2010 Queen Elisabeth Schubert Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Competition in Brussels, also surveys the grandeur Spinnrade; Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; of Handel’s Suite in G minor and the pulsating Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte) energy of Bartók’s Szabadban. Sibelius Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is Flying); Men min fågel märks dock icke (But my bird is £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 nowhere to be seen); Längtan heter min arvedel London Pianoforte Series (Vain longings are my heritage); Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle); Svarta rosor (Black Roses) Mozart Ridente la calma; Als Luise die Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Abendempfindung Brahms Liebestreu; Die Mainacht; Von ewiger Liebe; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht; Danish String Quartet Caroline Bittencourt Meine Liebe ist grün Kilpinen Illalla (In the Evening); Rannalta I; Kesäyö (Summer Night); Maassa marjani makaavi (My Love Lies in the Ground) Recognised for the sheer beauty and vibrant intensity of her singing, Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski has achieved distinction on the world’s operatic stages and as a recitalist of striking imagination and eloquence. She returns to Wigmore Hall with a programme complete with songs by Schumann and Yrjö Kilpinen, one of the last century’s most gifted composers of Lieder.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Soile Isokoski Heikki Tuuli Denis Kozhukhin Felix Broede

6 Sarah Connolly

Opening Concert of the 2016/17 Season

Friday 9 September 7.30 pm

Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann Märzveilchen; Muttertraum; Der Soldat; Der Spielmann Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Mahler Rückert Lieder Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Berlioz Les nuits d’été Poulenc Banalités

One of Britain’s foremost singers, in high demand on the international stage, Sarah Connolly has been a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience for almost two decades. She opens the Hall’s new season in company with regular duo partner Malcolm Martineau, leading listeners through a programme rich in emotional contrasts, poetic reflections and glorious melodies. The acclaimed mezzo-soprano’s recital includes Mahler’s sublime Rückert Lieder, complete with the heart-breaking ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’, the impassioned lyricism of Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, the exotic subtle narrative impressions of Debussy’s three Chansons de Bilitis, and a sparkling selection of Schumann songs.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series

Photo of Sarah Connolly by Peter Warren

Malcolm Martineau Russell Duncan

7 Mark Padmore

Monday 12 September 1.00 pm

Mark Padmore tenor Morgan Szymanski guitar Dowland Come, ye heavy states of night; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; Now, O now I needs must part Alec Roth My Lute and I Stephen McNeff New work (world première) Alec Roth Lights Out Mark Padmore’s eloquent vocal artistry and ability to extract every drop of emotion from poetic texts have secured his place among today’s finest recitalists. The London-born tenor’s extensive experience in opera also informs his song interpretations, which grow from a vivid sense of drama and feeling for life’s extraordinary energy. He is joined by Morgan Szymanski, described by Classical Guitar magazine as ‘a player destined for future glories’ and recognised as ‘One to Watch’ by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.

All seats £15

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Morgan Szymanski Capilla

Photo of Mark Padmore by Marco Borggreve

8 September

Monday 12 September 7.30 pm Wednesday 14 September 7.30 pm Friday 16 September 7.30 pm

The Brabant Ensemble The English Concert Daniel Hope violin Stephen Rice director Anna Devin soprano Paul Neubauer viola Jacquet of Mantua Missa Surge Petre Matthew Brook bass-baritone David Finckel cello Jacquet of Mantua Surge Petre Actor to be announced piano Lassus Tristis est anima mea Wu Han Rore Fratres: Scitote Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Lassus Justorum animae See page 12 for full details Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 Jacquet of Mantua O vos omnes Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Lassus Deficiat in dolore vita mea Renowned for his deeply thoughtful musicianship Rore Illuxit nunc sacra dies Thursday 15 September 7.30 pm and the enquiring spirit he brings to each work in Jacquet of Mantua Ave Maria his repertoire, Daniel Hope invites close colleagues Lassus Ave regina coelorum Wigmore Hall Debut from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center The critically acclaimed Brabant Ensemble Yulianna Avdeeva piano to explore a programme that encompasses the specialises in the performance of European sacred piano quartet’s diverse repertoire. They open with music of the mid-1500s, a period often overlooked Bach English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807 Mahler’s only surviving chamber piece for yet rich in powerful masterworks. This programme Chopin Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Mazurkas Op. 7: instruments alone before traversing the teeming juxtaposes the music of Cipiano de Rore and No. 1 in Bb, No. 2 in A minor, No. 3 in F minor & emotional landscapes of masterworks for the Jacquet Colebault with motets by their illustrious No. 4 in Ab; Polonaise in Ab Op. 53 medium by Schumann and Brahms. younger contemporary, Orlande de Lassus. At its Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in Bb Op. 84 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 centre is Jacquet’s Missa Surge Petre, his only Prokofiev capped his series of three so-called setting in six parts, written for the patron of Mantua ‘War Sonatas’ with a work of great expressive depth Chamber Music Season Cathedral, St Peter. and emotional insight. Moscow-born Yulianna £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Avdeeva, winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, sets Prokofiev’s expansive score Early Music and Baroque Series together with Chopin’s fiendishly difficult second Ballade and the second of Bach’s English Suites, more French in nature than its name implies. Tuesday 13 September 7.30pm £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Mark Padmore tenor London Pianoforte Series James Baillieu piano SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS See page 10 for full details

The Brabant Ensemble Keith Barnes Yulianna Avdeeva Harald Hoffmann Daniel Hope Harald Hoffmann/DG

9 Schubert: Wigmore Hall’s determination to perform Schubert’s 600-plus songs within the span of two seasons stands among the most ambitious artistic projects in its history. The series continues in 2016/17 with a host of unmissable recitals, including performances of the composer’s three late song-cycles by Ian Bostridge, Henk Neven and Matthew Rose.

Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor James Baillieu piano Schubert Ballade (D134); Das Finden; Der Abend (D221); Die Mondnacht; Huldigung; An die untergehende Sonne; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Viola (D786); Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Sehnsucht (D879); Das Weinen; Des Fischers Liebesglück; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939) Mark Padmore and James Baillieu’s recital embraces everything from the folksong-like simplicity of ‘Der Wanderer an den Mond’ and boisterous humour of ‘Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz’ to the hypnotic blend of voice and piano present in ‘Der Winterabend’, from Schubert’s final year, and the complex emotions of ‘Sehnsucht’.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Voices at Wigmore Supporting Schubert: The Complete Songs 2015/16 and 2016/17

Song Recital Series

Portrait of Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder

Background painting by Caspar David Friedrich

10 The Complete Songs

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Wednesday 15 February 2017 7.30 pm Thursday 8 June 2017 7.30 pm

Matthew Rose bass Anna Lucia Richter soprano Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm Gary Matthewman piano Michael Gees piano Christoph Prégardien tenor Tuesday 14 March 2017 7.30 pm Sunday 11 June 2017 7.30 pm Christoph Schnackertz piano Christoph Prégardien tenor Ben Johnson tenor Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm Julius Drake piano Graham Johnson piano Dorothea Röschmann soprano Tuesday 11 April 2017 7.30 pm Saturday 17 June 2017 7.30 pm Malcolm Martineau piano Henk Neven baritone Florian Boesch baritone Thursday 24 November 7.30 pm Imogen Cooper piano Malcolm Martineau piano Stuart Jackson tenor Wednesday 10 May 2017 7.30 pm Sunday 2 July 2017 7.30 pm Marcus Farnsworth baritone James Baillieu piano Ian Bostridge tenor Markus Schäfer tenor Lars Vogt piano Piers Lane piano Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm Saturday 13 May 2017 7.30 pm Sunday 9 July 2017 7.30 pm Stephan Loges baritone Graham Johnson piano Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Ian Bostridge tenor Jan Philip Schulze piano Graham Johnson piano Wednesday 18 January 2017 7.30 pm Friday 19 May 2017 7.30 pm Wednesday 19 July 2017 7.30 pm Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano Julian Prégardien soprano Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano Christoph Schnackertz piano Eduard Kutrowatz piano Thursday 2 February 2017 7.30 pm

Elizabeth Watts soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

11 The English Concert

Wednesday 14 September 7.30 pm The English Concert Anna Devin soprano Matthew Brook bass-baritone Actor to be announced Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Anna Devin Matthew Brook Richard Shymansky DON QUIXOTE Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Purcell Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from The Married Beau and The Comical History of Don Quixote Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm Telemann Don Quixote Suite, including excerpts from Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho and the Ouverture-Suite ‘Burlesque de Quixotte’ with Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola Tilting at windmills and rescuing phoney princesses, such are the exploits of the tragicomic knight-errant Don Quixote and his faithful sidekick Sancho Tuesday 7 February 2017 7.30 pm Panza. The English Concert recounts the adventures of Cervantes’s irrepressibly idealistic hero on the 400th anniversary of the author’s death, with Rachel Podger guest director, violin aided by Purcell and Telemann’s vibrant visions of the man of La Mancha.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Wednesday 7 June 2017 7.30 pm Early Music and Baroque Series Photo by Richard Haughton

12 September

Sunday 18 September 11.30 am

Nick van Bloss piano Beethoven 6 Variations on an Original Theme JEREMY in F Op. 34; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E Op. 31 OPEN b No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ After achieving recognition as a young pianist of DENK tremendous talent, Nick van Bloss effectively retired HOUSE in his mid-20s and stayed away from the concert platform for 15 years. Since returning to public performance in 2010, he has attracted critical superlatives and a keen following thanks not least to his revelatory Beethoven interpretations. DAY £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Jeremy Denk Michael Wilson

Saturday 17 September 7.30 pm Jeremy Denk piano MEDIEVAL TO MODERN In a fascinating programme spanning six centuries of repertoire, Jeremy Denk charts the history of Western music from the Medieval and Renaissance worlds of Machaut, Couperin and Frescobaldi to Wigmore Hall auditorium Peter Dazeley Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, and via Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm the modernists Stravinsky, Cage, Ligeti and John Adams back to Machaut. OPEN HOUSE DAY Praised by The New York Times as an Join us for an opportunity to look behind artist ‘you want to hear no matter what the scenes and behind the music at he performs’, Jeremy Denk stands Wigmore Hall with free performances among the leading musicians of his and family workshops taking place generation. The American pianist, throughout the day. Bring the family and honoured by Musical America as its join Detective Inspector Hermione Jones 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year, is for a musical mystery trail around the blessed with the potent combination of building and free music-making workshops intellectual curiosity, expressive at 11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm. generosity and poetic spirit, qualities at the heart of his strikingly individual Free (no ticket required) interpretations of everything from Bach and Beethoven to Cowell and Kirchner.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Wigmore Hall Learning Event London Pianoforte Series Nick van Bloss Privat

13 September

Monday 19 September 1.00 pm Monday 19 September 7.30 pm

Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Classical Opera LES VENTS Roland Pöntinen piano Ian Page conductor Staffan Storm Three Autumns, in 3 mvts and Ailish Tynan soprano (Gasparina) inspired by Achmatova poems Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Apollonia) FRANÇAIS Stenhammar Sensommarnätter (Late Summer Nights) Op. 33 (a selection) Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano (Don Ettore) Roland Pöntinen New work for trumpet and piano tenor (Don Pelagio) (world première) Robert Murray Over the past three decades Swedish trumpeter LA CANTERINA Håkan Hardenberger has made a huge contribution Haydn Symphony No. 34 in D minor to the expansion of his instrument’s repertoire, Myslivecˇek Arias from Semiramide: Talor se il vento commissioning major new works and inspiring freme; Tu mi disprezzi ingrato; Di Scitalce ... A pastor many to arrange pieces for him. He is joined by se torna; Fiumicel che s’ode appena fellow countryman Roland Pöntinen for a lunchtime Haydn La canterina (semi-staged) recital programme complete with Pöntinen’s latest Classical Opera’s pioneering MOZART 250 series composition for trumpet and piano. continues with a compelling programme of works £13 concs £11 written in 1766 by Joseph Haydn and Josef

Les Vents Français wildundleise.de Myslivecˇ ek, posthumously styled as ‘the divine Bohemian’. Four pulsating arias from Myslivecˇ ek’s Sunday 18 September 7.30 pm first opera are framed by two contrasting Haydn BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert works: a superbly crafted symphony and a vivacious Les Vents Français comedy about love, deception and singing lessons.

Emmanuel Pahud flute £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 François Leleux oboe Early Music and Baroque Series Paul Meyer clarinet Radovan Vlatkovic´ horn Gilbert Audin bassoon Eric Le Sage piano Beethoven Trio in G for flute, bassoon and piano WoO. 37 Mozart Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452 Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes Op. 79; Tarantelle in A minor Op. 6 Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano Emmanuel Pahud and his esteemed colleagues of Les Vents Français evoke two great traditions of music for wind ensemble in this programme, the first rooted in Austro-German soil, the second cultivated in the salons of Paris. They open with Beethoven’s youthful Trio in G, thought to be a creation of his teenage years, and turn to Mozart’s sublime Quintet in E flat for piano and winds, before exploring French works of the utmost sophistication and verve.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season Håkan Hardenberger Marco Borggreve Ian Page Sheila Rock

14 September

Tuesday 20 September 7.30pm Thursday 22 September 7.30 pm

WIGMORE James Gilchrist tenor Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Anna Tilbrook piano Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano, director STUDY GROUP Finzi Oh Fair to See Op. 13b Julian Philips New work* (world première) See page 16 for full details Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Friday 23 September 7.30 pm *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation The Endellion String Quartet James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook continue to Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 develop their dynamic creative partnership with Bartók String Quartet No. 3 BB93 programmes that mine the depths of human Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 experience. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital ‘Razumovsky’ includes song-cycles by Mahler and Schumann, The Endellions, hailed by Gramophone for and a new commission by Julian Philips, cultivating ‘the Urtext method of quartet playing’, acclaimed for his feeling for poetic language and open their new season with Haydn’s glowing and musical sensitivity. masterly final complete quartet and end the concert £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 with Beethoven’s symphonic first ‘Razumovsky’ quartet. Bartók’s third quartet burns with a Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series compressed energy that encompasses reflective Ludwig van Beethoven Joseph Willibrord Mähler and profoundly touching melodies.

Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Chamber Music Season Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATAS One of the iconic landmarks of piano literature, the Beethoven Sonatas trace the immense musical and spiritual journey of the composer’s creative life. Whilst his own performances of them were largely confined to the elite aristocratic salons of Vienna, allowing him to disregard the commercial pressures of the day and write some of his most deeply personal music, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas soon became central to concert life, and to wider domestic music making, presenting an endlessly fascinating interpretative challenge both to the enthusiastic amateur and to the greatest pianists of each generation. Come and explore Beethoven’s world in three afternoons hosted by the composer Julian Philips alongside pianist Laura Roberts and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by Igor Levit on 28 September.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit James Gilchrist operaomnia.co.uk The Endellion String Quartet Eric Richmond

15 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra & Kristian Bezuidenhout

Thursday 22 September 7.30 pm Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano, director SPIRIT OF STURM UND DRANG

Haydn Symphony No. 52 in C minor CPE Bach Concerto in D minor Wq. 17 JC Bach Symphony in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb K449 The symphony and keyboard concerto grew as major genres during the eighteenth century’s second half, arising respectively from the opera sinfonia and JS Bach’s pioneering early concertos for solo harpsichord and instrumental ensemble. Freiburg Baroque Orchestra’s concert connects with the white-hot invention of landmark pieces from the period, including the fiery emotions of Haydn’s Symphony No. 52 in C minor and the chamber-like intimacy of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14. Kristian Bezuidenhout, acclaimed by The Herald as ‘the finest living exponent of the fortepiano’, joins the period instruments of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in works of high energy and creative fantasy. Kristian Bezuidenhout

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photos by Marco Borggreve

16 September

Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon Sunday 25 September 11.30 am Monday 26 September 1.00 pm

Relaxed Concert: Jack Liebeck violin Doric String Quartet Leonore Piano Trio Amandine Savary piano Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 The Leonore Piano Trio presents a diverse programme Schubert Duo Sonata in A D574 of music in this concert specifically designed to Copland Sonata for violin and piano (1943) Formal symmetry and thematic consistency govern welcome people who would benefit from a relaxed Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 the elemental power of Bartók’s Fourth String performance environment, including people with Quartet, written in the summer of 1928. The Doric Since making his Wigmore Hall debut in 2002, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, sensory and String Quartet, described by Gramophone as ‘one of London-born Jack Liebeck has established an communication disorders or learning disabilities. the finest young string quartets’, pairs the Hungarian international career as concerto soloist, recitalist composer’s complex creation with Debussy’s early All seats £5 and chamber musician. He shares the stage for G minor Quartet, a work that ditched the rulebook this recital with the beguiling young French pianist Wigmore Hall Learning Event in search of expressive freedom. Amandine Savary, recently appointed by the Royal Academy of Music to its professorial staff. £13 concs £11 Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Aurora Orchestra Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Ligeti Ten pieces for wind quintet Strauss Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (arr. Brett Sunday 25 September 6.00 pm Dean for nonet) Anna Meredith New work* (world première) Pre-Concert Talk Beethoven Septet in Eb Op. 20 See page 19 for full details *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm Aurora Orchestra’s imaginative programmes and support for new music combine here, aided by a Angela Hewitt piano Wigmore Hall commission from Anna Meredith, herself ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY a fearless genre-hopping, boundary-pushing composer, and Ligeti’s Ten pieces for wind quintet, a collection See page 19 for full details of intense avant-garde miniatures completed in 1968. Beethoven’s Septet still sounds as fresh today as when it was first performed over two centuries ago.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Jack Liebeck David Corfield

Leonore Piano Trio Eric Richmond Aurora Orchestra Lewis Brockway Doric String Quartet George Garnier

17 18 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey

Critical acclaim for Angela Hewitt’s Bach interpretations Sunday 25 September 6.00 pm bears witness to the pianist’s extraordinary ability Pre-Concert Talk to connect physically and emotionally as well as Pianist Angela Hewitt, renowned for her knowledge and insight on Bach intellectually with the dance rhythms and expressive as well as her mesmerising interpretations of his works, launches gestures of the composer’s keyboard works. The Bach The Bach Odyssey with a discussion on the composer’s keyboard works ahead of her evening concert, in conversation with Jessica Duchen. Odyssey, designed in collaboration with our Director, will £4 continue to share her mature insights with Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall Learning Event audiences over several coming seasons.

Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm

Angela Hewitt piano Bach Fantasia in C minor BWV906; Aria variata BWV989; 15 Inventions BWV772–786; 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801; Capriccio in Bb BWV992 (Capriccio on the Departure of his Most Beloved Brother); Capriccio in E BWV993; Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV904 So often Bach opens the door to music that appears to inhabit the outer reaches of human consciousness, with sounds deeply felt yet rarely heard. The divinely-inspired composer’s keyboard fantasies, inventions and sinfonias provide the creative launch pad for Angela Hewitt’s glorious The Bach Odyssey. Her recital also includes the Capriccio in Bb, Bach’s only surviving piece of programme music. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Friday 20 January 2017 7.30 pm

Saturday 10 June 2017 7.30 pm

This series will continue over the following three seasons

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

19 September

Tuesday 27 September 11.00am – 11.45 am Friday 30 September 7.30 pm (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) MAX EMANUEL Renaud Capuçon violin For Crying Out Loud! Guillaume Chilemme violin Nicholas Mogg baritone CENCIC Adrien La Marca viola Jaˆms Coleman piano IL POMO D’ORO Gérard Caussé viola Hear outstanding performances by musicians from Edgar Moreau cello the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for parents or carers and THE BUSCH PROJECT their babies to enjoy together in a relaxed and Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 accommodating environment. Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Adults £7.50 (babies come free) Renaud Capuçon pays homage to Adolf Busch with a programme of works closely associated with the great German violinist. He and a wonderful ensemble of friends reflect on the lasting legacy Wigmore Hall Learning Event of a musician whose influence touched everyone, from his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin and pupil Yehudi Menuhin to generations of violinists since Max Emanuel Cencic Ann Hoffmann Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm his death in 1952. Thursday 29 September 7.30 pm £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Igor Levit piano Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Chamber Music Season BEETHOVEN CYCLE: IGOR LEVIT Il Pomo d’Oro See page 23 for full details Maxim Emelyanychev conductor, harpsichord ARIE NAPOLETANE Scarlatti Sinfonia No. 7 in C Porpora Agitata è l’alma mia from Didone abbandonata Sarro Se resto sul lido from Didone abbandonata Hasse Grave and Fuga in G minor Porpora Torbido intorno al core from Meride e Selinunte Sarro Su la pendice from Didone Abbandonata Vinci In questa mia tempesta from Eraclea Leo No, non vedete mai from Siface Auletta Concerto in D for harpsichord, two violins and continuo Scarlatti Miei pensieri from Il prigioniero fortunato Porpora Qual turbine che scende from Germanico in Germania Max Emanuel Cencic’s sensational countertenor voice and entrepreneurial artistic leadership have added momentum to the revival of interest in eighteenth-century opera seria. The Zagreb-born Austrian artist recently recorded arias in this programme with thrilling young period-instrument ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro for Decca, casting brilliant light on works buried for over two centuries.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series For Crying Out Loud! Benjamin Ealovega Renaud Capuçon François Darmigny

20 Barbara Hannigan & Calder Quartet

Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut † Barbara Hannigan† soprano Calder Quartet Peter Eötvös Korrespondenz (String Quartet No. 1) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Peter Eötvös The sirens cycle* (world première) * Co-commissioned by Tonhalle Society Zürich, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Centro Nacional de Difusion Musical (Madrid), Ircam-Centre Pompidou (Paris), ProQuartet-Centre européen de musique de chambre (Paris), Südwestrundfunk (Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks), and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality. She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös. The Hungarian composer’s new score for Wigmore Hall explores the full range of Hannigan’s striking coloratura voice. The programme opens with Korrespondenz, a series of three vivid ‘scenes’ for string quartet completed in 1993.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Calder Quartet Autumn de Wilde

Photo of Barbara Hannigan by Raphael Brand 21 22 Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit

Beethoven’s piano sonatas occupied forty years of his life. They offer insights into his development as artist and individual, and stand among the greatest of all his works. Igor Levit, now in his late 20s, drew critical superlatives to his debut recording of Beethoven’s late sonatas and has since established his reputation as a visionary interpreter of the composer’s music. His first Beethoven cycle in a major concert hall stands among the must-hear events of 2016/17.

Igor Levit’s Beethoven Cycle is supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm Other Events in this Series

Igor Levit piano Wigmore Study Group Tuesday 20 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 2 No. 1; Piano Sonata Thursday 22 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm No. 12 in Ab Op. 26 ‘Funeral March’; Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Op. 79; Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Wednesday 28 September 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Igor Levit begins his Beethoven Cycle with the composer’s first piano Igor Levit piano sonata with an opus number, the dashing Piano Sonata No. 1 in Sunday 9 October 7.30 pm F minor, and embraces works from the composer’s later maturity. His recital’s second half pairs the neo-classical simplicity of the Piano Monday 7 November 7.30 pm Sonata No. 25 with the Romantic extremes and heroic grandeur of the ‘Waldstein’ Sonata. Tuesday 6 December 7.30 pm

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Monday 30 January 2017 7.30 pm London Pianoforte Series Sunday 26 February 2017 7.30 pm

Friday 17 March 2017 7.30 pm

Tuesday 13 June 2017 7.30 pm Photo by Gregor Hohenberg

23 October

Sunday 2 October 11.30 am Monday 3 October 1.00 pm NATHALIE STUTZMANN Van Kuijk Quartet Steven Isserlis cello ORFEO 55 Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Olli Mustonen piano Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 The Van Kuijk Quartet, winner of the 2015 Wigmore Olli Mustonen Frei, aber einsam* (UK première) Hall International String Quartet Competition, Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 presents an ideal pairing of works. Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ *Co-commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge, and by Quartet stands here as companion to Debussy’s Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, String Quartet in G minor, a work rooted in the great president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Classical tradition yet strikingly original in musical grant-making foundation substance and complexity. Frei, aber einsam – ‘Free, but alone’ – connects £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice with the abbreviated title of the collaborative F-A-E Nathalie Stutzmann Simon Fowler WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Sonata by Schumann, his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Brahms. Olli Mustonen’s work, a short Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Sunday 2 October 7.30 pm Invention for solo cello written for Steven Isserlis, Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Nathalie Stutzmann serves as a bridge between the flowing melodies of director, contralto Schumann’s Three Romances and the turbulent Sunday 2 October Orfeo 55 emotions of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor. All seats £15 Leo Allegro from Sinfonia G minor ‘Santa Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures Elena al Calvario’ Caldara Sebben crudele As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with Scarlatti O cessate di piargarmi dementia and their family, friends and carers to join Bononcini Per la gloria d’adorarvi from BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert us in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection Griselda Legrenzi Che fiero costume and Wigmore Hall. Please keep an eye on our Marini Passacaglio a 3 e a 4 Caccini Amarilli website for more details! mia bella Falconieri Passacalle Durante Danza, danza, fanciulla gentile Free (booking required) Paisiello Nel cor più non mi sento In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Vivaldi Cor mio, che prigion sei from Westminster Arts and the Royal Academy L’Atenaide Porpora Sinfonia da camera in C of Music Op. 2 No. 2 Vivaldi Con la face di Megera from Semiramide Durante Vergin, Tutto amor Porpora Largo from Cello Concerto in G Caldara Spera, consolati from Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo Porpora Adagio e Allegro from Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sonata No. 3 in G Stradella Queste lagrime e sospiri from San Giovanni Battista D’Anglebert Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G Vivaldi Cessate, omai cessate Olli Mustonen Outi Montosen Nathalie Stutzmann’s repertoire choice draws directly from Alessandro Parisotti’s famous anthology of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Italian arias. The French contralto’s work as conductor has won countless admirers in recent years, especially in partnership with her own versatile ensemble, Orfeo 55. Their programme includes heart-melting arie antiche by Caccini, Caldara and Vivaldi and rarely heard instrumental pieces by the Neapolitan composer and singing teacher Nicola Porpora.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series Van Kuijk Quartet Steven Isserlis Jean-Baptiste Millot

24 October

Monday 3 October 7.30 pm Thursday 6 October 7.30 pm Friday 7 October 7.30 pm

Jan Lisiecki piano IMS Prussia Cove Pavel Haas Quartet Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Harriet Krijgh cello Schumann Klavierstücke Op. 32 Winfried Rademacher violin Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20; Sini Simonen violin Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 2 Nocturnes Op. 48 István Várdai cello Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 Matthew Hunt clarinet Sound and silence share equal importance in Born in Canada to Polish parents in 1995, Jan Other artists to be announced Webern’s Fünf Sätze, exquisitely crafted miniatures for Lisiecki made his international breakthrough at Programme to include: string quartet. The Pavel Haas Quartet also performs the age of fifteen when Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin Glinka Trio pathétique Shostakovich’s Second String Quartet Op. 68, Institute released his debut recording of Chopin’s Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 dedicated to Vissarion Shebalin, one of the few piano concertos. He returns to Wigmore Hall for a Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 composers who stood by him after his denunciation recital complete with Chopin’s virtuosic Scherzo for ‘bourgeois formalism’ in the newspaper Pravda No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 and Schubert’s evergreen This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour in 1936, and is joined by young Dutch cellist Harriet Four Impromptus D935. unites Elisabeth Leonskaja, Winfried Rademacher and Matthew Hunt with young musicians who have Krijgh in Schubert’s sublime String Quintet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 progressed through the IMS seminars. Founded £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Chamber Music Season Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Sándor Végh, IMS continues to nurture outstanding chamber music performers under the artistic London Pianoforte Series directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis. Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm Chamber Music Season Ensemble 360 & Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano of Stinky Bottom Collegium 1704 FAMILY CONCERT Václav Luks conductor For ages 4 plus SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’ Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this See page 26 for full details new children’s concert, based on Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015). With music by award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations and lots of audience participation.

Children £8 Adults £10

Elisabeth Leonskaja Julia Wesely Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Jan Lisiecki Mathias Bothor/DG Pavel Haas Quartet Marco Borggreve Family Concert www.benjaminharte.co.uk

25 Anna Bonitatibus & Collegium 1704

Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut*

Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Collegium 1704* Václav Luks conductor SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’ Caldara Introduzione & Povera navicella from Semiramide in Ascalona Handel Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide Riconosciuta Jommelli Barbaro, non dolerti ...Tradita, sprezzata from Semiramide Riconosciuta Gluck Ballet Suite from Semiramis Gluck Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide Riconosciuta Bertoni Non so se più t’accendi from Semiramide Riconosciuta Bianchi Sinfonia from La Vendetta di Nino Paisiello Serbo in seno il cor piagato from La Semiramide in Villa Nasolini Deh sospendi a’ pianti miei…Serbo ancora un’alma altera from La Morte di Semiramide Catel Dances Nos. 1 & 2 from Sémiramis Rossini Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide García Semiramis Collegium 1704 is joined by Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus, recently hailed for her performance alongside Juan Diego Flórez in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri at the Vienna State Opera. Václav Luks and his Prague-based ensemble have secured rave reviews for their recordings, Bach’s Mass in B minor among them. Collegium 1704 makes its UK debut at Wigmore Hall with a programme of arias, songs and other works inspired by the legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis. Her mythical story, retold by Metastasio in an opera libretto that received 30 settings between 1729 and 1819, involves the queen’s disguise as king, an unsuccessful poisoning plot and the final triumph of Semiramis.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund

Early Music and Baroque Series

Collegium 1704 Petra Hajská

Photo of Anna Bonitatibus by Frank Bonitatibus

26 October

Saturday 8 October 7.30 pm Sunday 9 October 7.30 pm Monday 10 October 1.00 pm

Janine Jansen violin Igor Levit piano Nicholas Angelich piano Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Programme to include: Sonata No. 4 in E Op. 7; Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 See page 28 for full details b Op. 14 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59 Piano Sonata No. 26 in E Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ b Following early studies in the United States with his Sunday 9 October 11.30 am First published in London in 1810, Beethoven’s mother, Nicholas Angelich gave his concerto debut lyrical Piano Sonata No. 24 reflects recent lessons at the age of seven and made meteoric progress Scottish Ensemble learned by the composer in creating his Fifth Piano after his graduation from the Paris Conservatoire in Concerto, Sixth Symphony and Violin Concerto. Igor the late 1980s. Virtuosity and romantic intensity are Brahms String Sextet in Bb Op. 18 Levit’s programme also includes Op. 81a, described among the hallmarks of his pianism, qualities ideally Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 by Beethoven as a ‘sonata characterising departure, suited to Liszt’s monumental Piano Sonata Brahms turned to models from the past, including absence and reunion’, and the Piano Sonata No. 4, in B minor. an early masterwork. the late instrumental works of Schubert and the £13 concs £11 famous Baroque theme ‘La folia’, for his String Sextet £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 in B flat, completed in the summer of 1860. Scottish Ensemble pairs the work with the sensual lyricism Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton and intense late-Romanticism of Schoenberg’s London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert string sextet Verklärte Nacht of 1899.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Igor Levit Gregor Hohenberg

Scottish Ensemble Peter Dibdin Nicholas Angelich Stéphane de Bourgies

27 Janine Jansen Perspectives

Known for her passionate devotion to chamber music, as well as her incandescent concerto performances, Janine Jansen has achieved worldwide acclaim with music-making of the highest integrity. The Dutch violinist, a firm favourite with Wigmore Hall’s audience, presents a season-long residency in 2016/17, complete with performances of Korngold’s rarely heard Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand, and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

Saturday 8 October 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Poulenc Violin Sonata Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Janine Jansen opens her Wigmore Hall series with a recital programme of great sophistication and nuance. Poulenc’s Violin Sonata was inspired by García Lorca’s famous metaphor ‘The guitar makes dreams weep’ and also by the violin sonatas of Brahms. Szymanowski’s Myths and Prokofiev’s Second Violin Sonata, creations of the two world wars, harness virtuosity to the expression of poetic musical gestures.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Events in this Series

Wednesday 8 February 2017 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Boris Brovtsyn violin Torleif Thedéen cello Clara Andrada de la Calle flute Olivier Patey clarinet Eldar Nebolsin piano

Friday 2 June 2017 7.30 pm

Janine Jansen violin Torleif Thedéen cello Martin Fröst clarinet Lucas Debargue piano

Friday 2 June 2017 9.45 pm Artists in Conversation

Photo by Harald Hoffmann/Decca

28 October

Tuesday 11 October 7.30pm Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm Friday 14 October 7.30 pm

Llyˆr Williams piano Christian Gerhaher baritone The Cardinall’s Musick Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 Gerold Huber piano Andrew Carwood director No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; See page 30 for full details Arvo Pärt Da pacem Domine; Morning Star; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; I Am the True Vine; Most Holy Mother of God 33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 Byrd Mass for Four Voices Two seasons ago, Llyˆr Williams embarked on a Thursday 13 October 7.30 pm Gibbons Hosanna to the son of David; O Lord monumental survey of Beethoven’s complete piano in Thy Wrath; Lift up your heads; Nunc dimittis works at Wigmore Hall. His latest recital encompasses Melvyn Tan 60th Birthday Concert (short service); O clap your hands the vivid stylistic contrasts and fruitful thematic ideas Nico Muhly New work* (world première) piano of the three Op. 10 piano sonatas and the elemental Melvyn Tan Tavener The Lamb; Funeral Ikos; Love bade Diabelli Variations, remarkable even by Beethoven’s Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; me welcome standards for their invention and blend of disciplined 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of craft and individual spontaneity. Czerny Variations on a theme of Rode ‘La André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, Ricordanza’; Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 a Swiss grant-making foundation van Beethoven Op. 146 London Pianoforte Series Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Music has been used to outline and enhance sacred space and time for millennia. The Cardinall’s Musick Melvyn Tan celebrates his 60th birthday with a and Andrew Carwood explore sacred compositions programme richly infused with virtuosity and from two periods, past and present, rich in works underpinned by the adamantine musical substance informed by a profound feeling for something greater of Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor, among the great than the individual self. Their programme pairs the monuments of nineteenth-century art. His recital pristine soundworlds of Arvo Pärt and Byrd, Gibbons includes the Marcia funebre, Carl Czerny’s heartfelt and Tavener, and presents a new score by Nico Muhly. memorial tribute to his former teacher and friend, completed within days of Beethoven’s death in £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 March 1827. Early Music and Baroque Series/ £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Contemporary Music Series London Pianoforte Series Saturday 15 October 1.00 pm, 6.00 pm & 7.30 pm Helen Grime Day See page 33 for full details Llyˆr Williams Evy Ottermans

Melvyn Tan Sheila Rock The Cardinall’s Musick Dmitri Gutjahr

29 Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber

Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber readily access areas of imagination and insight that are off-limits to all but the most enlightened artists. Their latest Wigmore Hall recital baritone Christian Gerhaher opens with Dvorˇák’s Biblical Songs, ten uplifting settings Gerold Huber piano in Czech of Psalms extracted from the Bible of Kralice, a landmark of the Protestant Reformation. Matters spiritual Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) also arise in Schumann’s ‘Requiem’, the ‘old Catholic Schumann Sechs Gedichte und Requiem Op. 90; poem’, which the composer added to his settings of six Resignation; Die Blume der Ergebung; Der Einsiedler poems by Nikolaus Lenau. The programme’s second half Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 includes three mature Schumann Lieder and his early Following this concert, Christian Gerhaher will be sequence of a dozen songs to poems by Justinus Kerner. presented with The Wigmore Medal, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Wigmore Hall over the past 15 years. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series

Song Recital Series

Photo by Simon Jay Price

30 October

Sunday 16 October 11.30 am Monday 17 October 1.00 pm Wednesday 19 October 11.00 am – 11.45 am (repeated 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm) Dover Quartet Vilde Frang violin For Crying Out Loud! Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Aleksandar Madžar piano Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Temple Ensemble my life’ Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Hear outstanding performances by musicians from Smetana and Dvorˇák were pioneers of Czech music Vilde Frang, born in Norway in 1986, made her debut the Royal Academy of Music, in these concerts when their homeland fell under Austro-Hungarian with the Oslo Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons at presented especially for parents or carers and rule. Their works helped shape a distinctive national the age of twelve. Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a new their babies to enjoy together in a relaxed and cultural identity and attracted worldwide interest. star in the violin firmament’, she makes a welcome accommodating environment. The Dover Quartet, winner of the 2013 Banff return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of International String Quartet Competition, pairs Adults £7.50 (babies come free) Brahms and Schubert guaranteed to display her Dvorˇák’s String Quartet in F Op. 96 with Smetana’s all-encompassing emotional range and virtuosity. Wigmore Hall Learning Event autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 in E minor. £13 concs £11 £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Wednesday 19 October 7.30 pm Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Leon McCawley piano BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday 16 October 7.30 pm Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Christian Tetzlaff violin Schubert/Liszt Die junge Nonne; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen Tanja Tetzlaff cello Mendelssohn Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Lars Vogt piano Words) Op. 19 Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101; Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87; Piano Trio No. 1 in B Leon McCawley, recently praised by the Washington Op. 8 (revised version) Post as a ‘thoughtful and lyrical pianist’, performs the virtuosic ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, the first of Schubert’s Brahms’s Piano Trios contain some of the composer’s larger works to be published during his lifetime, and most memorable music, rich in invention and three song arrangements by Liszt that helped secure propelled by what feels like an irresistible flood of Schubert’s posthumous reputation. His recital closes lyrical melody. Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff are joined with Chopin’s Ballade in G minor, a showpiece of by long-term collaborator Lars Vogt in a programme unstoppable momentum. complete with the composer’s radiant late revision of his Op. 8 Piano Trio. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 London Pianoforte Series Chamber Music Season Vilde Frang Marco Borggreve

Lars Vogt, Tanja & Christian Tetzlaff Giorgia Bertazzi Dover Quartet Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Leon McCawley Sheila Rock

31 32 Helen Grime Day Wigmore Hall marks the start of Helen Grime’s term as its first female Composer in Residence with a day devoted to her art. The Scottish composer, born in 1981, is known not least for her distinctive creative voice and her music’s lyrical beauty. Helen Grime Day offers the chance to become deeply immersed in her chamber compositions.

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

Saturday 15 October

1.00 pm 6.00 pm

Alexandra Wood violin Artists in Conversation Rachel Roberts viola Helen Grime discusses her life as a composer and her plans during her time as Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence. Philip Higham cello £4 Nicholas Daniel oboe Wigmore Hall Learning Event Huw Watkins piano Helen Grime Three Whistler Miniatures for piano trio; 7.30 pm Aviary Sketches for string trio (after Joseph Cornell)*; To see the summer sky for violin and viola; New work for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group oboe and piano (UK première); Oboe Quartet Mark van de Wiel clarinet *Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center funded by a generous grant from Linda and Stuart Nelson in honour Geoffrey Paterson conductor of Wu Han and David Finckel, and by Wigmore Hall with the support Helen Grime Embrace for clarinet and trumpet; Seven Pierrot Miniatures of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices Helen Grime Clarinet Concerto grant-making foundation Carter Au Quai for bassoon and viola Helen Grime Luna Chamber music occupies the centre ground of Helen Janácˇek Concertino Grime’s work, embracing everything from pieces for solo Helen Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures project the composer’s uncanny oboe to scores conceived for small ensemble. Three feeling for instrumental tone colours and textural contrasts, whilst her Whistler Miniatures draw inspiration from chalk and pastel Clarinet Concerto is a study in virtuosity that grows more meditative as pieces exhibited at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Museum, it unfolds. Knussen and Carter have been formative influences in Grime’s while Aviary Sketches comprises five miniatures influenced career; her duo Embrace picks up the duos in Knussen’s delightful Songs by the alluring ‘assemblage boxes’ of American artist and without Voices, and the Carter duo, written for Knussen’s 50th birthday, sculptor Joseph Cornell. mirrors this. All seats £10 All seats £15

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series/ ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET: £20 Helen Grime Composer in Residence Tickets to the Artists in Conversation event sold separately

Photo by Jonathan Wrather

33 October

Thursday 20 October 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor SCHUBERT IN ENGLISH Christoph Schnackertz piano Schubert Tischlied; Der Rattenfänger; Wer kauft Liebesgötter?; Tischlerlied; Der Entfernten; An die Harmonie; Die Herbstnacht; Der Herbstabend; Abschied von der Harfe; Die gefangenen Sänger; Die Mutter Erde; Des Sängers Habe Britten Winter Words Bruch Lausche, lausche!; Goldne Brücken; Frisch gesungen; Russisch; Um Mitternacht; Zweites Kophtisches Lied; Kophtisches Lied Christoph Prégardien makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall with Christoph Schnackertz to perform Britten’s evocative Hardy cycle, Winter Words, and a group of the ever-inventive strophic songs by Schubert. Although best known today for his G minor Violin Concerto, Max Bruch was a prolific songwriter whose output includes fine settings of Geibel, Goethe and Mörike, a selection of which The Beautiful Maid of the Mill 18th-century engraving is presented in this recital.

Schubert’s songs undoubtedly belong Sunday 23 October 3.00 pm £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 to the stock of mankind’s highest Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs tenor achievements. For many decades in Toby Spence Britain these works were regularly heard Christopher Glynn piano in their English translations, although in Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill recent years there has been a shift back (Die schöne Müllerin) to performance in their original language. (London première of new English translation) This autumn we explore the composer’s Toby Spence, one of the finest lyric tenors of his three great song-cycles and transform generation, presents Jeremy Sams’s new translation them from their original German into new of Die schöne Müllerin as part of Wigmore Hall’s English translations, inviting audiences innovative Learning programme. to discover or revisit these special works This concert will be approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in a new light. in duration, without an interval

All seats £15 Thursday 20 October 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm Christoph Schnackertz Clärchen & Hermann Baus Study Afternoon Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Writer and musician Amanda Holden is joined Sunday 6 November 3.00 pm by pianist Christopher Glynn and singer Roderick Williams baritone Toby Spence to discuss Schubert’s three great song-cycles and their transformations Christopher Glynn piano into English. How do writers approach the Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise) specialist task of translating song texts? And for singers, what are the challenges of Sunday 11 December 3.00 pm performing in translation? These questions and many more are explored in this Sir John Tomlinson bass illuminating study event. Christopher Glynn piano £7 Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang)

Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Events Christoph Prégardien Hans Morren

34 October

Saturday 22 October 7.30 pm Monday 24 October 1.00 pm

LE POÈME HARMONIQUE Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nelson Goerner piano Nash Ensemble Debussy From Préludes Book II: Brouillards; See page 37 for full details Feuilles mortes; La puerta del vino; Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses; La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Feux d’artifice Sunday 23 October 11.30 am Albéniz From Iberia: Evocación; El puerto; Triana Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Ravel La valse Nash Ensemble Nelson Goerner charts the creative crosscurrents that connected the diverse musical worlds of early See page 37 for full details twentieth-century Europe in his latest Wigmore Hall Vincent Dumestre Guy Vivien recital. The Argentine pianist, celebrated for his Sunday 23 October 7.30 pm Debussy interpretations, offers a selection from the Friday 21 October 7.30 pm French composer’s Préludes Book II before probing Le Poème Harmonique Wigmore Hall Debut* Albéniz’s Iberia and concluding with La valse, Ravel’s heady evocation of an Austrian imperial ball Claire Lefilliâtre soprano Jamie Barton* mezzo-soprano of the mid-1800s. Isabelle Druet mezzo-soprano James Baillieu piano Mira Glodeanu violin £13 concs £11 Turina Homenaje a Lope de Vega Brahms Ständchen; Lucas Peres viol Meine Liebe ist grün; Unbewegte laue Luft; Von ewiger Françoise Enock violone Liebe Dvorˇák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) Op. 55 Marie Bournisien harp Ives The things our fathers loved; Grantchester; BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Thomas Boysen guitar Immortality; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Thor-Harald Johnsen guitar The Cage; Old Home Day Sibelius Svarta rosor; Joël Grare percussion Säv, säv, susa; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte; Kyssens hopp; Marssnön; Var det en dröm? Vincent Dumestre conductor, guitar Since winning the First and Song Prizes at the 2013 Briceño Españoleta; Ay ay ay, todos se burlan BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Jamie de mi; Andalo çaravanda; Danza de la Hacha; Barton has scored notable successes at New York’s Venteçillo murmurador; Ay amor loco; El caballo Metropolitan Opera and with her BBC Proms del marqués; Folia; Dime de que te quexas debut in Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody. The American Anonymous El baxel esta en la playa; Lloren mezzo-soprano marks her Wigmore Hall debut with mis ojos (Libro de tonos humanos); Ruggiero; a programme of songs ideally matched to her vocal Passacalle; Gaytas; Para tener Nochebuena; warmth and sumptuous tone. No so yo (Cancionero de Uppsala); Canario Berxes Ay! Qué rabia £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Luis de Briceño, active around 1610–30, Supported by American Friends of Wigmore Hall spread the Spanish guitar’s popularity beyond Song Recital Series James Baillieu Kaupo Kikkas its homeland. He made his name in France with a collection of pieces intended for students of guitar. Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre have recorded Briceño’s works for the Alpha label and continue to explore them within the context of early seventeenth-century Spanish music, offering vivid instrumental arrangements of works that capture the vitality and verve of popular dances, villancicos and romances.

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

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series Jamie Barton Rebecca Fay Nelson Gorner Jean-Baptiste Millot

35 36 Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble Vienna and its Empire

Between the early 1500s and the end of the First World War, Vienna emerged as Forthcoming Concerts in this Series the capital of a vast multicultural empire ruled by the Habsburgs and enlarged by shrewd dynastic marriages. The Habsburg lands evolved to become, by the late Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm 1860s, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Musicians from all corners of the empire Schubert, Bartók & Kodály made their way to Vienna, cultivating one of Europe’s richest musical legacies. Composers from the empire’s constituent countries, meanwhile, increasingly Saturday 19 November 7.30 pm expressed aspirations for national independence in their scores, drawing not Brahms, Liszt & Dohnányi least on folk music traditions. This season the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in Residence, combines music from the Viennese Classical Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm School and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg and his pupils, with with Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano music from Hungary and the Czech lands. Janácˇ ek, Smetana & Dvorˇák

Saturday 22 October 7.30 pm Saturday 21 January 2017 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence with Lucy Crowe soprano Nash Ensemble Ian Brown piano Mahler Piano Quartet Movement in A minor Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 for Martyn Brabbins conductor string sextet Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ Haydn, Mozart & Mahler The Nash Ensemble launches its Viennese series with works by three composers closely associated with ‘the city of music’. Mahler’s only surviving chamber work dates from his Sunday 5 February 2017 11.30 am precocious teenage years at the Vienna Conservatoire, while Schoenberg’s romantically Dvorˇák & Smetana charged ‘Transfigured Night’ dates from the same year as Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Schubert’s much-loved ‘Trout’ Quintet, a score of sunny relaxation, was written Saturday 11 February 2017 6.00 pm during a country vacation from his native city. with soprano £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Claire Booth Berg, Webern & Schoenberg Chamber Music Season Saturday 11 February 2017 7.30 pm Sunday 23 October 11.30 am with Claire Booth soprano Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Berg, Mozart & Schubert

Nash Ensemble Tuesday 21 March 2017 7.30 pm Johann Strauss II Kaiser-Walzer Op. 437 (Emperor Waltz) (arr. by Schoenberg for flute, clarinet, string quartet and piano) Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 NASH INVENTIONS The apparent political and social stability of Austria-Hungary, more illusion than reality, informs with Martyn Brabbins conductor Johann Strauss the younger’s famous Emperor Waltz, performed by the Nash Ensemble in Adrian Brendel cello an ensemble arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25, with its exuberant Hungarian-style finale, was performed in Vienna in 1862 shortly Roderick Williams baritone before the composer made his permanent home there. Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt, Vienna 1907

37 October

Monday 24 October 7.30 pm Tuesday 25 October 7.30pm Wednesday 26 October 7.30 pm

Phantasm Sunwook Kim piano Florilegium Laurence Dreyfus director Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Ashley Solomon director Emilia Benjamin treble viol Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 ‘Fantasie’ Dame Emma Kirkby soprano Jonathan Manson tenor viol Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 Mikko Perkola tenor viol ‘Hammerklavier’ LONDON IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol London-based Sunwook Kim secured international Arne Overture No. 8 in G minor from Judgement THE WORLD OF ORLANDO GIBBONS attention as winner of the 2006 Leeds International of Paris; Cantata: The Morning Piano Competition. His latest Wigmore Hall recital Handel Trio Sonata in E minor Op. 5 No. 3; Sweet Gibbons A selection of Fantasies a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 6 programme recalls the extraordinary creative energy Bird from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato; Gibbons A selection of In Nomines that swept through Vienna from the time of Mozart’s Gentle Morpheus, son of night from Alceste Gibbons Peascod Time (The Hunt’s Up); Pavan Lord arrival in the Habsburg imperial capital in the early Chilcot Orpheus with his lute from Henry VIII Salisbury; The silver swanne; Pavan and Galliard a 6; 1780s to Schubert’s death in November 1728. Handel Organ Concerto in Bb Op. 4 No. 6 HWV294 Go from my window; O Lord in Thy Wrath; Hosanna Lampe Pretty Warblers from Dione to the son of David £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series Florilegium returns to Wigmore Hall for its Orlando Gibbons, a talented chorister of King’s 25th anniversary season with Dame Emma Kirkby College, Cambridge, who became organist at in a programme showcasing rarely performed Westminster Abbey during the time of James I, works by Lampe, Chilcot and Arne. The programme contributed outstanding works to the English tradition also contains some of the acclaimed ensemble’s of music for viol consort. Phantasm celebrates the favourite Handel, including well-known arias from art of a composer whose sudden death robbed two of his operas and the haunting Trio Sonata in Jacobean England of one of her brightest talents. E minor.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series Early Music and Baroque Series

Sunwook Kim Doh Lee

Phantasm Marco Borggreve Florilegium John Yip Brandies

38 October

Thursday 27 October 7.30 pm Friday 28 October 7.30 pm Saturday 29 October 7.30 pm

Thomas Zehetmair violin The Prince Consort Philippe Cassard piano Ruth Killius viola Stephen Hough piano DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES II: Klein Duo for Violin and Viola Stephen Hough Herbstlieder; Dappled Things DEBUSSY & OTHERS – ‘WATER MUSICS’ Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin (world première); Three Grave Songs; Ravel Jeux d’eau Bartók Selection of duos for 2 violins (arranged for Other Love Songs Liszt Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este from Années violin and viola) Stephen Hough, named by The Economist as one de pèlerinage, troisième année S163; Au bord Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin of twenty living polymaths, has achieved distinction d’une source from Années de pèlerinage S160 Mozart Duo in B K424 b not only as a concert pianist but also as a composer, Debussy Acte 2 from Pelléas et Mélisande (transcr. Gideon Klein, a victim of the Nazi Holocaust, wrote poet, essayist and writer. His collaboration with Cassard); La cathédrale engloutie from Préludes his Duo for Violin and Viola shortly before his The Prince Consort has yielded an acclaimed Book I; Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest from Préludes deportation to the Terezín concentration camp in recording and continues with this programme Book I; Brouillards from Préludes Book II; The Snow is 1941. Thomas Zehetmair and Ruth Killius present of new works, including the first performance of Dancing from Children’s Corner; Des pas sur la neige the piece in company with the two Sonatas for Hough’s Dappled Things. from Préludes Book I; Quelques aspects de ‘Nous solo violin by Klein’s near-contemporary Bernd n’irons plus au bois parce qu’il fait un temps £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Alois Zimmermann and a selection of Bartók’s insupportable’ from Images oubliées; Jardins sous la folksong-inspired Duos. Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series pluie from Estampes; Ondine from Préludes Book II; Poissons d’or from Images Series 2; Voiles from £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Préludes Book I; Reflets dans l’eau from Images Chamber Music Season Series 1 Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60 Debussy L’isle joyeuse Philippe Cassard has lived with the works in this recital for over three decades, during which time he has developed personal interpretations of the utmost eloquence and sensuous beauty. The blend of fleeting display and inward reflection to be found in Cassard’s captivating transcription of music from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and L’isle joyeuse also surface in the water-inspired pieces of Liszt and Ravel.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series

Ruth Killius Robin Fuchs The Prince Consort Richard Ecclestone

Thomas Zehetmair Keith Pattison Stephen Hough Sim Canetty-Clarke Philippe Cassard Jean-Baptiste Millot

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Sunday 30 October 11.30 am Monday 31 October 1.00 pm Wednesday 2 November 7.30 pm Carducci String Quartet Kelemen Quartet 40th Anniversary Season Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117 Programme to include: Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Trio ‘Razumovsky’ Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11 The Carducci String Quartet marked the 40th The Kelemen Quartet, winner of the 2014 Paolo Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 anniversary of Shostakovich’s death in 2015 with Borciani International String Quartet Competition, Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version) a marathon day-long performance of his fifteen has made meteoric progress since its foundation quartets at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. six years ago in Budapest. Known for its white-hot One of the world’s most distinguished piano trios, The group returns to the composer’s edgy Ninth commitment in performance, the ensemble’s founded to perform at the inauguration of US String Quartet for this recital, setting it in company latest Wigmore Hall recital explores the refinement President Carter in 1977, explores strikingly rich with the third of Beethoven’s remarkable of Bartók’s First String Quartet alongside the single works in this programme, beginning with the creative ‘Razumovsky’ quartets. sonata-form movement of Schubert’s Quartettsatz. struggles and expressive contrasts of Beethoven and Shostakovich. The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £13 concs £11 closes with Brahms’s youthful Piano Trio Op. 8, Sunday Morning Coffee Concert heavily revised by the composer in later life.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Chamber Music Season

Sophie Karthäuser soprano Monday 31 October 6.00 pm Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Eugene Asti piano Artists in Conversation Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm See page opposite for full details See page 43 for full details Brigitte Fassbaender Monday 31 October 7.30 pm Masterclass See page 44 for full details Alison Balsom trumpet Peter Moore trombone Tom Poster piano ALISON BALSOM ‘THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND’ See page 43 for full details

Carducci String Quartet Andy Holdsworth Photography Kelemen Quartet Balazs Borocz Pilvax Studio Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio Christian Steiner

40 Sophie Karthäuser

Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm

Sophie Karthäuser soprano Eugene Asti piano

Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Wolf Heiß mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land; Mausfallen-Sprüchlein; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Bei einer Trauung; Agnes; Erstes Liebeslied eines Mädchens Fauré Automne; Le secret; Prison; Notre amour Satie Trois Mélodies: La statue de bronze; Daphénéo; Le chapelier Honegger Petits cours de morale Chabrier Les cigales; Villanelle des petits canards; Chanson pour Jeanne; Lied

Feted as a supremely gifted Mozartean and recognised worldwide for the brilliance of her lyric voice, Belgian soprano Sophie Karthäuser first beguiled Wigmore Hall as a prize winner at its 2003 International Song Competition. Her latest recital programme, given with regular duo partner Eugene Asti, embraces the two languages in which she was raised, German and French. She opens with Schubert and Wolf’s sublime Goethe settings, before unlocking the exquisite colours of mélodies by Fauré and Chabrier. Karthäuser’s repertoire choice also includes Satie’s witty Trois Mélodies, completed exactly a century ago as the First World War raged.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series

Photo by Molina Visuals/Harmonia Mundi

41 42 Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

Over the past decade Alison Balsom has captivated audiences worldwide with her lyrical playing, exquisite tone and penetrating musicianship. As performer, educator and advocate she has done more for her instrument and the wider cause of classical music than many achieve in a lifetime. Wigmore Hall’s Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ series offers the chance to experience the full breadth and depth of her work.

Monday 31 October 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation Alison Balsom explores her life and career, and discusses her residency at Wigmore Hall this season with broadcaster and presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

£4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 31 October 7.30 pm

Alison Balsom trumpet Peter Moore Kaupo Kikkas Tom Poster Hanya Chlala Peter Moore trombone Tom Poster piano Honegger Intrada Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Hindemith Trumpet Sonata Schubert Impromptu in Gb D899 No. 3 for solo piano Tuesday 20 December 7.30 pm Enescu Légende Tom Poster & Alison Balsom The Thoughts of Dr May Balsom Ensemble Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40 (transcr. Alison Balsom for trumpet, trombone and piano) Thursday 18 May 2017 7.30 pm Alison Balsom launches her Wigmore Hall Residency in company with regular partner Tom Poster. Their co-composition, The with soprano Thoughts of Dr May, takes its place alongside such fine Lucy Crowe Other artists to be announced original works as Hindemith’s Trumpet Sonata and Enescu’s Légende and inventive arrangements of existing pieces, crowned by Balsom’s transcription for Brahms’s Trio Op. 40, Friday 9 June 2017 10.00 pm originally conceived for horn, violin and piano. with trumpet £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Guy Barker Chris Hill double bass Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Ross Stanley piano

Photo of Alison Balsom by Maker

43 Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses

Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses One of Germany’s greatest singers, Brigitte Fassbaender received early encouragement from her actress mother and formative lessons from her father, the eminent baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. She made her debut as a Page in Wagner’s Lohengrin in Munich in 1961. During a long and illustrious career, the mezzo-soprano performed at all of the world’s leading opera houses and cultivated exceptional qualities as a Lieder singer. She is also celebrated for masterclass sessions that delve deep into the nature of the expressive art of singing. Fassbaender returns to Wigmore Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires. £8 concs £6

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

44 November

Thursday 3 November 7.30 pm Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm

Alexei Volodin piano Dorothea Röschmann soprano SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC BORODIN Malcolm Martineau piano Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75 Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov Scherzo from Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; A Midsummer Night’s Dream QUARTET Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Medtner Tale in C# minor Op. 35 No. 4 Schubert Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nachtstück; Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28 Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte) Alexei Volodin’s recital encompasses the unrestrained BEETHOVEN AND Songs by Schumann expressive range of Late Romantic Russian piano Mahler Rückert Lieder music. His Shakespearean-themed first half embraces SHOSTAKOVICH everything from the fourth of Medtner’s Op. 35 A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses Skazki or ‘Tales’, based on a quote from King Lear, CYCLE and concert halls, Dorothea Röschmann is blessed to the vitality and vibrant emotions of Prokofiev’s with the rare receptivity and imagination required arrangements of ten pieces from his 1935 ballet to captivate listeners with her profoundly personal Romeo and Juliet. interpretations of words and music. She joins Malcolm Martineau to explore the dramatic intensity £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 and compassion of songs by Schubert, Schumann London Pianoforte Series and Mahler.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclass See page opposite for full details Borodin Quartet Andy Staples

Friday 4 November 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ The Borodin Quartet’s odyssey through the string quartets of Shostakovich and Beethoven continues with a shrewd combination of works. Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet confronts anxiety and despair to discover a final sense of defiance; Beethoven’s first ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, offsets the sorrow of its slow movement with a joyful final hymn of praise.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Sunday 6 November 7.30 pm Thursday 1 June 2017 7.30 pm Saturday 3 June 2017 7.30 pm Alexei Volodin Marco Borggreve Dorothea Röschmann WDR/Jim Rakete

45 November

Sunday 6 November 11.30 am Sunday 6 November 3.00 pm Sunday 6 November 7.30 pm

Endymion Roderick Williams baritone Borodin Quartet Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb K493 Christopher Glynn piano Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 String Quartet in F Op. 135 Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise) Shostakovich String Quartet No. 14 in F Op. 142 From new commissions to landmarks of the (London première of new English translation) # classical repertoire, Endymion has made its mark The Borodins begin with the fifth of Beethoven’s The narrative arc of Winterreise, supplied by Wilhelm as one of Britain’s finest chamber ensembles. ground-breaking Op. 18 quartets, inspired by Müller’s collection of 24 poems, follows a journey This programme pairs Mozart’s high-spirited Mozart yet strikingly original in style and content, deep into the mysterious territory between life and Piano Quartet No. 2, a pioneering work in the before turning to the exquisitely subtle String death. Wigmore Hall’s Schubert in English project genre created in Vienna in 1786, with the lyrical Quartet in F Op. 135, the composer’s final work in offers the chance to connect with the visionary warmth and spaciousness of Brahms’s late the genre. Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 14, imagery of the composer’s late work, performed Clarinet Quintet. another late work, resonates with the subtle here in a new translation by Jeremy Sams by two humour of Beethoven’s Op. 135. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice artists celebrated for their poetic empathy. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert All seats £15 Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle duration, without an interval Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Schubert in English

Roderick Williams Benjamin Ealovega Borodin Quartet Ny Che/Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center

Christopher Glynn Joanna Bergin Endymion Eamonn McCabe

46 November

Monday 7 November 1.00 pm Monday 7 November 7.30 pm Tuesday 8 November 7.30pm

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello Igor Levit piano Sir Thomas Allen baritone Martin Helmchen piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor Op. 10 Malcolm Martineau piano No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor Op. 49 Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Op. 49 No. 2; Samling Artists BWV1029 Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Piano Sonata Kiandra Howarth soprano Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 David Butt Philip tenor Benjamin Appl baritone ‘What other composer has covered, within his life, such Since making her international breakthrough as vast musical distances?’ asks Alfred Brendel about Andrew Foster-Williams baritone winner of the 2005 Rostropovich Cello Competition, Beethoven. Igor Levit’s recital underlines the point, James Baillieu piano James Sherlock piano Marie-Elisabeth Hecker has become one of the most encompassing everything from the subtle humour Actor to be announced sought after performers of her generation. She is and technical brilliance of the two-movement Piano joined for this recital of characterful cello masterworks SAMLING 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWCASE Sonata in F Op. 54 to the driving intensity of Op. 10 by the young German pianist Martin Helmchen, a ‘THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN’ No. 1 and tragic demeanour of the ‘Appassionata’. former BBC New Generation Artist. INFANCY – Britten A Cradle Song; The Nurse’s Song £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 £13 concs £11 Warlock My sweet little darling Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton Schubert Wiegenlied (D498) London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit CHILDHOOD – Ives The Children’s Hour Schumann Marienwürmchen BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Poulenc From La courte paille: Ba, be, bi, bo, bu; Tuesday 8 November 1.00pm – 3.30 pm Les anges musiciens; Le carafon; Lune d’avril THE LOVER – Schubert Licht und Liebe Liszt Pace non Samling 20th Anniversary trovo; Benedetto sia’l giorno Quilter It was a lover and his Masterclass lass Britten Foggy Dew; Soldier, won’t you marry me? THE SOLDIER – Schubert Kriegers Ahnung Sir Thomas Allen baritone Schumann Der Soldat Wolf Der Soldat I & II Fauré Yvonne Kenny soprano Les berceaux Poulenc Bleuet Barber I hear an army THE JUSTICE – Lehmann Fury Said to a Mouse Malcolm Martineau piano William Bolcom Amor Gilbert & Sullivan When I, with Samling Artists Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar Samling has a long-established reputation for OLD AGE – Brahms O wüsst ich doch den Weg nurturing embryonic potential and setting a course zurück; Alte Liebe Barber The Secrets of the Old to professional brilliance through its international Copland Going to Heaven! Artist Programme. This masterclass showcases OBLIVION/SECOND INFANCY – Schubert Nachtstück; some of the brightest of its most recent discoveries. Des Tages Wiehe £8 concs £6 Readings of selected works by Shakespeare Marie-Elisabeth Hecker Benjamin Ealovega Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event Since its foundation in 1996 Samling has brought together world-class artists with some of the finest emerging singers and pianists. This 20th Anniversary concert, performed by Samling’s Patron Sir Thomas Allen, Malcolm Martineau and a gathering of Samling Artists from over the years, takes Shakespeare’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ as its theme and explores ‘this strange eventful history’ through song.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 DINE WITH THE ARTISTS There are a limited number of tickets for best concert and masterclass seats with a special post-concert sparkling reception and supper with the artists, priced at £125. Available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to [email protected].

Igor Levit Gregor Hohenberg Sir Thomas Allen Sussie Ahlburg Song Recital Series

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Wednesday 9 November 7.30 pm Thursday 10 November 7.30 pm Music in the Round Weekend

Christian Zacharias piano Iestyn Davies countertenor Friday 11 November 7.30 pm Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Thomas Dunford lute Ensemble 360 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 JOHN DOWLAND – ‘A DELIGHTFUL THING’ Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Dowland Preludium (for solo lute); All ye whom love or fortune hath betray’d; Mrs Winters Jump (for solo Recognised universally for the perception, sensitivity Family Concert lute); Behold a wonder here; Come away, come and heartfelt honesty of his interpretations as sweet love; A fancy (for solo lute); Time stands still; pianist and conductor, Christian Zacharias has Saturday 12 November 5.45 pm My thoughts are winged with hopes; Say, love if ever developed a devoted Wigmore Hall following. thou didst find; I saw my lady weep; Flow my tears; This recital comprises works of supreme quality, Pre-Concert Talk Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tears; Shall I strive complete with the intimate introspection of with words to move; The King of Denmark Galliard Beethoven’s Op. 109 and Schumann’s Saturday 12 November 7.30 pm (for solo lute); Can she excuse my wrongs; Davidsbündlertänze, contrasting studies of Ensemble 360 high-spirited impetuosity and poetic reflection. In darkness let me dwell; Semper Dowland semper dolens (for solo lute); Go, crystal tears; Come again, £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 sweet love doth now invite; Now, O now I needs Sunday 13 November 11.30 am London Pianoforte Series must part Ensemble 360 Iestyn Davies won the 2014 Gramophone Recital Award for Arise my muse, his second album for See page 51 for full details Wigmore Hall Live. The acclaimed countertenor recently named Thomas Dunford as ‘One to Watch’ in The Spectator. ‘He manages to draw everybody in’, he wrote. ‘That’s a really special talent.’ Their evolving duo partnership holds the power to delight critics and audiences alike.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series/Early Music and Baroque Series

Christian Zacharias Felvégi Andrea Iestyn Davies Benjamin Ealovega Thomas Dunford Charles Plumey

48 November

Monday 14 November 1.00 pm Monday 14 November 7.30 pm

Cuarteto Quiroga Ian Bostridge tenor EMERSON Javier Perianes piano Sir Antonio Pappano piano STRING QUARTET Granados Piano Quintet Adam Walker flute Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Michael Collins clarinet Spanish pianist Javier Perianes has attracted rave 40TH ANNIVERSARY viola reviews and prestigious engagements in recent Lawrence Power seasons. His collaboration with the Cuarteto Quiroga, Elizabeth Kenny lute strongly forged in performance and the recording studio, continues with a programme complete SHAKESPEARE SONGS with the expressive Piano Quintet by Granados, See page 52 for full details a wonderfully ripe Late Romantic work at times evocative of Franck and Dvorˇák.

£13 concs £11 Monday 14 November 9.45 pm Artists in Conversation See page 52 for full details BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Emerson String Quartet Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Sunday 13 November 7.30 pm Emerson String Quartet 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Mark-Anthony Turnage Shroud* (UK première) Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in Ebminor Op. 30 Javier Perianes Josep Molina *Co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center, University of Washington Seattle, Chamber Music Houston, Tuesday Musical Association Akron, Segerstrom Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Berliner Philharmonie, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of Peter and Sonia Field Beethoven’s ‘Serioso’ Quartet of 1810 earned its nickname by exploring conditions of confrontation, emotional turmoil and deep anxiety. The Emerson String Quartet, recently described as ‘electrifying’ by The New York Times, moves from the ‘Serioso’ to the UK première of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Shroud, specially written for the acclaimed American ensemble.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/ Contemporary Music Series Cuarteto Quiroga Josep Molina

49 Music in the Round Weekend

50 Based in Sheffield and founded by the late, great Peter Cropper, Music in the Round is the country’s leading chamber music promoter outside of London. Renowned for its innovative, informal and engaging performances, we are delighted to welcome its resident group Ensemble 360 to the Wigmore Hall stage for this special weekend, which explores the highly charged, often turbulent chamber music of Robert Schumann and the ever-youthful compositions of Felix Mendelssohn, alongside composers who influenced them, and were influenced by them.

Friday 11 November 7.30 pm Saturday 12 November 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm Ensemble 360 Illustrated Pre-Concert Talk Bach Trio Sonata in C minor from The Musical Offering BWV1079 ‘Stylistically conservative and expressively reserved.’ Does this Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 assessment of Mendelssohn’s writing, by musicologist and critic Robert Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Richard Taruskin, stand up in the face of an analysis of the composer’s Clara Schumann Romance in Db Op. 22 No. 1; Romance in late, emotionally driven String Quartet Op. 80? Professor Julian Horton G minor Op. 22 No. 2 considers the arguments with musical illustrations from Ensemble 360. Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 £4 To launch Music in the Round’s weekend at Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Hall Learning Event celebrating Leipzig’s potent contribution to creative invention and musical artistry, its resident Ensemble 360 reveals the Saturday 12 November 7.30 pm links between Bach and Mendelssohn, and goes on to explore Robert and Clara Schumann’s profound spiritual and emotional partnership. Ensemble 360 Reinecke Trio in A for oboe, horn and piano Op. 188 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45 Chamber Music Season Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon Versatility and excellence propelled Carl Reinecke’s success as composer, pianist, conductor, administrator, writer and influential teacher. His Trio in Family Concert: The Fantastic City A Op. 188, completed in Leipzig in 1887, provides a compelling preface to the Violin Sonata No. 3 by Reinecke’s pupil Edvard Grieg. Works by of Music Reinecke’s teachers Schumann and Mendelssohn add to the programme’s For ages 5 plus network of musical and personal connections. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Andrew J Smith presenter Ensemble 360 Chamber Music Season In a concert full of interaction and entertainment, members of Sunday 13 November 11.30 am the dynamic Ensemble 360 are joined by presenter Andrew J Smith to introduce the whole family to some of the most adored music Ensemble 360 and musicians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including works by Schumann, Bach and Mendelssohn. With Bach Flute Sonata in E minor BWV1034 specially designed resources to download and explore before Mendelssohn Capriccio in E minor Op. 81 No. 3 and after the concert, this is a perfect opportunity to discover Gade Fantasiestücke Op. 43 and enjoy this inspirational music in an informal environment. Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47

Children £8 Adults £10 Leipzig’s prosperous merchants supported a rich musical culture. Recent scholarship suggests that Bach wrote his Flute Sonata in Wigmore Hall Learning Event E minor during his early years in the city. Copenhagen-born Niels Gade, who succeeded Mendelssohn as director of the Leipzig Conservatory in 1847, modelled his Fantasiestücke Op. 43 on pioneering ‘fantasy pieces’ by his friend Schumann.

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Photo of Ensemble 360 by David Shapiro

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Tuesday 15 November 7.30pm Le Concert d’Astrée IAN BOSTRIDGE Emmanuelle Haïm conductor SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO See page opposite for full details Thursday 17 November 7.30 pm

SHAKESPEARE SONGS Imogen Cooper piano Janácˇek From On an Overgrown Path Book 1: No. 5 ‘They Chattered Like Swallows’; No. 4 ‘The Madonna of Frydek’ & No. 10 ‘The barn owl has not flown away!’ Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Debussy La puerta del vino from Préludes Book II; La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes Falla Homenaje pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’ Albéniz From Iberia: El Albaicín; Evocación; El Puerto & Fête-Dieu à Séville Hailed by the Guardian as ‘a pianist who has [always] put the music before technique’, Imogen Cooper offers a programme shot through with poetic nuance. She opens with three folksong-inspired Ian Bostridge Sim Canetty-Clarke Sir Antonio Pappano Musacchio & Ianniello/EMI Classics miniatures from Janácˇek’s On an Overgrown Path, moves through the striking emotional contrasts of Monday 14 November 7.30 pm Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, and closes with of the English language has inspired countless Albéniz’s virtuoso evocations of Spain. Ian Bostridge tenor composers, from those who set the Bard’s £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Sir Antonio Pappano piano verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky. London Pianoforte Series Adam Walker flute Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together Michael Collins clarinet with four outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy here, marking Lawrence Power viola the playwright’s quarter-centenary with a Elizabeth Kenny lute delectable programme of works written for Jacobean productions, Restoration revivals and Shakespeare settings for voice and lute by the modern concert hall. Johnson, Byrd, Morley and Wilson £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Shakespeare settings for voice and piano by Britten, Warlock, Gurney, Poulenc,Tippett, Song Recital Series Quilter, Finzi and Korngold Monday 14 November 9.45 pm Stravinsky Three Songs from William Shakespeare (for voice, flute, clarinet and viola) Artists in Conversation Following the concert, Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano discuss the programme as well as their lives and careers as performers, alongside writer and musicologist Nigel Simeone.

Free to concert ticket holders (no ticket required for this event) Wigmore Hall Learning Event Illustration of William Shakespeare by William Blake, 1800 Imogen Cooper Sussie Ahlburg

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Tuesday 15 November 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut Le Concert d’Astrée Emmanuelle Haïm conductor GRAN PARTITA Mozart Selections from Le nozze di Figaro (arr. Alfredo Bernardini) Mozart Serenade in Bb for winds K361 ‘Gran Partita’ Emmanuelle Haïm’s vocal and period-instrument ensemble, Le Concert d’Astrée, owns a collective wealth of understanding and practical experience in the performance of Baroque and early Classical music. Above all the group takes its lead from its founder-conductor’s dynamic musicianship, inspired by Haïm’s imaginative engagement with the bold rhetorical gestures of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works, and the absolute conviction of her interpretations. They make their Wigmore Hall debut with a beguiling all-Mozart programme, crowned by the majestic ‘Gran Partita’ for twelve wind instruments and double bass, probably written for the clarinettist Anton Stadler and a dozen other musicians employed by Vienna’s Imperial Court Theatre.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Supported by Dunard Fund Early Music and Baroque Series

Photo of Emmanuelle Haïm by Marianne Rosenstiehl

Le Concert d’Astrée Guillaume Mirand

53 November

Friday 18 November 7.30 pm Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm Saturday 19 November 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Adrianne Pieczonka soprano Brian Zeger piano Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble Schubert Ganymed; Die Forelle; Frühlingsglaube; Schubert Three Marches Militaires D733 for Ian Brown piano piano duet Du liebst mich nicht; Die junge Nonne Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Strauss Rote Rosen; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Bartók Duos for 2 violins (selection) Begegnung; Die Nacht; Ruhe, meine Seele; Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Lawrence Power viola Einerlei; Zueignung The Nash Ensemble’s Austro-Hungarian evening Richard Hosford clarinet Wagner Wesendonck Lieder double bill begins with Schubert’s three Marches Brahms Hungarian Dances for piano duet Korngold Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31 Militaires for piano duet – the first of which features Liszt Elégie for cello, piano, harp and harmonium one of the composer’s best-known tunes – followed Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, acclaimed S130; Romance oubliée (for viola and piano) S132 for her multi-faceted interpretations of roles such by folk-inspired string duos by the two fathers of Dohnányi Sextet in C Op. 37 as Wagner’s Sieglinde and Strauss’s Marschallin, modern Hungarian music, Bartók and Kodály. Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 fathoms the dramatic depths of five famous songs All seats £5 by Schubert. Her programme also includes a This programme includes music by two Hungarian delectable selection of Romantic Lieder, complete Chamber Music Season/ pianist-composers, complete with Liszt’s rarely with early masterworks by Strauss and Wagner’s Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire heard chamber works and Erno˝ Dohnányi’s intensely felt settings of five poems by Mathilde extrovert Sextet, framed with a selection of Wesendonck. Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, arrangements of gypsy tunes that he knew and loved from childhood, £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 and his masterly late Clarinet Quintet, with its Song Recital Series gypsy-influenced slow movement.

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

Adrianne Pieczonka Bo Huang Nash Ensemble K Leighton

54 November

Sunday 20 November 11.30 am Sunday 20 November 7.30 pm Monday 21 November 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut* Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone Garrick Ohlsson piano Maximilian Hornung* cello Maciej Pikulski piano Smetana Czech Dances: Polka in A minor; Hulán (Lancer); Obkrocˇák (Stepping Dance); Slepicˇka Hisako Kawamura piano Schubert Der Schiffer (D536); Memnon; (Little Hen); Furiant Fahrt zum Hades; Auf der Donau Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 Falla 4 piezas españolas: Aragonesa; Cubana; Beethoven Lied aus der Ferne; Der Kuss; Webern Two Pieces for cello and piano; Montañesa; Andaluza Ich liebe dich; Adelaide Drei kleine Stücke Op. 11 Falla Fantasia Baetica Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Gruß! (Op. 19a No. 5); Morgengruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln Smetana and Falla’s keyboard compositions harbour Prestigious record prizes and other honours, the des Gesanges; Reiselied (Op. 34 No. 6) strong flavours of the folk music of their respective Young Artist Award 2015 of the European Foundation Schubert From Schwanengesang: Der Atlas; homelands. Garrick Ohlsson offers an exquisitely for Culture among them, have come to Maximilian Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; balanced menu of pieces from Smetana’s second Hornung in recent years. The young German cellist Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger book of Czech Dances, written not long after the traces the creative lines and points of contrast Schubert Schäfers Klagelied; Grenzen der composer realised his deafness was incurable, and between Schumann and Webern, and Webern and Menschheit; Ganymed; Erlkönig; Willkommen Falla’s Cuatro piezas españolas of 1906–09, key Brahms in his Wigmore Hall debut recital. und Abschied works in the revival of Spanish nationalism. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice The charismatic power and poise of Luca Pisaroni’s £13 concs £11 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert voice have inspired audiences at the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls and festivals. The Venezuelan-born Italian bass-baritone is joined by pianist Maciej Pikulski to explore the dialogue BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert between voice and piano in works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series

Maximilian Hornung Marco Borggreve Luca Pisaroni Cate Pisaroni Garrick Ohlsson Mark McBeth

55 Dunedin Consort Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day

Tuesday 22 November 7.30 pm Dunedin Consort John Butt director Joanne Lunn soprano Tim Mead countertenor Nicholas Mulroy tenor Matthew Brook bass-baritone Programme to include: Purcell Hail, bright Cecilia (Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day) Z328

Wigmore Hall celebrates St Cecilia on her annual festival with the greatest of Purcell’s Odes. Hail, bright Cecilia, the Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692, belongs to a distinctive English tradition of honouring music’s patron saint. Purcell here enriches Nicholas Brady’s sonorous verse with music packed with expressive subtleties, tonal variety and compelling textural contrasts. John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their interpretations of masterworks by Bach and Handel, invariably find fresh ways of bringing Baroque music to life. They recently added Hail, bright Cecilia to their repertoire and developed their interpretation with a series of concerts in 2015.

£50 £40 £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

Painting of St Cecilia by Guido Reni, 1606

56 November

Wednesday 23 November 7.30 pm Thursday 24 November 7.30 pm Friday 25 November 7.30 pm

Truls Mørk cello Stuart Jackson tenor Ensemble Modern Håvard Gimse piano Marcus Farnsworth baritone Jonathan Berman conductor Grieg Intermezzo in A minor for cello and piano James Baillieu piano See page 58 for full details Janácˇek Pohádka Schubert Leichenfantasie; Das war ich (D174a); Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor Das war ich (D174b) (fragment); Der Morgenstern Sibelius Four Pieces Op. 78 (D172) (fragment); Die erste Liebe; Jägers Abendlied I; Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36 Grablied; Der Fischer; Abends unter der Linde I & II; Two of Norway’s foremost artists join forces for this Lob des Tokayers; Punschlied: im Norden zu singen; recital of masterworks for cello and piano, including Der Vatermörder; An Rosa I & II; Fischerlied (D351); the folk music-influenced substance of Grieg’s Cello Die Einsiedelei (D393); Lied (Ins stille Land); Sonata of 1882–83 and Janácˇek’s Pohádka. Their Fischerlied II; Die Einsiedelei (D563); Des Fräuleins programme also includes the light-hearted melodic Liebeslauschen; Doch im Getümmel der Schlacht; lines of Grieg’s early Intermezzo and joyful charm of Wenn ich dich, Holde, sehe; Totengräber-Weise; Sibelius’s Four Pieces Op. 78 of 1915–17. Fischerweise £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Two ballads from 1811, ‘Leichenfantasie’ and ‘Der Vatermörder’, introduce each half of this Chamber Music Season programme, setting the scene for Stuart Jackson and Marcus Farnsworth’s shared Schubert recital. The chosen songs include a strong storytelling element, present not least in the two settings of ‘Das war ich’ and of Goethe’s captivating ‘Jägers Abendlied’ and ‘Der Fischer’.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Håvard Gimse Jon Andersen James Baillieu Kaupo Kikkas

Truls Mørk Stephane de Bourgies/Virgin Classics Stuart Jackson Martin Sigmund Marcus Farnsworth Benjamin Ealovega

57 Ensemble Modern

Friday 25 November 7.30 pm Ensemble Modern Jonathan Berman conductor Alexander Goehr Manere 1, 2, 3 (world première) Stockhausen Zeitmasze Oliver Knussen Ophelia Dances Book I Op. 13 Alexander Goehr Verschwindendes Wort

Alexander Goehr’s family moved from Germany to Britain soon after his birth in 1932. His formative musical and cultural experiences were provided by his father, the conductor and Schoenberg pupil Walter Goehr, and his mother, an accomplished pianist. He attracted attention in the 1950s as a founding member of the Manchester New Music Group, together with fellow students Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and John Ogdon. Goehr’s influence as composer and teacher runs deep in the musical life of Britain and beyond. Ensemble Modern celebrates his compelling synthesis of modernist and traditional ideas in a programme that includes the world première of Manere 1, 2, 3.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Photo by Katrin Schilling

58 November

Saturday 26 November 7.30 pm Sunday 27 November 11.30 am Monday 28 November 1.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut* Arditti Quartet Tai Murray violin Lutosławski String Quartet Silke Avenhaus piano Ilker Arcayürek* tenor Hanna Kulenty String Quartet No. 6* (world première) Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ Simon Lepper piano Philippe Manoury String Quartet No. 4 ‘Fragmenti’ (arr. Kreisler) (UK première) Schubert Ganymed; Schäfers Klagelied; Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Donatoni La Souris sans Sourire Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Am Flusse (D766); Suk Four pieces for violin and piano Op. 17 Auf dem See; Der Musensohn *Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam, and by Tai Murray, a BBC New Generation Artist from Schumann Dichterliebe Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss 2008 to 2010, is known for the subtlety and A memorable finalist in the 2015 Cardiff Singer of grant-making foundation nuance of her phrasing and a tone that explores the World competition, Ilker Arcayürek has been the full spectrum of violin colours. The Chicago-born The Arditti Quartet adds the work of Hanna Kulenty selected as a BBC New Generation Artist for 2015 musician has been described by The New York to 2017. The Turkish tenor makes his Wigmore Hall to its extensive repertoire list with the world première Times as ‘superb’, a judgment echoed widely in of the Polish composer’s Sixth String Quartet. The debut with an irresistible programme of songs by superlative reviews of her concert performances Schubert and the emotionally turbulent world of Ardittis also introduce Philippe Manoury’s ‘Fragmenti’ and recordings. to the UK, presented alongside the playful musical Schumann’s Dichterliebe. gestures of Franco Donatoni’s La Souris sans Sourire. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £13 concs £11

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Ilker Arcayürek is a member of BBC Radio 3’s Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Arditti Quartet Iñigo Ibáñez Tai Murray Julia Wesely Ilker Arcayürek Carreon Lopez

59 La Nuova Musica & David Bates

Monday 28 November 7.30 pm La Nuova Musica David Bates director Lucy Crowe soprano (Calisto) James Platt bass (Giove) Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano (Diana) Tim Mead countertenor (Endomione) Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano (Giunone) Jonathan McGovern baritone (Mercurio) Andrew Tortise tenor (Linfea) Sam Furness tenor (Pane) Jake Arditti countertenor (Satirino) Edward Grint bass-baritone (Sylvano) Cavalli La Calisto Francesco Cavalli’s La Calisto, first performed in Venice in 1651, blends comedy and tragedy with music of sensuous beauty and irresistible charm. The opera’s libretto is based on the ancient Greek myth of the nymph Callisto as related by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. Its modern revival at the 1970 Glyndebourne Festival created a wave of interest in Baroque opera that continues to grow today, driven by the energy and artistic vision of groups such as La Nuova Musica and its director David Bates, who made his critically acclaimed US debut in 2014 conducting La Calisto with Cincinnati Opera.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series

‘Jupiter sees the Nymph Callisto’ by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620 –1683)

60 November/December

Tuesday 29 November 7.30pm Friday 2 December 7.30 pm Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Wu Man pipa Come and Sing: BACH, SCHUMANN, JANÁCˇEK AND BARTÓK Sanubar Tursun vocals, dutar Hungarian Music See page 63 for full details Basel Rajoub’s Soriana Project Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults Basel Rajoub saxophones, duclar exploring a wealth of Hungarian music, from traditional folk song to contemporary vocal music. Andrea Piccioni percussion Wednesday 30 November 7.30 pm Get to know the music from the inside, develop Feras Charestan qanun your singing skills and finish the day with a Lynn Adib vocals Sir András Schiff Masterclass performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FROM THE See page 63 for full details £25 concs £19 ENDS OF THE SILK ROUTE Wigmore Hall Learning Event In this rare musical encounter, the eastern and Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm western ends of the Silk Route are musically joined as Chinese pipa maestra Wu Man, Uyghur Saturday 3 December 7.30 pm Philippe Jaroussky countertenor singer-songwriter Sanubar Tursun, and Syrian composer-saxophonist Basel Rajoub perform, Richard Goode piano Le Concert de la Loge Olympique both separately and together, a repertoire of new Julien Chauvin director, violin compositions, improvisations and arrangements Bach Preludes and Fugues (a selection) of contemporary music inspired by tradition. Bach Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831 See page 64 for full details Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A Op. 47; Nocturne in This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, b E minor Op. 72 No. 1; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; including an interval 4 Mazurkas Op. 24; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Friday 2 December 6.00 pm The concert will be followed by a Question and Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Answer session in the auditorium. This is free Since making his debut in the early 1960s, Richard to concert ticket holders and will take place Pre-Concert Talk Goode has developed a rare depth of artistic wisdom. immediately after the performance. Join ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin and Director The American pianist’s visionary music-making, of the Aga Khan Music Initiative Fairouz Nishanova, £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 charged with emotional power and expressive alongside musicians from the evening concert, for These concerts are generously insight, and supported by spellbinding technical a discussion with musical excerpts and a short film presented in collaboration with prowess, is directed in this recital to works by two to introduce the concert. the Aga Khan Music Initiative, of the greatest keyboard composers of all time. a programme of the AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE £4 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Music Initiative Wigmore Hall Learning Event www.akdn.org/music London Pianoforte Series World Music Series

Wu Man and Sanubar Tursun Feng Li Basel Rajoub Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC Richard Goode Steve Riskind

61 62 Sir András Schiff Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

Any collection of essential albums of the keyboard works of Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók would be impoverished without the recordings of Sir András Schiff. The pianist’s affinity for the music of each composer has matured over many decades, making his latest series of three recitals and three related evening masterclasses one of the highlights of Wigmore Hall’s 2016/17 Season.

Tuesday 29 November 7.30 pm

Sir András Schiff piano Bach 15 Inventions BWV772–786 Bartók 10 pieces from For Children BB53; Three Rondos on folktunes BB92; Three Burlesques for solo piano BB55 Janácˇek On an overgrown path (Book I) Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Johann Sebastian Bach Robert Schumann Bach’s Inventions, intended for teaching purposes, stand as a monument to the creation of musical ideas and their development. Sir András Schiff’s recital also explores the breath-taking range of creativity in Bartók’s folksong-inspired miniatures, the first volume of Janácˇek’s On an overgrown path (Book I) and the eighteen peerless character pieces of Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Supported by an anonymous donor and the Chamber Music Circle Leosˇ Janácˇek Béla Bartók London Pianoforte Series

Wednesday 30 November 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm Forthcoming Events in this Series Sir András Schiff Masterclass Tuesday 21 February 2017 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall’s Learning programme enters the evening concert mainstream Concert with a masterclass led by Sir András Schiff, working with outstanding students chosen by Sir András himself on repertoire featured in the previous evening’s Wednesday 22 February 2017 7.30 pm concert. Participants and their audience can expect to discover profound interpretative insights from one of the world’s great musicians, recently hailed Masterclass by the Los Angeles Times for his ‘impeccable technique’, ‘intense concentration’ Tuesday 2 May 2017 7.30 pm and ‘acute sense of being’.

All seats £20 Concert

Supported by an anonymous donor Wednesday 3 May 2017 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Learning Event Masterclass Photo of Sir András Schiff by Birgitta Kowsky

63 Philippe Jaroussky & Le Concert de la Loge Olympique

Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut* Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Le Concert de la Loge Olympique* Julien Chauvin director, violin Programme to include: Telemann Cantata: Die stille Nacht (Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus) TWV1:364; Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen TWV1:983 Bach Cantata: Ich habe genug BWV82 Bach’s sublime solo cantata ‘Ich habe genug’, written in Leipzig in 1727, and Telemann’s so-called Passion Cantata, Die stille Nacht, create ideal conditions for reflection on matters spiritual. Philippe Jaroussky’s artistry flows from his studies as a violinist and subsequent rise to become one of the finest countertenors of our time. His refined feeling for melodic line and the emotions behind words have won critical plaudits worldwide, leading The New York Times to declare that ‘There are countertenors, and then there is Mr Jaroussky’. He is joined by Julien Chauvin’s recently founded Le Concert de la Loge Olympique for its Wigmore Hall debut.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Franck Juery

Photo of Philippe Jaroussky by Simon Fowler/Virgin Classics

64 December

Sunday 4 December 11.30 am Monday 5 December 1.00 pm

Atrium Quartet Boris Giltburg piano ANNE Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Bach/Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 BWV565 SCHWANEWILMS Schumann Papillons Op. 2 Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1 MALCOLM Quartet is known for the dynamic energy and panache of its interpretations. The Berlin-based With his vital blend of jaw-dropping virtuosity and MARTINEAU ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two musical gravitas, Boris Giltburg has emerged as works of tremendous substance, opening with one of the most poetic and insightful artists of his Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by generation. The Israeli pianist’s latest Wigmore the Library of Congress in 1931, and embracing Hall recital opens with Busoni’s richly imagined the intense lyricism of Brahms’s Op. 51 No. 2. transcription of one of the most familiar of all Baroque compositions, and includes Brahms’s £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice symphonic First Piano Sonata. Sunday Morning Coffee Concert £13 concs £11

Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm Collegium Vocale Gent BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Anne Schwanewilms Javier del Real Dorothee Mields soprano Hana Blažíková soprano Monday 5 December 7.30 pm Robert Getchell tenor Thomas Hobbs tenor Anne Schwanewilms soprano Peter Kooij bass Malcolm Martineau piano Ageet Zweistra cello Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Miriam Shalinsky violone Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Maude Gratton organ Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden Thomas Dunford lute Wolf Das verlassene Mägdlein; Wo find ich Philippe Herreweghe director Trost?; Der Genesene an die Hoffnung Strauss In goldener Fülle; Wiegenliedchen; See page 66 for full details Wer lieben will, muss leiden; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen; Blauer Sommer;

Boris Giltburg Sasha Gusov Weisser Jasmin; Das Rosenband; Drei Lieder der Ophelia Wolf Im Frühling; Gesang Weylas; Verborgenheit Strauss Die Nacht; Geduld; Allerseelen Anne Schwanewilms, hailed by Die Presse as ‘Vienna’s new Marschallin’ following her performance in 2014 at the city’s Staatsoper in Der Rosenkavalier, ranks among today’s finest lyric sopranos, a supremely gifted Straussian and one of the foremost interpreters of late Romantic opera and song. The German artist’s regular duo partnership with Malcolm Martineau offers countless delights of detail, expressive shading and poetic timing, channelled from the emotional heart of every piece in their repertoire.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Atrium Quartet Maria Budtova

65 Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe

Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm Beauty of sound and uncanny tonal refinement Collegium Vocale Gent belong to the many attributes cultivated by Dorothee Mields soprano Collegium Vocale Gent ever since its foundation Hana Blažíková soprano by Philippe Herreweghe in 1970. Their award- Robert Getchell tenor winning partnership stands among the most admired in the world of early music and Thomas Hobbs tenor beyond, hallmarked by the sensuous intensity Peter Kooij bass and rhetorical sophistication of their music Ageet Zweistra cello making. In this concert they explore the Miriam Shalinsky violone imaginative terrain of Israelis Brünlein, a Maude Gratton organ collection of twenty-six sacred madrigals to Old Thomas Dunford lute Testament texts in five or six parts by Hermann Philippe Herreweghe director Schein. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent’s recent recording of the work was praised Schein Israelis Brünlein by Gramophone for its ‘concentrated brilliance’. Philippe Herreweghe £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Photos by Michiel Hendryckx This concert will be 1 hour 50 minutes in duration, including an interval Early Music and Baroque Series

66 December

Tuesday 6 December 7.30pm Wednesday 7 December 7.30 pm Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

Igor Levit piano Andreas Staier fortepiano Stephan Loges bass-baritone Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 Schumann From Album für die Jugend Op. 68: Graham Johnson piano No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Ein Choral; Kleine Studie; Canonisches Liedchen; Schubert Lebenstraum II (fragment); Das Leben; Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 11 in B Erinnerung; Reiterstück; *** (Sehr langsam); b Dem Unendlichen; Nachtgesang; Die Einsiedelei; Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3 Figurierter Choral Die Gestirne; Der Alpenjäger; Am Strome; Philoktet; Schumann Sieben Clavierstücke in Fughettenform Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata, created in almost Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Der Schiffer Op. 126; Kinderszenen Op. 15 one sitting, dates from the time of the Heiligenstadt (D536); Fischerlied II; Der Alpenjäger (D588); Schubert Piano Sonata in B D960 Testament, the composer’s heart-breaking account b Die Vögel (D691); Lied des gefangenen Jägers; of his hearing loss. Igor Levit pairs its quixotic Deep study and reflection invariably inform Andreas Wiedersehn; Widerspruch; Fischerweise; Sehnsucht moods with the ‘Grande Sonate pathétique’, among Staier’s revelatory interpretations of the keyboard (D879); Jägers Liebeslied; Der Hochzeitsbraten Beethoven’s best-loved works. His recital’s second repertoire. The German musician, a pioneer among Stephan Loges and Graham Johnson survey the half probes the grace and spirit of two virtuoso performers of the fortepiano, is driven by insatiable chronological span and ceaseless invention of Classical sonatas. curiosity and a desire to penetrate the surface of the Schubert’s creative life. Their programme embraces works in his extensive repertoire and unveil their Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton everything from works such as ‘Das Leben’ and musical substance. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 ‘Dem Unendlichen’, products of the young composer’s £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 annus mirabilis of 1815, to the deliberately humorous London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit ‘Der Hochzeitsbraten’, a convivial conclusion to London Pianoforte Series a Schubertiade of tremendous expressive range and depth.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Igor Levit Simon Jay Price Graham Johnson Malcolm Crowthers

Andreas Staier Josep Molina Stephan Loges Alexander Barnes

67 December

Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm Sunday 11 December 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence CHRISTIAN Adrian Brendel cello Nash Ensemble Aleksandar Madžar piano Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano McBRIDE Janácˇek Mládi for wind sextet Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Smetana Der Fischer (Rybár) for reciter, harmonium, Regular duo partners Adrian Brendel and Aleksandar harp and strings Madžar have cultivated a profound relationship of JAZZ SERIES Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings mutual understanding and artistic insight.Their music- by David Matthews); Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 making, directed in this recital to works of terrific Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn joins imaginative scope, emerges from a shared belief in the Nash Ensemble to explore music from the the importance of uncovering and communicating Czech lands, a strikingly creative region of the the composer’s intentions with total honesty. Austro-Hungarian Empire. This programme voyages £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice from Janácˇ ek’s wind sextet, which reflects on his Sunday Morning Coffee Concert time as a choirboy, to Smetana’s evocative tone poem, before arriving at Dvorˇák’s passionate and colourful Love Songs and his Piano Quintet in A, Sunday 11 December 3.00 pm among the best-loved of all chamber works.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Sir John Tomlinson bass Chamber Music Season/ Christopher Glynn piano Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang) (world première of new English translation) Schubert’s late settings of poems by Rellstab, Heine and Seidl, published posthumously as his ‘Swansong’, include the last of his 600-plus songs. The complete cycle is performed here in Jeremy Sams’s new English translation by Sir John Tomlinson, among the greatest singers of his generation.

This concert will be approximately 50 minutes in duration, without an interval Christian McBride All seats £15 Friday 9 December 7.30 pm Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Schubert in English Christian McBride double bass Adrian Brendel Jack Liebeck Plus special guests to be announced One of the most requested, most recorded, and most respected figures in the world of jazz today, Christian McBride was recently awarded a fifth GRAMMY for his scintillating solo on ‘Cherokee’ from the new album Live at the Village Vanguard. McBride is a star bassist who continues to push the boundaries through his invention, virtuosity and relentless energy. He is joined for this, the last concert in his series, by specially invited guests for a night of creative exchange and musical collaboration.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Christianne Stotijn Marco Borggreve Sir John Tomlinson Robert Workman

68 December

Sunday 11 December 7.30 pm Monday 12 December 1.00 pm

Belcea Quartet Emmanuel Pahud flute MARTHA ARGERICH & Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Takemitsu Voice ALBERTO PORTUGHEIS Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No. 4* CPE Bach Flute Sonata in A minor Wq.132 75TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT (world première); String Quartet No. 2 Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death Bach Partita in A minor for flute BWV1013 and the Maiden’ Varèse Density 21.5 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of Debussy Syrinx André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, Emmanuel Pahud celebrates two golden ages of a Swiss grant-making foundation flute playing, the first associated with the royal Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s large and courts of eighteenth-century Germany, the latter influential output includes works infused with inspired by the great twentieth-century French allusions to nineteenth-century music. His String school of performers. The Swiss musician, principal Quartet No. 4, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, flute with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since receives its world première in this compelling 1992, explores his instrument’s solo repertoire in programme, placed by the Belcea Quartet together this lunchtime recital, embracing compositions with early and late Schubert and the concentrated ancient and modern. Martha Argerich A Heitman power of Penderecki’s own String Quartet No. 2. £13 concs £11 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Alberto Portugheis María Diez

Monday 12 December 7.30 pm Martha Argerich piano Alberto Portugheis piano

Emmanuel Pahud Josef Fischnaller Mozart Sonata in D for two pianos K448 Rachmaninov 6 Duets for piano 4 hands Op. 11 Ravel Ma mère l’oye Saint-Saëns Variations on a theme of Beethoven Op. 35 Widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of her generation, Martha Argerich joins forces with her great friend and fellow Argentine pianist and pedagogue Alberto Portugheis as they celebrate their 75th birthdays with a programme of works close to their hearts.

£100 £75 £50 £30 £15 Booking limited to two tickets only per person London Pianoforte Series Belcea Quartet Tina Fineberg

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Tuesday 13 December 7.30pm St. Lawrence String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 20 No. 1 John Adams String Quartet No. 2* (UK première) Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 ARCANGELO *Co-commissioned by Stanford Live, the Library of Congress, the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, BAROQUE ENSEMBLE IN RESIDENCE Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation John Adams wrote his Second String Quartet for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, which gave its world première at Stanford, California in January 2015. The ensemble introduces the Beethoven-inspired work to the UK in this recital, framed by two of Haydn’s path-breaking Op. 20 quartets and Janácˇ ek’s tempestuous String Quartet No. 1, inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata.

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

Wednesday 14 December 12.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk See page opposite for full details

Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm

Arcangelo Adam Swann Britten Sinfonia Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo launch their Wigmore Hall See page opposite for full details Wednesday 14 December 7.30 pm series with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas, Arcangelo* including the touching Actus tragicus, perhaps written Jonathan Cohen in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s uncle, and director, harpsichord, organ Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber Daniel, gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance for Lydia Teuscher soprano Arcangelo’s ace period-instrument players to shine in the Alex Potter countertenor Sixth Brandenburg Concerto, with its warm blend of parts for violas, viole da gamba, cello, violone and harpsichord. Andrew Tortise tenor £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Thomas Bauer baritone * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Bach Cantata: Christ lag in Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Todesbanden BWV4; Cantata: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit Early Music and Baroque Series (Actus tragicus) BWV106; Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in Bb BWV1051 Friday 13 January 2017 7.30 pm Telemann Cantata: Du aber Daniel, Friday 5 May 2017 10.00 pm gehe hin TWV4:17 Friday 21 July 2017 7.00 pm St. Lawrence String Quartet Eric Cheng

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Wednesday 14 December 12.15 pm Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk Music for the Moment FRANCESCO Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, discusses his A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH new work with Dr Kate Kennedy. DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) AND CARERS PIEMONTESI Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ If you are, or you know someone who is, living with Contemporary Music Series dementia, please join us for this afternoon concert. MOZART CYCLE This relaxed performance includes a captivating programme of music by musicians from the Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm. Britten Sinfonia Free (ticket required) Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music Huw Watkins piano Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Sohrab Uduman New work* (London première) Schoenberg/Steuermann Verklärte Nacht for Wigmore Hall Learning Event Piano Trio *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, his first published Francesco Piemontesi Benjamin Ealovega work, led the composer to the borderlands between late Romanticism and atonality. Heard here in Thursday 15 December 7.30 pm Eduard Steuermann’s arrangement for piano trio, this impassioned work is paired with a new piano trio Francesco Piemontesi piano written by Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, Mozart Piano Sonata in G K283; Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s competition for Piano Sonata in F K332; Piano Sonata in E unpublished composers. b K282; Piano Sonata in F K533/494 £13 concs £11 Francesco Piemontesi, hailed by the Chamber Music Season/ Cleveland Plain Dealer as a ‘stellar Contemporary Music Series Mozartean’, launched his cycle of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2015. He continues his journey through the composer’s magnificent sonatas with a programme comprising two youthful works written during the early months of 1775, the dramatic Piano Sonata in F K332, and the mature K533/494, blessed with an Andante described by one critic as being among ‘the most daring and disturbing movements in all of Mozart’s music’.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series

Forthcoming Events in this Series Thursday 4 May 2017 7.30 pm Monday 23 October 2017 7.30 pm Sohrab Uduman Jon Barraclough Music for the Moment www.benjaminharte.co.uk

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Sunday 18 December 11.30 am TREVOR PINNOCK RENÉ PAPE David Grimal violin 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Anne Gastinel cello WIGMORE HALL DEBUT Philippe Cassard piano Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898 According to Carl Czerny, the central Largo of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 evokes Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the appearance of Banquo’s ghost. Three outstanding soloists and empathic chamber musicians present the work in company with another landmark of the piano trio repertoire, Schubert’s D898, a strikingly exuberant and genial late composition.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Trevor Pinnock Peer Lindgreen

Friday 16 December 7.30 pm Trevor Pinnock harpsichord Rachel Podger violin Bojan Cˇicˇic´ violin Jane Rogers viola Jonathan Manson cello Peter McCarthy violone René Pape Standbild Lucy Crowe soprano RAM Alumni Ensemble Saturday 17 December 7.30 pm Bach Overture No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 René Pape bass Handel Violin Sonata in A Op. 1 No. 3 Camillo Radicke piano Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D David Grimal Benoit Linero BWV1050 Beethoven Sechs Lieder von Gellert Op. 48 Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) and chamber ensemble by Irwin Stein) Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs Op. 6 Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death Music that reflects the power of the human spirit supplies the substance of this One of the world’s leading basses and a truly programme, directed by Trevor Pinnock great Wagnerian, René Pape is among the on his seventieth birthday. The British most versatile singers of his generation. conductor and harpsichordist, a pioneer of He has achieved equal distinction in the opera period-instrument performance, is joined house and as concert soloist and recitalist. by a group of close friends and colleagues His Wigmore Hall debut recital spans to celebrate his personal milestone with spiritually uplifting song-cycles by Beethoven works of the highest quality. and Dvorˇák, and probes Musorgsky’s profound meditations on death. £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series/ Chamber Music Season Song Recital Series Anne Gastinel Stéphane Gallois/Naïve

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Monday 19 December 7.30 pm Tuesday 20 December 7.30pm The King’s Consort Balsom Ensemble MIKLÓS Robert King director Alison Balsom director, trumpet Julia Doyle soprano (Angel) Reiche Fanfare Bendinelli The Procession, from a Venetian tenor (Evangelist) Benjamin Hulett coronation (1595) David Wilson-Johnson bass (Herod) Biber von Bibern Sonata a clarino (for trumpet, strings and continuo) PERÉNYI soprano Julie Cooper Marais Les Voix humaines for solo lute (arr. Dunford) Matthew Venner countertenor Fasch Trumpet Concerto Bach Sinfonia from Oratorio BWV248 countertenor Robin Tyson ‘Weihnachts-Oratorium’ David de Winter tenor Corelli Christmas Concerto (arr. Balsom) Fantini Sonata for two trumpets tenor Tom Robson Torelli Sonata a 5 in D Edward Grint bass Dowland Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Time stands still; Behold a wonder here bass Andrew Rupp Löwe von Eisenach Capriccio CHRISTMAS IN VENICE Purcell Suite from The Fairy Queen Bach Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Giovanni Gabrieli Quem vidistis pastores Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben BWV147 Andrea Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono Biber Sonata No. 7 in C for 2 trumpets and strings Guami Canzona XXIV a8 Giovanni Gabrieli Audite from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes principes Andrea Gabrieli Intonazione Settimo toni Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV351 Giovanni Gabrieli O Magnum Mysterium (arr. Balsom) Gussago Canzona XIX a8 ‘La Leona’ Giovanni Gabrieli Salvator noster Schütz Christmas Story Alison Balsom opens her recital with a homage to Leipzig’s finest trumpeter, Gottfried Reiche, for whom A grand first half of festive Venetian polychoral Bach wrote so many high-flying clarino parts, and music prefaces Heinrich Schütz’s magical setting Miklós Perényi Szilvia Csibi explores dazzling original compositions by Biber, of the Christmas Story, complete with a cast of Wise Fantini, Löwe von Eisenach and Torelli. The trumpet’s Men, Shepherds, High Priests, the Angel bearing Monday 19 December 1.00 pm lyrical voice is also present in her transcriptions and glad tidings, the Heavenly Host, and the villainous arrangements of songs by Dowland and Marin Herod, all backed by a wonderfully colourful Miklós Perényi cello Marais’s contemplative ‘Les Voix humaines’. instrumental ensemble of violins, violettas, cornetti, Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 sackbuts, recorders, dulcian and continuo. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Chamber Music Season / The expressive eloquence and extraordinary Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ tonal refinement of Miklós Perényi’s playing Early Music and Baroque Series have opened hearts and minds to the infinite spiritual dimensions of the works in his broad repertoire. The Hungarian musician, born in Budapest in 1948, completed his studies with lessons from Pablo Casals and is recognised among today’s greatest cellists. He presents the second of Bach’s Cello Suites in tandem with a composition that matches it in intensity and invention, Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello.

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert The King’s Consort Taco van der Werf Alison Balsom Maker

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Wednesday 21 December 7.30 pm

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Since making his London debut in 2009, Mahan Esfahani has made giant strides to bring the harpsichord into the Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 mainstream of concert life. Over the next five seasons at Wigmore Hall we explore Bach’s works for harpsichord with £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Mahan, opening with the Goldberg Variations, a masterpiece Early Music and Baroque Series/Bach Harpsichord Works of great virtuosity, beauty and vast inventive range written for two-manual harpsichord in 1741. This series continues on 12 September 2017.

Photo by Bernhard Musil/Deutsche Grammophon

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Tuesday 27 December 7.30pm AKADEMIE FÜR Sitkovetsky Trio VOX Turina Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 76 ALTE MUSIK Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Schubert Notturno in Eb D897 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 LUMINIS BERLIN Hailed by the Independent for artistry ‘reminiscent of the Beaux Arts Trio in its heyday’, the Sitkovetsky Trio’s playing is distinguished by unconditional commitment and high-octane energy. The ensemble, founded in 2007, explores the colourful soundscapes of Turina and Ravel before fathoming the vast creative worlds of Schubert and Schumann.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Uwe Arens

Friday 23 December 7.30 pm Akademie für Alte Musik Vox Luminis Ola Renska Berlin Thursday 22 December 7.30 pm A WINTERS NIGHT’S MUSIC Vox Luminis Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in Lionel Meunier artistic director C minor K388 ‘Night Music’ Leopold Mozart Die musikalische Vivaldi Domine ad adjuvandum me festina Schlittenfahrt: Divertimento in F RV593 (arr. Ernst Schlader) Handel Nisi Dominus HWV238 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ah vous Vivaldi Magnificat RV610 dirai-je, maman (arr. Georg Druschetzky) Handel Dixit Dominis HWV232 Salieri Armonia per un tempio della notte Beethoven Octet in E Op. 103 Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier have b secured a host of prestigious recording A musical sleigh-ride by Mozart’s father, the awards and five-star reviews, tribute to music of freemasonry, nocturnal serenades the quality and panache of their revelatory and a dozen variations on a popular French interpretations of early vocal works. Their nursery rhyme stand together in this most recent album, a recording of motets programme of works for wind instruments. by members of the Bach family, was lauded Mozart composed his ‘Night Music’ in Vienna by Gramophone as ‘a deeply felt and in the early 1780s to satisfy the imperial city’s atmospheric compendium’. They return to appetite for wind ensemble music, a demand Wigmore Hall with a programme of sacred also served by the former regimental musician masterworks, including Handel’s youthful Georg Druschetzky. Members of Berlin’s setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, renowned Akademie für Alte Musik conclude composed in Italy in 1707. with the young Beethoven’s vivacious Octet.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series Chamber Music Season Sitkovetsky Trio

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Wednesday 28 December 7.30 pm Thursday 29 December 7.30 pm Doric String Quartet Roberta Invernizzi soprano THE ENGLISH Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Sonia Prina contralto Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 Ensemble Claudiana Mendelssohn String Quartet in Eb Op. 44 No. 3 CONCERT The Doric String Quartet has forged ahead over the Luca Pianca director, lute past decade to become one of Britain’s leading Marco Frezzato cello chamber groups, known for its sophisticated tonal harp blend and consummate artistry. This programme Margret Köll includes Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2, completed AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE almost a century ago and swiftly absorbed into See page opposite for full details the international repertoire following its publication in 1920.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Friday 30 December 7.30 pm Chamber Music Season Gringolts Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 3 ‘Jagdquartett’ The English Concert Richard Haughton Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67 Founded in 2008, the Zurich-based Gringolts Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm Quartet has been acclaimed for the sensitive nuance NB starting time of its sound and the responsive musicianship of its members. This programme pairs Beethoven’s The English Concert forward-looking Op. 18 No. 6, written in the first year of the nineteenth century, with the pulsating energy Harry Bicket director, harpsichord of Jörg Widmann’s ‘Jagdquartett’, completed soon Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola after the beginning of the twenty-first century. NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Purcell Suite from King Arthur Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Corelli Concerto Grosso in C Op. 6 Doric String Quartet George Garnier No. 10 Telemann Viola Concerto in G TWV51:G9 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 While The English Concert and Harry Bicket have worked tirelessly in recent years to cast light upon neglected corners of the Baroque and Early Classical repertoire, they welcome in the New Year with a programme of works by the great Baroque masters on whom the ensemble built its reputation.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Gringolts Quartet Tomasz Trzebiatowski

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Thursday 29 December 7.30 pm Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a Roberta Invernizzi soprano Sonia Prina contralto generation of singers blessed with remarkable technical skills, musical refinement and emotional Ensemble Claudiana, Luca Pianca director, lute freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to Marco Frezzato cello Margret Köll harp mine the depths of the contralto range provide the ideal complement to the crystalline beauty of AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore Hall with Luca Pianca’s ace Ensemble Claudiana Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Ohimè dov’è il mio ben? Doni Toccata – Passacaglia to perform a programme of works associated Monteverdi Mentre vaga angioletta from Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi, libro ottavo Gabrielli Sonata No. 1 for lute, cello and harp Handel Sono liete, fortunate with Venice, complete with Monteverdi’s yearning Lotti Poss’io morir Durante Son io, barbara donna Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?, a heart-breaking set of variations for two voices and basso continuo, a Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb BWV998 for lute and harp Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi chamber duet by Antonio Lotti, and Handel’s virtuoso Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Photos by Ribalta Luce Studio Early Music and Baroque Series

77 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.’ 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. Priority Booking for all concerts in this series opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016.

Tuesday 20 September 7.30 pm Saturday 15 October 7.30 pm Friday 25 November 7.30 pm

James Gilchrist tenor Birmingham Contemporary Ensemble Modern Anna Tilbrook piano Music Group Jonathan Berman conductor Julian Philips* Mark van de Wiel clarinet Alexander Goehr, Stockhausen & Oliver Knussen Saturday 24 September 7.30 pm Geoffrey Paterson conductor Helen Grime, Oliver Knussen & Carter Saturday 26 November 7.30 pm Aurora Orchestra Anna Meredith* Friday 28 October 7.30 pm Arditti Quartet Hanna Kulenty*, Philippe Manoury & Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm The Prince Consort Donatoni Calder Quartet Stephen Hough piano Sunday 11 December 7.30 pm Stephen Hough Barbara Hannigan soprano Belcea Quartet Peter Eötvös* Monday 31 October 7.30 pm Krzysztof Penderecki* Friday 14 October 7.30 pm Alison Balsom trumpet Tuesday 13 December 7.30 pm The Cardinall’s Musick Tom Poster piano St. Lawrence String Quartet Arvo Pärt, Nico Muhly* & Tavener Tom Poster & Alison Balsom John Adams* Saturday 15 October 1.00 pm Sunday 13 November 7.30 pm Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm Alexandra Wood violin Emerson String Quartet Britten Sinfonia Rachel Roberts viola Mark-Anthony Turnage* Sohrab Uduman* Philip Higham cello Friday 30 December 7.30 pm Nicholas Daniel oboe Huw Watkins piano Gringolts Quartet Helen Grime* Jörg Widmann

78 Monday 23 January 2017 7.30 pm Friday 10 March 2017 7.30 pm Wednesday 26 April 2017 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello Pacifica Quartet Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Alasdair Beatson piano Johannes Moser cello Sol Gabetta cello John Casken Julia Wolfe Jörg Widmann, Ligeti & Xenakis

Wednesday 25 January 2017 7.30 pm Tuesday 21 March 2017 7.30 pm Sunday 7 May 2017 7.30 pm

Signum Quartet Nash Ensemble Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Bruno Mantovani* Martyn Brabbins conductor Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano Adrian Brendel cello George Crumb, György Kurtág & Michel van Wednesday 8 February 2017 1.00 pm der Aa Roderick Williams baritone Britten Sinfonia Huw Watkins, Colin Matthews, Thursday 11 May 2017 7.30 pm Oliver Knussen & Mark-Anthony Turnage* Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Simon Holt & Julian Anderson* Elias String Quartet Thursday 9 February 2017 7.30 pm Paul Newland* Saturday 25 March 2017 1.00 pm Jörg Widmann clarinet Calder Quartet Wednesday 14 June 2017 7.30 pm Mitsuko Uchida piano piano Jörg Widmann Thomas Adès Arditti Quartet Nicolas Hodges piano Eliot Fisk guitar Saturday 18 February 2017 7.30 pm Thomas Adès Hugues Dufourt* & Wolfgang Rihm*

Scottish Ensemble Saturday 25 March 2017 7.30 pm Friday 16 June 2017 7.30 pm Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Birmingham Contemporary Jasper String Quartet Alina Ibragimova violin Music Group Aaron Jay Kernis* Arvo Pärt & Pe¯ teris Vasks conductor Timothy Redmond Tuesday 20 June 2017 7.30 pm Saturday 25 February 2017 1.00 pm Calder Quartet JACK Quartet Thomas Adès piano Ensemble intercontemporain Philippe Schoeller & Matteo Franceschini Xenakis Thomas Adès, György Kurtág & Gerald Barry Monday 26 June 2017 7.30 pm Saturday 25 February 2017 7.30 pm Friday 7 April 2017 7.30 pm JACK Quartet Vienna Piano Trio Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Mark Padmore tenor Pavel Kolesnikov piano Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Thomas Larcher* Xenakis zarb Chemirani Brothers Saturday 1 July 2017 7.30 pm Friday 3 March 2017 7.30 pm Marco Stroppa, Ross Daly, Sokratis Sinopoulos, György Kurtág, Krzysztof Doric String Quartet Birmingham Contemporary Penderecki & Franck Leriche Alasdair Beatson piano Music Group Wednesday 19 April 2017 1.00 pm Thomas Adès Huw Watkins piano Britten Sinfonia Oliver Knussen conductor *Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall Helen Grime* Nicholas Daniel oboe with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Brian Elias* Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by

79 EVENTS FOR FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS

All events listed on pages 80 – 83 will open for booking on 31 May, with the exception of the Relaxed Concert on 24 September, Silver Sunday on 2 October, Family Concerts on 8 October and 12 November, Come and Sing on 3 December, and Music for the Moment on 15 December, which are included in Priority Booking for Friends and Mailing List Subscribers. September/October

Saturday 17 September 10.00 am – 3.00 pm Open House Day Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes and behind the music at Wigmore Hall, with free performances and workshops taking place throughout the day. Bring the family and join Detective Inspector Hermione Jones for a musical mystery trail around the building and free music-making workshops at 11.00 am, 12.15 pm and 1.30 pm.

Free (no ticket required)

Study Leonore Piano Trio Eric Richmond Saturday 24 September 11.00 am – 12 noon Sunday 2 October Programme Relaxed Concert: Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures We have an extensive programme of Leonore Piano Trio As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers to join study events including masterclasses, The Leonore Piano Trio, which brings together three us in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection pre-concert talks and study days. acclaimed artists renowned for their ability to and Wigmore Hall. Please keep an eye on our communicate informally with audiences, performs For a list of all our events see Wigmore Hall website for more details! a diverse programme of music for violin, cello and Learning section of At a Glance on page 3. piano in a relaxed and informal environment. Free (booking required) Our relaxed concerts are open to everyone and are In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts specifically designed to welcome people who will and the Royal Academy of Music benefit from a more relaxed performance environment, including people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, sensory and communication disorders, or a learning disability. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and our house lights will remain up so there is no darkness. Audience members are able to walk in and out of the auditorium as they need to and there is a designated quiet area.

www.benjaminharte.co.uk All seats £5

www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

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Friday 7 October 11.00 am – 12 noon (repeated 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm) Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom RECEPTION & KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT When King Colin sets his sights on finding the famous Golden Sausage, there’s only ONE person for the job: Sir Scallywag! But will the six-year-old knight be mighty enough to defeat the filthy trolls and win the Stinkiest Battle Ever? Join Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly Ives for this new children’s concert, based on Giles Andreae’s latest Sir Scallywag story, illustrated by Korky Paul (Penguin 2015). With music by award-winning composer Paul Rissmann, it’s packed with irresistibly memorable songs, vivid story-telling, illustrations and lots of audience participation. Benjamin Ealovega £3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 Saturday 22 October 10.30 am – 3.30 pm A Knight’s Quest Saturday 8 October 11.00 am – 12 noon FAMILY DAY Ensemble 360 and Polly Ives: For ages 5 plus Sir Scallywag and the Battle Discover the stories hidden in The Wallace Collection of Stinky Bottom and create your own medieval knight’s quest. Try on armour and create a puppet; will you be a knight or FAMILY CONCERT a squire? Then write your own travelling music for For ages 4 plus the journey and perform it onstage at Wigmore Hall. Ignite Benjamin Ealovega Children £10 Adults £15 A repeat of the Schools Concert on 7 October, Wednesday 26 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm for families. In partnership with Thursday 27 October 11.00 am – 3.30 pm The Wallace Collection Children £8 Adults £10 Musical Portraits Band HALF TERM COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders to be inspired by paintings in the National Early Years Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside For Crying Out Loud!, our concert series for Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite. parents/carers and their babies under 1, and For more information, and to apply for a place, Chamber Tots, interactive workshops for children contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or aged 1 to 5, take place across the season. email [email protected]. Free (application required) See pages 20 & 31 for forthcoming For Crying Out Loud! concerts and see the Learning brochure In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery for forthcoming Chamber Tots workshops. and Turtle Key Arts

Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

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Saturday 12 November 11.00 am – 12 noon The Fantastic City of Music Andrew J Smith presenter In the Community Ensemble 360 FAMILY CONCERT Our Learning projects reach out For ages 5 plus across London and further afield, including an extensive schools In a concert full of interaction and entertainment, members of the dynamic Ensemble 360 are joined by and early years programme, a presenter Andy J Smith to introduce the whole family community programme working to some of the most adored music and musicians of with children, young people and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including adults in challenging circumstances, works by Schumann, Bach and Mendelssohn. and Music for Life, in which we With specially designed resources to download and explore before and after the concert, this is a perfect lead creative music workshops with opportunity to discover and enjoy this inspirational people living with dementia. music in an informal environment.

Children £8 Adults £10 www.benjaminharte.co.uk

Wednesday 16 November 11.00 am – 12 noon Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm Van Kuijk Quartet and Rachel Come and Sing: Leach: Melodies Hungarian Music KEY STAGE 3 SCHOOLS CONCERT Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults Join the members of the Van Kuijk Quartet, First exploring a wealth of Hungarian music, from Prize-winners of the 2015 Wigmore Hall International traditional folk song to contemporary vocal music. String Quartet Competition, as they perform a dynamic Get to know the music from the inside, develop concert exploring the string quartet and its vast and your singing skills and finish the day with a varied repertoire. Alongside presenter Rachel Leach, performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. the quartet performs a wide range of pieces by £25 concs £19 composers ranging from Ravel to Smetana. Designed to support, complement and extend the Key Stage 3 curriculum, bookers also receive a Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm teachers’ resource pack ahead of the concert. www.benjaminharte.co.uk £3.50 Music for the Moment Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS If you are, or you know someone who is, living with dementia, please join us for this afternoon concert. This relaxed performance includes a captivating programme of music by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm.

Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music

Van Kuijk Quartet www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

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Saturday 10 December and Saturday 17 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE For children aged 3 – 5 and their parents/carers A young girl has told a very big lie and now, if she doesn’t spin all this straw into gold by the morning, The King will cut off her head! There is no way she can do it, until she meets a mysterious stranger who casts a magical spell and all the dry straw is transformed into sparkling gold. Surely when The King sees all of these riches, he will marry her and make her Queen! But the magical elf returns and wants payment for his troubles. Join us for this immersive adventure which reimagines the well-loved Rumpelstiltskin story.

Children £8 Adults £10

Tuesday 13 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE For Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups A repeat of the events on 10 and 17 December, for Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups.

£3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 Benjamin Ealovega 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 For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone

Benjamin Ealovega

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These concerts (except where stated) are not available to book with this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late September 2016.

January 2017

Tuesday 3 January 7.30pm Friday 6 January 7.30 pm Sunday 8 January 11.30 am

John Chest baritone Vijay Iyer piano Novus String Quartet Marcelo Amaral piano Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor WINTER JOURNEY A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE Op. 80 Brtitten Winter Words Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs with his Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 Songs by Schubert, Duparc, Wolf, Schumann ‘hero, friend and teacher’, trumpeter Wadada Leo ‘Serioso’ and Poulenc Smith, who belongs to the first generation of Sunday Morning Coffee Concert players to come out of Chicago’s hugely influential Song Recital Series Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm Cuarteto Casals Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; String Quartet in Eb K428 Chamber Music Season

John Chest Andrey Stoycher Vijay Iyer Barbara Rigon Novus String Quartet Jin-ho Park

84 January 2017

Sunday 8 January 3.00 pm Monday 9 January 1.00 pm Friday 13 January 7.30 pm

Timothy Fallon tenor Richard Egarr harpsichord Arcangelo* Ammiel Bushakevitz piano Programme to be announced Jonathan Cohen director, cello Prize winners of the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Foundation International Song Competition Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV1058 Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital (from Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041) Schubert Nacht und Träume; Die Sternennächte; Telemann Burlesque de Quixotte TWV55:G10 Liebesrausch II; Rastlose Liebe; Wiegenlied; Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D BWV1054 Nachtstück; Willkommen und Abschied Monday 9 January 7.30 pm Telemann Suite in G TWV55:G4 ‘Les Nations Beach Three Browning Songs Op. 44 anciens et modernes’ Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 Song Recital Series Danish String Quartet Bach Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Sunday 8 January 7.30 pm Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 Early Music and Baroque Series/Arcangelo and Cuarteto Casals ‘Razumovsky’ Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence Chamber Music Season Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm ‘Dissonance’ Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm Chamber Music Season Vienna Piano Trio La Venexiana Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio) Monteverdi Selections from the Seventh Book Ravel Piano Trio in A minor of Madrigals Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Early Music and Baroque Series Chamber Music Season

Cuarteto Casals Molina Visuals La Venexiana Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz

85 January 2017

Sunday 15 January 11.30 am Monday 16 January 1.00 pm Tuesday 17 January 7.30pm

Wigmore Series Debut* Beatrice Rana piano Classical Opera Nikita Boriso-Glebsky* violin Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Ian Page conductor Pianist to be announced Beatrice Rana is a member of BBC Radio 3’s Soloists to be announced Programme to be announced New Generation Artists scheme 1767 – A RETROSPECTIVE Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Described by The Observer as ‘among the most audacious classical music programming ever’, BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Ian Page’s MOZART 250 follows the chronological Sunday 15 January 7.30 pm trajectory of Mozart’s life, works and influences 250 years on. This concert will present an overview Erich Höbarth violin Monday 16 January 7.30 pm of the musical scene in 1767 with a fascinating Gerhard Schulz violin programme of works that were written or premièred Soloists of Les Arts Florissants in that year. Thomas Riebl viola Paul Agnew director, tenor Early Music and Baroque Series Steven Isserlis cello Miriam Allan soprano Ralph Kirshbaum cello Hannah Morrison soprano Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm Lucile Richardot contralto Sir András Schiff piano Sean Clayton tenor Other artists to be announced baritone Cyril Costanzo bass Georg Nigl IMS PRUSSIA COVE Andreas Staier fortepiano CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – HILARY TUNSTALL- BEHRENS’S IMITATION AND EMULATION Schubert Die Schatten; Andenken; Geisternähe; Der Abend (D108); Lied der Liebe; Der Geistertanz 90TH BIRTHDAY A selection of madrigals by Monteverdi and his (D116); Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Frühlingslied (D398); contemporaries including Vecchi, Ingegneri, Programme to be announced Die Knabenzeit; Klage an den Mond; Erntelied; Marenzio, Wert and Pallavicino. Abschied (D475); Orest auf Tauris; Erlafsee; Beim Chamber Music Season Early Music and Baroque Series Winde; Nachtstück; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Das Zügenglöcklein; Am Fenster; Irdisches Glück; Genügsamkeit; Schiffers Scheidelied Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Beatrice Rana Neda Navaee Georg Nigl Bernd Uhlig

86 January 2017

Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm Sunday 22 January 3.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Julia Fischer violin Royal Academy of Music Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 27 No. 1 Nash Ensemble Richard Lewis Song Circle (à Joseph Szigeti); Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 Martyn Brabbins conductor Nika Goricˇ soprano No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud); Violin Sonata in Katie Stevenson mezzo-soprano D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu); Ian Brown piano Nicholas Mogg baritone Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler); Lucy Crowe soprano Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom); Michael Mofidian bass-baritone Violin Sonata in E Op. 27 No. 6 (à Manuel Quiroya) Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘Emperor’ Yi-Shing Cheng piano Mozart Piano Concerto No. 14 in Eb K449 Michael Pandya piano Chamber Music Season Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. for soprano and Songs by Charles Villiers Stanford, his pupil chamber ensemble by Irwin Stein) Muriel Herbert, and Roger Quilter – the man Friday 20 January 7.30 pm Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Vienna she loved. The recital will be introduced by and its Empire Claire Tomalin, Muriel Herbert’s daughter. Angela Hewitt piano WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Bach French Suites: No. 1 in D minor BWV812; Sunday 22 January 11.30 am No. 2 in C minor BWV813; No. 4 in Eb BWV815; Song Recital Series No. 6 in E BWV817; No. 3 in B minor BWV814; Elias String Quartet No. 5 in G BWV816 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Monday 23 January 1.00 pm London Pianoforte Series/ Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano Fauré Mirages Op. 113 Caplet Cinq ballades françaises de Paul Fort Honegger Petits cours de morale Poulenc Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Parisiana

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Julia Fischer Felix Broede Lucy Crowe Marco Borggreve Roderick Williams Benjamin Ealovega

87 January 2017

Monday 23 January 7.30 pm ECMA Showcase Friday 27 January 7.30 pm Philip Higham cello Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Friday 27 January 1.00 pm Alasdair Beatson piano Julius Drake piano Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – Masterclass Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero Programme to include: comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO. 45 Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm Nico Muhly New work* John Casken Stolen Airs (London première) Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 Quatuor Akilone *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of Lutosławski Metamorphoses (1981) André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, Franck/Delsart Sonata in A for cello and piano Quatuor Hanson a Swiss grant-making foundation £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Stratos Quartet Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Trio Vitruvi Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Pacific Quartet Vienna Saturday 28 January 7.30 pm Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Works by Bartók, Beethoven, Walton, Chausson, Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Schubert, Mozart and Schumann Le Concert de la Loge Chamber Music Season Olympique Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm Julien Chauvin director, violin Signum Quartet Thursday 26 January 7.30 pm Karina Gauvin soprano Programme to be announced Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Bruno Mantovani String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Early Music and Baroque Series Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Programme to include: ‘Razumovsky’ Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 *Co-commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg, Konzerthaus Vienna, and by Wigmore Hall with the London Pianoforte Series support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Philip Higham Simon Wall Elisabeth Leonskaja Marco Borggreve Alice Coote Benjamin Ealovega

88 January/February 2017

Sunday 29 January 11.30 am Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm Monday 30 January 7.30 pm

Amaryllis Quartet Stéphane Degout baritone Igor Levit piano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 No. 3 ‘The Bird’ Cédric Tiberghien piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 No. 2; Beethoven String Quartet in E Op. 127 Piano Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3; Piano Sonata b Programme to be announced No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E Sunday Morning Coffee Concert b Song Recital Series Op. 31 No. 3 London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Sunday 29 January 3.00 pm Monday 30 January 1.00 pm

Tim Mead countertenor Tuesday 31 January 7.30pm Peter Moore trombone James Baillieu piano James Baillieu piano Gould Piano Trio Programme to include: Programme to be announced Schubert Notturno in E D897; Piano Trio No. 1 Howells King David b in B D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in E D929 Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Peter Moore is a member of BBC Radio 3’s b b Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man? New Generation Artists scheme Chamber Music Season Quilter It was a lover and his lass Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm Betty Roe To his sweet saviour BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Ireland If There Were Dreams to Sell Elizabeth Watts soprano Joseph Phibbs The Moon’s Funeral Vaughan Williams Tired Malcolm Martineau piano Warlock Love for Love Schubert Nähe des Geliebten; Vergebliche Liebe; Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day? Liebe schwärmt auf allen Wegen; Das Rosenband; Britten The Salley Gardens Lambertine; Die verfehlte Stunde; Gott im Frühlinge; Quilter Hey, ho, the wind and the rain Aus Diego Manzanares (Almerine); Pflicht und Song Recital Series Liebe; Der Sänger am Felsen; Die Blumensprache; La pastorella al prato; Heiß mich nicht reden (D726); So laßt mich scheinen (D727); Der Blumen Schmerz; Nachtviolen; Du bist die Ruh; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann; Heimliches Lieben; Frühlingslied (D919) Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Amaryllis Quartet Tobias Wirth Peter Moore Kaupo Kikkas Gould Piano Trio Jake Morley

89 February 2017

Friday 3 February 7.30 pm Sunday 5 February 7.30 pm Tuesday 7 February 7.30pm Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Wigmore Hall Associate Artists The English Concert Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Masterclass Rachel Podger guest director, violin Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; The Takács Quartet works with two student JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066 String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; ensembles on Beethoven String Quartets. Telemann Sonata a 6 in F minor TWV44:32 String Quartet in B Op. 130 b Wigmore Hall Learning Event CPE Bach Symphony in G Wq.182/1 Chamber Music Season JS Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 Telemann Concerto in Bb for 3 oboes, 3 violins and Monday 6 February 1.00 pm basso continuo TWV44:43 Saturday 4 February 7.30 pm JS Bach Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboe and violin (reconst.) Isabelle Faust violin Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Early Music and Baroque Series Andreas Staier piano Takács Quartet CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) Wednesday 8 February 12.15 pm String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’; String Quartet Schumann Fantasy in C Op. 131 in C# minor Op. 131 Brahms Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 Pre-Concert Talk (arr. of Viola Sonata) Chamber Music Season Mark-Anthony Turnage discusses the programme for the following lunchtime concert with Dr Kate Kennedy. Sunday 5 February 11.30 am BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Nash Ensemble Monday 6 February 7.30 pm and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Dvorˇák Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. for flute and piano) Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Dvorˇák String Quintet in Eb Op. 97 Takács Quartet Contemporary Music Series Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/ Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5; Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Chamber Music Season

Takács Quartet Robert Torres Rachel Podger Jonas Sacks

90 February 2017

Wednesday 8 February 1.00 pm Thursday 9 February 7.30 pm Saturday 11 February 5.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Britten Sinfonia Jörg Widmann clarinet Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Mitsuko Uchida piano Nash Ensemble Mark-Anthony Turnage Prayer for a great man Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Claire Booth soprano Oliver Knussen Cantata (Triptych Part 3) Op. 15 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Ravel Introduction and Allegro An introductory talk, followed by: Jörg Widmann Fantasie for solo clarinet Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5 Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 for Mark-Anthony Turnage Col* (world première) Webern Piano Quintet in C solo piano Schoenberg Die eiserne Brigade; Ein Stelldichein; *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of Jörg Widmann Idyll und Abgrund – Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs); Nachtwandler for donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Six Schubert Reminiscences for Piano soprano, piccolo, trumpet, snare drum and piano Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Chamber Music Season/ £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 £13 concs £11 Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Nash Ensemble

Wednesday 8 February 7.30 pm Friday 10 February 7.30 pm Claire Booth soprano Berg Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs) piano Janine Jansen violin Nikolai Demidenko (arr. by de Leeuw for soprano, piano, harmonium, Programme to include: flute, clarinet, string quartet and bass) Boris Brovtsyn violin Sonatas by Scarlatti Mozart Clarinet Trio in Eb K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Torleif Thedéen cello Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd (transcription for solo piano by Alfred Cortot) on the Rock) flute Clara Andrada de la Calle Schubert Octet in F D803 London Pianoforte Series clarinet Olivier Patey Chamber Music Season/ Eldar Nebolsin piano Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire Korngold Suite for two violins, cello and piano left hand Op. 23 Berg Adagio from Chamber Concerto Schoenberg/Webern Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Perspectives

Britten Sinfonia Harry Rankin Jörg Widmann Marco Borggreve Claire Booth Sven Arnstein

91 February 2017

Sunday 12 February 11.30 am Tuesday 14 February 7.30pm Friday 17 February 7.30 pm

Trio con Brio Copenhagen Razumovsky Ensemble Mauro Peter tenor Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1 Programme to be announced Helmut Deutsch piano Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 Chamber Music Season Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Song Recital Series Wednesday 15 February 7.30 pm Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm Saturday 18 February 7.30 pm Matthew Rose bass Belcea Quartet Gary Matthewman piano Scottish Ensemble Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144 Schubert Winterreise Jonathan Morton leader, artistic director Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Alina Ibragimova violin Chamber Music Season Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 6 in Eb for strings Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song ‘My soul yearns after Thursday 16 February 7.30 pm the Lord’ Monday 13 February 1.00 pm Hartmann Concerto funebre Llyˆr Williams piano Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor for strings Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in Eb Op. 7; Piano Pe¯teris Vasks Viatore James Baillieu piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78; Piano Sonata No. 15 Bach Concerto in E for violin BWV1042 in D Op. 28 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E Programme to be announced b £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Kathryn Rudge is a member of BBC Radio 3’s London Pianoforte Series Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, New Generation Artists scheme and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Kathryn Rudge Sussie Ahlburg Llyˆr Williams Benjamin Ealovega Helmut Deutsch & Mauro Peter Benjamin Ealovega

92 February 2017

Sunday 19 February 11.30 am Sunday 19 February 7.30 pm Monday 20 February 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut Isabelle Faust violin Members of The Sixteen Choir Lara Melda piano Alexander Melnikov piano and Orchestra Programme to be announced Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Fretwork Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert conductor Françaix Sonatine (1934) Harry Christophers Fauré Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor Op. 108 Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 Sunday 19 February 3.00 pm Antheil Sonata for violin, piano and drums Scheidt Two dances from Ludi musici Chamber Music Season Early Music and Baroque Series Louise Alder soprano piano Gary Matthewman Monday 20 February 1.00 pm Tuesday 21 February 7.30pm Songs by Sibelius, Huw Watkins, Britten, Debussy and Puccini Van Kuijk Quartet Sir András Schiff piano Song Recital Series Programme to be announced Bach 15 Sinfonias BWV787–801 Bartók Suite Op. 14; Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T BB89 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Janácˇek Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ The Van Kuijk Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’s Schumann Piano Sonata No. 1 in F# minor Op. 11 New Generation Artists scheme London Pianoforte Series/Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Lara Melda Benjamin Harte Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Marco Borggreve Harry Christophers Marco Borggreve

93 February 2017

Wednesday 22 February 7.30 pm Sir András Schiff Masterclass Sir András Schiff works with an outstanding student on repertoire featured in the previous evening’s concert. XENAKIS DAY Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff: Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók

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 Chamber Music Season

Iannis Xenakis Jane Bown Friday 24 February 7.30 pm

The JACK Quartet and Pavel Kolesnikov Matthias Goerne baritone Pianist to be announced make a welcome return to the Wigmore Hall stage to explore works for string Programme to be announced quartet and piano by the Greek-French Song Recital Series composer Iannis Xenakis. Join us as we immerse ourselves in his unique soundworld and discover how he revolutionised twentieth-century classical music.

Saturday 25 February

1.00 pm

JACK Quartet JACK Quartet Henrik Olund Xenakis Works for string quartet

All seats £15

7.30 pm JACK Quartet Pavel Kolesnikov piano Xenakis Works for string quartet and piano quintet

All seats £20 Pavel Kolesnikov Colin Way

Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Matthias Goerne Marco Borggreve

94 February/March 2017

Sunday 26 February 11.30 am Sunday 26 February 7.30 pm Tuesday 28 February 7.30pm

Quatuor Voce Igor Levit piano Theatre of the Ayre Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Op. 28 Elizabeth Kenny director, theorbo Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 ‘Pastoral’; Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Programme to be announced Piano Sonata No. 13 in E Op. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una Sunday Morning Coffee Concert b fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minor Op. 27 Early Music and Baroque Series No. 2 ‘Moonlight’ Sunday 26 February 3.00 pm London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Wednesday 1 March 7.30 pm

Nicholas Phan tenor Monday 27 February 1.00 pm Carducci String Quartet piano Myra Huang Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 MOUNT OLYMPUS David Greilsammer piano Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Schubert An die Leier; Ganymed; Atys; Op. 122 Scarlatti Sonatas: in D minor Kk213; Der Musensohn Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ in D minor Kk141; in E Kk381; in B minor Kk87; Webern Langsamer Satz KNIGHTS AND KINGS in F minor Kk466; in E Kk531; in B minor Kk27; Schubert Der Sänger in D Kk492 Chamber Music Season Brahms Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein Cage Sonatas: No. 14; No. 13; No. 12; No. 1; Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: No. 16; No. 11; No. 5 Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen Beethoven Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal ein König THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Schumann Der Sandmann Wolf Der Feuerreiter Schubert Der Zwerg Schumann Waldesgespräch Mendelssohn Hexenlied FAIRY TALES Brahms Sandmännchen Wolf Der Rattenfänger; Elfenlied; Storchenbotschaft ‘Des Schäfers sein Haus’ Song Recital Series

Nicholas Phan FaceCollective David Greilsammer Julien Mignot Elizabeth Kenny Benjamin Ealovega

95 March 2017

Thursday 2 March 7.30 pm Saturday 4 March 7.30 pm Monday 6 March 1.00 pm

Paul Lewis piano Paul Lewis piano Carolyn Sampson soprano Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825 Repeat of concert on 2 March Matthew Wadsworth lute Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in E Op. 7 b London Pianoforte Series Programme to be announced 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 A Op. 39 b Sunday 5 March 11.30 am London Pianoforte Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Arcadia Quartet cello Friday 3 March 7.30 pm Amit Peled Tuesday 7 March 7.30pm Mozart String Quartet in G K80 Birmingham Contemporary Schubert String Quintet in C D956 Alisa Weilerstein cello Music Group Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Inon Barnatan piano Huw Watkins piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Oliver Knussen conductor Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Programme to include: Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 Helen Grime A Cold Spring Carter Triple Duo Chamber Music Season Helen Grime Piano Concerto* (world première) *Co-commissioned by BCMG Sound Investment, and by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Marchus Trust

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Helen Grime Composer in Residence

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Clive Barda Paul Lewis Molina Visuals Carolyn Sampson Marco Borggreve

96 March 2017

Wednesday 8 March 7.30 pm Friday 10 March 7.30 pm Sunday 12 March 11.30 am The Endellion String Quartet Pacifica Quartet Wigmore Series Debut Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4 Johannes Moser cello Simone Lamsma violin Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Programme to include: Robert Kulek piano Op. 80 Julia Wolfe New work for string quintet (UK première) Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Op. 56 Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Ravel String Quartet in F ‘Voces Intimae’ Arvo Pärt Fratres £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Sunday 12 March 3.00 pm Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Chamber Music Season Ilker Arcayürek tenor

Saturday 11 March 7.30 pm Simon Lepper piano Thursday 9 March 7.30 pm Programme to include songs by Debussy, Fauré, The Tallis Scholars Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Hahn and Schumann Programme to be announced Song Recital Series Peter Phillips director London Pianoforte Series Isaac Regina caeli laetare; Missa de apostolis; Angeli archangeli Mouton Quis dabit oculis? Isaac Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?; Virgo prudentissima Early Music and Baroque Series

Alisa Weilerstein Harald Hoffmann/Decca Pacifica Quartet Saverio Truglia Pierre-Laurent Aimard Marco Borggreve

97 March 2017

Sunday 12 March 7.30 pm Tuesday 14 March 7.30pm Thursday 16 March 7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano Christoph Prégardien tenor Hilary Hahn violin Joseph Middleton piano Julius Drake piano Robert Levin piano Programme to be announced Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der liebliche Stern; Programme to be announced Im Walde (D834); Um Mitternacht; Lebensmut; Song Recital Series Chamber Music Season Im Frühling; An mein Herz; Tiefes Leid (Im Jänner 1817); Über Wildemann; Dass sie hier gewesen; Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Im Walde (D708); Monday 13 March 1.00 pm Friday 17 March 7.30 pm Nacht und Träume; Fischerweise; Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Winterabend Kungsbacka Piano Trio Igor Levit piano Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90; Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101; Piano Sonata Wednesday 15 March 7.30 pm No. 29 in Bb Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ London Pianoforte Series/ Christian Blackshaw piano Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital Mozart Piano Sonata in Bb K333 Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 12 Saturday 18 March 7.30 pm Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 London Pianoforte Series Patricia Petibon soprano Susan Manoff piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Ekaterina Semenchuk Sheila Rock Christian Blackshaw Herbie Knott Patricia Petibon Felix Broede/DG

98 March 2017

Sunday 19 March 11.30 am Monday 20 March 7.30 pm Tuesday 21 March 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Meccore Quartet David Daniels countertenor Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Martin Katz piano Nash Ensemble Grieg String Quartet in G minor Op. 27 Programme to be announced Martyn Brabbins conductor Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Song Recital Series Adrian Brendel cello Roderick Williams baritone Monday 20 March 1.00 pm Tuesday 21 March 6.00pm NASH INVENTIONS

Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Huw Watkins String Trio* Pre-Concert Talk Colin Matthews Fuga piano Nino Gvetadze Composers in conversation ahead of the Sir Peter Maxwell Davies A Sea of Cold Flame Debussy Première rapsodie evening concert. (UK première) Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and piano Colin Matthews New work for baritone and Free (ticket required) Schumann Arabeske in C for solo piano Op. 18 ensemble (world première) Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Simon Holt Bagatelarañas for wind quintet* Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, (world première) Annelien Van Wauwe is a member of BBC Radio 3’s and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Julian Anderson Van Gogh Blue** New Generation Artists scheme Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. *Nash Commission Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ ** Co-commissioned by The Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Contemporary Music Series and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital foundation

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Annelien Van Wauwe Christian Ruvolo David Daniels Robert Recker/Virgin Classics Roderick Williams Benjamin Ealovega

99 March 2017

Wednesday 22 March 7.30 pm

Steven Osborne piano Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117: No. 3 in C minor; No. 2 in Bb minor; No. 1 in Eb THOMAS ADÈS DAY Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 30 in E Op. 109; No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 London Pianoforte Series ‘ARCADIANA’ Saturday 25 March 1.00 pm Thursday 23 March 7.30 pm Few contemporary composers have Calder Quartet The King’s Consort proved to be as consistently inventive Thomas Adès piano as Thomas Adès. Wigmore Hall explores Robert King conductor his eloquently expressive work with a Nicolas Hodges piano Julie Cooper soprano day-long programme of chamber music, Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Rebecca Outram soprano including the string quartets Arcadiana Lutosławski Variations on a theme of Paganini and Four Quarters. Thomas Adès Concert Paraphrase on Robin Blaze countertenor Powder Her Face Charles Daniels tenor Walton Selections from Façade Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Matthew Brook bass-baritone This concert will be approximately 2 hours in ‘HENRY PURCELL, BY ROYAL COMMAND’ – duration, including an interval.

MUSIC FOR THE CHAPEL ROYAL All seats £20 Purcell O sing unto the Lord; Thou wakeful shepherd (A Morning Hymn); Why do the heathen 6.00 pm so furiously rage together; Close thine eyes and sleep secure (Upon a Quiet Conscience); Behold, Artists in Conversation now, praise the Lord; My beloved spake; Sleep, Thomas Adès in conversation with John Gilhooly Adam, and take thy rest (Adam’s Sleep); Praise the £4 Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me; With sick and famish’d eyes; O praise God in his holiness Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Early Music and Baroque Series 7.30 pm Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Timothy Redmond conductor Calder Quartet Thomas Adès piano György Kurtág Officium breve Op. 28 Gerald Barry Octet Thomas Adès Concerto Conciso, Arcadiana Solo piano works by Janácˇek and György Kurtág

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15 Thomas Adès Brian Voce

Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Steven Osborne Benjamin Ealovega

100 March 2017

Sunday 26 March 11.30 am Monday 27 March 1.00 pm Wednesday 29 March 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Debut Gallicantus Early Opera Company Tamar Beraia piano Programme to be announced Christian Curnyn director Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Programme to be announced Schumann Carnaval Op. 9 Early Music and Baroque Series Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Recital

Thursday 30 March 7.30 pm Sunday 26 March 3.00 pm Monday 27 March 7.30 pm Marc-André Hamelin piano Manuel Walser baritone Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Leif Ove Andsnes piano Anano Gokieli piano piano Polina Leschenko Mozart Larghetto and Allegro in Eb (completed by Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ihr seid die Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Paul Badura-Skoda) Allerschönste; Dass doch gemalt; Ein Ständchen Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos euch zu bringen; Hoffärtig seid Ihr, schönes Kind, Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Debussy En blanc et noir und geht; Lass sie nur gehn, die so die Stolze spielt; Ravel Tzigane Stravinsky The Rite of Spring (for piano duo) Wie viele Zeit verlor ich London Pianoforte Series Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Chamber Music Season/ Strauss Winternacht; Zueignung; Nichts; Die Nacht; Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence Die Georgine; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen; Friday 31 March 7.30 pm Die Zeitlose; Allerseelen; Heimliche Aufforderung; Cäcilie Eggner Trio Song Recital Series Haydn Piano Trio in D HXV:24; Piano Trio in C HXV:21 Dvorˇák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 Chamber Music Season

Tamar Beraia Marco Borggreve Gallicantus Leif Ove Andsnes Özgür Albayrak

101 SUMMER PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2017

These concerts (except where stated) are not available to book with this brochure. Booking dates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure available from late December 2016.

April 2017

Saturday 1 April 7.30 pm Sunday 2 April 7.30 pm Tuesday 4 April 7.30pm

EXAUDI Nikolaj Znaider violin Miloš Karadaglic´ guitar James Weeks director Piotr Anderszewski piano Programme to be announced Programme to be announced Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season Early Music and Baroque Series/ Chamber Music Season Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 5 April 7.30 pm Monday 3 April 1.00 pm Sunday 2 April 11.30 am Alexander Melnikov piano Apollon Musagète Quartet Debussy Préludes Books I & II Dante Quartet Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

EXAUDI Matthew Andrews Apollon Musagète Quartet Marco Borggreve

102 April 2017

Thursday 6 April 7.30 pm Friday 7 April 7.30 pm Saturday 8 April 7.30 pm

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Toby Spence tenor Ensemble Prisma Wien Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Julian Milford piano Thomas Fheodoroff director, violin Chemirani Brothers zarb Britten On this Island Tippett Boyhood’s End Schubert 5 Minuets D89 Marco Stroppa Ay, there’s the rub Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit Schubert Impromptu in C minor D899 No. 1 Ross Daly Karsilamas Finzi Till Earth Outwears (arranged for strings by Thomas Fheodoroff) Sokratis Sinopoulos Nihavent Semai Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Haydn Arianna a Naxos György Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, Games and Dvorˇák String Quintet in G Op. 77 (mvts 2 & 3) Messages Song Recital Series Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Keyvan & Bijan Chemirani Percussion improvisation: (arranged for voice, oboe and strings by ‘7 beat’ Christian Mondrup) Lutosławski Sacher Variation Sunday 9 April 11.30 am Traditional Homayun Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Season Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio per Siegfried Palm Colin Carr cello Franck Leriche 5 beat Traditional Sunday Morning (arr. Sokratis Sinopoulos); Thomas Sauer piano Hasapiko Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 1 in G BWV1027 £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Sunday Morning Coffee Concert and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Bernarda Fink Julia Wesely Jean-Guihen Queyras François Sechet Thomas Sauer & Colin Carr Jo Schofield

103 April 2017

Sunday 9 April 7.30 pm Monday 10 April 7.30 pm Wednesday 12 April 7.30 pm Les Talens Lyriques Ensemble Plus Ultra Le Concert Spirituel Christophe Rousset Programme to be announced Hervé Niquet director director, harpsichord Early Music and Baroque Series LEÇONS DE TÉNÈBRES BACH ET LA FRANCE Couperin Première Leçon de ténèbres pour le Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Tuesday 11 April 7.30pm Mercredi Saint Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1059 Charpentier Répons: Unus ex discipulis meis H114 Leclair Flute Concerto in C Op. 7 No. 3 Lochon Tuere nos mortales (instrumental) baritone Rameau Orchestral Suite from Castor et Pollux Henk Neven Couperin Seconde Leçon de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint Early Music and Baroque Series Imogen Cooper piano Charpentier Répon: Eram quasi agnus innocens H115 Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Chein Introit from Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Couperin Troisième Leçon de ténèbres pour le Monday 10 April 1.00 pm Mercredi Saint Charpentier Répons: Una hora non potuistis H116 Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Delalande Miserere mei Deus Secumdum S27 Joseph Middleton piano Early Music and Baroque Series Programme to be announced

Thursday 13 April 7.30 pm

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sergey Khachatryan violin Lusine Khachatryan piano Programme to be announced Chamber Music Season

Christophe Rousset Ignacio Barrios Martinez Ensemble Plus Ultra Le Concert Spirituel Centre audiovisuel des Dominicains de Haute

104 April 2017

Saturday 15 April 7.30 pm Monday 17 April 7.30 pm Wednesday 19 April 12.15 pm

Steven Isserlis cello London Handel Players Pre-Concert Talk Dénes Várjon piano Laurence Cummings director Brian Elias discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy. Hummel Variations alla Monferrina Op. 54 LONG-DISTANCE MUSICAL FRIENDS Onslow Cello Sonata in C minor Op. 16 No. 2 Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Works by Telemann and Handel Chopin Introduction and polonaise brillante in C Op. 3 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Franchomme Nocturne Early Music and Baroque Series Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65 and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season Tuesday 18 April 7.30pm Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series Sunday 16 April 11.30 am Basel Chamber Orchestra Daniel Hope violin Wednesday 19 April 1.00 pm Castalian Quartet Programme to be announced Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Chamber Music Season Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Britten Sinfonia Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 Nicholas Daniel oboe ‘Razumovsky’ Finzi Interlude for oboe and string quartet Op. 21 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Brian Elias Oboe Quintet* (world première) Mozart String Quintet in C minor K406 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of Monday 17 April 1.00 pm donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Alessio Bax piano Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Programme to be announced £13 concs £11 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Alessio Bax Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Basel Chamber Orchestra Christian Flierl

105 April 2017

Thursday 20 April 7.30 pm Sunday 23 April 11.30 am Monday 24 April 1.00 pm

Thomas Dunford lute Ivana Gavric´ piano Louis Lortie piano LACHRIMAE Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 Programme to be announced No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Dowland Preludium; Fortune; A fancy; Semper Chopin 4 Mazurkas Dowland semper dolens; Mistris Winters Jump; Liszt 3 Petrarch Sonnets S158; Rhapsodie A Dream; The King of Denmark Galliard; Melancholy espagnole S254 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Galliard; Round Battle Galliard; La mia Barbara; Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Farewell; Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Frog Galliard; Lachrimae Tuesday 25 April 7.30pm Early Music and Baroque Series Sunday 23 April 7.30 pm Janina Fialkowska piano Saturday 22 April 7.30 pm Andreas Haefliger piano Chopin Polonaise in Eb minor Op. 26 No. 2; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2 Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; Impromptu No. 3 in Gb Soloists of the London Berio Erdenklavier; Wasserklavier Op. 51; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Waltz in B minor Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Op. 69 No. 2; Waltz in Ab Op. 42; Fantaisie in Philharmonic Orchestra Berio Luftklavier; Feuerklavier F minor Op. 49; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Prelude in E minor Op. 28 No. 14; Prelude in D Brahms Trio in Eb Op. 40 Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 b b Op. 28 No. 15 ‘Raindrop’; 3 Mazurkas Op. 50; Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ London Pianoforte Series Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 Chamber Music Season London Pianoforte Series

Thomas Dunford Eric Sebbag Ivana Gavric´ Quentin Huys Louis Lortie ELIAS

106 April 2017

Thursday 27 April 7.30 pm Sunday 30 April 11.30 am

Kathleen Ferrier Wigmore Hall Debut Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Awards 2017 Nino Chokhonelidze piano Caroline Goulding violin Wednesday 26 April 1.30 pm WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION Danae Dörken piano SEMI-FINAL INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION Schubert Violin Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Friday 28 April 6.00 pm WINNER’S RECITAL Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Enescu Impressions d’enfance Op. 28 FINAL Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Song Recital Series

Sunday 30 April 7.30 pm Wednesday 26 April 7.30 pm Saturday 29 April 7.30 pm Hagen Quartet Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Hagen Quartet Schubert String Quartet in E D87 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73; b Sol Gabetta cello Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 String Quartet No. 14 in F# Op. 142; Xenakis Dhipli zyia Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 String Quartet No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144 Jörg Widmann 24 Duos for violin and cello (selection) ‘Death and the Maiden’ Chamber Music Season Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Chamber Music Season Kodály Duo for violin and cello Op. 7 Ligeti Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg Interspersed with works by CPE Bach, JS Bach and Scarlatti

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence

Patricia Kopatchinskaja Marco Borggreve Milan Siljanov Hagen Quartet Harald Hoffmann

107 May 2017

Monday 1 May 1.00 pm Tuesday 2 May 7.30pm Friday 5 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Lawrence Zazzo countertenor Sir András Schiff piano Chamber Music Society of Daniele Caminiti lute Bach Capriccio in Bb BWV992 (Capriccio on the Lincoln Center Departure of his Most Beloved Brother) Programme to be announced Benjamin Beilman violin Bartók 6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm from Yura Lee violin, viola Mikrokosmos Book VI Jakob Koranyi cello Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Übung (Book III) BWV802– 805 Wu Han piano BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Bartók Piano Sonata Alessio Bax piano Janácˇek In the Mists Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 ‘Lebensstürme’ Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Op. 80 Monday 1 May 7.30 pm London Pianoforte Series/Sir András Schiff: Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 87 Maximilian Schmitt tenor Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók Chamber Music Season Gerold Huber piano Programme to be announced Wednesday 3 May 7.30 pm Friday 5 May 10.00 pm Song Recital Series Sir András Schiff Masterclass Arcangelo Sir András Schiff works with an outstanding Jonathan Cohen student on repertoire featured in the previous director, harpsichord, organ evening’s concert. Biber Sonata No. 6 in C minor C143 Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Sir András Schiff: Schmelzer Sonata No. 3 from Sonatae Unarum Bach, Schumann, Janácˇek and Bartók Fidium Works by Buxtehude, Biber and Schmelzer

Thursday 4 May 7.30 pm Wigmore Lates/Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence Francesco Piemontesi piano Mozart 9 Variations on a Minuet by Duport K573; Piano Sonata in Bb K570; Piano Sonata in C K309; Piano Sonata in C K330; Piano Sonata in A minor K310 London Pianoforte Series/Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle

Lawrence Zazzo Justin Hyer Sir András Schiff Nadia F Romanini Jonathan Cohen Marco Borggreve

108 May 2017

Saturday 6 May 7.30 pm Sunday 7 May 7.30 pm Monday 8 May 1.00 pm

Karita Mattila soprano Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Véronique Gens soprano Ville Matvejeff piano Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord, piano Susan Manoff piano Programme to include songs by Brahms, Wagner, CPE Bach Fantasie in F# minor Wq. 80 Hahn Néère; Trois jours de vendange Berg and Strauss (arr. of Fantasia for keyboard solo Wq. 67) Duparc Chanson triste; Romance de Mignon George Crumb Four Nocturnes Chausson Le Charme; Les papillons; Hébé Song Recital Series Vivaldi Violin Sonata in A minor RV32 Hahn Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Le rossignol György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e des lilas; A Chloris Ligeti Hungarian Rock for harpsichord solo Chausson La chanson bien douce; Le temps des lilas Sunday 7 May 11.30 am CPE Bach Sonata in D for violin and harpsichord Hahn Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; Phyllis; Le printemps Wq. 71 Saleem Ashkar piano György Kurtág A selection from Signs, Games and Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; Messages for solo violin Piano Sonata No. 26 in Eb Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’; Michel van der Aa Double for violin and piano BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 Sciarrino Capriccio No. 2 for solo violin ‘Appassionata’ JS Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004 (with improvised accompaniment) Monday 8 May 7.30 pm Sunday Morning Coffee Concert £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Sainsbury Royal Academy Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Soloists and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Clio Gould director Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Schubert/Mahler String Quartet in D minor Series/Early Music and Baroque Series/ ‘Death and the Maiden’ (for string ensemble) Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Artist in Residence Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Chamber Music Season

Karita Mattila Marica Rosengard Patricia Kopatchinskaja Marco Borggreve Véronique Gens Marc Ribes/VirginClassics

109 May 2017

Wednesday 10 May 7.30 pm Saturday 13 May 7.30 pm Sunday 14 May 3.00 pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano Simon Bode tenor Lars Vogt piano Jan Philip Schulze piano Igor Levit piano Schubert Schwanengesang Schubert Hagars Klage; Atys; Das war ich; Mendelssohn Frühlingslied; Das erste Veilchen; Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Die Gestirne; Himmelsfunken; Die Sternennächte; Winterlied; Neue Liebe; Gruss!; Reiselied Dem Unendlichen; Im Walde (D708); Geheimes; Wolf Er ist’s; Fußreise; Zitronenfalter im April; Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Suleika I; Herrn Josef Spaun, Assessor in Linz; Auf einer Wanderung; Gebet; Lied eines Verliebten; Der Zwerg; Wehmut; Die Allmacht Der Feuerreiter Korngold Aussicht; Das Mädchen; Der Friedensbote; Thursday 11 May 7.30 pm Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Die Geniale; Reiselied; Sangesmut; Vesper; Vom Berge Elias String Quartet Song Recital Series Sunday 14 May 11.30 am Benjamin Frith piano Wigmore Hall Solo Recital Debut* Dvorˇák String Quartet in Eb Op. 51 Sunday 14 May 7.30 pm Paul Newland New commission* (world première) Jakob Koranyi*cello Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 Juho Pohjonen piano *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Takács Quartet Carnegie Hall, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of Programme to be announced André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’; a Swiss grant-making foundation Sunday Morning Coffee Concert String Quartet in Eb Op. 127 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Monday 15 May 1.00 pm Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/ violin Bracing Change: New British String Commissions Tasmin Little John Lenehan piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Friday 12 May 7.00 pm NB starting time Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Joanna MacGregor piano Chopin Mazurkas (complete) BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert London Pianoforte Series

Joanna MacGregor Pal Hansen Violeta Urmana Christine Schneider Simon Bode Kroeger Photography

110 May 2017

Monday 15 May 7.30 pm Wednesday 17 May 7.30 pm Friday 19 May 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Wigmore Hall Associate Artists Julian Prégardien tenor Takács Quartet Takács Quartet Christoph Schnackertz piano Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6; Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 Schubert Die Nacht (D358); Gott im Frühlinge; String Quartet in F Op. 135; String Quartet in C ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with An Chloen (D363) (fragment); Der gute Hirt; Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Große Fuge Op. 133 Alte Liebe rostet nie; Geheimnis; Schlaflied; Chamber Music Season Chamber Music Season Sehnsucht (D516); Atys; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren BILDER AUS OSTEN Tuesday 16 May 7.30pm Thursday 18 May 7.30 pm Schubert Mahomets Gesang (D549) (fragment); Versunken; Geheimes; Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie Classical Opera Alison Balsom trumpet hier gewesen; Im gegenwärtigen Vergangenes; Auf dem Strom Ian Page conductor Lucy Crowe soprano Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Other artists to be announced Programme to be announced Anna Devin soprano Chamber Music Season/Early Music and Baroque Saturday 20 May 7.30 pm MOZART 250 Series/Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ Mozart Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in F K37; Llyˆr Williams piano A Berenice ... Sol nascente in questo giorno K70; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in B K39; Keyboard b Piano Sonata No. 31 in A Op. 110; Piano Sonata Concerto No. 3 in D K40; Ein ergrimmter Löwe b No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 brüllet from Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots K35; Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in G K41 London Pianoforte Series Early Music and Baroque Series Sunday 21 May 11.30 am Armida Quartet Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546 Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 33 No. 6 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Takács Quartet Ellen Appel Alison Balsom Hugh Carswell/Warner Classics Julien Prégardien Marco Borggreve

111 May 2017

Sunday 21 May 3.00 pm Monday 22 May 1.00 pm Friday 26 May 7.00 pm NB starting time

Christoph Pohl baritone Phantasm Escher String Quartet Marcelo Amaral piano Programme to be announced Programme to be announced BALLADEN Chamber Music Season Liszt Der Fischerknabe; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Die Loreley BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Saturday 27 May 7.30 pm Schubert Der Jüngling am Bache (D638); Der Taucher piano Loewe Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig Tuesday 23 May 7.30pm Pavel Kolesnikov Wolf Ganymed; Der Rattenfänger Programme to include: CPE Bach Andante con tenerezza from Sonata Song Recital Series The Endellion String Quartet in A Wq. 65/32 Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D537 Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26; Sunday 21 May 7.30 pm Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Nachtstücke Op. 23 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 London Pianoforte Series Jerusalem Quartet £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Dvorˇák Terzetto in C Op. 74 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Sunday 28 May 11.30 am Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season Schumann Quartet Chamber Music Season Programme to include: Mozart String Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’ Wednesday 24 May 7.30 pm Barber String Quartet Op. 11 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Nikolai Lugansky piano Tchaikovsky The Seasons Op. 37b Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in Ab Op. 61; Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 London Pianoforte Series

Christoph Pohl René Limbecker Nikolai Lugansky Jean-Baptiste Millot Schumann Quartet Kaupo Kikkas

112 May/June 2017

Sunday 28 May 7.30 pm Thursday 1 June 7.30 pm Saturday 3 June 7.30 pm

Christina Landshamer soprano Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet Gerold Huber piano Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in D Op. 133 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E minor Schumann Aufträge; Röselein, Röselein!; Lied der b b Op. 144 Suleika; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Liebeslied Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Ullmann 3 Sonnets Op. 29 Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet: Schumann Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land? Friday 2 June 7.30 pm Ullmann 6 Sonnets Op. 34 Sunday 4 June 11.30 am Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 and Requiem Janine Jansen violin Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Song Recital Series Torleif Thedéen cello Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 clarinet Martin Fröst Dvorˇák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Monday 29 May 1.00 pm piano Lucas Debargue Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Zemlinsky Quartet Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for Programme to be announced the End of Time) Sunday 4 June 3.00 pm Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Perspectives Jongmin Park bass Pianist to be announced BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Friday 2 June 9.45 pm Programme to be announced Song Recital Series Wednesday 31 May 7.30 pm Artists in Conversation Following her recital, Janine Jansen discusses the Christopher Maltman baritone evening programme and her life as a performer. Malcolm Martineau piano Wigmore Hall Learning Event Programme to be announced Song Recital Series

Christina Landshamer Marco Borggreve Borodin Quartet Keith Saunders Jongmin Park

113 June 2017

Sunday 4 June 7.30 pm Wednesday 7 June 7.30 pm Friday 9 June 7.00 pm NB starting time

Christian Ihle Hadland piano The English Concert Yevgeny Sudbin piano Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Programme to be announced Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Programme to be announced London Pianoforte Series Schubert Sonata in C D812 ‘Grand Duo’ Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958 Early Music and Baroque Series London Pianoforte Series Friday 9 June 10.00 pm Thursday 8 June 7.30 pm Alison Balsom trumpet Monday 5 June 1.00 pm Anna Lucia Richter soprano Guy Barker trumpet Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Michael Gees piano Chris Hill double bass Tomkins Pavan in A minor Schubert Hoffnung (D637); Suleika II Ross Stanley piano Farnaby Woody-Cock Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Programme to be announced Cowell Set of Four Heiß mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; WF Bach Sonata in Eb Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Wigmore Lates/ Steve Reich Piano Phase Schubert Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ Nachtviolen; Viola; Erster Verlust; An mein Herz; An den Mond (D259); Der Zwerg; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Das Heimweh (D456); Saturday 10 June 7.30 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Totengräbers Heimweh; Ellens Gesänge I, II & III; Abschied von der Erde Angela Hewitt piano Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Bach Partita No. 1 in B BWV825; Partita No. 2 Tuesday 6 June 7.30pm b in C minor BWV826; Sonata in D minor BWV964; Razumovsky Ensemble Partita No. 4 in D BWV828 London Pianoforte Series/ Programme to be announced Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Chamber Music Season

Christian Ihle Hadland Kim Laland Anna Lucia Richter Hermann Clärchen & Matthias Baus Angela Hewitt Bernd Eberle

114 June 2017

Sunday 11 June 11.30 am Monday 12 June 1.00 pm Wednesday 14 June 7.30 pm

Natalia Prischepenko violin Antoine Tamestit viola Arditti Quartet Thomas Hoppe piano Pianist to be announced Eliot Fisk guitar Programme to be announced Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Hugues Dufourt String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Scharwenka Suite in G minor for violin and piano Berio Sequenza XI for solo guitar Op. 99 Wolfgang Rihm Quintet for guitar and string quartet** Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 (UK première) BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Sunday Morning Coffee Concert *Co-commissioned by Konzerthaus Wien, Philharmonie de Paris, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Tuesday 13 June 7.30pm Sunday 11 June 7.30 pm grant-making foundation **Co-commissioned by Library of Congress, and by Wigmore Igor Levit piano Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Ben Johnson tenor Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; piano Graham Johnson Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110; Piano Sonata £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Schubert Trost: An Elisa; Erinnerungen; Andenken; No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Lied der Liebe; Der Mondabend; Das Bild; Die Sterne London Pianoforte Series/ Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. (D176); Alles um Liebe; An den Frühling (D283); Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Entzückung an Laura I; Entzückung an Laura II Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. (fragment); An den Frühling (D587); Sonette I–III Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series (D628–630); Der 13. Psalm (fragment); Die Allmacht; Fröhliches Scheiden; Vor meiner Wiege; Der Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939) Thursday 15 June 7.30 pm Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Nicolas Altstaedt cello Alexander Lonquich piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Chamber Music Season

Ben Johnson Chris Gloag Antoine Tamestit Eric Larrayadieu Arditti Quartet Lukas Beck

115 June 2017

Friday 16 June 7.30 pm Sunday 18 June 11.30 am Monday 19 June 7.30 pm

Jasper String Quartet Michelangelo Quartet Andrè Schuen baritone Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1 Programme to be announced Daniel Heide piano Aaron Jay Kernis String Quartet No. 3 ‘River’* Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Schubert Auf der Brücke; Der Wanderer an den (UK première) Mond; Nachtstück; Die Sterne (D939) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Dapoz Ben danter mile steres *Co-commissioned by Caramoor, Carnegie Hall, Classic Sunday 18 June 7.30 pm Frontull Nos salvans Chamber Concerts (Naples, FL), Chamber Music Monterey Dapoz Alalt al ci Bay (CA), Chamber Music Northwest (OR), Chamber Music Quatuor Ebène Schubert Der Wanderer (D649); Wandrers Nachtlied II; America, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Auf der Donau; Willkommen und Abschied Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1 grant-making foundation Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Tosti Quattro canzoni d’Amaranta; L’ultima canzone £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Ravel String Quartet in F Song Recital Series Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Chamber Music Season Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Tuesday 20 June 7.30pm Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Monday 19 June 1.00 pm Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Carducci String Quartet Ensemble intercontemporain Debussy Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano Programme to be announced Saturday 17 June 7.30 pm Maderna Viola for solo viola Messiaen Le merle noir for flute and piano Florian Boesch baritone Philippe Schoeller Madrigal for piano quintet Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Malcolm Martineau piano BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Ravel Sonata in G for violin and piano Songs by Schubert Matteo Franceschini New work for 6 musicians (UK première) Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Jasper String Quartet Vanessa Brinceno Quatuor Ebène Julien Mignot Ensemble incontemporain

116 June 2017

Wednesday 21 June 7.30 pm Sunday 25 June 11.30 am Monday 26 June 7.30 pm The King’s Consort Vienna Piano Trio Vienna Piano Trio Robert King conductor Schubert Sonatensatz in Bb D28; Notturno in Eb Mark Padmore tenor D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in B D898 BACH: THE FOUR ORCHESTRAL SUITES b Bennett Tom O’Bedlam’s Song Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Schubert Gesänge des Harfners I–III Bach Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D BWV1069; Thomas Larcher New work* (UK première) Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Schubert Herbst; Auf dem Strom Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor BWV1067; Sunday 25 June 7.30 pm Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E D929 Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 b Florilegium *Co-commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, and by Wigmore Early Music and Baroque Series Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Ashley Solomon director Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Thursday 22 June 7.30 pm Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 TELEMANN 250TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Matthew Polenzani tenor Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, Telemann Ouverture in E minor from Tafelmusik I; and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. piano Julius Drake Fantasie; Ihr Volker, hört; Quartet in E minor from Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Schumann Dichterliebe the Paris Quartets (1738 collection); Trio Sonata Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series Janácˇek The Diary of One Who Disappeared in A TWV42:A5; Trio Sonata in Bb TWV42:B4; Conclusion in E minor fromTafelmusik I Song Recital Series Early Music and Baroque Series Tuesday 27 June 7.30pm Saturday 24 June 7.30 pm Monday 26 June 1.00 pm Inon Barnatan piano Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Programme to be announced Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano Philippe Jaroussky countertenor London Pianoforte Series Ensemble Artaserse Joseph Middleton piano Programme to be announced Programme to be announced Early Music and Baroque Series

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Cecilia Bartoli Uli Weber/Decca Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz Inon Barnatan Marco Borggreve

117 June/July 2017

Wednesday 28 June 7.30 pm Friday 30 June 7.30 pm Sunday 2 July 11.30 am

Edgar Moreau cello Members of The Sixteen Choir Doric String Quartet Pierre-Yves Hodique piano and Orchestra Mozart String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’ Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Harry Christophers conductor Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Poulenc Cello Sonata PURCELL SONGS AND ODES FROM THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70 Saint-Saëns Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix from Programme to include: Sunday 2 July 7.30 pm Samson et Dalila Purcell From hardy climes (Welcome song for the Paganini Variation on a theme by Rossini Wedding of Prince George and Princess Anne 1683); Markus Schäfer tenor Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day) Chamber Music Season Piers Lane piano Early Music and Baroque Series Schubert Sängers Morgenlied I; Liebesrausch I Thursday 29 June 7.30 pm (fragment); Sängers Morgenlied II; Liebesrausch II; Sehnsucht der Liebe; Liebeständelei; Das gestörte Saturday 1 July 7.30 pm Glück; Entzückung; Stimme der Liebe (D418); Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Lebenslied; Skolie (D507); Vollendung; Die Erde; Bernhard Forck leader Doric String Quartet Abendröte; Die Berge; Der Knabe; Der Fluss; Der Schmetterling; Die Sterne (D684); Die Gebüsche; violin Alasdair Beatson piano Isabelle Faust Lob der Tränen; Die gefangenen Sänger; Wiedersehn; JS Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV 1067a; Thomas Adès Piano Quintet Abendlied für die Entfernte; Ständchen (D889) Concerto in E for violin BWV1042; Concerto in Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs A minor for violin BWV1041 Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84 CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5 £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 JS Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Priority Booking for this event opens on 12 April 2016. Early Music and Baroque Series Requests should be submitted for Friends by 5 May 2016, and for Mailing List Subscribers by 12 May 2016. Booking opens to the General Public on 31 May 2016. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Uwe Arens Doric String Quartet George Garnier Markus Schäfer Werner Kmetitsch

118 July 2017

Monday 3 July 1.00 pm Wednesday 5 July 7.30 pm Sunday 9 July 11.30 am

Maurice Steger recorder Simon Keenlyside baritone Navarra String Quartet Jean Rondeau harpsichord Malcolm Martineau piano Programme to be announced Hasse Cantata in D for flute and basso continuo Programme to be announced Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Falconieri Il Spiritillo; El Melo; La Suave Melodia Song Recital Series Storace Ciaccona Corelli Sonata in G minor for flute and basso Sunday 9 July 7.30 pm continuo Op. 5 No. 8 (arr. Castrucci) Thursday 6 July 7.30 pm Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk213; Ian Bostridge tenor Sonata in D Kk119 Sammartini Sonata in G Op. 2 No. 4 Andreas Ottensamer clarinet Graham Johnson piano José Gallardo piano Schubert Der Geistertanz (D116); Als ich sie erröten sah; Die Mainacht; Seufzer; Die Fröhlichkeit; Debussy Première rapsodie Der Jüngling an der Quelle; An mein Klavier; Am Widor Introduction et rondo BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Tage aller Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen); Debussy La fille aux cheveux de lin Pflügerlied; Die Knabenzeit; Winterlied; Stimme der Françaix Tema con variazioni Liebe (D412); Abendbilder; Hymne I ‘Wenige wissen Tuesday 4 July 7.30pm Gershwin 3 Preludes das Geheimnis’; Hymne II ‘Wenn ich ihn nur habe’; Templeton Pocket Size Sonata No. 2 Hymne III ‘Wenn alle untreu werden’; Hymne IV Béla Kovács After you, Mr Gershwin! Håvard Gimse piano ‘Ich sag’ es jedem’; Nachthymne; Schwestergruss; Joseph Horowitz Sonatina for clarinet and piano Grieg From Lyric Pieces Op. 43: Gjaetergut; Gangar; Drang in die Ferne; Der zürnende Barde; Troldtog; Notturno; Scherzo; Klokkeklang Chamber Music Season Das Geheimnis (D793); Auf dem Wasser zu singen Debussy Images oubliées Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs Janácˇek In the Mists Works by Sibelius Friday 7 July 7.00 pm NB starting time London Pianoforte Series Anna Caterina Antonacci soprano Donald Sulzen piano Programme to include songs by Lili Boulanger Song Recital Series

Simon Keenlyside Uwe Arens Anna Caterina Antonacci Benjamin Ealovega Ian Bostridge Sim Canetty-Clarke

119 July 2017

Monday 10 July 1.00 pm Thursday 13 July 7.30 pm Friday 14 July 7.30 pm

Hanno Müller-Brachmann Sophie Bevan soprano Marc-André Hamelin piano bass-baritone Allan Clayton tenor Programme to be announced Pianist to be announced Christopher Glynn piano London Pianoforte Series Programme to be announced A SHAKESPEARE SONGBOOK Morley It was a lover and his lass Saturday 15 July 7.30 pm Arne When daisies pied BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Haydn She never told her love Christian Gerhaher baritone Schubert An Silvia piano Ireland When daffodils begin to peer Gerold Huber Monday 10 July 7.30 pm Coleridge-Taylor The Willow Song Brahms Die schöne Magelone Warlock Sigh no more, Ladies Song Recital Series Gould Piano Trio Harrison I know a bank; Philomel Britten Tell me where is Fancy bred Beethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1; Variations Head How sweet the moonlight sleeps in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’; Sunday 16 July 11.30 am Birket Foster Under the greenwood tree Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2 Quilter Blow, blow, thou winter wind Chamber Music Season Handel As steals the morn Quatuor Zaïde Tippett Songs for Ariel Programme to be announced Dankworth Our revels now are ended Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Wednesday 12 July 7.30 pm Finzi Come away, come away, death; O mistress mine Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil; Hey, Robin; Aida Garifullina soprano For the rain, it raineth every day Pianist be announced Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Bridge When most I wink Programme to be announced Vaughan Williams Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Song Recital Series Quilter It was a lover and his lass Song Recital Series

Hanno Müller-Brachmann Monika Ritterhaus Quatuor Zaïde

120 July 2017

Sunday 16 July 7.30 pm Thursday 20 July 7.30 pm Saturday 22 July 7.30 pm

Quatuor Mosaïques The Vijay Iyer Sextet Andrei Bondarenko baritone Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Vijay Iyer expands his classic, critically acclaimed Gary Matthewman piano Mozart String Quartet in G K387 piano trio with three of NYC’s greatest horn players. Songs by Rachmaninov, Glinka, Rubinstein, Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Vijay Iyer Jazz Series Sviridov and Tchaikovsky Chamber Music Season Song Recital Series

Friday 21 July 7.00 pm NB starting time Tuesday 18 July 7.30pm Arcangelo Sunday 23 July 11.30 am The Cardinall’s Musick Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Chloë Hanslip violin Andrew Carwood director Clérambault Cantata: Léandre et Héro Danny Driver piano Programme to be announced Couperin La Françoise & L’impériale from Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D D384 Les Nations Early Music and Baroque Series Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Montéclair Le retour de la paix Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Early Music and Baroque Series/Arcangelo and Wednesday 19 July 7.30 pm Jonathan Cohen Baroque Ensemble in Residence

Elisabeth Kulman mezzo-soprano Eduard Kutrowatz piano Programme to be announced Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Elisabeth Kulman Julia Wesley Jonathan Cohen Marco Borggreve Chloë Hanslip Benjamin Ealovega

121 July 2017

Monday 24 July 7.30 pm Wednesday 26 July 7.30 pm Sunday 30 July 11.30 am

Joshua Bell violin Carolyn Sampson soprano Gemma Rosefield cello Steven Isserlis cello Joseph Middleton piano Tim Horton piano Dénes Várjon piano Programme to include: Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring Other artists to be announced Wolf Mignon Lieder hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus Brahms Ophelia-Lieder WoO. 45 Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58; Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; String Quintet Martinu˚ Variations on a theme by Rossini in A Op. 18 Song Recital Series Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Chamber Music Season Thursday 27 July 7.30 pm

Tuesday 25 July 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien piano Joshua Bell violin Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’ Steven Isserlis cello Liszt Csárdás macabre S224; Bagatelle sans tonalité Dénes Várjon piano S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 4 S696; La lugubre Other artists to be announced gondola; Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Programme to include: London Pianoforte Series Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87 Chamber Music Season

Joshua Bell Richard Ascroft Carolyn Sampson Marco Borggreve Gemma Rosefield Marco Borggreve

122 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 1 10.00am–5.00pm. No advance booking there are public car parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Friday 9 September – Saturday 31 December 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 12 April 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 5 May 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 for further details or visit our website. Thursday 12 May 2016 transaction. This includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits. Facilities for Disabled People General Public – By telephone/online from Tuesday 31 May 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 Online booking is available 24 hours a day, Tel: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge. 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.

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

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Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838