2017-18 Season Brochure with Links

2017-2018 SEASON SEPTEMBER 2017 – JULY 2018

Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM, HonFRIAM 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 2017/18 Season September 2017 – July 2018 Design and print www.graphicimpressions.co.uk 2 •

Welcome to our new look Wigmore Hall Season Brochure. I hope that you find it informative, clear and easy to use. Our season will include residencies from, amongst others, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Sir András Schiff, Jörg Widmann and Sonia Prina. The season will include a 17-concert survey of Haydn’s string quartets with all of Haydn’s quartets from the Op. 20s onwards, and Cuarteto Casals will present a complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets, alongside new works by living composers. Vocal highlights include a performance of Winterreise by Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida, and Director’s Roderick Williams’s first performances of Die schöne Mullerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang, as well as recitals from Ian Bostridge, Sarah Connolly, Joyce Introduction DiDonato, Christian Gerhaher, Philippe Jaroussky and Simon Keenlyside. The Nash Ensemble will dedicate its 2017/18 Season to an exploration of French chamber music, performing repertoire by Debussy, Ravel, Faure and Poulenc. Other chamber concerts include appearances by Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer Quartet, Quatuor Ebène, the Takács Quartet, Alisa Weilerstein, Leila Josefowicz, and a performance by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang. The London Pianoforte Series includes performances from Francesco Piemontesi, who will continue his Mozart piano sonata cycle; Nelson Freire, who will mark the 50th anniversary of his Wigmore Hall debut with a recital on the exact day on 17 February 2018; and Daniil Trifonov with Rachmaninov and Chopin, as well as recitals from Jonathan Biss, Imogen Cooper, Bertrand Chamayou, Ingrid Fliter, Kirill Gerstein, Ivana Gavrić, Richard Goode, Igor Levit and Steven Osborne. The 2017/18 Season will also include a focus on Bach, featuring Angela Hewitt, James Ehnes, Philip Higham, Mahan Esfahani, the Dunedin Consort (which will present Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St Matthew Passion and Mass in B minor across the course of the season) and Les Arts Florissants. The season will contain around 20 premières, with contemporary repertoire presented by artists including Arditti Quartet, Mary Bevan, Ensemble intercontemporain, JACK Quartet, Igor Levit, Nash Ensemble and Takács Quartet. For the first time, Wigmore Hall’s Learning programme has been planned around a theme: Seven Ages, Journeys through Life will reflect on life and experience in its many and various forms. This hall must be a place of diversity, discovery, open to new names and young artists, fresh interpretations and a constant exploration of all that the repertoire offers. It is also tremendously important that, through our Learning programme and innovative use of digital technology, we can share so much of what we have with the widest possible audience. • 3

Contents

At a Glance 4 Calendar 6 September 8 October 31 November 51 December 73 Contemporary Music Series 92 Spring Preview 94 Summer Preview 98 Booking Information 104 At a Glance September – December 2017

See pages 8 – 90 for full details of these concerts and page 104 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 13 Nov Takács Quartet 58 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation 8, 9 Mon 11 Sep Sophie Bevan/ 13 Wed 15 Nov Joshua Bell/Academy of 62 International Song Competition Sebastian Wybrew St Martin in the Fields Gerald Finley & Julius Drake 10 Mon 18 Sep Fretwork 19 Fri 17 Nov Britten Sinfonia 61 Sonia Prina: A Celebration 12 Mon 25 Sep Amatis Piano Trio 27 Fri 17 Nov Joshua Bell/Academy of 63 St Martin in the Fields Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle 14, 34, 81 Mon 2 Oct Paul O’Dette 32 Sat 18 Nov James Ehnes 64 Mahan Esfahani: 11 Mon 9 Oct Lise de la Salle 36 Sun 19 Nov James Ehnes 64 Bach Harpsichord Works Mon 16 Oct Anne Queffélec 42 Thu 23 Nov Hagen Quartet 66 Haydn String Quartet Series 16, 17, 26, Mon 23 Oct Trio Jean Paul 46 55, 79, 83 Sat 25 Nov Vadim Gluzman/ 68 Mon 30 Oct Florilegium 50 The English Concert 18, 71 Johannes Moser/ Mon 6 Nov Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ 54 Yevgeny Sudbin Simon Trpčeski Series 13 David Meier Tue 28 Nov Soloists of the London 71 Vox Luminis 20 Mon 13 Nov Gabriela Montero 56 Philharmonic Orchestra Nash Ensemble: 24, 49, Mon 20 Nov Meccore Quartet 65 Thu 30 Nov Ning Feng/ 73 The French Connection 77, 79 Mon 27 Nov Andrei Ioniţă/Itamar Golan 71 Daniel Müller-Schott/ Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall 23, 27 Mon 4 Dec Céline Moinet/Florian Uhlig 75 Igor Levit Jörg Widmann as 26, 79 Mon 11 Dec Armida Quartet 81 Tue 5 Dec Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 78 Composer-Performer Mon 18 Dec Alina Ibragimova/ 85 Sat 9 Dec Nash Ensemble/ 79 Robert Holl & Sir András Schiff 27 Cédric Tiberghien Roderick Williams Sarah Connolly & Malcolm Martineau 28 Sun 10 Dec Gould Piano Trio 79 Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek 31 Tue 12 Dec Cuarteto Casals 81 Finland 100 33 Chamber Music Season Thu 14 Dec Jerusalem Chamber Music 83 Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration 35 Mon 11 Sep Cuarteto Casals 14 Festival Ensemble/ Armonia Atenea & Xavier Sabata 36 Wed 13 Sep Doric String Quartet 17 Elena Bashkirova Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency 38 Fri 15 Sep Daniel Müller-Schott/ 13 Fri 15 Dec Anthony Marwood/ 83 Isabelle van Keulen/ Polish Music Day with Jennifer Pike 39 Simon Trpčeski Lawrence Power/ & Friends Wed 20 Sep Nash Ensemble 21 Richard Lester/ Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 43 Fri 22 Sep Vienna Mozart Trio 22 Heath Quartet Philip Higham: Bach Cello Suites 44 Sun 24 Sep Heath Quartet/ 26 Tue 19 Dec Leonidas Kavakos/ 86 The Sixteen 47 Hannes Minnaar Yuja Wang Max Raabe 48 Sat 30 Sep Tasmin Little/Piers Lane 30 Fri 22 Dec Renaud Capuçon/David Fray 87 Jordi Savall 50 Sun 1 Oct Leila Josefowicz/ 31 Wed 27 Dec Arcadia Quartet 88 John Novacek Kirill Gerstein 57 Sat 30 Dec Liza Ferschtman/ 89 Tue 3 Oct Northern Lights Symphony 33 Takács Quartet: Associate Artists 58 Roman Rabinovich Orchestra/Nicky Spence/ Elīna Garanča 60 David Tollington Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin 62, 63 Wed 4 Oct Cuarteto Casals 34 in the Fields Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Thu 5 Oct IMS Prussia Cove 34 Sun 10 Sep 11 James Ehnes: Bach Violin Works 64, 65 Castalian String Quartet Sat 7 Oct Isabelle Faust/ 35 Sun 17 Sep Yossif Ivanov/Philippe Ivanov 15 Christian Gerhaher 67 Alexander Melnikov Sun 24 Sep Nash Ensemble 24 Joyce DiDonato 69, 85, 87 Tue 10 Oct Pavel Haas Quartet/ 37 Sun 1 Oct Natasha Paremski 31 Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse 70 Pavel Nikl Sun 8 Oct Isabelle Faust/ 35 Roderick Williams: 72 Wed 11 Oct The Endellion String Quartet 38 Alexander Melnikov Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles Thu 12 Oct Eggner Trio 40 Sun 15 Oct Scottish Ensemble 40 L’Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar 74 Sat 14 Oct Polish Music Day: 39 Sun 22 Oct Wihan Quartet 45 Christian Tetzlaff Focus 78 Jennifer Pike/Thomas Gould/ Sun 29 Oct 49 Daniil Trifonov 80 Guy Johnston/Elizabeth Kenny/ Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen Mahan Esfahani/Tom Poster Sun 5 Nov 53 Mark Padmore & Mitsuko Uchida 82 Leonore Piano Trio Sat 21 Oct Philip Higham 44 Sun 12 Nov 56 Dunedin Consort: 84 Tamsin Waley-Cohen Big Ideas for a Small Stage Sat 28 Oct Nash Ensemble 49 Huw Watkins Sun 19 Nov 63 Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang 86 Tue 31 Oct Elias String Quartet 51 Eric Le Sage Sun 26 Nov 68 Arcangelo 90 Wed 1 Nov Augustin Dumay/Louis Lortie 51 Trio Isimsiz Sun 3 Dec 73 Contemporary Music Series 92, 93 Sat 4 Nov Alisa Weilerstein/ 53 Cyprien Katsaris Inon Barnatan Sun 10 Dec Heath Quartet 79 Wed 8 Nov Doric String Quartet 55 Sun 17 Dec Novus String Quartet 83 Sun 12 Nov Takács Quartet 58 Sun 31 Dec Gary Hoffman/David Selig 89 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5

Early Music and Baroque Series Song Recital Series Contemporary Music Series Tue 12 Sep Mahan Esfahani 11 Sat 9 Sep Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 10 Mon 11 Sep Cuarteto Casals 14 Thu 14 Sep The English Concert/ 18 Sun 10 Sep Sonia Prina/ 12 Wed 20 Sep Nash Ensemble 21 Kristian Bezuidenhout Paolo Spadaro Munitto Sun 24 Sep Heath Quartet 26 Mon 18 Sep Classical Opera 19 Sat 16 Sep Christiane Karg/ 15 Wed 4 Oct Cuarteto Casals 34 Gerold Huber Tue 19 Sep Vox Luminis 20 Sat 14 Oct Polish Music Day/ 39 Mon 9 Oct Xavier Sabata/ 36 Thu 28 Sep Robert Holl/ 27 Jennifer Pike Sir András Schiff Armonia Atenea/ Thu 2 Nov James Gilchrist/ 52 George Petrou Fri 29 Sep Sarah Connolly/ 28 Anna Tilbrook Malcolm Martineau Fri 20 Oct Roberta Invernizzi/ 42 Sun 12 Nov Takács Quartet 58 Accademia Hermans Mon 2 Oct Anne Schwanewilms/ 32 Tue 12 Dec Cuarteto Casals 81 Sun 22 Oct Phantasm 45 Charles Spencer The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Tue 24 Oct The Sixteen 47 Tue 3 Oct Nicky Spence/ 33 Northern Lights Symphony Wed 25 Oct Carolyn Sampson/ 46 Orchestra/David Tollington The King’s Consort Sun 8 Oct Ben Johnson/ 34 Sun 29 Oct Jordi Savall/Hespèrion XXI 50 Tyler Duncan/ Wigmore Hall Learning Tue 7 Nov Alina Ibragimova/ 54 Graham Johnson Il Pomo d’Oro Sat 2 Sep Come and Sing: 8 Thu 26 Oct Benjamin Appl/ 48 French Song Sun 26 Nov Philippe Jaroussky/ 70 Graham Johnson Ensemble Artaserse Sun 3 Sep François Le Roux 8 Fri 27 Oct Max Raabe/Christoph Israel 48 on French Song Wed 29 Nov The English Concert 71 Thu 2 Nov James Gilchrist/ 52 Mon 4 Sep Inside the Rehearsal Room 8 Fri 1 Dec L’Arpeggiata 74 Anna Tilbrook Wed 6 Sep Exploring Russian Song 9 Mon 4 Dec The Cardinall’s Musick 75 Fri 3 Nov Miah Persson/ 52 Wed 6 Sep Dame Felicity Lott 9 Fri 8 Dec 77 Malcolm Martineau Early Opera Company Masterclass Wed 13 Dec 81 Thu 9 Nov Samling Showcase 55 Trio Mediæval/Nils Økland Sat 16 Sep Open House Day 15 Sat 16 Dec 84 Fri 10 Nov Florian Boesch/Justus Zeyen 56 Dunedin Consort Thu 21 Sep Chamber Tots 21 Wed 20 Dec 87 Tue 14 Nov Elīna Garanča/ 60 Ensemble Plus Ultra Fri 22 Sep For Crying Out Loud! 22 Fri 29 Dec 89 Malcolm Martineau Concerto Italiano/ Fri 29 Sep Schools Concert: The 28 Sun 19 Nov Ludwig Mittelhammer/ 65 Rinaldo Alessandrini Chimpanzees of Happytown Sun 31 Dec 90 Jonathan Ware Arcangelo/ Sat 30 Sep Family Concert: The 30 Thu 23 Nov Christian Gerhaher/ 67 Anna Lucia Richter Chimpanzees of Happytown James Cheung Sat 30 Sep Artists in Conversation 30 Mon 27 Nov Roderick Williams/ 72 London Pianoforte Series Iain Burnside Sun 1 Oct Silver Sunday 32 Tue 10 Oct 37 Sun 17 Sep Leslie Howard 19 Wed 6 Dec Alice Coote/Julius Drake 77 Wigmore Study Group commences Sat 23 Sep Sir András Schiff 23 Sat 9 Dec Nash Ensemble/ 77 Wed 11 Oct Chamber Tots 37 Tue 26 Sep Sir András Schiff 27 Roderick Williams Tue 17 Oct Come and Sing 41 Sun 15 Oct Roman Rabinovich 40 Mon 11 Dec Mark Padmore/ 82 Mitsuko Uchida Thu 26 Oct Chamber Tots 47 Mon 16 Oct Kristian Bezuidenhout 42 Mon 18 Dec Joyce DiDonato/ 85 Fri 27 Oct Family Day: 48 Wed 18 Oct 43 Angela Hewitt Brentano Quartet Soundscapes and Landscapes Mon 23 Oct 46 Francesco Piemontesi Thu 21 Dec Joyce DiDonato/ 87 Thu 2 Nov Chamber Tots 51 Sun 5 Nov Cédric Tiberghien 53 Brentano Quartet Sat 4 Nov Chamber Tots 52 Sat 11 Nov Kirill Gerstein 57 Sat 23 Dec Sophie Rennert/ 88 Wed 8 Nov For Crying Out Loud! 54 Stephan Loges/ Mon 20 Nov Philippe Cassard 66 Thu 16 Nov Schools Concert: 61 Graham Johnson Wed 22 Nov Jonathan Biss 66 London Jazz Festival Sat 2 Dec Imogen Cooper 73 We are grateful to The Monument Trust Sat 18 Nov Family Concert: 63 Thu 7 Dec Daniil Trifonov 80 for essential additional support for our London Jazz Festival expanded vocal series Sun 17 Dec Ingrid Fliter 85 Sat 18 Nov Artists in Conversation 64 Thu 28 Dec Ivana Gavrić 88 Fri 24 Nov Music for the Moment 68 Jazz Series Fri 24 Nov Joyce DiDonato Masterclass 69 Sat 2 Dec Relaxed Concert 76 Fri 13 Oct Vijay Iyer Sextet 38 Wed 6 Dec Chamber Tots 75 Calendar

September – December 2017

September Page October Page Sat 2 Sep 10.00am Come and Sing: French Song 8 Sun 1 Oct 11.30am Natasha Paremski 31 Sun 3 Sep 11.00am International Song Competition 8 12 noon Silver Sunday 32 Preliminary Stage – Day 1 7.30pm Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek 31 2.30pm International Song Competition 8 Mon 2 Oct 1.00pm Paul O’Dette 32 Preliminary Stage – Day 1 7.30pm Anne Schwanewilms/Charles Spencer 32 4.30pm François Le Roux on French Song 8 Tue 3 Oct 7.30pm Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra/ 33 Mon 4 Sep 11.00am International Song Competition 8 Nicky Spence/David Tollington Preliminary Stage – Day 2 Wed 4 Oct 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 34 2.30pm International Song Competition 8 Thu 5 Oct 7.30pm IMS Prussia Cove 34 Preliminary Stage – Day 2 5.00pm Inside the Rehearsal Room 8 Sat 7 Oct 11.00am Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov 35 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov 35 Tue 5 Sep 3.00am International Song Competition 8 Semi-Final Round Sun 8 Oct 11.30am Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov 35 7.00pm International Song Competition 8 7.30pm Ben Johnson/Tyler Duncan/ 34 Semi-Final Round Graham Johnson Wed 6 Sep 1.00pm Exploring Russian Song 9 Mon 9 Oct 1.00pm Lise de la Salle 36 3.00pm Dame Felicity Lott Masterclass 9 7.30pm Xavier Sabata/Armonia Atenea/ 36 George Petrou Thu 7 Sep 6.00pm International Song Competition 9 Final and Prize-Giving Tue 10 Oct 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Bach Odyssey 37 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet/Pavel Nikl 37 Sat 9 Sep 7.30pm Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 10 Wed 11 Oct 12.30pm Chamber Tots 37 Sun 10 Sep 11.30am Castalian String Quartet 11 2.00pm Chamber Tots 37 7.30pm Sonia Prina/Paolo Spadaro Munitto 12 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 38 Mon 11 Sep 1.00pm Sophie Bevan/Sebastian Wybrew 13 Thu 12 Oct 7.30pm Eggner Trio 40 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 14 Fri 13 Oct 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Bach Odyssey 37 Tue 12 Sep 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 11 7.30pm Vijay Iyer Sextet 38 Wed 13 Sep 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 17 Sat 14 Oct 11.30am Jennifer Pike/Thomas Gould/ 39 Thu 14 Sep 7.30pm The English Concert/ 18 Guy Johnston/Elizabeth Kenny/ Kristian Bezuidenhout Mahan Esfahani Fri 15 Sep 7.30pm Daniel Müller-Schott/Simon Trpčeski 13 3.00pm Jennifer Pike/Guy Johnston/Tom Poster 39 Sat 16 Sep 10.00am Open House Day 15 7.30pm Jennifer Pike/Guy Johnston/Tom Poster 39 7.30pm Christiane Karg/Gerold Huber 15 Sun 15 Oct 11.30am Scottish Ensemble 40 Sun 17 Sep 11.30am Yossif Ivanov/Philippe Ivanov 15 7.30pm Roman Rabinovich 40 4.00pm Leslie Howard 19 Mon 16 Oct 1.00pm Anne Queffélec 42 Mon 18 Sep 1.00pm Fretwork 19 7.30pm Kristian Bezuidenhout 42 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 19 Tue 17 Oct 10.30am Come and Sing 41 7.30pm Classical Opera 19 Wed 18 Oct 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Bach Odyssey 37 Tue 19 Sep 7.30pm Vox Luminis 20 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 43 Wed 20 Sep 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 21 Fri 20 Oct 7.30pm Roberta Invernizzi/Accademia Hermans 42 7.30pm Nash Ensemble 21 Sat 21 Oct 3.00pm Philip Higham 44 Thu 21 Sep 10.15am Chamber Tots 21 5.00pm Philip Higham 44 11.45am Chamber Tots 21 7.00pm Philip Higham 44 Fri 22 Sep 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 22 Sun 22 Oct 11.30am Wihan Quartet 45 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 22 7.30pm Phantasm 45 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 22 Mon 23 Oct 1.00pm Trio Jean Paul 46 7.30pm Vienna Mozart Trio 22 7.30pm Francesco Piemontesi 46 Sat 23 Sep 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 23 Tue 24 Oct 7.30pm The Sixteen 47 Sun 24 Sep 11.30am Nash Ensemble 24 Wed 25 Oct 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/The King’s Consort 46 7.30pm Heath Quartet/Hannes Minnaar 26 Thu 26 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots 47 Mon 25 Sep 1.00pm Amatis Piano Trio 27 11.45am Chamber Tots 47 Tue 26 Sep 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 27 7.30pm Benjamin Appl/Graham Johnson 48 Thu 28 Sep 7.30pm Robert Holl/Sir András Schiff 27 Fri 27 Oct 10.30am Family Day: Soundscapes and Landscapes 48 Fri 29 Sep 11.00am Schools Concert: The Chimpanzees 28 7.30pm Max Raabe/Christoph Israel 48 of Happytown Sat 28 Oct 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 49 7.30pm Sarah Connolly/Malcolm Martineau 28 7.30pm Nash Ensemble 49 Sat 30 Sep 11.00am Family Concert: The Chimpanzees 30 Sun 29 Oct 11.30am Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen 49 of Happytown 7.30pm Jordi Savall/Hespèrion XXI 50 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 30 Mon 30 Oct 1.00pm Florilegium 50 7.30pm Tasmin Little/Piers Lane 30 Tue 31 Oct 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 51 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 7

November Page December Page Wed 1 Nov 7.30pm Augustin Dumay/Louis Lortie 51 Fri 1 Dec 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata 74 Thu 2 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots 51 Sat 2 Dec 3.00pm Relaxed Concert 76 11.45am Chamber Tots 51 7.30pm Imogen Cooper 73 7.30pm James Gilchrist/Anna Tilbrook 52 Sun 3 Dec 11.30am Cyprien Katsaris 73 Fri 3 Nov 7.30pm Miah Persson/Malcolm Martineau 52 Mon 4 Dec 1.00pm Céline Moinet/Florian Uhlig 75 Sat 4 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots 52 7.30pm The Cardinall’s Musick 75 11.45am Chamber Tots 52 Tue 5 Dec 7.30pm Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 78 7.30pm Alisa Weilerstein/Inon Barnatan 53 Wed 6 Dec 10.15am Chamber Tots 75 Sun 5 Nov 11.30am Leonore Piano Trio 53 11.45am Chamber Tots 75 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien 53 7.30pm Alice Coote/Julius Drake 77 Mon 6 Nov 1.00pm Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/David Meier 54 Thu 7 Dec 7.30pm Daniil Trifonov 80 Tue 7 Nov 1.00pm Alina Ibragimova/Il Pomo d’Oro 54 Fri 8 Dec 7.30pm Early Opera Company 77 Wed 8 Nov 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 54 Sat 9 Dec 6.00pm Nash Ensemble 77 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 54 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Roderick Williams 79 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 55 Sun 10 Dec 11.30am Heath Quartet 79 Thu 9 Nov 7.30pm Samling Showcase 55 7.30pm Gould Piano Trio 79 Fri 10 Nov 7.30pm Florian Boesch/Justus Zeyen 56 Mon 11 Dec 1.00pm Armida Quartet 81 Sat 11 Nov 7.30pm Kirill Gerstein 57 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Mitsuko Uchida 82 Sun 12 Nov 11.30am Tamsin Waley-Cohen/Huw Watkins 56 Tue 12 Dec 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 81 7.30pm Takács Quartet 58 Wed 13 Dec 7.30pm Trio Mediæval/Nils Økland 81 Mon 13 Nov 1.00pm Gabriela Montero 56 Thu 14 Dec 7.30pm Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival 83 7.30pm Takács Quartet 58 Ensemble/Elena Bashkirova Tue 14 Nov 7.30pm Elīna Garanča/Malcolm Martineau 60 Fri 15 Dec 7.30pm Anthony Marwood/Isabelle van Keulen/ 83 Wed 15 Nov 7.30pm Joshua Bell/ 62 Lawrence Power/Richard Lester/ Academy of St Martin in the Fields Heath Quartet Thu 16 Nov 11.00am Schools Concert: London Jazz Festival 61 Sat 16 Dec 7.30pm Dunedin Consort 84 Fri 17 Nov 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 61 Sun 17 Dec 11.30am Novus String Quartet 83 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 61 7.30pm Ingrid Fliter 85 7.30pm Joshua Bell/ 63 Mon 18 Dec 1.00pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 85 Academy of St Martin in the Fields 7.30pm Joyce DiDonato/Brentano Quartet 85 Sat 18 Nov 11.00am Family Concert: London Jazz Festival 63 Tue 19 Dec 7.30pm Leonidas Kavakos/Yuja Wang 86 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 64 Wed 20 Dec 7.30pm Ensemble Plus Ultra 87 7.30pm James Ehnes 64 Thu 21 Dec 7.30pm Joyce DiDonato/Brentano Quartet 87 Sun 19 Nov 11.30am Eric Le Sage 63 3.00pm Ludwig Mittelhammer/Jonathan Ware 65 Fri 22 Dec 7.30pm Renaud Capuçon/David Fray 87 7.30pm James Ehnes 65 Sat 23 Dec 7.30pm Sophie Rennert/Stephan Loges/ 88 Mon 20 Nov 1.00pm Meccore Quartet 65 Graham Johnson 7.30pm Philippe Cassard 66 Wed 27 Dec 7.30pm Arcadia Quartet 88 Wed 22 Nov 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 66 Thu 28 Dec 7.30pm Ivana Gavrić 88 Thu 23 Nov 1.00pm Christian Gerhaher/James Cheung 67 Fri 29 Dec 7.30pm Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini 89 7.30pm Hagen Quartet 66 Sat 30 Dec 7.30pm Liza Ferschtman/Roman Rabinovich 89 Fri 24 Nov 3.00pm Music for the Moment 68 Sun 31 Dec 11.30am Gary Hoffman/David Selig 89 7.30pm Joyce DiDonato Masterclass 69 7.00pm Arcangelo/Anna Lucia Richter 90 Sat 25 Nov 7.30pm Vadim Gluzman/Johannes Moser/ 68 Yevgeny Sudbin Sun 26 Nov 11.30am Trio Isimsiz 68 7.30pm Philippe Jaroussky/Ensemble Artaserse 70 Mon 27 Nov 1.00pm Andrei Ioniţă/Itamar Golan 71 7.30pm Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 72 Tue 28 Nov 7.30pm Soloists of the London 71 Philharmonic Orchestra Wed 29 Nov 7.30pm The English Concert 71 Thu 30 Nov 7.30pm Ning Feng/Daniel Müller-Schott/ 73 Igor Levit 8 • September Box Office: 020 7935 2141

This Competition recognises the song tradition as a whole and requires contestants to perform in at least three languages. At the same time it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature of Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation since 1997 Schubert in the genre.

Competition

Sunday 3 September Monday 4 September Tuesday 5 September 11.00am and 2.30pm 11.00am and 2.30pm 3.00pm and 7.30pm

Preliminary Stage – Day 1 Preliminary Stage – Day 2 Semi-Final Round Candidates will each perform a Candidates will each perform a 12 semi-finalists will each 15-minute programme 15-minute programme perform a 20-minute programme

All day £15 concs £13 All day £15 concs £13 All day £20 concs £15 Please note there will be a break from 6.00pm Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall to 7.30pm. If you would like to reserve a table and Mailing List Subscribers and Mailing List Subscribers for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, (Ticket required) (Ticket required) please call 020 7258 8292.

Book for the first three days at the same time for £35 concs £30 Related Events

Saturday 2 September Sunday 3 September Monday 4 September 10.00am – 3.30pm 4.30pm – 5.15pm 5.00pm – 6.00pm Come and Sing: François Le Roux Inside the Rehearsal Room French Song on French Song Ailish Tynan soprano As part of our International Song French Art Song is said to be James Baillieu piano Competition celebrations, Penny the perfect marriage between Nigel Simeone presenter Desbruslais leads a workshop music and French poetry. But Soprano Ailish Tynan and day for adults exploring French how does this work, if an expert pianist James Baillieu are Song. Get to know the music such as philosopher Jean- joined by Nigel Simeone for from the inside, develop your Jacques Rousseau said that this musically illustrated talk in singing skills and finish the French language is non-musical? which they explore the fascinating day with a performance on the What kind of French language relationship between singer and Wigmore Hall stage. is it that works for composers? pianist when approaching François Le Roux will explore the a performance. £27 concs £20 characteristics of both sung and spoken French to try to understand. £6

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JURY John Gilhooly OBE Chair Hugh Canning Bernarda Fink Christian Gerhaher Soile Isokoski David Jackson Graham Johnson OBE François Le Roux Dame Felicity Lott

Thursday 7 September 6.00pm Final and Prize-Giving Four singers will each give a recital of 30 minutes

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Please note there will be an interval from 8.20pm to 9.30pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please call 020 7258 8292.

Wednesday 6 September Wednesday 6 September 1.00pm – 2.00pm 3.00pm – 7.30pm Exploring Russian Song Dame Felicity Lott Julia Sitkovetsky soprano Masterclass Iain Burnside piano Dame Felicity Lott passes Iain Burnside and Julia Sitkovetsky on some of the wisdom she take us on a fascinating journey has acquired throughout her through the colourful world of career, and uses her vast Russian song as they explore works experience as an internationally acclaimed soprano to provide by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Sir Ralph Kohn FRS Iain and Julia will reveal the encouragement and inspiration to difficulties of the language for eight Semi-Finalists. This year’s competition celebrates non-Russian singers, and how to the outstanding contribution of interpret the texts successfully. £8 concs £6 the late Sir Ralph Kohn FRS as its original founder. It is also a fitting £6 tribute to this great man and his huge contribution to medical science, philanthropy and music. 10 • September Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 9 September 7.30pm Gerald Finley bass-baritone Julius Drake piano

Opening Concert of the 2017/18 Season Schubert Prometheus; Geistes-Gruß; Jägers Abendlied; Schäfers Klagelied; Mahomets Gesang (fragment); An Schwager Kronos; Im Walde; An mein Herz; Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid); Über Wildemann Poulenc Le bestiaire Ravel Histoires naturelles Mark-Anthony Turnage Three Songs for baritone Britten The red cockatoo; She’s like the swallow; Tit for Tat; The Crocodile

Over the past three decades Gerald Finley has risen to the summit of achievement at the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls. The Canadian bass-baritone, a Grammy and three-time Gramophone Award winner, has received universal acclaim for his feeling for words and expressive communication. A regular at Wigmore Hall since the early 1990s, he opens the season with a programme devised to bring out the rich colours and deep humanity of his voice. He is joined by regular duo partner Julius Drake in a captivating sequence of Schubert songs, and a second half of pieces packed with delightful animal imagery.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Sunday 10 September 11.30am Bach’s creative world was home to a striking array of keyboards. Mahan Esfahani’s visionary interpretations of the composer’s Castalian String Quartet music on harpsichord flow from his intimate knowledge of period instruments, their sound and their technical possibilities. His Mozart String Quartet in E flat K428 comprehensive Bach Project, launched in style last year with a Schubert String Quartet in D revelatory performance of the Goldberg Variations, continues with minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ four concerts at Wigmore Hall this season.

One of the world’s most exciting Tuesday 12 September young quartets, and winner of the 7.30pm 2015 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, the Castalian harpsichord String Quartet returns to Wigmore Mahan Esfahani Hall with two landmarks of the Bach English Suite No. 1 in A BWV806; Capriccio in E BWV993; classical repertoire. The ensemble Toccata in F sharp minor BWV910; Toccata in G BWV916; prefaces the introspective English Suite No. 2 in A minor BWV807 intensity of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’ with the sunniest Bach’s English Suites, despite their popular title, owe much to the and most sensuous of Mozart’s profound influence of French music. Mahan Esfahani’s programme ‘Haydn’ Quartets. includes the Capriccio in E, dedicated to the composer’s eldest brother and teacher, Johann Christoph, and the chromatic twists £15 concs £13 incl. programme and turns of the Toccata in F sharp minor, startling in its harmonic and coffee/sherry/juice daring and improvisatory élan.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Sunday 10 September 7.30pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 9 February 2018 7.30pm Sonia Prina contralto Wednesday 9 May 2018 7.30pm Tuesday 19 June 2018 7.30pm Paolo Spadaro Munitto piano See page 12

Sonia Prina: A Celebration Studies in singing and trumpet set deep foundations for Sonia Prina’s subsequent artistry. The Italian contralto has flourished since launching her career in the mid-1990s, propelled by the dark-hued beauty and spectacular virtuosity of her voice. Her three-concert series at Wigmore Hall this season spans everything from dazzling baroque showpieces to exquisite mélodies by Duparc.

Sunday 10 September 7.30pm

Sonia Prina contralto Paolo Spadaro Munitto piano Programme to include: Falla 7 canciones populares españolas Berio 4 Canzoni populari Seiber 4 French folksongs Songs by Monteverdi, Chopin, Duparc and Gershwin

The past is not a foreign country to Sonia Prina – it’s part of the living present, strongly connected to universal emotions and fundamental human feelings. The Italian contralto is set to reveal the full intensity and passion of songs by Gershwin, Falla and Chopin as part of Wigmore Hall’s celebration of her art this season.

£40 £35 £25 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 11 January 2018 7.30pm Sonia Prina contralto Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Tuesday 1 May 2018 7.30pm Sonia Prina contralto Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen director www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 13

Simon Trpčeski Series Monday 11 September Monday 11 September 1.00pm 7.30pm Simon Trpčeski, hailed by the Evening Standard for his ‘wonderfully original insight’, has established a Sophie Bevan soprano Cuarteto Casals loyal and large following at Wigmore Sebastian Wybrew piano See page 14 Hall. He is the subject of a three- Traditional The lark in the clear air; concert series this season which encompasses his work as recitalist The stuttering lovers Wednesday 13 September and chamber musician. Gurney Down by the Salley Gardens 7.30pm Coates Betty and Johnny Britten Early one morning Friday 15 September Grainger The Sprig of Thyme Doric String Quartet 7.30pm Traditional Ae fond kiss See page 17 Hughes I Know Where I’m Going Daniel Müller-Schott cello Gurney Edward, Edward Traditional Lord Rendall Thursday 14 September Simon Trpčeski piano 7.30pm Britten The Brisk Young Widow Programme to include: Grainger Died for Love Debussy Cello Sonata Vaughan Williams The Turtle Dove The English Concert Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G Britten The Ash Grove minor Op. 19 Traditional The Water of Tyne Kristian Bezuidenhout director, fortepiano Britten The last rose of summer Few duo partnerships can match See page 18 the sheer intensity and conviction Song is ‘nothing less than speech generated in performance by charged with emotion’, observed Daniel Müller-Schott and Simon Vaughan Williams. Sophie Bevan’s Trpčeski. The pair returns to programme explores themes of Wigmore Hall for a recital sure to national identity and the enduring project the empathy shared by two power of popular culture with of today’s finest artists. songs inspired by traditional British texts and the revival of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 native folk music. Forthcoming Concerts in this Series All seats £15 Sunday 21 January 2018 7.30pm Wednesday 2 May 2018 7.30pm

Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle

Musicologist Joseph Kerman hit the mark when Monday 11 September he likened the opening of one of Beethoven’s first 7.30pm string quartets to ‘a coiled spring waiting to go off in all directions’. Cuarteto Casals celebrates its 20th anniversary this season by following the composer’s Cuarteto Casals creativity through his sixteen string quartets and Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 18 No. 6; presenting them in company with new works in String Quartet in F Op. 135 each concert. Matan Porat String Quartet ‘Binah’* (world première) Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Wednesday 4 October 7.30pm grant-making foundation Tuesday 12 December 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals’s Beethoven Cycle opens with a work Saturday 24 March 2018 7.30pm known above all for the melancholy slow introduction to its finale and continues with the composer’s Monday 4 June 2018 7.30pm concise final string quartet. Israeli pianist and Wednesday 4 July 2018 7.30pm composer Matan Porat’s new quartet offers a fresh way to approach the meditative focus of the String Quartet in A minor Op. 132, completed following Beethoven’s recovery from serious illness in 1825.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Saturday 16 September Saturday 16 September Sunday 17 September 10.00am – 3.00pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Open House Day Christiane Karg soprano Yossif Ivanov violin Gerold Huber piano Philippe Ivanov piano Join us for an opportunity to look behind the scenes at Wigmore Es war einmal... Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Hall, with free performances and ‘Märchenhafte Sagenwelt’ Op. 12 No. 1 workshops taking place throughout Schubert Der Leiermann from Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu

the day. Winterreise; Der Zwerg; Erlkönig cher Op. 42; Valse-scherzo Op. 34 Ravel Tzigane Bring the family and join Detective Schumann Aus alten Märchen; Waldesgespräch; Auf einer Burg; Im Inspector Lucy Drever for a The Ivanov brothers, Yossif and musical mystery trail around the Walde; Die Meerfee; Ein Jüngling Liebt ein Mädchen; Der arme Peter; Philippe, make their Wigmore building, as well as free music- Hall duo debut with a programme making workshops at 11.00am, Die Löwenbraut Pfitzner Hast du von den of great musical variety and 12.15pm and 1.30pm. Please sign expressive contrasts. They open up for the workshops on the day. Fischerkindern das alte Märchen vernommen?; Lockung; Gretel; with Beethoven’s uplifting Op. 12 Ich fürcht’ nit die Gespenster; No. 1, dedicated to the imperial Free (no ticket required) Nachtwanderer court composer Antonio Salieri, Mahler Des Antonius von Padua and move to Ravel’s rhapsodic Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Hans Tzigane by way of two exquisitely und Grethe; Verlorne Müh; Ablösung beautiful scores by Tchaikovsky. im Sommer; Das irdische Leben; Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice German soprano Christiane Karg, recently hailed by the Chicago Tribune for ‘the shining purity’ of her singing, makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall for a rich recital of German Lieder with duo partner Gerold Huber.

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Haydn String Quartet Series History records Haydn as the ‘father of the string quartet’, a title reinforced by the test of time. Wigmore Hall’s Haydn String Quartet Series, performed by an irresistible line-up of world-class ensembles, spans the full range of the composer’s invention, from the early Op. 20 compositions to his late masterworks of the 1790s. This series is made possible with additional support from the Haydn String Quartet Circle and the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund www.wigmore-hall.org.uk September • 17

Wednesday 13 September 7.30pm

Doric String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 20 No. 1; String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2; String Quartet in G minor Op. 20 No. 3

Haydn’s ground-breaking Op. 20, completed in 1772, set new standards of formal ingenuity, expressive eloquence and technical accomplishment in the realm of the string quartet. The Doric String Quartet, one of Britain’s finest young chamber ensembles, launches Wigmore Hall’s season-long Haydn String Quartet Series with a probing survey of the opus’s first half.

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series 2017 2018

Sunday 24 September 7.30pm Wednesday 3 January 7.30pm Wednesday 25 April 7.30pm Heath Quartet Schumann Quartet Vertavo String Quartet

Wednesday 8 November 7.30pm Monday 12 February 7.30pm Saturday 26 May 7.30pm Doric String Quartet Jerusalem Quartet Doric String Quartet

Sunday 10 December 11.30am Thursday 22 February 7.30pm Wednesday 30 May 7.30pm Heath Quartet Doric String Quartet Quatuor Mosaïques

Sunday 17 December 11.30am Wednesday 28 February 7.30pm Thursday 31 May 7.30pm Novus String Quartet Doric String Quartet Quatuor Mosaïques

Wednesday 14 March 7.30pm Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Heath Quartet Heath Quartet

Thursday 15 March 7.30pm Friday 13 July 7.30pm Danish String Quartet Bennewitz Quartet

Friday 16 March 7.30pm Wednesday 25 July 7.30pm Kuss Quartet Castalian String Quartet

Tuesday 17 April 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet 18 • September Box Office: 020 7935 2141

The English Concert Thursday 14 September 7.30pm

The English Concert Kristian Bezuidenhout director, fortepiano

Haydn Symphony No. 39 in G minor Hob. I:39 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in C K415 CPE Bach String Symphony in B minor Wq. 182/5 Mozart Symphony No. 33 in B flat K319

The English Concert is joined by one of its favourite collaborators, virtuoso Kristian Bezuidenhout, as he directs the ensemble from the fortepiano. From Haydn’s first minor key symphony and the intensity of CPE Bach, to Mozart’s imaginative and playful Piano Concerto No. 13, this programme embodies the inventive spirit of the classical masters.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Wednesday 29 November 7.30pm Thursday 8 February 2018 7.30pm Thursday 19 April 2018 7.30pm

Sunday 17 September Monday 18 September Monday 18 September 4.00pm 1.00pm 6.00pm and 7.30pm

Leslie Howard piano Fretwork Pre-Concert Talk Mozart Variations on Gluck’s Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080: Ian Page discusses his future ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K455 Contrapuncti 1–11; Contrapunctus plans for The Mozartists, and Tchaikovsky Six morceaux Op. 19 14 (completion by Richard Boothby) introduces works in the concert. Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat Op. 22 Bach’s total mastery of £5 Liszt Magyar Rapszódia No. 23 in counterpoint, encyclopaedic C sharp minor ‘Rêves et Fantaisies’ knowledge of musical form and S242/23 (world première) fascination with the mathematics Classical Opera/ of music is clearly revealed in The Mozartists Leslie Howard’s thought-provoking his sublime The Art of Fugue. programme features two pairs Fretwork explores the first eleven Ian Page conductor of composers – Mozart and contrapuncti from the work’s first Louise Alder soprano Tchaikovsky; Beethoven and Liszt edition of 1751 and crowns the Matthew Truscott violin – the second of each a deeply recital with Richard Boothby’s Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola perceptive disciple of the first. completion of the unfinished The Mozartists Launch Concert The final work of the recital will Contrapunctus 14, a triple fugue Mozart Sinfonia concertante in be the first known performance for four voices. E flat K364 Gluck De’ sublimi of a massive Liszt fantasy on augusti eroi from Il prologo Hungarian themes. £15 concs £13 Mozart Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio K418 Approximately 2 hours in duration Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A K201 (with interval) Internationally renowned ensemble £30 £26 £22 £18 £15 Classical Opera launches The Mozartists, an exciting new strand of its expanding concert work, with a fascinating Gluck rarity, Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, and one of his most genial symphonies.

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Tuesday 19 September 7.30pm Vox Luminis Bach, Arnstadt

H Bach Ich danke dir, Gott JM Bach Herr, der König freuet sich; Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ JC Bach Die Furcht des Herren Buxtehude Herzlich lieb hab’ ich dich o Herr Anon Magnificat JC Bach Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig JS Bach Cantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4

Vox Luminis turns to sacred works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries, including his first cousin Johann Christoph Bach as well as Dietrich Buxtehude. Young JS Bach famously walked the 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear Buxtehude at work and ‘in order to comprehend one thing and another about his art’. Lionel Bringuier and his Belgium- based ensemble include JC Bach’s Die Furcht des Herren, written to celebrate the election of a new town council at Eisenach, and his exquisite setting of words from Psalm 25, Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig, together with JS Bach’s dramatic early cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 With grateful thanks to the Early Music and Baroque Circle

Wednesday 20 September Thursday 21 September 6.00pm and 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm Chamber Tots Broadcaster and journalist Tom Service in conversation with Into the Jungle composers featured in the evening concert. We invite children aged 1 to 5 Free (ticket required) and their parents/carers to join us as we head into the jungle! This interactive music-making Nash Ensemble 7.30pm workshop features songs, Martyn Brabbins conductor percussion and the chance to Richard Hosford clarinet meet some exciting instruments Benjamin Nabarro violin up close, led by our experienced Adrian Brendel cello Chamber Tots music leaders Ian Brown piano alongside emerging ensembles. Nash Inventions Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & John Casken Clarinet Quintet* (world première) 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) Alexander Goehr Quintet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin and Approximately 1 hour in duration double bass** (world première) Sir Harrison Birtwistle Trio for violin, cello and piano Children £6 Adults £4 Maxwell Davies String Quintet *Nash commission **Commissioned by the Radcliffe Trust, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Alexander Goehr’s latest chamber work, scored for an intriguingly mixed quintet, is presented alongside Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s single-movement Trio, with its uncharacteristically abstract title, and the late Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s String Quintet, first performed as part of the Ensemble’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The programme is crowned by John Casken’s folk-inspired Quintet.

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Friday 22 September Friday 22 September Sunday 24 September 11.00am and 12.30pm 6.00pm and 7.30pm 11.30am

For Crying Out Loud! Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm Nash Ensemble Bukolika Piano Trio H.E. Dr Martin Eichtinger, Austrian See page 24 Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hear outstanding performances explores the history and revolutionary

by musicians from the Royal vision of Empress Maria Theresia. Sunday 24 September 7.30pm Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially for £5 parents or carers and babies under Heath Quartet 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and Vienna Mozart Trio 7.30pm Hannes Minnaar piano accommodating environment. 300th Anniversary of Maria Theresia See page 26 Approximately 45 minutes in duration Mozart Piano Trio in B flat K502 Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Adult £8.50 (babies come free) Op. 1 No. 3

Empress Maria Theresia, the only female ruler of the long-lived Habsburg Empire, while conservative by nature introduced radical reforms to education, boosted Austria’s economy and promoted inoculation against smallpox. Hosted by the Ambassador of Austria and in association with the Austrian Cultural Forum, we commemorate the tercentenary of her birth with works written in Vienna in the afterglow of her reign. Approximately 1 hour in duration (no interval)

All seats £10

Sir András Schiffat Wigmore Hall

Sir András Schiff made his Wigmore Hall debut in Saturday 23 September 1978 with Bach’s Goldberg Variations. He has made 7.30pm a monumental contribution to the Hall’s artistic development over the four decades since and appears across this season in the roles of recitalist, song Sir András Schiff piano pianist and chamber musician. Mendelssohn Fantasia (Sonate écossaise) in F sharp minor Op. 28 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp Op. 78 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76; 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Bach English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811

Sir András Schiff received his first piano lessons almost sixty years ago, and went on to become one of the great interpreters of his instrument’s repertoire. He launches his latest Wigmore Hall residency with a programme of works that reflects the soul and spirit of his truly enlightened music-making.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Repeated Tuesday 26 September 7.30pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 28 September 7.30pm with Robert Holl baritone

Friday 5 January 2018 7.30pm

Repeated Sunday 7 January 2018 7.30pm

Saturday 12 May 2018 7.30pm with Jörg Widmann clarinet

Nash Ensemble: The French Connection During Stravinsky’s time in French-speaking Switzerland and France he encountered ragtime and jazz, and developed his ‘neo-classical’ approach, while retaining musical affinities with his native Russia. This series juxtaposes music from his French period with music by a variety of composers from the French tradition – including Saint-Saëns and Fauré, the great Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, and the ‘bright young things’ of the generation that emerged after the First World War. Under the Patronage of H.E. Madame Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Sunday 24 September 11.30am

Nash Ensemble Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin (arr. for wind quintet) Stravinsky Three pieces for solo clarinet; Pastorale Bizet Jeux d’enfants (arr. for wind quintet) Debussy Syrinx Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet and piano

Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for clarinet, a 1919 postscript to The Soldier’s Tale, and his early Pastorale in its 1933 arrangement, are heard alongside wind quintet versions of orchestral favourites by Ravel and Bizet, and Poulenc’s chamber music masterpiece, the Sextet for piano and wind.

£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice www.wigmore-hall.org.uk September • 25

Forthcoming Events in this Series Saturday 28 October 6.00pm

Saturday 28 October 7.30pm

Saturday 9 December 6.00pm

Saturday 9 December 7.30pm with Roderick Williams baritone

Saturday 13 January 2018 7.30pm with Stephanie d’Oustrac mezzo-soprano

Saturday 10 February 2018 6.00pm

Saturday 10 February 2018 7.30pm with Sophie Bevan soprano

Saturday 10 March 2018 7.30pm

Tuesday 20 March 2018 7.30pm with Christine Rice mezzo-soprano 26 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Jörg Widmann represents the tradition of the composer-performer at Wigmore Hall. Busoni and Ysaÿe were among the first artists to take to the stage and there have been so many others since, from Britten and Poulenc to Thomas Adès and Huw Watkins. Widmann’s music is a very significant part of the modern German voice in composition and the breadth of this series means that we can explore and celebrate the full spectrum of his work.

Haydn String Quartet Series Sunday 24 September 7.30pm

Heath Quartet Hannes Minnaar piano Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1 Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 1 Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 The Heath Quartet trains the spotlight on the first of Haydn’s ‘Russian’ Quartets, a work that combines pathos and popular melodies, grace and dark humour. The Heaths also open their season-long survey of Jörg Widmann’s five string quartets with the German composer’s first foray into the genre, an entrancing twelve-minute adventure in textural and tonal possibilities.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall/ Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall Schubert: The Complete Songs Monday 25 September Tuesday 26 September Thursday 28 September 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Amatis Piano Trio Sir András Schiff piano Robert Holl baritone Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 Repeat of concert on 23 September Sir András Schiffpiano (Bartolozzi trio) Schubert Pilgerweise; Das Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Heimweh; Glaube, Hoffnung minor Op. 49 Supported by the Season Patrons und Liebe; Der blinde Knabe; who have made a major contribution Todesmusik; An den Mond in Founded in 2013 by three to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series einer Herbstnacht; Der Wanderer musicians from diverse (D489); Totengräbers Heimweh; backgrounds, the Amatis Piano Der 13. Psalm (fragment); Hymne I Trio has emerged as one of ‘Wenige wissen das Geheimnis’; today’s most exciting young Nachthymne; Der Winterabend chamber groups. It marks its Wigmore Hall debut with a Superlatives soon run dry when virtuosic and expressive trio trying to describe the mighty by Haydn before turning to capacity of Robert Holl’s voice. Mendelssohn’s lyrical Piano Trio in The Dutch bass-baritone, born D minor, dubbed ‘the master trio in Rotterdam in 1947, followed of the age’ by Robert Schumann. in the footsteps of his teacher Hans Hotter to become one of £15 concs £13 the world’s foremost opera and The Amatis Piano Trio is a member oratorio performers. He has of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation also delighted audiences with Artists scheme the penetrating intelligence and eloquent artistry of his Lieder interpretations, qualities sure to be on display during his Wigmore Hall farewell recital with Sir András Schiff.

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Friday 29 September Friday 29 September 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm

Ensemble 360 Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano and Polly Ives: Malcolm Martineau piano The Chimpanzees of Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Sehnsucht; Die Nacht; Happytown Liebeshymnus Zemlinsky 6 Gesänge (Maeterlinck) Reception & Key Stage 1 Eisler Die Hollywood-Elegien Schools Concert Korngold Sterbelied; Unvergänglichkeit; Gefaßter Abschied Copland From 12 poems of Emily Dickinson: Nature, the Gentlest Based on the book by Giles Mother; There came a wind like a bugle; The world feels dusty; Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees, I’ve heard an organ; Going to Heaven!; The Chariot The Chimpanzees of Happytown is Britten A Charm of Lullabies Music in the Round’s latest live music concert for young children. A recent review in The New York Times placed Sarah Connolly ‘at With original music by their the peak of her career’, a judgement underpinned by the penetrating Children’s Composer in Residence spiritual insights and emotional power of her artistry. She and Paul Rissmann, performed by Malcolm Martineau offer a programme touched by nostalgia and Ensemble 360 and narrator Polly longing, from Hanns Eisler’s bitter-sweet Brecht settings to Britten’s Ives, this captivating concert evocations of night and sleep, A Charm of Lullabies. includes projected images from the book and irresistibly catchy songs. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Children £4 Adults Free (ticket required) Book through the Wigmore Hall Learning department on 020 7258 8240

SCHOOLS

Our Schools Programme engages children, young people and teachers across London and further afield, working with our Partner Music Education Hubs to engage groups who otherwise would not have the opportunity to take part in creative music making. Now in its third year, our Partner Schools Programme is a new approach to working with schools; in collaboration with our Partner Music Education Hubs we are working alongside four primary schools keen to develop their cultural offer, empowering them to co-create a programme of opportunities over three years which meets their needs and supports them to place music at the heart of their ethos.

Saturday 30 September Saturday 30 September Saturday 30 September 11.00am – 12 noon 6.00pm 7.30pm

Family Concert Artists in Conversation Tasmin Little violin Ensemble 360 Piers Lane piano Leading violinist Tasmin Little and Polly Ives: gives us an insight into her life as Bridge Violin Sonata The Chimpanzees of a performer as well as the evening Szymanowski Violin Sonata Op. 9 concert programme. Bliss Violin Sonata Happytown Franck Violin Sonata in A For ages 4 plus £5 Tasmin Little and Piers Lane open Based on the book by Giles with Frank Bridge’s Violin Sonata, Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees, The first performed at Wigmore Hall Chimpanzees of Happytown is Music in 1934. They pair the composer’s in the Round’s latest live music highly sophisticated work with concert for young children. With Szymanowski’s Sonata Op. 9, original music by their Children’s an early composition touched by Composer in Residence Paul the influence of Skryabin. Their Rissmann, performed by Ensemble programme’s second half matches 360 and narrator Polly Ives, Arthur Bliss’s single-movement this captivating concert includes Sonata with Franck’s evergreen projected images from the book Sonata in A. and irresistibly catchy songs. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Children £10 Adults £12

Sunday 1 October Sunday 1 October 11.30am 7.30pm

Natasha Paremski piano Leila Josefowicz violin Brahms Variations on a Theme by John Novacek piano Paganini (Books I & II) Op. 35 Sibelius Valse triste Op. 44 (arr. Friedrich Hermann) Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 63 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Thomas Adès Mazurkas Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 (arr. Robert Wittinger) Chopin Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54 Kaija Saariaho Calices Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B Zimmermann Sonata for violin and piano flat Op. 83 Reviewers have written of the alchemy that unites Leila Potent virtuosity and the spirit of Josefowicz’s duo partnership and John Novacek. The Arts Desk dance course through Natasha praised their last appearance at Wigmore Hall in 2015 for its Paremski’s programme. The ‘huge panache and professional energy’ and for their music- Moscow-born American pianist, making’s daring spontaneity. They return with a programme of who began recording in her works hallmarked by dark introspection and powerful emotions, mid-teens, crowns her Wigmore including arrangements of profoundly meditative orchestral pieces Hall debut with the turbulent by Sibelius and Mahler, Kaija Saariaho’s mystical Calices and two emotions and ultimate triumph compelling 20th-century takes on the sonata. over adversity of Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 7, written in 1940 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 under the shadow of Stalin’s rule of terror.

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

Sunday 1 October Monday 2 October Monday 2 October 12 noon – 4.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Silver Sunday Paul O’Dette lute Anne Schwanewilms Byrd La Volta; Pavana Bray; soprano As part of Silver Sunday, we invite Galliarda; The Woods So Wild; Charles Spencer piano people living with dementia and Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home Schreker 5 Lieder Op. 3 their family, friends and carers to Johnson Omnino galliard; Delight Schubert Ellens Gesang I, II & III join us in the beautiful space of pavan and galliard; Carman’s (Ave Maria); Das Mädchen; Die The Wallace Collection. Meet at Whistle junge Nonne; Schwestergruss; The Wallace Collection at 12 noon Dowland Farewell (on In Der Tod und das Mädchen for tea and sandwiches before Nomine); Farewell Liszt Lieder aus Schillers exploring the gallery, then turn Bacheler Daniells Jigge; ‘Wilhelm Tell’ S292 (Second pictures into music with Julian Mounsieurs Almaine West and students from the Royal version): Der Fischerknabe; Der Hirt; Der Alpenjäger Academy of Music. Paul O’Dette, a driving force in the Korngold Was Du mir bist?; development of period-instrument Mit Dir zu schweigen; Welt ist Free (booking required) performance for over four decades, stille eingeschlafen Book through the Wigmore Hall lives and breathes the spirit Learning department on of the pieces in this lunchtime Hailed for ‘her unfailing instinct 020 7258 8246 or programme. The acclaimed for the finest details of phrasing [email protected]. American lutenist turns his vast and timing’ and vocal ‘brilliance, experience and insight to works In partnership with The Wallace warmth, suppleness and technical from the age of Shakespeare, Collection, Westminster Arts and the mastery’, Anne Schwanewilms including music by the Bard’s Royal Academy of Music ranks among the world’s finest collaborator Robert Johnson and lyric sopranos. She is famed not the peerless John Dowland. least for her captivating artistry and interpretations of the song £15 concs £13 repertoire.

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Tuesday 3 October 7.30pm Finland 100 Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra Adam Johnson conductor Nicky Spence tenor David Tollington horn Sibelius Andante Festivo; Suite Mignonne Op. 98a Rautavaara Epitaph for Béla Bartók Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings Op. 31 Tchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings Op. 48

Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra opens its tenth anniversary season with its Wigmore Hall debut under principal conductor Adam Johnson. This concert also marks the centenary of Finland’s declaration of independence from Russian rule, celebrating the nation’s commitment to democracy and equality while reflecting its enormous contribution to international cultural life.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Wednesday 4 October Thursday 5 October Sunday 8 October 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Cuarteto Casals IMS Prussia Cove Ben Johnson tenor Beethoven String Quartet in Arvid Engegård violin Tyler Duncan baritone C minor Op. 18 No. 4; String Savitri Grier violin Graham Johnson piano Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Benedikt Schneider viola ‘Razumovsky’ Hannah Strijbos viola Schubert Die Befreier Europas in Mauricio Sotelo New work (UK Mikayel Hakhnazaryan cello Paris; Romanze D144; Trinklied; première) Laura van der Heijden cello Auf einen Kirchhof; Der Jüngling Beethoven String Quartet in C Matthew McDonald double bass am Bache; Punschlied: im Norden sharp minor Op. 131 Tom Poster piano zu singen; Die vier Weltalter; Frühlingslied; Winterlied; Der Mark-Anthony Turnage Quintet Flüchtling; Sprache der Liebe; Der Spanish composer Mauricio for piano and strings* Schäfer und der Reiter; Fahrt zum Sotelo completed his training (London première) Hades; Am Strome; Der Schiffer; in Vienna, a move which he Mozart String Quintet in G Ganymed; Memnon; An den describes as ‘essential to his minor K516 Mond in einer Herbstnacht; Der artistic development’. His Schubert Piano Quintet in A Blumenbrief; Blondel zu Marien; latest piece for string quartet is D667 ‘The Trout’ Sehnsucht; Die Sternennächte; presented in company with the *Commissioned by IMS Prussia Cove Wehmut; Der Einsame; Dithyrambe; music of another composer who L’incanto degli occhi D990e; flourished in the city. Cuarteto To celebrate the 40th anniversary L’incanto degli occhi D902 No. 1 Casals surveys three works from of its Open Chamber Seminar, IMS Beethoven’s early, middle and Prussia Cove has commissioned Two terrific young singers join late years in Vienna, including the a new quintet by Mark-Anthony Graham Johnson in a beguiling sublime seven-movement Op. 131. Turnage, written for the same all-Schubert programme. They instruments as Schubert’s iconic open with the young composer’s £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 ‘Trout’ Quintet. IMS continues triumphant response to news of to nurture outstanding chamber Napoleon’s defeat and first exile music performers under the in 1814, before travelling through a artistic directorship of cellist sequence of songs rich in popular Steven Isserlis. melodies and high spirits.

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Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration ‘Her sound has passion, grit and Saturday 7 October Sunday 8 October electricity but also a disarming 7.30pm 11.30am warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden strains of lyricism...’, noted The New Isabelle Faust violin Isabelle Faust violin York Times of Isabelle Faust’s Alexander Melnikov Alexander Melnikov playing. The German violinist, fortepiano fortepiano whose multi-layered artistry has attracted a devoted Wigmore Hall Mozart Violin Sonata in E flat Mozart Violin Sonata in A K305; following, embarks on a five- K380; 6 Variations in G minor Violin Sonata in F K376; Violin concert Residency this season, ‘Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant’ Sonata in C K303; Violin Sonata complete with a weekend’s K360; Violin Sonata in F K377; in B flat K378 exploration of Mozart’s mature Violin Sonata in E minor K304; violin sonatas. Violin Sonata in A K526 Isabelle Faust’s recent recording of Mozart’s Violin Concertos Saturday 7 October Mozart wrote his first violin sonatas drew rave reviews. Her vivacious 11.30am during childhood. He went on to approach to the composer’s works, develop the genre in later years with her rare blend of intellectual with works such as the Violin curiosity, emotional daring and Isabelle Faust violin Sonata in F K377, a mix of high fine expressive detailing, is ideally Alexander Melnikov spirits and melancholic reflection, suited to the creative brilliance and fortepiano and the Violin Sonata in A K526, musical variety of these four violin considered by many to be his finest sonatas from the late 1770s. Mozart Violin Sonata in D K306; composition for violin and keyboard. Violin Sonata in E flat K302; Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in Violin Sonata in B flat K454 duration (no interval) £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Isabelle Faust launches her £15 concs £13 incl. programme Wigmore Hall residency in company with her close artistic collaborator, Alexander Melnikov, Forthcoming Concerts in this Series offering a weekend of concerts Wednesday 10 January 2018 devoted to Mozart’s violin sonatas. 7.30pm They open with the last of the so- with Anne Katharina Schreiber violin called ‘Palatine’ Sonatas, a work of Yoshiko Morita viola playful brilliance, and include K454, Emmanuel Balssa cello written in Vienna for the Mantuan Lorenzo Coppola clarinet violin virtuoso, Regina Strinasacchi. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in Monday 9 April 2018 duration (no interval) 7.30pm with Kristian Bezuidenhout £15 concs £13 harpsichord

Monday 9 October Monday 9 October 1.00pm 7.30pm

Lise de la Salle piano Xavier Sabata countertenor Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Armonia Atenea Liszt Fantasie and Fugue on the George Petrou director, harpsichord theme B-A-C-H Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Catharsis Theme of Handel Op. 24 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Orlandini Ciò che donò la frode... Alza al ciel pianta orgogliosa The rediscovery of Bach’s music from Adelaide in the mid-1800s, propelled by Conti In te, sposa Griselda, mi uccido... Cara sposa from Griselda the publications of the Bach Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ Gesellschaft, inspired a succession Torri Vorresti col tuo pianto from Griselda of new works by performer- Vivaldi Gelido in ogni vena from Farnace composers such as Liszt and Handel From Admeto: Introduzzione; Orride larve... Chiudetevi Busoni. Lise de la Salle’s lunchtime miei lumi recital traces Bach’s enduring Hasse Viver vogl’io sempre per te mio dio... Or mi pento from legacy before exploring treasured La conversione di Sant’Agostino jewels of the romantic repertoire. Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in C RV425 Ariosti Spirate, o iniqui marmi... Voi d’un figlio tanto misero £15 concs £13 from Coriolano Orlandini O del mio caro ben... Già mi sembra al carro avvinto from Adelaide

Armonia Atenea, equally at home on period and modern instruments, has flourished under George Petrou’s artistic leadership. The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall with Xavier Sabata and a programme coloured by spectacular vocal virtuosity. The Catalan countertenor’s Bad Guys album, a homage to Handel, was hailed by the Guardian as one of ‘the most intelligent and striking recital discs of recent years’.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Wigmore Study Group: Tuesday 10 October Wednesday 11 October Bach Odyssey 7.30pm 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Tuesday 10 October 3.00pm – 6.00pm Pavel Haas Quartet Chamber Tots viola On the Train Friday 13 October Pavel Nikl 3.00pm – 6.00pm Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet All aboard the music train! We Wednesday 18 October invite children aged 1 to 5 and 3.00pm – 6.00pm Ravel String Quartet in F Dvořák String Quintet in E flat their parents/carers to join us Op. 97 for this interactive music-making Take a journey through the workshop featuring songs, incredible world of Bach’s keyboard percussion and the chance to music in three afternoons of Written in 1920 to enliven the famous Flonzaley Quartet’s meet some exciting instruments discussion and performance. up close, led by our experienced Throughout his life, Bach wrote repertoire, Stravinsky’s brief Concertino revels in the contrasts Chamber Tots music leaders more consistently for keyboard than alongside emerging ensembles. for any other medium, allowing us and tension between two different scales. It prefaces the Pavel Haas to trace the entire development of 12.30pm (1–2 year-olds) & his musical language through this Quartet’s exploration of Ravel’s String Quartet in F, an emblem 2.00pm (3–5 year-olds) repertoire. His fame as a keyboard Approximately 1 hour in duration virtuoso led to the wide publication of poise and playfulness, and of works such as The Well- Dvořák’s sonorous ‘viola quintet’, Children £6 Adults £4 tempered Clavier, which became a written in the summer of 1893 in formative influence on subsequent Spillville, Iowa. generations of composers. The sessions are presented by £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 composer Julian Philips alongside pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £66 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 18 October

Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency Wednesday 11 October Friday 13 October 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Endellion Vijay Iyer Sextet String Quartet Vijay Iyer piano, Fender Rhodes, electronics Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 54 Stephan Crump double bass No. 1 Marcus Gilmore drums Bartók String Quartet No. 6 Steve Lehman alto sax BB119 Mark Shim tenor sax Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Graham Haynes cornet, flugelhorn Op. 127 Grammy-nominated pianist, bandleader and composer Vijay Now into its 39th season, The Iyer launched his Jazz residency at Wigmore Hall last season in Endellion String Quartet opens performance with Wadada Leo Smith and brought his eponymous this programme with a Haydn Trio to the Hall in July. For the final part of his series, Iyer, named quartet bubbling with good as DownBeat’s Artist of the Year for a second successive time in natured warmth and vitality. June 2016, expands his classic Trio with three truly great horn Bartók’s final and very expressive players, coming together as the Vijay Iyer Sextet. quartet is in turns wild, lyrical, Known for his pioneering creativity and adventurous approach sardonic and ultimately deeply to music-making, the Guardian recently hailed Iyer as ‘one of the tragic, whilst Beethoven’s Op. 127 world’s most inventive new-generation jazz pianists’. The final is one of the most melodious and night of the Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency is one not to miss. uplifting of all his works. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in duration (no interval)

Thursday 12 October 7.30pm

Eggner Trio See page 40

Polish Music Day with Jennifer Pike and Friends

Saturday 14 October Saturday 14 October Saturday 14 October 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Jennifer Pike violin Jennifer Pike violin Jennifer Pike violin Thomas Gould violin Guy Johnston cello Guy Johnston cello Guy Johnston cello Petr Limonov piano Tom Poster piano Elizabeth Kenny theorbo Chopin Introduction and polonaise Szymanowska Polonaise in F brillante in C Op. 3 minor; Nocturne in B flat Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Szymanowski Sonata for violin and Eugeniusz Knapik Partita for violin Petr Limonov piano piano Op. 9 and piano Krzysztof Penderecki Capriccio for Karłowicz Impromptu Górecki Pożegnanie (Farewell) solo violin (UK première) Lutosławski Grave (Metamorphoses Chopin Piano Trio in G minor Op. 8 Jarzębski Concerto Primo, for cello and piano) Secundo and Terzo Wieniawski Polonaise No. 1 in D Maria Szymanowska, born in Hanna Kulenty E for E Op. 4 Warsaw in 1789, earned an Bacewicz Caprice No. 4; Polish international reputation as a Caprice Poland, dominated by three composer-virtuoso and played for Polak Gagliarda; Courante neighbouring powers throughout the Royal Philharmonic Society Anon Hajducki; Dance; Polonaise the 1800s, connected with the in London in 1824. Her brilliant Paulina Załubska New work wider world through music. Chopin miniatures, the famous Nocturne (world première) and Wieniawski boosted the spirit in B flat among them, paved the Goldberg Trio Sonata in C of Poles at home and abroad way for Chopin’s compositions. with pieces based on the noble The finale of Polish Music Day also Jennifer Pike explores her artistic polonaise. The recital is crowned includes Górecki’s Pożegnanie roots in a day devoted to music with Szymanowski’s striking Sonata and Eugeniusz Knapik’s hauntingly from four centuries of Poland’s for violin and piano Op. 9. beautiful Partita. cultural history. The violinist, born to an English father and Polish mother, £15 concs £13 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 is joined by close collaborators and friends in a programme that spans © Tom Barnes everything from Italian-influenced works from the early 1600s to a UK première of a work by Krzysztof Penderecki and a world première by Paulina Załubska.

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Eggner Trio: Haydn and Dvořák Thursday 12 October Sunday 15 October Sunday 15 October 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Eggner Trio Scottish Ensemble Roman Rabinovich piano Haydn Piano Trio in E minor Mozart String Quintet in C K515 Haydn Piano Sonata in G HXVI:39 HXV:12; Piano Trio in G HXV:41 Brahms String Quintet in F Op. 88 Roman Rabinovich Memory Box Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. Rachmaninov Corelli Variations 90 ‘Dumky’ By adding an extra viola to the Op. 42 string quartet, Mozart created Chopin 4 Ballades Dvořák’s fifth and final piano trio, fresh tonal possibilities and filled with the rhythmic energy entered a vast new universe of Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich and melancholy of Slavic folksong, emotional expression. Scottish recently presented his caught the popular mood of Czech Ensemble pairs the third of interpretations of Haydn’s nationalism and was cheered his viola quintets, a piece of complete piano sonatas at the at its première in Prague in symphonic proportions, with one Lammermuir Festival in Scotland 1891. The three Eggner brothers of Brahms’s most radiant and and at the Tel Aviv Conservatory. preface the ‘Dumky’ with Haydn’s uplifting works. He offers his latest thoughts on early keyboard trio in G and his the composer’s Piano Sonata impassioned E minor Piano Trio £15 concs £13 incl. programme HXVI:39 together with one of his of 1788. and coffee/sherry/juice own works and two landmarks of the Romantic piano repertoire. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

MUSIC FOR LIFE

We believe that dementia should not stop people from Tuesday 17 October doing the things they love, or from trying new things. 10.30am – 1.30pm With the right support people can live well with dementia, and we are committed to this goal: helping to build a dementia friendly society and enabling Come and Sing people living with dementia to access high quality, life For families living with dementia enriching musical experiences. If you are, or someone you know is, living with Music for Life is a pioneering programme that brings dementia, join Isabelle Adams for a session of group together musicians, care staff and people living singing, exploring a mixture of music old and new, with dementia through music making. Activity takes followed by tea and coffee. No previous experience place in residential homes, extra care settings and needed, just an enthusiasm to sing! day centres, engaging people who can be isolated and disempowered as a result of dementia. Over the Free (booking required) course of eight weeks, specially trained musicians use improvisation to create music with people living Book through the Wigmore Hall Learning department with dementia and their care staff, and participants on 020 7258 8246 or [email protected]. are given the space to express themselves and make In partnership with Westminster Arts their own musical choices. Music for Life aims to enhance the quality of life of its participants as well as the quality of their care.

Monday 16 October Monday 16 October Friday 20 October 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Anne Queffélecpiano Kristian Bezuidenhout Roberta Invernizzi Bach/Busoni Chorale Prelude fortepiano soprano ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’ Beethoven Rondo in C Op. 51 No. Accademia Hermans BWV659 1; Rondo in G Op. 51 No. 2; Piano Fabio Ciofini conductor, Marcello/Bach Adagio from Oboe Sonata No. 7 in D Op. 10 No. 3 harpsichord Concerto in D minor Haydn Variations in F minor Handel/Kempff Minuet in G minor HXVII:6 Handel’s Queens Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in Handel Scherza in mar la Scarlatti Sonata in D minor Kk32; C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ navicella from Lotario; Ah, mio cor Sonata in B minor Kk27 from Alcina; Traditore, traditore Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor Since winning the prestigious from Berenice; Trio Sonata in G BWV826 Bruges Fortepiano Competition minor Op. 2 No. 6 HWV391 in the early 2000s, Kristian Handel From Giulio Cesare: Tu la Anne Queffélec’s revelatory artistry, Bezuidenhout has flourished as mia stella sei; Piangerò; Sinfonia driven by a ceaseless quest for a performer on both period and bellica; Da tempeste; Che Sento? musical meaning, has deepened modern instruments. His latest Oh Dio!; Se pietà di me non senti over the course of a long and Wigmore Hall recital connects with distinguished career. The French the rich and subtle sounds of the Founded in 2000 by its artistic pianist, born in Paris in 1948, Viennese fortepiano to offer fresh director, Fabio Ciofini, the marks her return to Wigmore Hall perspectives on evergreen works Accademia Hermans has evolved for the first time in many seasons by Haydn and Beethoven. into an ensemble selected from with a lunchtime recital of Baroque Italy’s finest period-instrument treasures and transcriptions. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 performers. Roberta Invernizzi continues her close collaboration £15 concs £13 with the group in an all-Handel programme, including works from the composer’s formative Italian years and Cleopatra’s arias from Giulio Cesare, created in London in 1724 for Francesca Cuzzoni.

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Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Bach’s keyboard works span a breath-taking range of musical styles and fashions, and connect with the grace and flow of physical movement. Angela Hewitt, intensely aware since childhood of the significance of dance to the composer’s music, continues her Bach Odyssey this season, moving from his Partitas to the Goldberg Variations by way of both books of The Well-tempered Clavier.

Wednesday 18 October 7.30pm

Angela Hewitt piano Bach Partita No. 3 in A minor BWV827; Partita No. 5 in G BWV829; Partie in A BWV832; Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830

Bach published a keyboard partita every year between 1726 and 1731, ‘offered to music lovers … to refresh their spirits’. He stamped each piece with his matchless contrapuntal mastery and feeling for dance rhythms. Angela Hewitt, whose recording of the Partitas was praised by Gramophone for ‘effortlessly eclipsing all competition’, resumes her Bach Odyssey with four of these mighty masterworks.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Friday 26 January 2018 7.30pm

Thursday 26 July 2018 7.30pm

Philip Higham: Bach Cello Suites Philip Higham’s first-class artistry has earned international critical plaudits, prompting the Washington Post to describe him as ‘a major talent’. The Scottish cellist, born in 1986, first performed Bach’s Cello Suites during his mid-twenties and went on to apply the energy of youth and the experience of deep study to the job of recording them in 2014. Higham’s vision of the works also draws on his early studies as a pianist to connect with the harmonic conception and subtle voicing of Bach’s counterpoint. ‘I love trying to get inside Bach’s mind as a craftsman, trying as much as possible to be a detective, not just a blind servant’, he comments. Each concert approximately 45 minutes in duration (no interval)

Saturday 21 October 3.00pm

Philip Higham cello Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat BWV1010

£15 concs £13

Saturday 21 October 5.00pm

Philip Higham cello Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011; Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009

£15 concs £13

Saturday 21 October 7.00pm

Philip Higham cello Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012

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Sunday 22 October Sunday 22 October 11.30am 7.30pm

Wihan Quartet Phantasm Mozart String Quartet in C K465 Laurence Dreyfus treble viol, director ‘Dissonance’ Emilia Benjamin treble viol, tenor viol Dvořák String Quartet No. 11 in Jonathan Manson tenor viol C Op. 61 Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol Mikko Perkola bass viol Despite the provocative harmonies Christopher Tye and Claude Le Jeune: 16th-century musical radicals of its slow introduction, Mozart’s String Quartet in C K465 is Tye In Nomine a 4; In Nomine a 5 ‘Beleve Me’; In Nomine a 5 anything but dissonant. The ‘Rounde’; Dum transisset No. 3; In Nomine a 5 ‘Saye so’; O lux Czech Wihan Quartet, a resident beata Trinitas ensemble at London’s Trinity Le Jeune Fantaisie No. 1; Que je porte d’envie; Debat la noste Laban Conservatoire, places trill’ en May this most uplifting of works in Tye In Nomine a 5 ‘Rachell’s weepinge’; Rubum quem a 5; In company with the grandeur of Nomine a 5 ‘Re La Re’; In Nomine a 5 ‘Howld fast’; In Nomine a Dvořák’s monumental String 5 ‘I come’; Amavit eum Dominus; In Nomine a 5 ‘Crye’ Quartet in C Op. 61. Le Jeune Susanne un jour; Quell’eau, quel air, quel feu; Une Puce; O Roze reyne des fleurs; Fracine roze d’este Tye In Nomine a 5 ‘Seldome sene’; In Nomine a 5 ‘Reporte’; £15 concs £13 Christus resurgens; In Nomine a 5 ‘Trust’; Sit fast a 3 Le Jeune Fantaisie No. 2; Tu ne l’enten pas; Fantaisie No. 3 (after ‘Benedicta est Coelorum Regina’ by Josquin DesPrez); Revecy venir du Printemps

Christopher Tye and Claude Le Jeune, like so many musicians of the 1500s, negotiated the seismic religious upheavals of their century, the Catholic Tye as Master of the Choristers at Ely Cathedral, the Protestant Le Jeune under the protection of Huguenot patrons. Phantasm explores the diverse moods of Tye’s ‘In Nomines’ and pieces from Le Jeune’s delightful Meslanges et fantasies de violes.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Francesco Piemontesi Mozart Cycle Monday 23 October Monday 23 October Wednesday 25 October 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Trio Jean Paul Francesco Piemontesi Carolyn Sampson soprano Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp piano The King’s Consort minor HXV:26 Mozart Rondo in D K485; Piano Robert King conductor Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36 Sonata in D K311; Piano Sonata (arr. Kirchner) in B flat K333; Piano Sonata in C The Genius of Purcell K545; Piano Sonata in D K576 Purcell Sonata in Four Parts No. Trio Jean Paul, named after 3 in A minor; If music be the food Robert Schumann’s favourite Francesco Piemontesi launched of love; Music for a while; Trio author, has remained unchanged his complete cycle of Mozart’s Sonata in G minor; Not all my in membership for over two piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall torments; Oh! Fair Cedaria; Sonata decades. The ensemble directs in 2015. The Swiss pianist’s in Four Parts No. 4 in D minor; its poetic artistry, sophistication visionary interpretations underline Fairest Isle from King Arthur; and suavity to Theodor Kirchner’s the central importance of these Sonata in Four Parts No. 9 in F; arrangement of Brahms’s String works to the composer’s creative O solitude, my sweetest choice; Sextet in G for piano trio together development. His Mozart project Sonata in Four Parts No. 6 in G with a work by Haydn, subtle and continues with a recital comprising minor Z807; Incassum, Lesbia, shifting in mood. the popular Piano Sonata in C, incassum rogas (Ode on the death ‘For beginners’, and the Rondo in of Queen Mary); Sonata in Four £15 concs £13 D K485, a high-spirited piece in Parts No. 1 in B minor; If music be sonata form. the food of love; If Love’s a sweet passion from The Fairy Queen £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Hailed by The Times for its stylish and exuberant Purcell performances, The King’s Consort joins forces with soprano Carolyn Sampson for a programme which combines some of the composer’s most extraordinary chamber music with cherished vocal jewels.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Tuesday 24 October Thursday 26 October 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

The Sixteen Chamber Tots Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale Into the Jungle Monteverdi Beatus vir (Primo); O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che We invite children aged 1 to 5 giova?; Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Primo); Salve Regina and their parents/carers to join (Terzo); Gloria a 7; Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Terzo); us as we head into the jungle! Salve Regina (Secondo); Laudate pueri (Primo); Chi vol che This interactive music-making m’innamori; Dixit Dominus (Secondo) a 8 workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to To celebrate the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth, The meet some exciting instruments Sixteen and Harry Christophers continue their exploration of up close, led by our experienced the composer’s Selva morale e spirituale, his vast anthology of Chamber Tots music leaders sacred works published in Venice between 1640 and 1641. The alongside emerging ensembles. programme opens with a dramatic setting of Psalm 112, Beatus vir, and includes the joyful double-choir polyphony of Dixit Dominus 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & and the majestic Gloria for seven voices. 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) Approximately 1 hour in duration £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Children £6 Adults £4

Thursday 26 October Friday 27 October Friday 27 October 7.30pm 10.30am – 3.30pm 7.30pm

Benjamin Appl baritone Family Day: Max Raabe singer Graham Johnson piano Soundscapes and Christoph Israel piano Lieder vom Orient – Songs from Landscapes A Night in Berlin the East We invite families with children Schubert Die Liebe hat gelogen; aged 5 and over to join artists The forces of creativity and Du liebst mich nicht D756; and musicians to collect musical destruction raged during the Lachen und Weinen; Dass sie hier and visual ingredients from the short-lived Weimar Republic. gewesen; Du bist die Ruh galleries of The Wallace Collection, Max Raabe, founder of the Palast Brahms 9 Lieder und Gesänge before mixing them together at Orchester, makes a welcome Op. 32 Wigmore Hall to create their own return to Wigmore Hall to bring Schumann Aus den östlichen original work of musical art! the biting satire of Berlin’s cabaret Rosen; Freisinn; Die Lotosblume; scene back to life. The German singer mines the Weimar legacy of Aus den hebräischen Gesängen; Children £12 Adults £16 Belsazar ‘Gassenhauer’ or ‘alley hits’, tunes In partnership with The Wallace Loewe Alles ist eitel, spricht der picked up instantly and sung in the Collection Prediger streets. He and Christoph Israel Wolf Sonne der Schlummerlosen; also revive movie melodies such Nun wandre, Maria; Epiphanias as Marlene Dietrich’s ‘Ich bin von Cornelius Die Könige Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt’, Strauss Die heiligen drei Könige best known as ‘Falling in love aus Morgenland again’, and tragi-comic numbers from the turbulent early 1930s. Benjamin Appl has been described by Gramophone as ‘the current £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 front-runner in the new generation of Lieder singers’. He joins forces with Graham Johnson to explore the influence of the orient on Romantic poetry and song.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Nash Ensemble: Nash Ensemble: The French Connection The French Connection Saturday 28 October Saturday 28 October Sunday 29 October 6.00pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Pre-Concert Talk Nash Ensemble Steven Isserlis cello Jonathan Cross, Professor of Ian Brown piano Olli Mustonen piano Musicology at the University Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Prokofiev Ballade in C minor Op. 15 of Oxford, explores the music Patricia Routledge reciter Olli Mustonen Chanson Russe et of Stravinsky and his French Debussy Sonata for flute, viola Danse Oriental contemporaries. and harp Kabalevsky Cello Sonata in B flat Stravinsky 3 Movements from Op. 71 Free (ticket required) Petrushka Ravel Introduction and Allegro Celebrated for his profound Chabrier Trois valses musicianship and technical romantiques; Habanera; España mastery, Steven Isserlis joins Saint-Saëns Tarantelle in A minor forces with Finnish pianist and Op. 6 composer Olli Mustonen for this Saint-Saëns Tarantelle in A minor Coffee Concert. At the heart of Op. 6; Le carnaval des animaux the recital lie two evocative and for two pianos and ensemble characterful pieces by Mustonen. with reciter £15 concs £13 incl. programme Debussy’s Sonata and Ravel’s and coffee/sherry/juice Introduction and Allegro flank a vivid suite from Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Chabrier piano duos and a brilliant woodwind showpiece by Saint-Saëns provide a suitable prelude to the latter’s much-loved Carnival of the Animals, introduced by actress Patricia Routledge speaking the verses of Ogden Nash.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Sunday 29 October Monday 30 October 7.30pm 1.00pm

Jordi Savall viola da gamba Florilegium Hespèrion XXI Telemann Quartet in B minor from the Paris Quartets (1738 Istanbul Collection) Dimitrie Cantemir: The Book of the Science of Music Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1038 Cantemir Uzzäl uşūleş Darb-i feth No. 209 Rameau Suite in D minor No. 5 Trad La rosa enflorece – Maciço de rosas; Alagyeaz tsar; Khnki tsar from Pièces de clavecin en concerts Cantemir Hüseynī Semâ’î No. 268 Rebel Les caractères de la danse Trad Hisar Ağir Semai; Ta xyla; Çeçen kızı; Ene Sarére Cantemir Uzzäl Sakîl ‘Turna’ Semâ’î No. 324 Florilegium, ensemble in residence Trad Paxarico tu te llamas; Al aylukhs at Wigmore Hall from 1998 to Cantemir Räst ‘Murass’a’ uşūleş Düyek No. 214 2000, is known for the vital energy Trad Hermoza muchachica; O’h intsh anush; Koniali; Una pastora and captivating intensity of its Cantemir Hüseynī Sakīl-i Ağa Rıżā period-instrument performances of Baroque music. The group’s Hespérion XXI and its Spanish-Catalan founder Jordi Savall lunchtime programme includes continue to remove barriers between musical traditions and evoke chamber works that reflect the past creative collaborations. Their latest Wigmore Hall programme profound influence of French arises from venerable Turkish, Armenian and Sephardic works music on German composers preserved in The Book of the Science of Music by Dimitrie Cantemir and also embraces the (1673–1723), a polyglot Moldavian soldier who became a virtuoso contrapuntal complexities of on the tanbur, the long-necked lute favoured at the Ottoman Bach’s Trio Sonata in G. court in Istanbul. The multi-national ensemble’s concert includes haunting laments and pulsating dance songs. £15 concs £13

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Tuesday 31 October Wednesday 1 November Thursday 2 November 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Elias String Quartet Augustin Dumay violin Chamber Tots In Beethoven’s Footsteps Louis Lortie piano Fireworks Webern Langsamer Satz Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 minor Op. 108 Join us to make some musical Brahms String Quartet in A minor Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat fireworks in this interactive Op. 51 No. 2 Op. 18 music making workshop for Franck Sonata in A for violin and children aged 1 to 5 and their Webern’s intensely romantic piano parents or carers. Sing, dance, Langsamer Satz was inspired play percussion and meet some by a hiking holiday taken by the Two outstanding artists join exciting instruments up close, composer and his fiancée in the forces in a programme of alongside our experienced foothills of the Austrian Alps. masterworks for violin and piano, Chamber Tots music leaders and Shot through with resonances crowned by Franck’s radiant emerging ensembles. of Beethoven, this programme is Sonata in A, written in 1886 as a completed with Bartók’s Fourth wedding present for the virtuoso 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & String Quartet and Brahms’s Op. violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. Augustin 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) 51 No. 2, two works distinguished Dumay and Louis Lortie open Approximately 1 hour in duration by their thematic unity and with one Brahms’s most lyrical allusions to folk music. compositions before charting Children £6 Adults £4 the romantic course of Strauss’s £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 youthful Violin Sonata in E flat.

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Thursday 2 November Friday 3 November Saturday 4 November 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

James Gilchrist tenor Miah Persson soprano Chamber Tots Anna Tilbrook piano Malcolm Martineau piano Fireworks Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Haydn The Mermaid’s song; The Jonathan Dove Under Alter’d Wanderer; Pastoral Song; She Join us to make some musical Skies* (world première) never told her love; O tuneful voice fireworks in this interactive Schumann Dichterliebe Mozart An Chloe; Das Veilchen; music making workshop for children aged 1 to 5 and their *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the Dans un bois solitaire; Als Luise die support of André Hoffmann, president of the Briefe ihres ungetreuen Liebhabers parents or carers. Sing, dance, Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making verbrannte; Abendempfindung; Un play percussion and meet some foundation moto di gioia exciting instruments up close, alongside our experienced James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook Swedish soprano Miah Persson Chamber Tots music leaders and have developed their reading of scored rave reviews for her emerging ensembles. Schumann’s Dichterliebe over interpretation of the Governess in many performances and hours of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & work in rehearsal. They return to La Scala last October, hailed by 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) the composer’s Heine settings in the Financial Times for making ‘this Approximately 1 hour in duration a special programme, celebrating production tick … without once twenty years of their artistic leaving the stage’. Her charismatic Children £6 Adults £4 collaboration, which also includes artistry is equally compelling in the Vaughan Williams’s evocative first song repertoire, explored through song cycle and a new work by the course of this recital in Royal Philharmonic Society Award company with Malcolm Martineau. winner Jonathan Dove, based on poems from Tennyson’s In Memoriam. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

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Saturday 4 November Sunday 5 November Sunday 5 November 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello Leonore Piano Trio Cédric Tiberghien piano Inon Barnatan piano Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Op. 80 Philippe Hersant In Black minor Op. 38 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello and piano The Leonore Piano Trio was In high demand worldwide Steven Mackey Through Your formed in 2012 by three members for the poetic eloquence and Fingers* (UK première) of Sheffield-based Ensemble 360 artistic refinement of his playing, Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F in response to critical acclaim for Cédric Tiberghien returns to Op. 99 their piano trio performances. Wigmore Hall with a typically The group presents a programme rich and colourful programme, *Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André that includes Ravel’s beautiful as cornerstones of the repertoire Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Piano Trio in A minor of 1913–14 by Musorgsky and Prokofiev Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation and Schumann’s Second Piano bookend his exploration of Philippe Trio, a work of genial warmth and Hersant’s In Black. Steven Mackey’s art embraces melodic richness. his long experience as a rock £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 guitarist and passion for creative £15 concs £13 incl. programme spontaneity and improvisation. and coffee/sherry/juice Through Your Fingers takes its inspiration from the dynamic intensity of Alisa Weilerstein’s playing and the energy she generates in recital with Inon Barnatan. The work’s UK première is framed by early and late Brahms, and the sparkling Suite italienne from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.

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Monday 6 November Tuesday 7 November Wednesday 8 November 1.00pm 1.00pm 11.00am and 12.30pm

Eivind Holtsmark Alina Ibragimova violin For Crying Out Loud! Ringstad viola Il Pomo d’Oro The Abingdon Quintet David Meier piano M Haydn Violin Concerto in G Hear outstanding performances Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 MH52 Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 10 in B by musicians from the Royal Hindemith Sonata for viola and Academy of Music, in these piano Op. 11 No. 4 minor for strings; Violin Concerto in D minor concerts presented especially for Ysaÿe Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. parents or carers and babies under 27 No. 3 ‘Ballade’ (arr. for viola) Alina Ibragimova has established 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and Paganini La Campanella (arr. accommodating environment. Primrose) a reputation as one of the most accomplished and intriguing Approximately 45 minutes in duration Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad, born in violinists of her generation. She is 1994, is fast emerging among the joined by period ensemble Il Pomo Adult £8.50 (babies come free) leading viola soloists and chamber d’Oro for this lunchtime recital, musicians of his generation. The with a programme charting the young musician became a BBC evolution and survival of familiar Radio 3 New Generation Artist in musical styles, embracing an early 2016 and makes his Wigmore Hall violin concerto by Haydn and debut with a captivating programme beloved works by Mendelssohn. complete with an arrangement by the great violist William Primrose, £15 concs £13 who first performed at Wigmore Hall in his late teens. Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

£15 concs £13

Haydn String Quartet Series Wednesday 8 November Thursday 9 November 7.30pm 7.30pm

Doric String Quartet Samling Showcase Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 Lauren Fagan soprano Rowan Pierce soprano No. 4; String Quartet in F minor Bianca Andrew mezzo-soprano Nicky Spence tenor Op. 20 No. 5; String Quartet in A Milan Siljanov bass-baritone James Baillieu piano Op. 20 No. 6 Ian Tindale piano Actor to be announced Seasons in the Mind of Men Haydn’s ‘Sun Quartets’, named after the rising sun decoration Schubert An den Frühling; Frühlingsglaube; Am Bach im printed on the cover of their first Frühling; Frühlingslied; Der Winterabend Mendelssohn edition in 1772, underlined the Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein Schumann Liebesgarten Brahms composer’s status as a master Sommerabend; Herbstgefühl Wolf Nun ist es Herbst, die Blätter of the genre. As part of Wigmore fallen Strauss September; Winterweihe; Winterliebe Vaughan Hall’s Haydn String Quartet Series, Williams Silent Noon Butterworth Bredon Hill Warlock The the Doric String Quartet unlocks cricketers of Hambledon; Autumn Twilight Beach Ah, love, but a the full ‘Storm and Stress’ energy day Quilter Autumn Evening; It was a lover and his lass Britten and impassioned intensity of Autumn; At day-close in November Argento Winter Head Love’s Op. 20 Nos. 4–6. lament Ireland Spring sorrow Gurney Spring Monckton Charming weather Kern All the Things You Are Novello We’ll gather lilacs £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Beginning and ending with Spring, Samling’s annual showcase With grateful thanks to the Haydn explores the transience and beauty of the natural world through String Quartet Circle the seasons. A gathering of Samling Artists from over the years present mankind’s response in song and spoken word.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Dine with the artists

There are a limited number of tickets for best concert seats with a special post-concert sparkling reception and supper with the artists, priced at £95. Available exclusively from Samling on 01434 602885 or by email to [email protected].

Friday 10 November Sunday 12 November Monday 13 November 7.30pm 11.30am 1.00pm

Florian Boesch baritone Tamsin Waley-Cohen Gabriela Montero piano Justus Zeyen piano violin Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Schubert Im Walde (D708); Auf Huw Watkins piano Shostakovich Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor Op. 61 der Brücke; Der Pilgrim Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 in Gabriela Montero Improvisations Wolf Verborgenheit; Gesang G Op. 30 No. 3 Weylas; Auf ein altes Bild; Brahms Scherzo in C minor from Gabriela Montero’s ability to Denk’ es, o Seele!; Schlafendes F-A-E Sonata (Sonatensatz) improvise complex pieces in Jesuskind; Gebet Janáček Violin Sonata the moment enhances her Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G interpretations of existing compositions. The Venezuelan With his passion for poetry and Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, pianist displays spontaneity and commitment to characterful lauded by The Strad for her ‘potent freedom of expression as part expression, Florian Boesch ranks rhetorical style’, and composer and of a lunchtime programme among the world’s foremost pianist Huw Watkins enjoy a duo that also includes Schumann’s Lieder singers. His contributions partnership tempered by their long ‘Childhood Scenes’ and the to Wigmore Hall’s Schubert song experience together in concert and searing intensity of Shostakovich’s series scored five-star reviews and the recording studio. This concert Second Piano Sonata. strengthened his connection to the marks the release of their latest venue’s audience. He and Justus CD release on the Signum label. Zeyen, a lion among Lieder pianists, £15 concs £13 offer a scintillating programme £15 concs £13 incl. programme including Schumann’s emotionally and coffee/sherry/juice powerful Eichendorff Liederkreis.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Sunday 12 November Monday 13 November 7.30pm 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Takács Quartet See page 58 Louise Williams viola See page 58

Saturday 11 November 7.30pm Kirill Gerstein piano

Bach 4 Duettos from Clavier-Ubung (Book III) BWV802-805 Debussy Préludes Book I Chopin Waltzes: A flat Op. 42; E minor Op. posth.; F Op. 34 No. 3 Thomas Adès Mazurkas Schumann Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 14

‘One seldom sees an audience erupt with such spontaneous delight,’ observed the Independent following Kirill Gerstein’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at the 2016 BBC Proms. The Russian-born American pianist’s compelling musicianship, richly informed by his experience as a classical and jazz performer, was recognised in 2010 when he became the sixth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award. Gerstein’s latest Wigmore Hall programme runs the wide gamut of his musical interests, spanning everything from Bach’s four enigmatic Duets from the Clavier-Übung III, to the Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 14, written while the young Schumann was suffering the pain of separation from his beloved Clara Wieck.

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Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Sunday 12 November 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Mozart String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’ Carl Vine New work (European première) Brahms String Quartet in B flat Op. 67

Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists pair the first of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets, a composition written with the chamber music-loving, cello-playing Frederick the Great in mind, with a new work by the Australian composer Carl Vine. The folk-inspired melodies and soaring lyricism of Brahms’s third string quartet occupy the concert’s second half.

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15

Monday 13 November 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Louise Williams viola Mozart String Quartet in B flat K589 ‘Prussian’ Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F minor Op. 122 Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in B flat Op. 87

It’s hard to believe that Mozart was only thirty-four when he composed his second ‘Prussian’ Quartet, such is its maturity and depth of invention. The Takács Quartet places it alongside Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 11, a profoundly reflective work written while its composer was recovering from a heart attack. Louise Williams joins the ensemble after the interval in Mendelssohn’s dramatic Second String Quintet.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Saturday 19 May 7.30pm with Louise Williams viola and Pál Banda cello

Repeated Monday 21 May 7.30pm with Louise Williams viola and Pál Banda cello www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 59

Tuesday 14 November 7.30pm Elīna Garanča mezzo-soprano

Malcolm Martineau piano Schumann From Myrthen: Widmung; Der Nußbaum; Jemand; Lied der Braut I & II Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Mahler Rückert Lieder

Elīna Garanča invests everything she performs with elements of her personality and experience of life. The Latvian mezzo-soprano recently reflected on her approach to making music in an acclaimed autobiography, in which she credited wearing the right shoes as key to freeing her soul and allowing her voice to soar in performance. She joins Malcolm Martineau in a programme shot through with big emotions and expressive contrasts, moving from the songs of Myrthen, Schumann’s wedding gift to his wife, Clara, to Mahler’s transcendent Rückert Lieder by way of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, written while the composer was at work on his opera Tristan und Isolde.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series

Thursday 16 November Friday 17 November Friday 17 November 11.00am – 12 noon 12.15pm 1.00pm

Schools Concert: Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia London Jazz Festival Nik Bärtsch piano The winner of OPUS2017 Key Stage 3 Schools Concert discusses their new work with Swiss composer Nik Bärtsch’s Dr Kate Kennedy. music has been praised by The New We join forces with the EFG London York Times for seamlessly blending Jazz Festival for this interactive Free to concert ticket holders ‘the hypnotic shifting textures of schools concert exploring jazz from (separate ticket required) post-modernism with a precision around the world. The performance, groove honed in the spirit of featuring internationally renowned James Brown’. He has curated this musicians, is designed to support programme setting his latest work and extend the Key Stage 3 for ensemble alongside a new piece curriculum. from the winner of OPUS2017, Britten Sinfonia’s competition for Children £4 unpublished composers. Adults Free (ticket required) In partnership with EFG London £15 concs £13 Jazz Festival This concert is part of the 2017 EFG London Jazz Festival

Wednesday 15 November 7.30pm Joshua Bell director, violin Academy of St Martin in the Fields Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 Mozart Violin Concerto in B flat No. 1 K207; Violin Concerto in A No. 5 K219

Renowned for his impassioned music-making, restless curiosity and multi-faceted musical interests, Joshua Bell stands among today’s great violinists. In 2011 the musicians of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chose him to succeed the famous chamber orchestra’s founder Sir Neville Marriner as its Music Director. Their collaboration has flourished since, earning rave reviews and reaching audiences worldwide. Bell and the ASMF return to Wigmore Hall to explore the logic, clarity and beauty of Mozart’s violin concertos.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Repeated Friday 17 November 7.30pm

Friday 17 November Saturday 18 November Sunday 19 November 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon 11.30am

Joshua Bell director, violin Family Concert: Eric Le Sage piano Academy of St Martin London Jazz Festival Schumann Davidsbündlertänze in the Fields For ages 5 plus Op. 6 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études) Repeat of concert on 15 November We welcome back the EFG London Jazz Festival in a dynamic concert Schumann’s quicksilver £60 £50 £40 £30 £15 for families with children aged 5 and over, in which we explore personality, subject to fleeting exciting new sounds from across changes and revelatory emotional the genre alongside internationally outbursts, flows through the works renowned musicians. in Eric Le Sage’s programme. The composer’s rational and romantic sides surface in Children £10 Adults £12 Davidsbündlertänze, an early In partnership with the EFG work inspired in part by his love London Jazz Festival for Clara Wieck, and the Études symphoniques, a collection of contrasting variations performed complete with the five posthumous Études published in 1890.

Saturday 18 November £15 concs £13 incl. programme 6.00pm & 7.30pm and coffee/sherry/juice James Ehnes See page 64

James Ehnes: Bach Violin Works In his career’s early years James Ehnes attracted international attention with his recording of Bach’s ‘Sei Solo’, the six sonatas and partitas for violin. He has returned to the works many times over the past two decades. The Canadian artist, who recently turned forty, continues to develop his special relationship with these supremely inventive, utterly perfect compositions.

Saturday 18 November Saturday 18 November 6.00pm 7.30pm

Artists in Conversation James Ehnes violin Renowned violinist James Ehnes Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor discusses his life as a performer for solo violin BWV1001; Partita and the weekend programme. No. 1 in B minor for solo violin BWV1002; Sonata No. 3 in C for £5 solo violin BWV1005

Bach completed his six sonatas and partitas for solo violin in 1720 at Cöthen. The pieces crown a great tradition of German violin music, transcending existing models to create works of compelling musical interest and jaw-dropping technical demands. James Ehnes, acclaimed for his probing musicianship and virtuosity, explores the full range of Bach’s invention in two concerts over the course of one weekend.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concert in this Series Sunday 19 November 7.30pm

James Ehnes: Bach Violin Works Sunday 19 November Sunday 19 November Monday 20 November 3.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Ludwig Mittelhammer James Ehnes violin Meccore String Quartet baritone Bach Partita No. 3 in E for solo Szymanowski String Quartet No. 1 Jonathan Ware piano violin BWV1006; Sonata No. 2 in in C Op. 37 A minor for solo violin BWV1003; Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Schubert Auf der Brücke; Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ Im Frühling; Der Knabe; Der violin BWV1004 Schmetterling; Der Einsame; Die Poland’s Meccore String Quartet, Gebüsche; Der Wanderer; An Bach, according to one of his sons, acclaimed for its recent recording den Mond; An den Mond in einer ‘played the violin with a pure and of works by Debussy and Herbstnacht penetrating tone [and] perfectly Szymanowski, has cemented its Wolf From Mörike Lieder: understood all the possibilities of status among the finest young Fußreise; Der Knabe und the violin family’. The composer quartets since its prize-winning das Immlein; Der Jäger; Der set the highest technical hurdles success in the 2012 Wigmore Tambour; An eine Äolsharfe; for performers of his solo sonatas Hall International String Quartet Der Feuerreiter; Gesang Weylas; and partitas. James Ehnes is sure Competition. The ensemble Storchenbotschaft to apply the grace and ease of his returns to the Hall and turns its artistry to the polyphonic textures trademark energy and commitment Ludwig Mittelhammer, winner of and exacting demands of Bach’s to scores governed by a rare the 2014 ‘Hugo Wolf’ International violin masterworks. combination of introspection and Art Song Competition, is currently exuberance. a member of the Opera Studio at £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Frankfurt Opera. The formidably £15 concs £13 talented young baritone, born in Munich in 1988, makes his Wigmore Hall debut with a programme constructed to encompass his full range of vocal nuance and project his heartfelt expressive artistry.

All seats £15

Monday 20 November Wednesday 22 November Thursday 23 November 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Philippe Cassard piano Jonathan Biss piano Hagen Quartet Debussy Perspectives III: Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor Beethoven String Quartet in C ‘Debussy danse…’ K310 minor Op. 18 No. 4 Debussy Valse romantique; La Kirchner Interlude II Webern Fünf Sätze Op. 5 plus que lente Chopin Waltz in D Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in Schumann String Quartet in A flat Op. 70 No. 3 Grieg Troldtog D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Op. 41 No. 3 from Lyric Pieces Op. 54 No. 3 Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Chabrier Scherzo-valse Satie DiePresse.com hit the mark when Je te veux Massenet Valse folle Over the past decade, Jonathan it described the Hagen Quartet Debussy Danseuses de Delphes; Biss has developed a strong bond as ‘The pinnacle of musicality’! Serenade for the Doll; Les fées with Wigmore Hall’s audience, The Austrian ensemble, founded sont d’exquises danseuses; Danse attracting an eager following in 1981, upholds standards of de la poupée; Ronde générale; to his strikingly imaginative tonal blend and beauty, intonation Menuet & Passepied from Suite interpretations and compelling and expressive communication bergamasque; Pour le piano; programmes. The American matched by few others. The Fête galante (transcr. Cassard); pianist returns to perform group’s latest Wigmore Hall Tarentelle styrienne; Masques; Leon Kirchner’s Interlude II, programme reflects its close Pour les sonorités opposées; Pour commissioned for him in 2003 association with the Viennese les octaves. by the BBC and the Royal Classics and profound feeling for Philharmonic Society, in company Romantic repertoire. Dance held a lifelong fascination with three works shaped by for Debussy, reflected in everything emotional turbulence and tragedy. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 from ‘Serenade for the Doll’ to the flamboyant ‘Tarentelle styrienne’. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 This programme sets the composer’s keyboard dances in context, offering fresh perspectives on the waltz as a concert piece and linking Debussy to Chopin, Chabrier and Satie.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Thursday 23 November 1.00pm Christian Gerhaher baritone

James Cheung piano Britten Proverbs 1 – 7 from Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Brahms Wir wandelten; Meerfahrt; Verzagen; Über die Heide; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht Schubert From Schwanengesang: Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger

Christian Gerhaher prefaces Schubert’s six revelatory settings of poems by Heinrich Heine from Schwanengesang with a selection of songs that show the sensitivity, spiritual insight and refinement of Brahms’s writing for solo voice and piano. His unmissable lunchtime programme includes the potent imagery and allusions of ‘Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht’ and cruel irony and haunting conclusion of ‘Meerfahrt’. Britten created his Songs and Proverbs of William Blake for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with whom Gerhaher studied in masterclass sessions. In turn James Cheung chose to concentrate on song accompaniment after attending a masterclass given by Christian Gerhaher at Snape Maltings. Approximately 1 hour in duration (no interval)

£15 concs £13

Friday 24 November Saturday 25 November Sunday 26 November 3.00pm – 4.00pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Music for the Moment Vadim Gluzman violin Trio Isimsiz A concert for people living with Johannes Moser cello Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor dementia and their friends, family Op. 1 No. 3 Yevgeny Sudbin piano and carers Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in Schubert Notturno in E flat D897 C minor Op. 66 If you are, or someone you know Babadjanian Piano Trio is, living with dementia, please Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Formed at the Guildhall School of join us for this informal afternoon Op. 50 Music & Drama in 2009, the Trio concert with musicians from the Isimsiz captured first prize and Royal Academy of Music. You are Three outstanding soloists and the audience prize at the 2015 warmly invited to join us for tea chamber musicians, acclaimed for Trondheim International Chamber and coffee from 2.30pm. their virtuosity and high-octane Music Competition. The rising- musicianship, unite as a dream- star piano trio marks its Wigmore Free (ticket required) team piano trio. They open with Hall debut with two inspired Schubert’s Notturno, a sublime works in C minor, Beethoven’s In partnership with the Royal Academy late masterwork, and include Arno forward-looking Op. 1 No. 3 and of Music and Westminster Arts Babadjanian’s dramatic Piano Mendelssohn’s late Piano Trio No. Trio of 1952. Their programme 2 Op. 66. concludes with the breath-taking lyricism and entrancing virtuosity of £15 concs £13 incl. programme Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor. and coffee/sherry/juice Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT

Friday 24 November 7.30pm Joyce DiDonato Masterclass

Reflections on the light and dark of human nature and a desire to elevate mankind’s creative spirit belong to Joyce DiDonato’s concerns as an artist, qualities that have given an extra dimension to her interpretations of everything from the simplest of songs to spectacular bel canto arias. She is set to share her insights and experiences in a masterclass with postgraduate singers and pianists from London music colleges, part of her commitment to the next generation of musicians and audiences. Approximately two hours in duration (with interval)

All seats £20

Sunday 26 November 7.30pm Philippe Jaroussky countertenor Ensemble Artaserse Programme to include: Handel Overture from Radamisto; Son pur felice… Bel contento from Flavio; Son stanco… Deggio morire, o stelle from Siroe; Se potessero i sospir miei from Imeneo; Vieni, d’empietà mostro... Vile! Se mi dai vita from Radamisto; Che mi chiama alla gloria?... Se parla nel mio cor from Giustino; Inhumano fratel… Stil amare from Tolomeo; Ombra cara di mia sposa from Radamisto; Privarmi ancora… Rompo i lacci from Flavio

Wigmore Hall has become a favourite venue for Philippe Jaroussky, an intimate stage where the superstar countertenor can communicate his compelling artistry and dare to take vocal risks. His work with Ensemble Artaserse, showered with recording awards and five- star reviews, continues with an all-Handel programme fuelled by Baroque ideals of vocal display, the clear and powerful expression of distinct emotions, and the creation of drama through music. The spotlight falls on dazzling arias from such little-known operas as Flavio, a satire on human fantasies, the King Lear-like Siroe, and Tolomeo, a compelling tale of political intrigue, love, lust and revenge.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15

Monday 27 November Tuesday 28 November Wednesday 29 November 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Andrei Ioniţă cello Soloists of the London The English Concert Itamar Golan piano Philharmonic Orchestra Robert Quinney director, Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Dvořák String Sextet in A Op. 48 harpsichord, organ BWV1007 Schubert Octet in F D803 Choir of New College Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D Oxford minor Op. 40 The Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra open Blow Chaconne in G; O sing unto Andrei Ioniţă seized first prize at this concert with Dvořák’s the Lord the 2015 International Tchaikovsky sonorous String Sextet, a work Purcell Chacony in G minor Z730; Competition in Moscow with infused with the rich spirit of Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode a towering final performance Slavonic folk music that the Czech for St. Cecilia’s Day) Z339 of Shostakovich’s First Cello composer held dear to his heart. Handel Organ Concerto in F Op. 4 Concerto. The Romanian artist, It offers a fascinating contrast to No. 4 HWV292 recently hailed by The Times as Schubert’s Octet, his largest scale Bach Komm, Jesu, Komm! ‘one of the most exciting cellists chamber work, overflowing with BWV229; Du Friedefürst, Herr to have emerged for a decade’, sublime melodies. Jesu Christ BWV116 makes his Wigmore Hall debut. Andrei Ioniţă is a member of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 The English Concert continues BBC Radio 3’s New Generation its new partnership with organist Artists scheme Robert Quinney and The Choir of New College Oxford, celebrating £15 concs £13 not only the recent festivities of St Cecilia’s day with Purcell’s wonderful Welcome to all the pleasures, but the imminent start of advent with Bach’s cantata Du Monday 27 November Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ. 7.30pm £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Roderick Williams baritone Iain Burnside piano See page 72 © TVW 72 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Roderick Williams: Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles

Invited by Wigmore Hall to perform Schubert’s three Monday 27 November great song cycles for the first time in his career, 7.30pm Roderick Williams set about sharing the process of discovery and learning with students at the Guildhall. The baritone, winner of the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Roderick Williams baritone Society Singer Award, journeys through Schubert’s Iain Burnside piano vast emotional landscapes and diverse spiritual Schubert Die schöne Müllerin states together with his long-standing duo partner, Iain Burnside. In the summer of 1823 Schubert discovered a new volume of verse by Wilhelm Müller and was immediately inspired to set its sequence of poems as his first song cycle. Die schöne Müllerin recounts the unhappy tale of a young apprentice’s love for a miller’s daughter. The work charts the tragic course of his rejection, despair and suicide. Approximately 1 hours 15 minutes in duration (no interval)

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Thursday 29 March 2018 7.30pm Winterreise

Wednesday 16 May 2018 7.30pm Schwanengesang

Thursday 30 November Saturday 2 December Sunday 3 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Ning Feng violin Imogen Cooper piano Cyprien Katsaris piano Daniel Müller-Schott cello Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33 Mozart Fantasia in C minor K396 Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:35 Igor Levit piano HXVI:20 Schubert Klavierstück in E flat Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B Beethoven Variations on ‘La D946 No. 2 flat D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in E stessa la stessissima’ WoO. 73 Schubert (transcr. Liszt) flat D929 Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible Ständchen; Ave Maria Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Schubert Ländler Suite: Igor Levit, fresh from his A flat Op. 110 selections from 17 Ländler D366, acclaimed survey of Beethoven’s 12 Ländler D790 & 12 Deutsche complete piano sonatas at Imogen Cooper’s searching Tänze D420 Wigmore Hall last season, joins interpretations, praised by Johann Strauss II Wiener Blut forces with two outstanding string Gramophone for their ‘imaginative Op. 354 (paraphrase by Eduard players in Schubert’s late piano freedom’ and ‘balance of sense Schütt) trios. ‘One glance at Schubert’s and sensibility’, reveal hidden Trio (D898)’, wrote Robert facets in even the most familiar The generous spirit of popular Schumann, ‘and the troubles of works. Her latest Wigmore Hall song and dance flows through our existence disappear and all the programme travels from the Cyprien Katsaris’s ear-catching world is fresh and bright again’. classical poise of early Beethoven choice of compositions, present and the heft of Haydn’s C minor in everything from the simple £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Piano Sonata to the remarkable charm of Haydn’s Piano Sonata With grateful thanks to the invention of Beethoven’s Piano No. 35 and Schubert’s lyrical Season Benefactors Sonata No. 31. late Klavierstück in E flat to Liszt’s dazzling transcription £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 of Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’. The Friday 1 December programme opens with Mozart’s 7.30pm sublime Fantasia in C minor K396.

L’Arpeggiata £15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice See page 74

Friday 1 December 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Giuseppina Bridelli mezzo-soprano Rossi From Il palazzo incantato: Sinfonia; Vaghi Rivi; Dove mi spingi, amor; Sol per breve momento; Ballo Rossi From Orfeo: Mio ben, teco il tormento; Dal imperio d’amore; Dormite, begl’occhi; Lasciate, Averno Rossi Begl’occhi, che dite; Gelosia ch’a poco a poco; Se dolente e flebil cetra; Questo piccolo rio; La bella più bella; Al soave spirar d’aure serene

Luigi Rossi made his name as a musician in Rome under the patronage of Antonio Barberini, crown-cardinal protector of France. Christina Pluhar’s ensemble L’Arpeggiata and Giuseppina Bridelli summon up the supernatural world of Il palazzo incantato before exploring the composer’s second and final opera Orfeo, staged in Paris in 1647 under Cardinal Mazarin’s protection, and a sequence of impassioned arias from Rossi’s chamber cantatas.

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Monday 4 December Monday 4 December Wednesday 6 December 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Céline Moinet oboe The Cardinall’s Musick Chamber Tots Florian Uhlig piano Andrew Carwood director On the Train R Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Palestrina Missa Hodie Christus Nielsen 2 Fantasy Pieces Op. 2 natus est All aboard the music train! We C Schumann 3 Romances Op. 22 Anonymous Gaudete; Hail Mary invite children aged 1 to 5 and R Schumann Abendlied Op. 85 full of grace; Queen Pastores; their parents/carers to join us No. 12 Salutation Carol for this interactive music-making Pasculli Concerto on ‘La Favorita’ Palestrina Hodie Christus natus est workshop featuring songs, by Donizetti Handl Mirabile mysterium percussion and the chance to Pygott Quid petis O fili meet some exciting instruments Advances in manufacturing Victoria Ecce Dominus veniet up close, led by our experienced technology and developments in Dunstable Speciosa facta est Chamber Tots music leaders musical taste brought change to Byrd Lullaby, my sweet little baby alongside emerging ensembles. the oboe in the first half of the Praetorius Magnificat quinti toni 19th Century. The instrument 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & gained additional keys and a new The Cardinall’s Musick presents a 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) repertoire of chamber and solo programme of sacred works from Approximately 1 hour in duration pieces. Céline Moinet, principal England and Europe before and oboe of Dresden Staatskapelle after the Reformation. Although Children £6 Adults £4 since 2008, explores the Romantic almost 150 years separate era’s oboe revolution from Dunstable’s motet Speciosa facta Tuesday 5 December Pasculli’s virtuosic Concerto to est and Byrd’s consort song, 7.30pm the lyrical Romances of Clara and Lullaby, my sweet little baby, the Robert Schumann. two pieces share a serenity that connects with the simple beauty of Christian Tetzlaffviolin £15 concs £13 Palestrina’s Christmas Mass. Lars Vogt piano See page 78 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

IN THE COMMUNITY

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity Saturday 2 December to make music, no matter their background or situation. 3.00pm – 4.00pm Music in Hospitals uses music as a tool to improve wellbeing and community cohesion with young people in hospital settings across West London. Wigmore Relaxed Concert: Zoë Martlew Hall Learning and its Associate Artists, Ignite, have Our relaxed concerts are open to everyone and been engaging children and young people at Chelsea are specifically designed to welcome people who Community Hospital School (CCHS) in creative music- will benefit from a more relaxed performance making activities since 2008. CCHS delivers education environment, including people with Autism Spectrum for children and young people aged four to eighteen Disorders, sensory and communication disorders, while they are in hospital. and learning disabilities. There is a relaxed attitude to In partnership with teaching staff, we lead creative noise and movement, and house lights will remain up. music-making activity to enable young people across Audience members are able to move in and out of the CCHS’s four hospital sites to take part in inspiring auditorium as they need to, and there is a designated music projects alongside professional musicians, quiet area. in order to build social inclusion and a sense of Join dynamic cellist and composer Zoë Martlew for a community, and improve their experience of being in diverse programme of music written for cello. hospital as well as their wellbeing. £5

Nash Ensemble: Schubert: The Complete Songs The French Connection Wednesday 6 December Friday 8 December Saturday 9 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.00pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Early Opera Company Nash Ensemble Julius Drake piano Christian Curnyn director Stephanie Gonley violin Programme to include: Charpentier In nativitatem Domini Adrian Brendel cello Schubert Wandrers Nachtlied canticum; Messe de minuit pour Ian Brown piano I; Im Frühling; Der Tod und das Noël; Te Deum Boulanger D’un soir triste; D’un Mädchen; Erlkönig; Litanei auf matin de printemps das Fest aller Seelen; An Silvia; Join Early Opera Company for a Ravel Pièce en forme d’Habanera Ganymed; Im Abendrot; Der festive concert featuring three of (arr. for cello and piano) Zwerg; Abendstern; Nacht und Charpentier’s most popular works. Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Träume; Frühlingsglaube; Seligkeit; The exquisite Messe de minuit pour Stravinsky Suite italienne for Rastlose Liebe; Ständchen from Noël uses traditional Christmas cello and piano Schwanengesang; Du bist die Ruh; carols in a unique setting of the Sei mir gegrüsst; Der Musensohn; Midnight Mass liturgy, and the A pair of atmospheric trio pieces Lachen und Weinen; Auf dem Pastoral In nativitatem recounts the by the short-lived Lili Boulanger Wasser zu singen; Wandrers very night of Jesus’s birth. The is followed by three duos: a Nachtlied II; An den Mond (D296) celebratory Te Deum is a joyous Spanish-style miniature by Ravel; explosion of colour, featuring the Debussy’s last work, the masterly Big emotions and entrancing famous ‘Marche en Rondeau’. Violin Sonata; and Stravinsky’s melodies resound across Alice Suite Italienne, a transcription Coote’s Schubert recital. The great £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 of movements from his time- British mezzo-soprano, whose travelling ballet Pulcinella. performances have been described by The Times as ‘breathtaking Thursday 7 December All seats £3 in [their] sheer conviction and 7.30pm subtlety of perception’, is joined by her regular duo partner, Daniil Trifonov piano Julius Drake, in a programme See page 80 that includes the exuberance and energy of such early masterworks as ‘Rastlose Liebe’ and ‘Erlkönig’.

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Christian Tetzlaff Focus

German violinist Christian Tetzlaff, a regular at Wigmore Hall over many years, is the subject of a three-concert residency this season. His eloquent artistry can be heard in the three Violin Sonatas of Brahms, a composer close to his heart. He also appears as a chamber musician in major landmarks of the quartet and quintet repertoire.

Tuesday 5 December 7.30pm

Christian Tetzlaff violin Lars Vogt piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

When Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt last performed Brahms’s violin sonatas at Wigmore Hall, the Financial Times observed how the violinist’s musicianship spoke ‘intimately as though one-to-one with each member of the audience’. This recital offers a chance to hear their latest thoughts on three of the most radiant works in the duo repertoire.

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Forthcoming Events in this Series Sunday 11 February 2018 7.30pm Christian Tetzlaffviolin Florian Donderer violin Rachel Roberts viola Tanja Tetzlaff cello Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello Martin Helmchen piano Julian Prégardien tenor

Sunday 20 May 2018 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet

Sunday 10 June 2018 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet

Nash Ensemble: Haydn String Quartet Series/Jörg The French Connection Widmann as Composer-Performer Saturday 9 December Sunday 10 December Sunday 10 December 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Heath Quartet Gould Piano Trio Roderick Williams baritone Haydn String Quartet in D minor Beethoven Piano Trio in G Op. Ian Brown piano Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’ 1 No. 2; Piano Trio in B flat Op. Simon Crawford-Phillips Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 11; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 & Philip Moore piano duet 3 ‘Jagdquartett’ ‘Ghost’ Lucy Wakeford harp Mendelssohn String Quartet No. Debussy Danse sacrée et danse 6 in F minor Op. 80 Beethoven beguiled Vienna’s profane musical elite, Haydn among them, Stravinsky Suite from The The Heath Quartet’s season- with the official première of his Firebird (arr. Philip Moore for long survey of Jörg Widmann’s first piano trios in August 1795. piano duet) five string quartets continues, The Gould Piano Trio opens with Poulenc Le bal masqué placing the German composer’s the serious Piano Trio in G Op. 1 Ravel Don Quichotte a Dulcinee; ‘Jagdquartett’ in company with No. 2 before taking in the wit and Piano Trio two works marked by their intense inspired invention of his Op. 11 concentration and foreboding. and sense of tragedy central to the Debussy’s two dances with solo Widmann’s work echoes the ‘Ghost’ Trio. harp begin this recital, followed by opening rhythms of Beethoven’s a virtuoso piano duet arrangement Seventh Symphony before £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 version of Stravinsky’s vivid ballet pursuing its ideas with obsessive The Firebird. The RPS Award- energy and wanton violence. winning baritone Roderick Williams joins the Nash Ensemble for £15 concs £13 incl. programme Poulenc’s Le bal masqué, before and coffee/sherry/juice assuming the character of Don Quixote in Ravel’s late song late song cycle. The programme ends with Ravel’s magnificent Piano Trio.

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Thursday 7 December 7.30pm Daniil Trifonov piano

Mompou Variations on a Theme of Chopin Rachmaninov Variations on a Theme of Chopin Op. 22 Chopin: 2 Mazurkas; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’

Piano connoisseurs and music-lovers of any era would give thanks for poetic artistry of the kind delivered by Daniil Trifonov. The Russian pianist, born in 1991, allies total technical command of his instrument to a unique feeling for expressive contrasts and musical drama. His interpretations appear to arise in the present moment, responsive to the subtlest change of mood and always alive to the piano’s endless possibilities of shading, colour and articulation. Trifonov’s latest Wigmore Hall recital explores the legacy of Chopin in the shape of quintessential works by the Polish composer and of compositions built on themes from his Op. 28 Preludes.

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Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Monday 11 December Tuesday 12 December Wednesday 13 December 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Armida Quartet Cuarteto Casals Trio Mediæval vocal ensemble Mozart String Quartet in B flat Beethoven String Quartet in D Nils Økland violin K458 ‘Hunt’ Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in G Wolcome Yole Beethoven Große Fuge in B flat Op. 18 No. 2 Op. 133 Giovanni Sollima New Work Programme to include: (English première) Medieval and traditional music Good humour and playfulness Beethoven String Quartet in F for Advent and Christmas from combine with fervent emotions Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Norway, Sweden and England in the ‘Hunt’ Quartet, written Andrew Smith New work in Vienna in the autumn of Cuarteto Casals evokes the (world première) 1784. The Armida Quartet, First creative originality of Beethoven’s Prize-winner at the 2012 ARD string quartets by placing three of Trio Mediaval has beguiled International Music Competition, his pioneering works in company audiences worldwide with its moves from Mozart’s genial with a new score by the Italian modern re-imaginings of medieval composition to Beethoven’s ‘Große composer and cellist Giovanni music. The Trio juxtaposes sacred Fuge’, a work propelled by fierce Sollima. The concert concludes polyphony with folk music and energy and a Promethean spirit of with the first ‘Razumovsky’ improvisation, melding these creative struggle. Quartet, a work that reflects on elements into its own distinct the classicism of Haydn’s quartets and unique style. Innovative £15 concs £13 while looking forward to a new era fiddle player Nils Økland joins the of musical invention. ensemble for this programme, which includes the world première £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 of a work by Andrew Smith.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Monday 11 December 7.30pm

Mark Padmore tenor Mitsuko Uchida piano See page 82

Monday 11 December 7.30pm Mark Padmore tenor Mitsuko Uchida piano Schubert Winterreise

Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida present a special performance of Winterreise, dedicating their account of the work to the cause of Wigmore Hall’s annual fundraising appeal. The tenor’s interpretations of Schubert’s profoundly moving late song cycle, a work of boundless spiritual depths and revelatory reflections on life and death, are marked by their vision and humanity. He will share his latest expedition through the composer’s dark-hued emotional landscapes with one of the most sensitive and poetic of all Schubertians, acclaimed for her utterly spellbinding ability to span every expressive nuance and dramatic turn of Schubert’s music. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration (no interval)

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Haydn String Quartet Series Thursday 14 December Friday 15 December Sunday 17 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Jerusalem Chamber Anthony Marwood violin Novus String Quartet Music Festival Ensemble Isabelle van Keulen violin Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 17 No. 6; String Quartet in E flat Elena Bashkirova piano Lawrence Power viola Op. 50 No. 3; String Quartet in A Stravinsky Suite from The Richard Lester cello Op. 55 No. 1 Soldier’s Tale (for violin, clarinet Heath Quartet and piano) Since winning the 2014 International Mendelssohn String Octet in E Ustvolskaya Piano Sonata No. 5 Mozart Competition in Salzburg, the flat Op. 20 Shostakovich Seven Poems of Novus String Quartet has grown in Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 Alexander Blok Op. 127 stature with a series of landmark Ustvolskaya Trio for clarinet, debut performances and re- Anthony Marwood, the Heath Quartet violin and piano invitations to perform at the world’s and three other wonderful chamber Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in leading chamber music venues. The musicians open with Mendelssohn’s E minor Op. 67 ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall Octet, a miraculous product of his following its debut last January to mid-teens. Enescu’s fine String Works by teacher and pupil add its collective voice to the Haydn Octet also dates from the Romanian – Shostakovich and Galina String Quartet Series. Ustvolskaya – deliver abundant composer’s teenage years. ‘I wore myself out trying to make work a expressive richness and depth to £15 concs £13 incl. programme piece of music divided into four Elena Bashkirova’s programme and coffee/sherry/juice with the Jerusalem Chamber segments of such length that each Music Festival Ensemble. The of them was likely at any moment to haunting melodies and sombre break’, Enescu later recalled. intensity of Ustvolskaya’s Trio for clarinet, violin and piano supports £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 her statement that ‘There is no link whatsoever between my music and that of any other composer, Saturday 16 December living or dead’. 7.30pm

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Dunedin Consort See page 84

Dunedin Consort: Big Ideas for a Small Stage

Saturday 16 December 7.30pm

Dunedin Consort John Butt director Bach Christmas Oratorio: Cantatas I, IV, V & VI

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio offers a set of related cantatas, originally intended for consecutive performance on the six church feasts between Christmas Day and Epiphany. John Butt and his Dunedin Consort, acclaimed for their revelatory readings of Bach, present four of the cantatas in one evening, leading listeners through its compelling account of the Nativity story and creating ideal conditions to contemplate its timeless message.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Sunday 25 March 2018 5.00pm

Thursday 21 June 2018 7.30pm

Joyce DiDonato Series Sunday 17 December Monday 18 December Monday 18 December 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Ingrid Fliter piano Alina Ibragimova violin Joyce DiDonato Beethoven Piano Sonata No. Cédric Tiberghien piano mezzo-soprano 18 in E flat Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Ysaÿe Poème élégiaque Op. 12 Brentano Quartet Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 Vierne Violin Sonata Op. 23 Programme to include: ‘Appassionata’ Strauss Arrangements for mezzo- Chopin Nocturnes Op. 27: No. 1 in Cédric Tiberghien and Alina soprano and string quartet: C sharp minor; No. 2 in D flat Ibragimova first met as members All’ mein Gedanken; Du meines Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B of the BBC Radio 3 New Herzens Krönelein; Die Nacht; minor Op. 58 Generation Artists scheme in Traum durch die Dämmerung; 2005. Their instant rapport led to Ach Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden Ingrid Fliter’s Beethoven and the formation of a duo partnership Jake Heggie Camille Claudel: Into Schumann recordings, greeted that continues to grow and mature. the Fire by five-star reviews, project They return to Wigmore Hall to the charismatic power of her perform Ysaÿe’s atmospheric ‘The staggering, joyful artistry of musicianship and penetrating Poème élégiaque, written in 1892–3, Joyce DiDonato reminds us that insight of her pianism. The and Louis Vierne’s intense Violin in any generation there are few Argentinian pianist, the only Sonata Op. 23. giants,’ observed Jake Heggie woman to receive the esteemed in Gramophone. The American Gilmore Artist Award, returns £15 concs £13 composer’s insightful understanding to Wigmore Hall to explore of her art can be heard in Camille Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Claudel: Into the Fire, written for Nos. 18 and 23 in company with DiDonato in 2012. The song-cycle works by Chopin. responds to the creative genius and tragic end of the sculptor Camille £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Claudel, Rodin’s muse and lover and an artistic giant of her generation.

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Repeated Thursday 21 December 7.30pm

Tuesday 19 December 7.30pm Leonidas Kavakos violin Yuja Wang piano Janáček Violin Sonata Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 BB84

Leonidas Kavakos is celebrated around the globe as an artist of rare quality, known for virtuosity of the highest level and the integrity of his playing. He is joined by internationally renowned Yuja Wang, recently hailed by The New York Times as ‘one of the best young pianists around’. They present a programme of virtuosic works spanning an astonishing range of moods and emotions, journeying from the struggle between violent outbursts and beautiful, folk-inspired themes of Janáček’s Violin Sonata to the serene Schubert Fantasy in C.

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Joyce DiDonato Series Wednesday 20 December Thursday 21 December Friday 22 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Ensemble Plus Ultra Joyce DiDonato Renaud Capuçon violin Victoria Ave Maria; Magnificat mezzo-soprano David Fray piano quarti toni; Gaude Virgo Brentano Quartet Bach Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Maria; Ave maris stella; Alma Repeat of concert on 18 December minor BWV1018 Redemptoris mater Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in Guerrero Canite tuba F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ Victoria Ecce Dominus veniet £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Bach Violin Sonata in C minor Byrd Domine praestolamur BWV1024 Sheppard Verbum caro factum est Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in Victoria O magnum mysterium; C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Quem vidistis, pastores; Magi viderunt stellam; Hostis Herodes impie Praetorius Es ist ein Ros Renaud Capuçon and David entsprungen Anonymous Verbum Fray are part of a remarkable caro factum est: Y la Virgen le younger generation of French dezia; Coventry Carol Praetorius instrumentalists with much to say Joseph, lieber Joseph mein and the artistry to express it. ‘The ‘Spring’ Sonata was the first piece Described by Early Music Today as of Beethoven I played, when I was ‘a crack squad of the finest British ten years old’, Capuçon recalls. early music singers’, Ensemble ‘His music is a rite of passage for Plus Ultra received the 2012 every violinist.’ Gramophone Early Music Award for its ten-disc survey of the £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 music of Tomás Luis de Victoria. The group turns its deep affinity for the Spanish-born priest and composer’s work to a selection of Christmas pieces, set in company with exquisite seasonal motets by his 16th-century contemporaries.

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Schubert: The Complete Songs Saturday 23 December Wednesday 27 December Thursday 28 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Sophie Rennert Arcadia Quartet Ivana Gavrić piano mezzo-soprano Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 Haydn Piano Sonata in F HXVI:23 Stephan Loges bass-baritone No. 5 Grieg Slåtter Op. 72 (selection) Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Chopin 4 Mazurkas Op. 24; Graham Johnson piano Mozart String Quartet in D K575 Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor Schubert Hagars Klage; Sehnsucht ‘Prussian’ Op. 31 D52; Son fra l’onde; Don Gayseros; Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Lieb Minna; Erster Verlust; Following a headlong rush of Idens Nachtgesang; Von Ida; Die victories at the Osaka, Wigmore Ivana Gavrić’s programme choices Erscheinung; Die Täuschung; Hall, Almere and Hamburg string invariably reveal contrasts and Das Sehnen; Geist der Liebe; Die quartet and chamber music reflect comparisons in pieces that Spinnerin; Der Schatzgräber; competitions, the Romanian might not at first appear to be Wonne der Wehmut; Selma und Arcadia Quartet has earned obvious companions. The passion Selmar; Gesang der Geister plaudits worldwide for the and lyricism of her music-making (fragment); Schweizerlied; Der impassioned intensity and are sure to run free throughout her Strom; Lied eines Kindes (fragment); expressive force of its playing. Its latest Wigmore Hall recital, which Das Abendrot; Himmelsfunken; latest Wigmore Hall programme spans everything from the sprightly Mahomets Gesang (fragment); pairs the turbulent emotions of figuration of Haydn’s Piano Sonata Johanna Sebus (fragment); Die Bartók’s youthful First String No. 23 to the musical fantasies of Wallfahrt; Eine altschottische Ballade Quartet with Haydn’s light-hearted Schumann’s Kreisleriana. Op. 33 No. 5. ‘Hagars Klage’, a fine example of £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Schubert’s early songs, dates from £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 the composer’s Vienna schooldays. It introduces this programme, ideal for the story-telling talents of Sophie Rennert and Stephan Loges, which includes the expansive and elaborate setting of Metastasio’s ‘Son fra l’onde’, and the touching duet ‘Selma und Selmar’.

Friday 29 December Saturday 30 December Sunday 31 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Concerto Italiano Liza Ferschtman violin Gary Hoffman cello Rinaldo Alessandrini Roman Rabinovich piano David Selig piano conductor, harpsichord Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Beethoven 12 Variations in F on Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1038; Op. 78 ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ 14 Canons BWV1087; Musical Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 BB84 from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. Offering BWV1079 Lutosławski Subito 66; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in 1; Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto G Op. 96 Italiano, which the harpsichordist Beethoven wrote his sprightly set founded in 1984, bring fresh energy Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman, of variations on Mozart’s hit tune and ideas to the interpretation of the daughter of Russian musicians, ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’ from Baroque music. Their captivating plays like a force of nature, The Magic Flute during a visit to performances of Bach are unleashing the full passion of her Berlin in 1796. Gary Hoffman, one infused with a feeling for the light heartfelt artistry in performance. of today’s finest cellists, presents and shade of the composer’s She is joined by Israeli pianist this joyful work in company with counterpoint and for the sheer Roman Rabinovich in a strikingly two captivating celebrations of brilliance of his melodic invention. innovative programme, complete melody, the cello sonatas Opp. 69 with Bartók’s fiery Violin Sonata & 102 No. 1. Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in No. 1, first performed in London duration (no interval) in 1923, and Lutosławski’s light- £15 concs £13 incl. programme hearted Subito, conceived as a and coffee/sherry/juice £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 competition test-piece in 1992.

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Booking Dates Sunday 31 December 7.00pm Autumn 2017

Arcangelo Concerts from September to December 2017 open for Priority Jonathan Cohen director Booking on 11 April. Requests Peter Whelan bassoon must be submitted for Season

Anna Lucia Richter soprano Patrons, Season Benefactors and Samuel Boden tenor Rubinstein Circle by 2 May, for Blow Ode: Begin the Song Friends by 4 May and for Mailing Vivaldi Concerto in C for bassoon, strings and continuo RV473 List Subscribers by 11 May. Handel Gloria HWV deest Booking opens to General Public Purcell Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day) on 30 May. Z339 Vivaldi Concerto in C RV537; Gloria RV589 Join Friends of Wigmore Hall to benefit from Priority Booking. Arcangelo marks the countdown to the New Year with celebratory For details of our Learning events, odes for St Cecilia’s Day – Henry Purcell’s Welcome to all the look out for our Learning brochure pleasures of 1683 and John Blow’s Begin the Song of 1684 – and from June 2017. two rousing Gloria settings. Handel’s Gloria, probably written before its young composer’s departure from Germany to Italy in 1706, was believed to be lost until it was rediscovered in the library of the Royal Academy of Music in 2001. Vivaldi’s Concerto Spring 2018 in C for two trumpets and pioneering Concerto in C for bassoon complete the festivities. See pages 94–97 for preview details £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Summer 2018

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CHAMBER ZONE

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

Wigmore Hall stands as a major Saturday 9 September 7.30pm supporter of contemporary Gerald Finley bass-baritone chamber music and song, Julius Drake piano and as a commissioner of Mark-Anthony Turnage new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall Monday 11 September 7.30pm is determined to bring fresh Cuarteto Casals creative energy to the repertoire, Matan Porat* not least through its extensive commissioning programme and Wednesday 20 September 7.30pm promotion of world, UK and Nash Ensemble London premières. John Casken, Alexander Goehr*, ‘Our commissioning scheme Sir Harrison Birtwistle & Maxwell Davies is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music’, Sunday 24 September 7.30pm comments Wigmore Hall Heath Quartet Jörg Widmann Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Wigmore Sunday 1 October 11.30am Hall has become one of the Natasha Paremski piano Thomas Adès world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’ Sunday 1 October 7.30pm Leila Josefowicz violin John Novacek piano Kaija Saariaho Music Series Contemporary Contemporary www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Contemporary music • 93

Wednesday 4 October 7.30pm Sunday 29 October 11.30am Friday 17 November 1.00pm Cuarteto Casals Steven Isserlis cello Britten Sinfonia Mauricio Sotelo Olli Mustonen piano Winner of OPUS2017 Olli Mustonen Competition* & Nik Bärtsch Thursday 5 October 7.30pm IMS Prussia Cove Thursday 2 November 7.30pm Saturday 2 December 7.30pm Mark-Anthony Turnage James Gilchrist tenor Imogen Cooper piano Anna Tilbrook piano Thomas Adès Saturday 14 October 11.30am Jonathan Dove* Jennifer Pike violin Sunday 10 December 11.30am Thomas Gould violin Saturday 4 November 7.30pm Heath Quartet Guy Johnston cello Alisa Weilerstein cello Jörg Widmann Elizabeth Kenny theorbo Inon Barnatan piano Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Steven Mackey* Tuesday 12 December 7.30pm Petr Limonov piano Krzysztof Penderecki, Hanna Sunday 5 November 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals Kulenty & Paulina Załubska Giovanni Sollima Cédric Tiberghien piano Philippe Hersant Saturday 14 October 7.30pm Monday 18 December 7.30pm Jennifer Pike violin Saturday 11 November 7.30pm Repeated Guy Johnston cello Thursday 21 December 7.30pm Kirill Gerstein piano Tom Poster piano Thomas Adès Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano Eugeniusz Knapik Brentano Quartet Sunday 12 November 7.30pm Jake Heggie Sunday 15 October 7.30pm Takács Quartet *Commissioned or co-commissioned by Roman Rabinovich piano Carl Vine Wigmore Hall with the support of André Roman Rabinovich Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust Spring Preview January – March 2018 Concerts from January to March 2018 open for Priority Booking on 19 September. Requests must be submitted for Friends by 12 October and for Mailing List Subscribers by 19 October. Booking opens to General Public on 7 November. Full details of concerts and Learning events will be published in the Spring 2018 brochure.

January 2018

Tue 2 Jan Miklós Perényi Mon 15 Jan Fatma Said/ 7.30pm 1.00pm pianist to be announced Wed 3 Jan Schumann Quartet Tue 16 Jan Midori/Antoine Lederlin/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Jonathan Biss András Schiff Thu 4 Jan Jörg Widmann/ © Nadia F Romani ECM Records Wed 17 Jan Alexander Melnikov 7.30pm Tabea Zimmermann/Dénes Várjon 7.30pm Fri 5 Jan Sir András Schiff 7.30pm Thu 18 Jan Quatuor Diotima 7.30pm Sat 6 Jan Helsinki Baroque Orchestra/ Isabelle van Keulen 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson Fri 19 Jan Jean-Guihen Queyras/ © Marco Borggreve 7.30pm Alexandre Tharaud Sun 7 Jan Szymanowski Quartet 11.30am Sat 20 Jan Dorothea Röschmann/ 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau Sun 7 Jan Sir András Schiff 7.30pm Sun 21 Jan Navarra String Quartet 11.30am Allan Clayton Mon 8 Jan Isabelle van Keulen/ © Laura Harling 1.00pm Ronald Brautigam Sun 21 Jan Royal Academy of Music Mon 8 Jan Piers Lane 3.00pm Richard Lewis Song Circle 7.30pm Sun 21 Jan Simon Trpčeski & Friends Tue 9 Jan Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 7.30pm 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov Mon 22 Jan Daniel Müller-Schott/ © Marco Borggreve Wed 10 Jan Isabelle Faust/ 1.00pm Francesco Piemontesi 7.30pm Anne Katharina Schreiber/ Yoshiko Morita/ Mon 22 Jan The Sixteen Emmanuel Balssa/ 7.30pm Lorenzo Coppola Tue 23 Jan Classical Opera Jean-Guihen Queyras 7.30pm © Marco Borggreve Thu 11 Jan Sonia Prina/ 7.30pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Wed 24 Jan Pre-Concert Talk: Leo Chadburn 12.15pm Fri 12 Jan Elias String Quartet 7.30pm Wed 24 Jan Britten Sinfonia 1.00pm Sat 13 Jan Nash Ensemble/ Dorothea Röschmann 7.30pm Stephanie d’Oustrac Wed 24 Jan Julia Fischer Quartet © Jim Rakete 7.30pm Sun 14 Jan Benjamin Beilman/Boris Giltburg 11.30am Thu 25 Jan Anna Bonitatibus & Friends 7.30pm Sun 14 Jan Alessandro Fisher/Ashok Gupta 3.00pm Fri 26 Jan ECMA: Amatis Piano Trio 1.00pm Simon Trpčeski Sun 14 Jan Modigliani Quartet © Simon Fowler 7.30pm Fri 26 Jan Angela Hewitt 7.30pm www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Spring preview • 95

January 2018

Sat 27 Jan ECMA Masterclass Sun 28 Jan Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 11.00am 7.30pm

Sat 27 Jan ECMA: Mon 29 Jan Apollon Musagète Quartet 1.00pm Adorno Quartet/Simply Quartet 1.00pm Jörg Widmann Sat 27 Jan Anna Bonitatibus/ Mon 29 Jan Escher Quartet Marco Borggreve 7.30pm 7.30pm pianist to be announced Sun 28 Jan Lara Melda Tue 30 Jan Hagen Quartet/Jörg Widmann 11.30am 7.30pm

Sun 28 Jan ECMA: Wed 31 Jan Angelika Kirchschlager/ 7.30pm Angelika Kirchschlager 3.00pm Trio Vitruvi Julius Drake Nikolaus Karlinsky

February 2018

Thu 1 Feb Mark Padmore/Roderick Sun 11 Feb Pavel Haas Quartet 7.30pm Williams/Julius Drake 11.30am Fri 2 Feb The Endellion String Quartet Sun 11 Feb Christian Tetzlaff/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Florian Donderer/ Rachel Roberts/ Mark Padmore Sat 3 Feb Ensemble 360 © Marco Borggreve 7.30pm Tanja Tetzlaff/ Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/ Sun 4 Feb Ensemble 360 Martin Helmchen/ 11.30am Julian Prégardien Sun 4 Feb Daniel Behle/Armonia Atenea Mon 12 Feb SCO Winds Natalie Clein 7.30pm 1.00pm © Sussie Ahlburg

Tue 6 Feb Henning Kraggerud/ Mon 12 Feb Jerusalem Quartet 7.30pm Natalie Clein/ 7.30pm Christian Ihle Hadland Wed 14 Feb Artemis Quartet Wed 7 Feb Robin Tritschler/ 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 7.30pm Christopher Glynn © Marco Borggreve Thu 15 Feb Ruby Hughes/Joseph Middleton Thu 8 Feb The English Concert 7.30pm 7.30pm Fri 16 Feb Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ Fri 9 Feb Mahan Esfahani 7.30pm Polina Leschenko 7.30pm Sat 17 Feb Nelson Freire Ruby Hughes Sat 10 Feb Nash Ensemble 7.30pm © Thomas Dashuber 6.00pm Sun 18 Feb Quatuor Zaïde Sat 10 Feb Nash Ensemble/ 11.30am 7.30pm Sophie Bevan

February 2018

Sun 18 Feb Škampa Quartet/Melvyn Tan Sun 25 Feb Johannes Kammler/ 7.30pm 3.00pm Roger Vignoles Mon 19 Feb Ashley Riches/ Sun 25 Feb Pieter Wispelwey/ 1.00pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Alasdair Beatson Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis Tue 20 Feb Phantasm Mon 26 Feb Aleksandar Madžar 7.30pm 1.00pm

Wed 21 Feb Steven Isserlis/ Mon 26 Feb Les Talens Lyriques 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov 7.30pm

Sat 24 Feb Wihan Quartet Wed 28 Feb Doric String Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm

March 2018

Thu 1 Mar Emma Johnson/ Sat 10 Mar Nash Ensemble/Eleanor Bron/ 7.30pm Michelangelo Quartet 7.30pm Martyn Brabbins Sat 3 Mar Steven Osborne Sun 11 Mar Bennewitz Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Joshua Bell © Marie Mazzuco Sun 4 Mar Ronan O’Hora Sun 11 Mar Arditti Quartet 11.30am 7.30pm

Sun 4 Mar Martin Mitterrutzner/ Mon 12 Mar Calidore Quartet 3.00pm Gerold Huber 1.00pm

Mon 5 Mar Leon McCawley Wed 14 Mar Heath Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer 1.00pm 7.30pm

Mon 5 Mar Denis Kozhukhin Thu 15 Mar Danish String Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm Matthias Goerne © Marco Borggreve Wed 7 Mar Vienna Piano Trio Fri 16 Mar Kuss Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm

Thu 8 Mar Florilegium Sat 17 Mar Imogen Cooper 7.30pm 7.30pm

Fri 9 Mar Florian Boesch/ Sun 18 Mar Gould Piano Trio Imogen Cooper 11.30am © Sussie Ahlburg 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Spring preview • 97

March 2018

Sun 18 Mar Soraya Mafi/Graham Johnson Sun 25 Mar Andreas Ottensamer 3.00pm 11.30am

Sun 18 Mar Gautier Capuçon/Jérôme Ducros Sun 25 Mar Dunedin Consort 7.30pm 5.00pm Gautier Capuçon Mon 19 Mar Stile Antico Mon 26 Mar Danny Driver © Gregory Batardon 1.00pm 1.00pm

Mon 19 Mar Soloists of Ensemble Mon 26 Mar Paul O’Dette 7.30pm intercontemporain 7.30pm Tue 20 Mar Nash Ensemble/Christine Rice Tue 27 Mar Les Arts Florissants 7.30pm Dianne Reeves 7.30pm Wed 21 Mar The Schubert Ensemble Wed 28 Mar Les Folies françoises 7.30pm 7.30pm

Thu 22 Mar London Handel Orchestra Thu 29 Mar Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 7.30pm 7.30pm Andreas Ottensamer Fri 23 Mar Dianne Reeves Sat 31 Mar Sylvia Schwartz/ © Lars Borges 7.30pm 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau Sat 24 Mar Cuarteto Casals 7.30pm

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April 2018

Sun 1 Apr Zemlinsky Quartet Sun 15 Apr Arcadia Quartet 11.30am 11.30am Mon 2 Apr Laura van der Heijden/ Sun 15 Apr Wigmore Hall International String 1.00pm Petr Limonov 6.00pm Quartet Competition Final Elizabeth Kenny © Benjamin Ealovega Mon 2 Apr Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Mon 16 Apr Christoph Prégardien/ 7.30pm Oxana Shevchenko 1.00pm Julius Drake Tue 3 Apr Theatre of the Ayre/ Mon 16 Apr Yefim Bronfman 7.30pm Elizabeth Kenny 7.30pm Wed 4 Apr Bertrand Chamayou Tue 17 Apr Castalian Quartet Hugo Ticciati 7.30pm 7.30pm © Marco Borggreve Thu 5 Apr Le Concert d’Astrée/ Wed 18 Apr Pre-Concert Talk: 12.15pm 7.30pm Emmanuelle Haïm Caroline Shaw Fri 6 Apr Elias String Quartet Wed 18 Apr Britten Sinfonia 7.30pm 1.00pm Isabelle Faust Wed 18 Apr Yevgeny Sudbin © Molina Visuals Sat 7 Apr La Nuova Musica 1.00pm 7.30pm Thu 19 Apr The English Concert Sat 7 Apr O/MODӘRNT/Hugo Ticciati 7.30pm 7.30pm Fri 20 Apr Alina Ibragimova/ Sun 8 Apr Atrium Quartet 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien Igor Levit 11.30am © Gregor Hohenberg Sat 21 Apr Venera Gimadieva/Pavel Nebolsin Sun 8 Apr O/MODӘRNT/Hugo Ticciati 3.00pm 7.30pm Sun 22 Apr Modigliani Quartet Sun 8 Apr O/MODӘRNT/Hugo Ticciati 7.30pm 11.30am Mon 9 Apr Javier Perianes Mon 23 Apr Sophie Gent/Matthew Truscott Alina Ibragimova 1.00pm © Eva Vermandel 1.00pm Jonathan Manson/Trevor Pinnock Mon 9 Apr Isabelle Faust/ Mon 23 Apr Cédric Tiberghien 7.30pm Kristian Bezuidenhout 7.30pm Tue 10 Apr Chamber Music Society Tue 24 Apr Matthias Goerne 7.30pm 7.30pm of Lincoln Center pianist to be announced Trevor Pinnock © Peer Lindgreen Wed 11 Apr JACK Quartet Wed 25 Apr The Kathleen Ferrier Awards 7.30pm 1.30pm Semi-Final Thu 12 Apr Belcea Quartet Wed 25 Apr Vertavo Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm Fri 13 Apr Igor Levit Thu 26 Apr Matthias Goerne Cédric Tiberghien 7.30pm 7.30pm pianist to be announced © Jean-Baptiste Millot Sat 14 Apr Wigmore Hall International String Fri 27 Apr The Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2.00pm Quartet Competition Semi-Final 6.00pm Final www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Summer preview • 99

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Sat 28 Apr Nikolai Lugansky Mon 30 Apr Hille Perl 7.30pm 1.00pm Sun 29 Apr Smetana Trio Mon 30 Apr Pavel Kolesnikov 11.30am 7.30pm Matthias Goerne Sun 29 Apr Leslie Howard 70th © Marco Borggreve 4.00pm Birthday Concert

May 2018

Tue 1 May Sonia Prina/Vivica Genaux/ Mon 14 May Schumann Quartet 7.30pm Concerto Copenhagen 1.00pm Wed 2 May Simon Trpčeski Mon 14 May Phantasm 7.30pm 7.30pm Mauro Peter Thu 3 May Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch Tue 15 May Andreas Haefliger © Franziska Schrödinger 7.30pm 7.30pm

Fri 4 May Lucy Crowe/Anna Tilbrook Wed 16 May Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 7.30pm 7.30pm

Sat 5 May Borodin Quartet Thu 17 May Thomas Dunford 7.30pm Lucy Crowe 7.30pm © Marco Borggreve Sun 6 May Borodin Quartet Fri 18 May Richard Goode 11.30am 7.30pm

Sun 6 May Rachel Podger/ Sat 19 May Takács Quartet & Friends 7.30pm 7.30pm RAM Baroque Soloists Christian Gerhaher Mon 7 May Sabine Devieilhe/Anne Le Bozec Sun 20 May Peter Hill © Jim Rakete Sony Classical 1.00pm 11.30am

Wed 9 May Mahan Esfahani Sun 20 May Tetzlaff Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm

Thu 10 May Pavel Haas Quartet Mon 21 May Takács Quartet & Friends 7.30pm Thomas Dunford 7.30pm © Charles Plumey Fri 11 May Christian Gerhaher/ Tue 22 May La Nuova Musica 7.30pm 7.30pm Gerold Huber Wed 23 May Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper Sat 12 May Jörg Widmann/Sir András Schiff 7.30pm 7.30pm Fri 25 May Inon Barnatan Richard Goode Sun 13 May Kopelman Quartet 7.30pm © Steve Riskind 11.30am Sat 26 May Doric String Quartet/ Sun 13 May Morgan Pearse/Simon Lepper 7.30pm 3.00pm Sir Thomas Allen

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May 2018

Sun 27 May Simon Keenlyside/ Wed 30 May Quatuor Mosaïques 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau 7.30pm Mon 28 May Danish String Quartet Thu 31 May Quatuor Mosaïques 1.00pm 7.30pm Simon Keenlyside © Uwe Arens Mon 28 May Trio Tre Voci: Marina Piccinini/ 7.30pm Kim Kashkashian/Sivan Magen

June 2018

Fri 1 Jun Birgid Steinberger/ Wed 13 Jun Jakub Józef Orlinski/ 7.00pm Julius Drake 7.30pm Michal Biel Sat 2 Jun Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ Fri 15 Jun Razumovsky Ensemble 7.30pm Joseph Middleton 7.00pm Iestyn Davies © Benjamin Ealovega Sun 3 Jun Kuss Quartet Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet/Mary Bevan 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 3 Jun Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ Sun 17 Jun Apollon Musagète Quartet 7.30pm Anna Prohaska 11.30am Mon 4 Jun Cuarteto Casals Sun 17 Jun Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake Finghin Collins 7.30pm 7.30pm © Mark Stedman Tue 5 Jun Stéphane Degout/Simon Lepper Mon 18 Jun Christine Rice/ 7.30pm 1.00pm Julius Drake Wed 6 Jun The Prince Consort Mon 18 Jun Peter Donohoe 7.30pm 7.30pm

Django Bates Thu 7 Jun Finghin Collins Tue 19 Jun Mahan Esfahani 7.30pm 7.30pm Fri 8 Jun Onyx Brass/Liam Noble Wed 20 Jun Edgar Moreau 10.00pm 7.30pm David Kadouch Sat 9 Jun Django Bates Belovèd/ Thu 21 Jun Dunedin Consort 7.30pm Claire Huguenin/Marius Neset 7.30pm Ian Bostridge © Benjamin Ealovega Sun 10 Jun Christian Ihle Hadland Fri 22 Jun Elias String Quartet 11.30am 7.00pm Sun 10 Jun Tetzlaff Quartet/Jörg Widmann Fri 22 Jun Donald Grant & Friends 7.30pm 10.00pm Mon 11 Jun Trio Wanderer Sat 23 Jun The Sixteen Mahan Esfahani 1.00pm 7.30pm © Bernhard Musil Deutsche Grammophon Mon 11 Jun Collegium Vocale Gent Sun 24 Jun Amaryllis Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Tue 12 Jun Belcea Quartet Sun 24 Jun Quatuor Ebène 7.30pm 7.30pm

June 2018

Mon 25 Jun Elias String Quartet/ Fri 29 Jun Beatrice Rana 1.00pm Navarra String Quartet 7.00pm Mon 25 Jun Quatuor Ebène/Martin Fröst Fri 29 Jun Lucy Schaufer/Huw Watkins 7.30pm 10.00pm Adam Walker Tue 26 Jun Imogen Cooper Sat 30 Jun Sophie Bevan/ Kaupo Kikkas 7.30pm 7.30pm Ryan Wigglesworth

July 2018

Sun 1 Jul Veronika Eberle/Alban Gerhardt/ Fri 13 Jul The Prince Consort/ 11.30am Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo 10.00pm Jason Rebello Mon 2 Jul Adam Walker/Cédric Tiberghien Sat 14 Jul Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/ 1.00pm 7.30pm Huw Edwards Cédric Tiberghien © Jean-Baptiste Millot Mon 2 Jul Aida Garifulina/Lech Napierala Sun 15 Jul Sitkovetsky Trio 7.30pm 11.30am Tue 3 Jul David Hansen/ Tue 17 Jul Sergei Babayan 7.30pm other artists to be announced 7.30pm Wed 4 Jul Cuarteto Casals Wed 18 Jul Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber Chloë Hanslip 7.30pm 7.30pm © Benjamin Ealovega Thu 5 Jul Tana String Quartet Thu 19 Jul Gabriela Montero 7.30pm 7.30pm Fri 6 Jul Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff Fri 20 Jul Heath Quartet 7.00pm 10.00pm Fri 6 Jul David Orlowsky Trio Sat 21 Jul Igor Levit Evelyn Glennie 10.00pm 7.30pm © Jim Callaghan Sat 7 Jul Steven Osborne Sun 22 Jul Zora Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Sun 8 Jul Formosa Quartet Sun 22 Jul Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz 11.30am 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt Sun 8 Jul ATOS Trio Tue 24 Jul Julia Fischer/ © Christian Kargl 7.30pm 7.30pm Aris Alexander Blettenberg Mon 9 Jul Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver Wed 25 Jul Castalian String Quartet 1.00pm 7.30pm Mon 9 Jul Early Opera Company/ Thu 26 Jul Angela Hewitt 7.30pm Gabriela Montero Christian Curnyn 7.30pm © Colin Bell Wed 11 Jul Ensemble Variances 7.30pm Fri 13 Jul Bennewitz Quartet 7.00pm Igor Levit © Gregor Hohenberg Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Take a bit of Wigmore Hall

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