January 2017

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January 2017

Vijay Iyer

INSIDE: Arcangelo Cuarteto Casals Alice Coote Julia Fischer Gould Piano Trio Angela Hewitt Elisabeth Leonskaja Soloists of Les Arts Florissants Igor Levit Nash Ensemble Vienna Piano Trio Roderick Williams and many more

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2 Sunday 1 January

1 No performances Box Office closed

Monday 2 January

2 No performances Box Office open 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Tuesday 3 January 7.30pm

3 John Chest baritone Marcelo Amaral piano CONCERT CANCELLED Box Office open from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Wednesday 4 January

4 No performances Box Office open 10.00 am to 5.00 pm

Thursday 5 January 7.30 pm

5 Emmanuel Despax piano

Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Ravel Miroirs Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Luca Sage Described as ‘a master colourist with genius like ability’ (Classical Source), French pianist Emmanuel Despax returns to Wigmore Hall beginning with Handel’s majestic Chaconne in G major, followed by the colourful poetry of Ravel’s Miroirs and Chopin’s 24 Preludes Op. 28. ‘Poetry fused with breathtaking technical perfection’ Concertclassic, Louvre auditorium, Paris ’Emmanuel Despax is a formidable talent, fleet of finger, elegant of phrase and a true keyboard colourist’ Gramophone

£25 £23 £20 £18 £15

Sponsored by S. W. Mitchell Capital Emmanuel Despax

Friday 6 January 6.00 pm 6 Artists in Conversation Vijay Iyer, Wigmore Hall’s Jazz Artist in Residence, discusses his residency and life as a performer with journalist and broadcaster Kevin LeGendre ahead of the evening concert. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 6 January 7.30 pm

Vijay Iyer piano

Wadada Leo Smith trumpet Jimmy Katz

Maarit Kytöharju A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs with his ‘hero, friend and teacher’, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, who belongs to the first generation of players to come out of Chicago’s hugely influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Vijay Iyer Wadada Leo Smith £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

3 Saturday 7 January 2.30 pm NB starting time 7 Alfred Brendel Lecture SCHUBERT’S LAST SONATAS

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

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

All seats £20

Wigmore Hall Learning Event Alfred Brendel

Saturday 7 January 7.30 pm Cuarteto Casals Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet in D minor K421; Molina Visuals String Quartet in Eb K428 Mozart’s string quartets, informed by close study of Haydn’s music, stand among his highest achievements. Cuarteto Casals performs the first of two programmes devoted to the six majestic works that Mozart dedicated to ‘my dear friend Haydn’, opening with the astonishingly inventive String Quartet in G K387 and encompassing the yearning lyricism of K421.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Cuarteto Casals

Sunday 8 January 11.30 am 8 Novus String Quartet

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703 Jin-ho Park Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Profound reflections on life’s transience course through the works in the Novus String Quartet’s programme, projected by Schubert from the outset in his Quartettsatz in C minor, explored with romantic intensity by Beethoven in his aptly named ‘Serioso’ Quartet, and evoked throughout the String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80, Mendelssohn’s last substantial composition. Novus String Quartet

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

4 Sunday 8 January 3.00 pm

Timothy Fallon tenor piano Ammiel Bushakevitz Ana Paganini Prize winners of the 2013 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Schubert Nacht und Träume; Die Sternennächte; Liebesrausch II; Rastlose Liebe; Wiegenlied; Nachtstück; Willkommen und Abschied Beach Three Browning Songs Op. 44 Timothy Fallon offers a thoughtful mix of Schubert songs framed by settings of poetry concerned with romantic

love and renewal. Amy Beach’s Three Browning Songs, Timothy Fallon Ammiel Bushakevitz a massive hit with audiences a century ago, stand here as fitting companions to Liszt’s Petrarch sonnets, written following the composer’s visit to Italy in 1838–9.

All seats £15 Song Recital Series

Sunday 8 January 7.30 pm Cuarteto Casals Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; String Quartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Molina Visuals Cuarteto Casals turns once more to Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets, works described by their composer as ‘the fruit of a long and laborious effort’. His magnificent creative investment, mirrored in every phrase and nuance of expression, surges through the ‘Hunt’ Quartet and culminates in the exuberant energy and contrapuntal ingenuity of the ‘Dissonance’ Quartet.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season Cuarteto Casals

Monday 9 January 1.00 pm

9 Richard Egarr harpsichord Byrd Fantasia; Pavan and Galliard; The Bells

Purcell Suite in G Z660; Ground in C minor ZD221 Marco Borggreve Blow Chaconne in FaUt Purcell Suite in G minor Z661; Suite in D Z667; Ground in D minor ZD222 English keyboard composers in Tudor and Stuart times drew inspiration from the past, looking back to venerable contrapuntal forms to provide fecund models for new pieces. Richard Egarr charts the extraordinary breadth of invention at play in works by Byrd, Blow and Purcell. He crowns his programme with two of Purcell’s virtuosic suites and the mellifluous Ground in D minor.

£15 concs £13

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Richard Egarr

5 Monday 9 January 7.30 pm Danish String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Schnittke’s Third String Quartet has become an established fixture in the chamber music repertoire thanks not least to its bold allusions to works by Beethoven and tense juxtaposition of diverse styles and influences. The Danish String Quartet sets the Russian composer’s work in company with two landmarks of the Viennese Classical tradition.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor and Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

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

Caroline Bittencourt

Danish String Quartet

Tuesday 10 January 7.30pm 10 Rosenblatt Recitals 2016/17 Maria Katzarava soprano Stefano La Colla tenor Simon Lepper piano Verdi Sotto il sol di Siria ardente from Aroldo; Salce from Otello Puccini Tu, tu amore tu from Manon Lescaut Massenet O Souverain, ô Juge,

ô Père from Le Cid Gounod Dieu cruel frisson Maria Katzarava Stefano La Colla Simon Lepper from Roméo et Juliette Giordano Vicino a te from Andrea Chénier Puccini Recondita armonia and Mario! Mario! Mario! from Tosca; Donde lieta uscì from La bohème; Nessun dorma and Tu che di gel sei cinta from Turandot; Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia from Madama Butterfly Mexican soprano Maria Katzarava joins with Stefano La Colla, a critically renowned tenor in his home country of Italy, for the sole Rosenblatt recital this season featuring two singers. The two will perform a programme of French and Italian opera classics with a second half dedicated in its entirety to Giacomo Puccini. ‘Her [Maria Katzarava’s] dynamics were generous and well executed and her phrasing was spontaneous and expressive … her tone stood out both in the quartet and the septet, always measuring her strength and applying beautiful colours to her voice.’ ABC ‘From the moment he walked onstage until the moment he was shot by the supers, La Colla lived, breathed and embodied Mario Cavaradossi. Brusque and focused … he sang with passion and enthusiasm’ Bachtrack

£30 £26 £22 £18 £16 Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 6 March (Tara Erraught & James Baillieu), 3 April (Ivan Magrì & Iain Burnside), 9 May (Lise Davidsen & James Baillieu) and 5 June (Nahuel Di Pierro & Alphonse Cemin)

6 Wednesday 11 January 7.30 pm 11 Leeds International Piano Competition Prize Winner’s Recital Anna Tsybuleva piano Vera Greiner CPE Bach Fantasia in F# minor Wq. 67 Schumann Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumous Études) Medtner Piano Sonata in G minor Op. 22 Debussy Préludes (selection); L’isle joyeuse Born in 1990 and raised in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Anna Tsybuleva graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2014. Her international breakthrough came the following year when she won first prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition. She makes her eagerly awaited Wigmore Hall debut with a typically bold and imaginative programme.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust In association with Leeds International Piano Competition With grateful thanks to Dame Fanny Waterman

London Pianoforte Series Anna Tsybuleva

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

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

Thursday 12 January 7.30 pm

Santander Piano Competition Prize Winner’s Concert

Juan Pérez Floristán piano

Kirill Bashkirov Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178 Debussy 4 Préludes: Ondine; Canope; General Lavine; Ce qu’a vu le vent de l’ouest Bartók Piano Sonata Gershwin 3 Preludes Ginastera Danzas argentinas Op. 2 Born in Seville in 1993, Juan Pérez Floristán studied at the Reina Sofia School of Music with Galina Eguiazarova and he currently lives in Berlin where he is studying with Eldar Nebolsin. Orchestral performances to date include the Malmo Symphony, St Petersburg Symphony and major regional Spanish orchestras, as well as performing in festivals including Verbier, Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander and Festival de Les Arcs. Future events include performances with orchestra and recitals in Monterrey, Miami, Puerto Rico and Abu Dhabi, along with tours in Latin America, Munich (Herkulessaal), Budapest, Zurich and Hanover.

£25 £23 £20 £18 £15 £5 Students

Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd Sponsored by the Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition Juan Pérez Floristán

7 Friday 13 January 7.30 pm 13 Arcangelo* Jonathan Cohen director, cello Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord Marco Borggreve Marco Borggreve Bach Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV1058 (from Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041) Telemann Burlesque de Quixotte TWV55:G10 Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D BWV1054 Telemann Suite in G TWV55:G4 ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’ Jonathan Cohen Kristian Bezuidenhout Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor BWV1052 Bach and Telemann were not only near contemporaries but also close friends. Arcangelo’s carefully curated Adam Swann programme presents the best of both composers, revealing the freshness, colour and dash of Telemann’s musical celebration of Don Quixote and rich imagination behind his Orchestral Suite ‘Les Nations anciens et modernes’. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins Arcangelo in three of Bach’s virtuosic harpsichord concertos.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

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

Early Music and Baroque Series Arcangelo

Saturday 14 January 11.00 am – 12 noon 14 The Fairy Queen

Katy Hill soprano Box Tale Soup Stuart Young bass David Miller archlute Noel Byrne actor Antonia Christophers actor FAMILY CONCERT For ages 6 plus Deep in the forest, fairies await ... Join puppetry and physical theatre group, Box Tale Soup, and members of world-renowned choir The Sixteen to discover Shakespeare’s enchanting tale A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Be transported to a world of magic and mishap in which the story is brought to life through puppetry, theatre and music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Children £8 Adults £10

Oberon and Puck Wigmore Hall Learning Event

8 Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm Vienna Piano Trio Haydn Piano Trio in E HXV:28 (Bartolozzi trio) Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Since its foundation in 1988 the Vienna Piano Trio has pursued the highest goals in performance, cultivating a rare openness of expression and warmth of sound to support the search for fresh insights into the compositions in its broad repertoire. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme comprises three enduring masterworks for piano trio.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Nancy Horowitz

Vienna Piano Trio

Sunday 15 January 11.30 am 15 Wigmore Series Debut* Nikita Boriso-Glebsky* violin

Chad Johnston Georgy Tchaidze piano Marco Borggreve Grieg Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8 Shostakovich 10 Preludes Op. 34 (arr. Tsyganov) Stravinsky Divertimento Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, born in Russia in 1985, attracted worldwide attention in 2010 when he won both the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition and the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition. His Wigmore Series debut programme includes Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin’s transcription of the heart-melting Nikita Boriso-Glebsky Georgy Tchaidze Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss and Dmitri Tsyganov’s sparkling arrangements of Shostakovich’s 10 Preludes Op. 34.

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

9 Sunday 15 January 6.45 pm NB starting time IMS Prussia Cove Erich Höbarth violin Gerhard Schulz violin Wolfgang Krautzer Thomas Riebl viola Steven Isserlis cello Ralph Kirshbaum cello Erich Höbarth Gerhard Schulz Thomas Riebl Ferenc Rados piano Sir András Schiff piano

J Henry Fair Dénes Várjon piano Satoshi Aoyagi CELEBRATION CONCERT FOR HILARY TUNSTALL-BEHRENS’S 90TH BIRTHDAY Benefit concert for IMS Prussia Cove Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 2 in D BWV1028 Steven Isserlis Ralph Kirshbaum Ferenc Rados Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 Schubert Hungarian Melody in B minor D817; Divertissement à l'hongroise in G minor D818

Pilvax Studio

Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor Op. 25 Nadia Romanini This special concert features International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove Artistic Director Steven Isserlis and other Maestri from the Seminar’s annual Masterclasses. The concert is to celebrate IMS Prussia Cove’s co-founder, Hilary Tunstall-Behrens, who started the seminars with the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh over 40 years ago, and who has been closely involved ever since. Sir András Schiff Dénes Várjon

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes in duration, including an interval

£200 £50 £40 £30 £15 £200 tickets include a champagne reception during the interval. All other tickets include a glass of wine. Chamber Music Season

Monday 16 January 1.00 pm

16 Beatrice Rana piano Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988

Marie Staggat Beatrice Rana’s perceptive and poetic interpretations stand as clear testament to the 23-year-old Italian pianist’s artistic maturity. The BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist offers her vision of one of the great monuments of western art in this recital, comprising Bach’s sublime aria and 30 variations named after the harpsichordist and former Bach pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg.

£15 concs £13

Beatrice Rana is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Beatrice Rana

10 Monday 16 January 7.30 pm Soloists of Les Arts Florissants

Paul Agnew director, tenor Miriam Allan soprano Pascal Gely Hannah Morrison soprano Lucile Richardot contralto SimonTottman Christian Palm Sean Clayton tenor Cyril Costanzo bass MONTEVERDI, MASTERS AND POETS – IMITATION AND EMULATION Paul Agnew Miriam Allan Hannah Morrison Vecchi Ardo sì, ma non t’amo Ingegneri Ardo sì, ma non t’amo Monteverdi Ardo sì, ma non t’amo; Baci soavi e cari; Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori

Marenzio Non vidi mai dopo notturna pioggia Mike Hoban Monteverdi Non si levav’ancor l’alba novella; Se tu mi lasci, perfida, tuo danno Wert Vezzosi augelli Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde; O primavera, gioventù dell’anno Wert Forsennata gridava

Monteverdi Vattene pur crudel; Ch’io t’ami Lucile Richardot Sean Clayton Cyril Costanzo Wert Ah dolente partita Monteverdi Ah dolente partita; Piagne e sospira Pallavicino Cruda Amarilli Wert Cruda Amarilli Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli Imitation, all too readily confused with plagiarism today, was not only essential to the art of learning in the 1600s but also often a form of veneration toward admired masters. Monteverdi’s debt to many of the subtlest composers of his era can clearly be heard in his music, among them renowned masters such as Ingegneri and Wert, choir master at Mantua when Monteverdi was a young viola da gamba player in service of the Mantuan court. ‘This programme, which features works to poems by Guarini and Tasso, shows how imitation and emulation were the norm in court musical society, where fierce competition between artists was tempered by this form of admiration and reverence’, comments Paul Agnew.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2016/17 Wigmore Series Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 17 January 6.00pm 17 Pre-Concert Talk Leading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, Professor at King’s College, London, provides an overview of the year 1767 and introduces some of the music being performed in the concert. £4

Tuesday 17 January 7.30pm Classical Opera conductor Ian Page Sheila Rock

Robert Piwko

Debbie Scanlan Gemma Summerfield soprano Martin Sigmund Stuart Jackson tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone 1767 – A RETROSPECTIVE

Mozart Symphony No. 6 in F K43 Ian Page Gemma Summerfield Stuart Jackson Ashley Riches Gassmann Aria: Bella in un vago viso from Amore e Psiche Gluck Aria: No, crudel, non posso vivere from Alceste JC Bach Aria: Sopra quell capo indegno from Carattaco Abel Aria: Frena le belle lagrime from Sifari Mozart Grabmusik K42 Haydn Vidit suum & Flammis orci from Stabat Mater Arne Symphony in C Mozart Duet: Natus cadit from Apollo et Hyacinthus Classical Opera presents this fascinating musical portrait of the year 1767 as part of its ground-breaking MOZART 250 project. The programme features a thrilling line-up of young soloists and Ian Page’s dynamic period-instrument orchestra. ‘Every aspect of this totally pleasurable evening confirmed that everything Classical Opera puts on will be worth seeking out.’ The Arts Desk

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

11 Wednesday 18 January 7.30 pm

18 Georg Nigl baritone Andreas Staier fortepiano

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

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

Thursday 19 January 1.00 pm 19 Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases Mariam Batsashvili piano

Allard Willemse Bach Concerto in D minor BWV974 (transcription of Oboe Concerto by Alessandro Marcello) Liszt Sarabande und Chaconne aus dem Singspiel ‘Almira’ von Handel S181 Beethoven Rondo a Capriccio ‘Rage over a lost penny’ Op. 129 Bartók Allegro Barbaro BB63 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 in A minor; Tarantella from Années de pèlerinage: Venezia e Napoli S162/3 Mariam Batsashvili became the first female in history to win First Prize at the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in 2014. Selected as a ‘Rising Star’ by ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) for the season 2016/17, she will tour across 21 of the most prestigious venues in Europe, including Musikverein (Vienna) and the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam). ‘Batsashvili turns every phrase into something special’ NRC Handelsblad Mariam Batsashvili

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

Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd

Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcases on 16 February (Trio Gewandt) and 16 March (Sophie Rosa & Benjamin Powell)

Thursday 19 January 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Introduction to Music 2 THE 48 Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier See 12 January for full details. Series ticket price £30 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Portrait of J S Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann

12 Thursday 19 January 7.30 pm

Julia Fischer violin

Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in G minor Op. 27 No. 1 (à Joseph Szigeti); Felix Broede Violin Sonata in A minor Op. 27 No. 2 (à Jacques Thibaud); Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 (à Georges Enescu); Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 27 No. 4 (à Fritz Kreisler); Violin Sonata in G Op. 27 No. 5 (à Mathieu Crickboom); Violin Sonata in E Op. 27 No. 6 (à Manuel Quiroya). ‘All the Ysaÿes played the fiddle as a matter of course’, wrote Eugène Ysaÿe’s son, ‘and as a matter of course [my father] would naturally follow the family tradition. How could he escape it? His destiny was already cast – straight from the atavistic crucible.’ Ysaÿe’s own father often beat musical sense into his prodigiously talented boy’s fingers and also passed on the gift of what Ysaÿe described as being able ‘to speak through the violin’. Julia Fischer here directs her spellbinding technical prowess and tremendous musicianship to Ysaÿe’s fiendishly difficult, sublimely romantic Violin Sonatas. Julia Fischer £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season

Friday 20 January 7.30 pm

20 Angela Hewitt piano ANGELA HEWITT: THE BACH ODYSSEY

Richard Termine Bach French Suites: No. 1 in D minor BWV812; No. 2 in C minor BWV813; No. 4 in Eb BWV815; No. 6 in E BWV817; No. 3 in B minor BWV814; No. 5 in G BWV816 Bach’s so-called French Suites were largely written between 1722 and 1725. They are in fact ruled by the manners of contemporary Italian music, albeit spiced by allusions to other national dance styles. Angela Hewitt’s recording of the French Suites was named as a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and hailed by The Sunday Times for making ‘Bach’s music live … in a way that even the greatest harpsichordists do not’.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

London Pianoforte Series Angela Hewitt

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

£25 concs £19 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Come and Sing

13 Saturday 21 January 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble Clive Barda

Marco Borggreve Martyn Brabbins conductor Benjamin Ealovega Ian Brown piano Lucy Crowe soprano

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

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/ Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire Nash Ensemble

Sunday 22 January 11.30 am 22 Elias String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 Haydn and Mendelssohn have been constant companions to the Elias String Quartet since its foundation in 1998. Their works have informed the group’s artistic development, offering infinite possibilities of interpretation and for propagating the highest standards in performance. This programme unites the contemplative world of Haydn’s late Op. 76 No. 5 with the teenaged Mendelssohn’s impassioned A minor Quartet.

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

Benjamin Ealovega

Elias String Quartet

14 Sunday 22 January 3.00 pm Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle Nika Goricˇ soprano Katie Stevenson mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mogg baritone Michael Mofidian bass-baritone Yi-Shing Cheng piano Michael Pandya piano Stanford To the soul; The pibroch; La Belle Dame sans merci; The Clown’s Songs from Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ Herbert Renouncement; I think on thee in the night; Six children’s songs; Rose kissed me today; How beautiful is night; When Death to either shall come Quilter Autumn Evening; Now sleeps the crimson petal; Go, lovely Rose; Music, when soft voices die; Love’s philosophy Charles Villiers Stanford, acclaimed composer and teacher of generations of students in Cambridge and at the Royal College of Music, became a pillar of late Victorian and Edwardian society. His songs are performed here in Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle company with works by his pupils Muriel Herbert and the man she loved, Roger Quilter. Herbert’s daughter, the author Claire Tomalin, introduces this recital.

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

Sunday 22 January 7.30 pm

Honens Prize Laureate Recital

Luca Buratto piano Colin Way Dowland/Byrd Lachrymae Pavan Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Thomas Adès Traced Overhead Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Pianist Luca Buratto, 2015 Honens Prize Laureate, gives his London recital debut. His programme demonstrates his affinity for the music of Robert Schumann and his curiosity for works of today’s composers, including Thomas Adès. ‘Fiery imagination and finesse’ Musical America

£20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Luca Buratto Presented by Honens Piano Competition Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

15 Monday 23 January 1.00 pm

23 Roderick Williams baritone Roger Vignoles piano

Fauré Mirages Benjamin Ealovega Benjamin Ealovega Caplet Cinq ballades françaises de Paul Fort Honegger Petits cours de morale Poulenc Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Parisiana Seismic change rocked Paris out of its belle époque complacency during the First World War, a process prefigured by the Symbolist imagery present in the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire and the long-lived Paul Fort. Roderick Williams and Roger Vignoles

explore the febrile world of twentieth-century French Roderick Williams Roger Vignoles art-song, from the sublime eroticism of the elderly Fauré’s Mirages to the boulevard style of Poulenc’s Parisiana.

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

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Monday 23 January 7.30 pm

Philip Higham cello Alasdair Beatson piano Beethoven 12 Variations on ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO.45 John Casken Stolen Airs (London première) Fauré Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 109 Lutosławski Metamorphoses (1981) Franck/Delsart Sonata in A for cello and piano Two outstanding British artists offer a programme of imaginative contrasts and enormous emotional range, moving from Beethoven’s ebullient variations on one of Handel’s best-known tunes to John Casken’s Stolen Airs, inspired by a story central to his opera-in-progress, Sylvie and the Songman. Philip Higham and Alasdair Beatson conclude with Franck’s evergreen Violin Sonata in A, transcribed for cello and piano by Jules Delsart.

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

Simon Wall

Giorgia Bertazzi

Philip Higham Alasdair Beatson

16 Tuesday 24 January 7.30pm 24 Keyboard Charitable Trust Concert

Emanuel Rimoldi piano Laura Rizzi Mozart Piano Sonata in A minor K310 Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20 Verdi/Liszt Danza sacra e duetto final from Aida Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 23 Top prizewinner of international piano competitions ‘Top of the World’ (2013) and Manhattan (2016), Emanuel Rimoldi initially studied piano and composition at the ‘G. Verdi’ Conservatory in Milan. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Elissò Virsaladze and attended masterclasses with Yoffe, Petrushansky and Ashkenazy. He has received outstanding reviews in such publications as the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Hamburger Abendblatt and MusicWeb International; and has performed in many of the most prestigious halls and festivals in Europe. ‘This young pianist is not only an extraordinary technician, but moreover, he is a real musician, having a very strong personality, intelligence and capacity to underline details – he is capable of building and communicating a real vision of music. His marvellous way of playing creates touching emotions and sensations that strike you deeply.’ Süddeutsche Zeitung

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10 £5 tickets for under 35s Emanuel Rimoldi

Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd Supported by the Keyboard Charitable Trust (Reg. Charity)

Wednesday 25 January 7.30 pm 25 Signum Quartet Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Bruno Mantovani String Quartet No. 3* (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ *Co-commissioned by Philharmonie Luxembourg, Konzerthaus Vienna, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Bruno Mantovani’s latest string quartet, completed in 2015, was written for and dedicated to the Signum Quartet. The French composer’s fascination with narrative structures and the ebb and flow of drama is boldly stated in his new work, presented here in harness with one of Haydn’s ground-breaking Op. 20 quartets and Beethoven’s thrilling final ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet.

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

Irene Zandel

Signum Quartet

17 ECMA Showcase 26 Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm – Quatuor Akilone and Quatuor Hanson Friday 27 January 1.00 pm – Stratos Quartet and Trio Vitruvi Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – Masterclass: Hatto Beyerle with Quatuor Hanson Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm – Pacifica Quartet Vienna

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

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Thursday 26 January 1.00 pm Quatuor Akilone Quatuor Hanson Bartók String Quartet No. 6 BB119 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Towering monuments of the string quartet repertoire mark the opening of the 2017 ECMA Showcase at Wigmore Hall, performed by two fine young French ensembles: Quatuor Hanson, formed at the Paris Conservatoire in 2013, and Quatuor Akilone, another outstanding product of the Paris Conservatoire and winner of the prestigious 2016 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.

All seats £5

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Denis Blackghost/Korol Miczka

Quatuor Akilone Quatuor Hanson

Thursday 26 January 4.45 pm – 6.00 pm Introduction to Music 3 THE 48 Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier See 12 January for full details. Series ticket price £30 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Portrait of J S Bach by Elias Gottlob Haussmann

18 Thursday 26 January 7.30 pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Julia Wesely Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Schubert Piano Sonata in D D850 Elisabeth Leonskaja’s artistry is nurtured by roots deeply embedded in the famous Russian-Soviet school of pianism and shaped by a personality free from the distractions of ego and self-serving mannerisms. She makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme of the richest musical substance, crowned by Schubert’s Piano Sonata in D D850, a work of irresistible momentum and constantly shifting emotional contrasts.

£40 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Elisabeth Leonskaja

Friday 27 January 1.00 pm 27 Stratos Quartet Trio Vitruvi Tom McKenzie Walton Piano Quartet Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 William Walton’s four-movement Piano Quartet, a strikingly assured product of his mid-teens, offers an ideal vehicle to demonstrate the formidable talents of the Stratos Quartet, the first piano

quartet ever to join ECMA. Trio Vitruvi, Stratos Quartet Trio Vitruvi established in 2013, explores the dark, intense Piano Trio in G minor, written in the early phase of Chausson’s studies with César Franck.

All seats £5

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Friday 27 January 7.30 pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

‘I MYSELF AM THE ENEMY WHO MUST BE LOVED? Benjamin Ealovega Sim Canetty-Clarke WHAT THEN?’ Nico Muhly Strange Productions* (world première) Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35

*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Firm Wigmore Hall favourites Alice Coote and Julius Drake Alice Coote Julius Drake present a special programme of works, complete with the world première of a new score from Nico Muhly. Muhly’s piece stands alongside Dominick Argento’s Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, written in 1974 for Janet Baker, and the twelve nostalgic songs of Schumann’s Kerner Lieder. This concert is entitled ‘I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?’, quoting Carl Jung, and explores the theme of mental health and the complexities of the human mind.

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

19 Saturday 28 January 11.00 am – 12.00 noon 28 ECMA Masterclass Hatto Beyerle’s influence as performer and teacher has spread worldwide, thanks not least to the work of his ECMA. The violist, born in Germany in 1933, was a founder member of the Alban Berg Quartet and has held professorial posts in Vienna, Hanover, Basel and Florence. He joins Quatuor Hanson for an ECMA Masterclass focusing on Schubert’s vibrant Quartettsatz.

Free admission to masterclass (ticket required)

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Hatto Beyerle ECMA Showcase

Saturday 28 January 1.00 pm Pacific Quartet Vienna

Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Julia Wesely Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Pacific Quartet Vienna, a multinational ensemble, was formed in 2006. It has a string of competition victories to its name, including first prize from the 6th International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. The group closes Wigmore Hall’s ECMA Showcase weekend with the second of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets and Schumann’s exquisite String Quartet in A.

All seats £5 Pacific Quartet Vienna

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a gift from the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Elton in memory of Sigmund Elton Chamber Music Season/ECMA Showcase

Saturday 28 January 7.30 pm Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Julien Chauvin director, violin

Karina Gauvin soprano Michael Slobodian Handel Overture & Da tempeste from Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Suite No. 1 in F HWV348 ‘Water Music’ (excerpts); Ombre, piante, urne funeste from Rodelinda; Organ Concerto in Bb HWV290 (excerpts); Will the sun forget to streak from Solomon; Scherza in mar la navicella

from Lotario; Tornami a vagheggiar & Ah, mio cor from Julien Chauvin Karina Gauvin Alcina; Suite No. 3 in G HWV350 ‘Water Music’ (excerpts); Concerto Grosso in G Op. 6 No. 1; Ah crudel! & Furie terribili from Rinaldo Named after the famous orchestra that brought Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies to life, Le Concert de la Loge Olympique was founded in January 2015 by the violinist Julien Chauvin. Together with the distinguished Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, a superlative performer of Baroque opera, they present a programme of Handel showpiece arias and other works.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Early Music and Baroque Series Le Concert de la Loge Olympique

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

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

Tobias Wirth Tobias

Amaryllis Quartet

Sunday 29 January 3.00 pm

Tim Mead countertenor piano James Baillieu Andy Staples Kaupo Kikkas Howells King David Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Purcell/Britten Lord, what is Man? Quilter It was a lover and his lass Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Betty Roe To his sweet saviour Ireland If there were dreams to sell Joseph Phibbs The Moon’s Funeral Vaughan Williams Tired Howells A Madrigal

Dankworth Shall I compare thee to a Tim Mead James Baillieu summer’s day? Warlock Love for Love Britten O Waly, Waly Quilter Hey, ho, the wind and the rain Tim Mead’s soulful expression, tonal warmth and jaw-dropping vocal technique have won a legion of admirers. The English countertenor, whose repertoire spans everything from Monteverdi to Birtwistle, explores the songs of his homeland with a programme spiced with such delights as John Dankworth’s languid Shakespeare sonnet setting and Betty Roe’s haunting ‘To his sweet saviour’.

21 Sunday 29 January 7.30 pm

Stéphane Degout baritone Matteo Cesari flute, alto flute Alexis Descharmes cello Julien Benhamou Cédric Tiberghien piano Poulenc Le bestiaire; Montparnasse; Hyde Park; Calligrammes; Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire; Banalités Kaija Saariaho Cendres for alto flute, cello and piano Ravel Chansons madécasses; Histoires naturelles Stéphane Degout and Cédric Tiberghien, in partnership Stéphane Degout Matteo Cesari with two fine instrumentalists, explore the urbanity and sheer playfulness of works by Poulenc in their programme’s first half before turning to the exotic

imagery of two of Ravel’s finest artistic achievements, Philippe Gontier. the Chansons madécasses and the Histoires naturelles, Jean-Baptiste Millot a cycle of five songs to poems by Jules Renard. Degout’s lyric baritone, sonorous and supremely flexible, ideally suits the soundworld of Poulenc and Ravel. Best known to British audiences for his acclaimed performances of Mozart and Rossini at the Royal Opera House, he has also attracted rave reviews for his recordings of French mélodies. Alexis Descharmes Cédric Tiberghien £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

Monday 30 January 1.00 pm

30 Peter Moore trombone James Baillieu piano Kaupo Kikkas James Maynard New work (world première) Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Jørgensen Romance Op. 21 Duparc La vie antérieur Rachmaninov Third movement from Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Hindemith Sonata for trombone and piano Pryor Annie Laurie Peter Moore, winner of the 2008 BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, made history in Peter Moore 2014 when he was appointed the youngest-ever member of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 18. He reveals every facet of his instrument’s

character in this programme, from the tender Kaupo Kikkas melody of the Rachmaninov to the majestic power of Hindemith’s Sonata.

£15 concs £13

Peter Moore is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

James Baillieu

22 Monday 30 January 7.30 pm

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

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

London Pianoforte Series Igor Levit

Tuesday 31 January 7.30pm 31 Gould Piano Trio GOULD PIANO TRIO 25TH ANNIVERSARY

Schubert Notturno in Eb D897; Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898; Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929 Among Schubert’s many late masterworks, the two piano trios rank with the finest. Each bears witness to the composer’s unfailing inventive powers and ability to create melodies of sublime beauty, including those of the B flat Trio’s opening movement and the E flat Trio’s transcendent slow movement. The Gould Piano Trio prefaces both works with the introspective Notturno of 1827.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Jake Morley

Gould Piano Trio

23 How to get to Wigmore Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Benjamin Ealovega