MARCH 2018/19 Season

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March

1 Mar 12.30pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 4 16 Mar 11.00am Family Concert: Stan & Mabel 14 2.00pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 4 and the Race for Space 7.30pm Sofia Mchedlishvili/ 4 7.30pm Heath Quartet 14

Andrey Zhilikhovsky/ 17 Mar 11.30am String Quartet 14

Iain Burnside 7.30pm Renata Pokupić/La Serenissima/ 14 2 Mar 1.00pm Sara Kobayashi/Ayaka Niwano 4 Adrian Chandler 7.30pm 4 Stéphane Degout/Alain Planès 18 Mar 1.00pm 14 3 Mar 11.30am Kronberg Academy 5 7.30pm Sirius Chau/Michael Matthews/ 15 7.30pm Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge 5 Kumi Matsuo 4 Mar 1.00pm Mariam Batsashvili 5 19 Mar 5.30pm Nash Ensemble/ 15 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 5 7.30pm 15 5 Mar 1.00pm Jamal Aliyev/Jâms Coleman 7 Nash Ensemble/ 7.30pm Ensemble Modern/ 6 Maximilian Schmitt Sir George Benjamin/ 20 Mar 7.30pm Vox Luminis/Reinoud Van Mechelen 15 Anu Komsi/Helena Rasker 9.30pm Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A 16 6 Mar 7.30pm Florilegium 7 21 Mar 7.30pm Christoph Prégardien/Pentaèdre/ 16 7.30pm Wigmore at the Roundhouse: 6 Joseph Petric

Ensemble Modern Orchestra/ 22 Mar 1.00pm Orchestra of St John’s 16 Sir George Benjamin 7.30pm Škampa Quartet 16 7 Mar 10.15am 7 Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 23 Mar 7.30pm /Timothy Ridout/ 17 11.45am 7 Chamber Tots: Under the Sea Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Schubert 8 7.30pm Denis Kozhukhin 7 24 Mar 11.30am Dover Quartet 17 7.30pm Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn 17 8 Mar 7.30pm The English Concert/ 8 Nadja Zwiener/Tuomo Suni/ 25 Mar 1.00pm Novus String Quartet 18 Christian Curnyn 7.30pm Jun Lin Wu 18 9 Mar 11.00am Who is Hans Keller? 9 26 Mar 7.30pm Zlata Chochieva 18 2.30pm Music workshop of Mozart K421 9 27 Mar 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 18 6.00pm Film Screening: The Keller Instinct 9 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 19 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 9 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/The King’s Consort 19 10 Mar 11.30am Nash Ensemble 8 28 Mar 1.00pm Steven Isserlis Masterclass 19 7.30pm Marc-André Hamelin 10 7.30pm Waynne Kwon/Maksim Kinasov/ 19 11 Mar 1.00pm Belcea Quartet 9 Anna Denisova/Michael Brailey 7.30pm Nils Mönkemeyer/William Youn 10 29 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 19 12 Mar 7.30pm Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk 10 11.45am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 19 7.30pm Kristóf Baráti/István Várdai/ 20 13 Mar 1.00pm 10 Side by Side Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 7.30pm Die Kölner Akademie/ 11 Mahan Esfahani 30 Mar 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 20 14 Mar 1.00pm Chetham’s School of Music 12 31 Mar 11.30am Horszowski Trio 20 7.30pm Simon Bode/Igor Levit 12 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov/Marcel Ponseele/ 20 Lorenzo Coppola/Javier Zafra/ 15 Mar 11.00am 12 Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel Teunis van der Zwart and the Race for Space 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Julius Drake/ 13 Emily Berrington 4 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 1 March Saturday 2 March 12.30pm and 2.00pm 1.00pm

Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles Sara Kobayashi soprano Interactive music-making sessions for children Ayaka Niwano aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with Avex Recital Series 2019 songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by Schubert Heidenröslein Strauss From music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever Mädchenblumen Op. 22: Kornblumen & alongside emerging chamber ensembles. Mohnblumen Quilter Love’s Philosophy; Now sleeps the crimson petal Purcell/ 12.30pm (1-2 year-olds) & Britten Sweeter than roses Britten The Last 2.00pm (3-5 year-olds) Rose of Summer Fauré Les roses d’Ispahan Approximately 1 hour in duration Debussy Green from Ariettes oubliées Tosti 4 Children £7 Adults £5 Canzoni d’Amaranta Dai Fujikura Kiite; Dawn Passacaglia Takemitsu Small Sky; All That Friday 1 March the Man Left Behind when he Died Yamada 4 Spring Wind Songs Hashimoto MAI 7.30pm £18 concs £12 Russian Song Series Sponsored by Tarisio Sofia Mchedlishvilisoprano Saturday 2 March Andrey Zhilikhovsky baritone 7.30pm Iain Burnside piano A diverse programme of Russian songs and Stéphane Degout baritone operatic arias by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glière, Alain Planès piano Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. Debussy 3 poèmes de Paul Verlaine; Fêtes £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 galantes Book II; 3 poèmes de Mallarmé; Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools Chansons de France; Le promenoir des deux and 8-25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please amants Fauré Les berceaux; Au bord de l’eau; contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Clair de lune; Mandoline; Danseuse; Après un The Russian Song Series is made possible with additional rêve Chabrier L’île heureuse; Chanson pour support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Jeanne Duparc La vie antérieure; Sérénade; Chanson triste; Elégie; Lamento; Le galop £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Tots Iain Burnside Sara Kobayashi Stéphane Degout © Benjamin Ealovega © Tall Wall Media © Nippon Columbia © Jean-Baptiste Millot wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 5

Sunday 3 March Monday 4 March 11.30am 1.00pm

Young Soloists of the Mariam Batsashvili piano Kronberg Academy Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor JiYoung Lim violin BWV903 Santiago Cañón Valencia Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:37 Megumi Hashiba piano Ravel Sonatine Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole S254 Ginastera Pampeana No. 2 Op. 21

Jérôme Ducros Encore £16 concs £14 Debussy in G minor Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34 Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and cello after Monday 4 March a Theme by G.F. Handel 7.30pm £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ Brahms Plus Series sherry/juice Jonathan Plowright piano Sunday 3 March Brahms plus Beethoven 7.30pm Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116; Rhapsodies Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Op. 79; Klavierstücke Op. 76 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Ian Bostridge tenor £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Brad Mehldau piano With grateful thanks to the Piano Circle Brad Mehldau New song cycle* (UK première) Schumann Dichterliebe Op. 48 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series *Co-commissioned by Elbphilharmonie Sunday 21 July 7.30pm Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and Carnegie Hall £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

JiYoung Lim Ian Bostridge Mariam Batsashvili Jonathan Plowright © Kyutai Shim © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Attila Kleb © Diane Shaw 6 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Sir George Benjamin Focus At Wigmore Hall Wigmore at the Roundhouse Tuesday 5 March Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm 7.30pm Ensemble Modern Ensemble Modern Orchestra Sir George Benjamin conductor Sir George Benjamin conductor Anu Komsi soprano Ueli Wiget piano Helena Rasker contralto Boulez Initiale Christian Mason Layers of Love Messiaen 7 haïkaï for piano and orchestra Cathy Milliken New work* Ustvolskaya Composition No. 2 ‘Dies irae’ for Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna 8 double basses, percussion and piano Sir George Benjamin Into the Little Hill Ligeti Ramifications for 12 solo strings Sir George Benjamin Palimpsests for orchestra *Commissioned by Ensemble Modern Tickets available from the Roundhouse at £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 roundhouse.org.uk or 0300 6789 222

These concerts are supported by The John S Cohen Foundation

Sir George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd

Roundhouse © John Williams wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 7

Tuesday 5 March Thursday 7 March 1.00pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Jamal Aliyev cello Chamber Tots: Under the Sea Jâms Coleman piano Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with YCAT Lunchtime Series 2018/19 songs, percussion and the chance to meet some Bloch From Jewish Life exciting instruments up close. Presented by Ligeti Sonata for solo cello music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever Bridge Sonata in D minor for cello and piano alongside emerging chamber ensembles. £14 concs £12 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) YCAT is grateful for support from the Rachel Baker Memorial Approximately 1 hour in duration Charity, Help Musicians UK and the International Music and Art Foundation for this series Children £7 Adults £5

Wednesday 6 March Thursday 7 March 7.30pm 7.30pm

Florilegium Denis Kozhukhin piano Ashley Solomon director Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Music at the Court of Frederick the Great Schoenberg Kammersymphonie No. 1 Op. 9 (arr. Eduard Steuermann) Bach Ricercar a3 from The Musical Offering Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1 BWV1079 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat Op. 84 CPE Bach Duet for and violin H598 CH Graun in C £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Quantz Trio Sonata in E minor QV2:20 In Memory of Peter Flatter Müthel Flute Sonata in D Fasch Andantino and 7 Variations for solo harpsichord Benda Violin Sonata in E L3.50 JG Graun Quintet in A minor £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Jamal Aliyev Florilegium Chamber Tots Denis Kozhukhin © Kaupo Kikkas © Amit Lennon © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve 8 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 8 March Introduction to Music: 7.30pm Schubert The English Concert Nadja Zwiener violin Thursday 14 February Thursday 21 February Tuomo Suni violin Thursday 28 February Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord Thursday 7 March Handel Concerto Grosso in D Op. 6 No. 5 All dates 4.45pm – 6.00pm Purcell Suite from Dioclesian Bach Concerto for 2 violins in D minor BWV1043 Composers are often defined by a genre Leclair Suite from Scylla et Glaucus that seems to most suit their musical Muffat Sonata No. 5 in G for strings and character; with Mozart it is opera, continuo from Armonico tributo Beethoven the symphony, and with Franz £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Schubert it is song. Schubert was not the first Lieder composer but he arguably made Sunday 10 March the greatest contribution, and in doing so 11.30am became a trailblazer for Romanticism. Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Join Roy Stratford as we explore Schubert’s experimentation with new Nash Ensemble and daring harmonies and development Spohr Nonet in F Op. 31 of radical and unconventional musical Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 structures. We also explore how Schubert’s music exemplifies Romantic £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ ideas, perhaps the most compelling of sherry/juice which is the idea of the wanderer; in ’s words, ‘in his larger forms, Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move Tuesday 19 March 7.30pm at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker.’ Series ticket price £33

Franz Schubert

The English Concert Nash Ensemble © Oliver Rosser @ Feast Creative © K Leighton wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 9 Recollections of Hans Keller Saturday 9 March Saturday 9 March 11.00am – 1.00pm 7.30pm Who is Hans Keller? by Dr Alison Elias String Quartet Garnham & Panel Discussion Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36 In her lecture, the leading Keller expert Dr Alison Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 Garnham asks the question Who is Hans Keller?, followed by a panel discussion chaired by Keller’s with Grosse Fuge Op. 133 friend and long-term colleague Julian Hogg. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 All seats £10 (Bechstein Room) Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8-25 year CAVATINA Trust olds at selected concerts, supported by www.cavatina.net Saturday 9 March CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, 2.30pm – 4.30pm please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Music workshop based on Hans Monday 11 March Keller’s analysis of Mozart K421 1.00pm Using Keller’s detailed analysis of the piece, Belcea Quartet students from the Guildhall School of Music Hans Keller’s 100th Birthday & Drama work with Levon Chilingirian and Keller’s literary executor Christopher Wintle Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 on Mozart’s D minor quartet from the set ‘Fifths’ dedicated to Haydn. Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 All seats £10 (Auditorium) £16 concs £14

Saturday 9 March 6.00pm – 6.45pm Film Screening: The Keller Instinct A rare screening of a documentary first shown on Channel 4 in 1986 that offers a personal view of Hans Keller at the end of his life and includes commentary from many distinguished musicians, introduced by Anton Weinberg. All seats £5 (Auditorium)

Elias String Quartet © Pete Checchia 10 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 10 March Tuesday 12 March 7.30pm 7.30pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano Janine Jansen violin Castelnuovo-Tedesco Cipressi Op. 17 Alexander Gavrylyuk piano Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Violin Sonata No. 1 in Weissenberg 6 arrangements of songs sung by A minor Op. 105 Clara Schumann 3 Romances Charles Trenet Op. 22 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Fauré Nocturne No. 6 in D flat Op. 63 Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat Op. 61; Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Wednesday 13 March Monday 11 March 1.00pm – 2.00pm 7.30pm Side by Side Nils Mönkemeyer The Prince Consort and Students from William Youn piano Guildhall School of Music & Drama Debussy Beau soir (arr. for viola and piano) The Prince Consort is renowned for its Britten Lachrymae: Reflections on a Song of imaginative programming, world-class John Dowland Op. 48 performances and its original approach to Franck Sonata in A for viola and piano commissioning new works. The ensemble Mozart 6 Variations in G minor on ‘Hélas, j’ai is also passionate about supporting the perdu mon amant’ K360 development of the next generation of singers Clarke Sonata for viola and piano and pianists. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with students from Guildhall School of Music & Drama towards this performance, in which the students and ensemble perform side by side. £5

Marc-André Hamelin Nils Mönkemeyer Janine Jansen Side by Side © Fran Kaufman © Irène Zandel © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 11

Wednesday 13 March 7.30pm Die Kölner Akademie Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Berlin JC Bach Symphony in D Op. 18 No. 4; Harpsichord Concerto No. 6 in F minor Mozart Piano Concerto No. 6 in B flat K238 CPE Bach Symphony in E minor Wq. 178 Distler Harpsichord Concerto Op. 14 The outstanding harpsichordist joins with an orchestra that plays old and new music in a rarity by the neglected figure of Hugo Distler, who committed suicide aged 34 in Berlin in 1936, just one year after composing his neoclassical concerto. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil 12 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 14 March Thursday 14 March 1.00pm 7.30pm

Joanne Lee flute Simon Bode tenor Igor Levit piano Molin Han violin Mozart Das Veilchen; Die betrogene Welt; Die Verschweigung; An Chloe; Das Lied der Holly Clark trumpet Trennung; Oiseaux, si tous les ans; Dans Elias Ackerley piano un bois solitaire; Sehnsucht nach dem Lucy Warm piano Frühlinge; Abendempfindung Schubert Viola John Corigliano Blowin’ in the Wind from Mr. piano Leah Nicholson Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan Gwilym Simcock piano Schubert Dass sie hier gewesen; Auf der Chetham’s Chamber Ensemble Bruck (Auf der Brücke); Drang in die Ferne; Im Frühling; Willkommen und Abschied; Des Flavours of France Fischers Liebesglück; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Chetham’s School of Music 50th Anniversary Das Zügenglöcklein; Bei dir allein Season £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Enescu Légende Debussy/Heifetz Beau Soir; The Cakewalk Friday 15 March Ravel/Catherine Pièce en forme de Habanera 11.00am – 12 noon Sancan Sonatine for flute and piano Debussy/Simcock Children’s Corner Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel £10 and the Race for Space Chetham’s School of Music (Reg. Charity No. 526702) Early Years Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 Sponsored by Laura and Harry Ross Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are back! And this time they’re joined by a whole carnival of animals as they escape from the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals in search of a safe place to call their home. Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 present another lively concert for Early Years Foundation Stage & Key Stage 1 children and their teachers, featuring a brand new illustrated story by Jason Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s Composer in Residence Paul Rissmann. Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)

Gwilym Simcock Simon Bode Igor Levit Schools Concert © Kroeger Photography © Robbie Lawrence wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 13

Friday 15 March 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly Residency

Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Emily Berrington actor (subject to availability) Dominick Argento From the Diary of Virginia Woolf Interspersed with readings from Woolf’s diary Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Op. 135 Interspersed with readings from Schiller’s Mary Stuart With regular pianist partner Julius Drake, Dame Sarah Connolly offers Dominick Argento’s cycle from Woolf’s posthumously published A Writer’s Diary, which won the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and Schumann’s moving late settings of texts attributed to Mary Stuart. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 23 July 7.30pm with Malcolm Martineau

Dame Sarah Connolly © Peter Warren 14 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 16 March Sunday 17 March 11.00am – 12 noon 11.30am Family Concert: Stan & Mabel David Oistrakh String Quartet and the Race for Space Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 For ages 4 plus Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are back! And this time they’re joined by a £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ whole carnival of animals as they escape from sherry/juice the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals in search of a safe place to call their home. Sunday 17 March Polly Ives and Ensemble 360 present another 7.30pm lively concert for families, featuring a brand Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano new illustrated story by Jason Chapman with original music by Music in the Round’s Children’s La Serenissima Composer in Residence Paul Rissmann. Adrian Chandler director Children £10 Adults £12 L’Amante Abbandonata: Italian Cantatas from the Settecento Saturday 16 March Vivaldi Che giova il sospirar RV679 7.30pm Marcello Arianna abbandonata S98 Heath Quartet Scarlatti Notte, ch’in carro d’ombre H480 Vivaldi Concerto in A for strings and continuo Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4 RV158 Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 Ristori Didone abbandonata Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Monday 18 March Free tickets for schools and 8-25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please 1.00pm contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Jeremy Denk piano Bach Partita No. 5 in G BWV829 Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 £16 concs £14

Heath Quartet David Oistrakh String Quartet Reneta Pokupić Jeremy Denk © Simon Way © Chris Gloagg © Michael Wilson wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 15

Monday 18 March Tuesday 19 March 7.30pm 7.30pm Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Sirius Chau flute Michael Matthews guitar Nash Ensemble Kumi Matsuo piano Maximilian Schmitt tenor CPE Bach Sonata in G for flute and continuo Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Wq. 133 Mendelssohn 8 songs (arr. for voice and string Bowen Sonata for flute and piano Op. 120 quartet by Aribert Reimann) Dowland Lachrimae Pavan; Fantasia No. 7 Schumann 6 songs Op. 107 (arr. for voice and Rautavaara Serenades of the Unicorn for guitar string quartet by Aribert Reimann) Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70 Mendelssohn String Octet in E flat Op. 20 Ray Leung As the Wind Resonates (world £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 première) Sancan Sonatine for flute and piano Wednesday 20 March £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 7.30pm Promoted by Friends of Young Artists Platform Vox Luminis Residency Promoted by the Tillett Trust & Milton Grundy Foundation Vox Luminis Tuesday 19 March Lionel Meunier director 5.30pm Reinoud Van Mechelen tenor (Orphée) Members of the Nash Ensemble A Nocte Temporis side by side with Charpentier Miserere des Jésuites H193; Musicians from the Royal Litanies de la vierge H83 Academy of Music Charpentier La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488 Carter Inner Song for solo ; Steep Steps for bass £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Sir Duet No. 4 for flute and Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major violin; An Interrupted Endless Melody for oboe contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series and piano Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Knussen Reflection for violin and piano New works by RAM student composers Wednesday 20 March 9.30pm All seats £4 Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A Saturday 13 July 7.30pm

Sirius Chau Nash Ensemble Vox Luminis © K Leighton © Ola Renska 16 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 20 March Friday 22 March 9.30pm 1.00pm Vox Luminis Residency My Music with Orchestra of St John’s Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A Orchestra of St John’s The concert will be followed by an Open Mic John Lubbock founder/conductor session, with audience members invited to Stanley Johnson interviewee participate in a live Q&A with Lionel Meunier and Reinoud Van Mechelen. Paul Blezard journalist Handel Art Thou Troubled? from Rodelinda Free (with evening concert ticket) Brahms Opening of Violin Concerto in D Op. 77 Dvořák Largo from Symphony No. 9 in E minor Thursday 21 March Op. 95 7.30pm Mozart Rondo from Horn Concerto in E flat No. 4 K495 Christoph Prégardien tenor Parry I Was Glad Pentaèdre wind quintet Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn in Joseph Petric accordion B flat Op. 56b Trad House of the Rising Sun Schubert Winterreise D911 (arr. Norman Forget) Julia Gray Atlas Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, £16 concs £14 without an interval Orchestra of St John’s (Reg. Charity No. 289106) £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Friday 22 March 7.30pm Škampa Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8-25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’

Reinoud Van Mechelen Christoph Prégardien Stanley Johnson Škampa Quartet © Senne Van der Ven © Marco Borggreve © Vojtěch Havlík wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 17

Saturday 23 March Sunday 24 March 7.30pm 7.30pm Fauré/Schumann Project Nathan Gunn baritone Joshua Bell violin Julie Gunn piano Timothy Ridout viola CAKE Opera Singer Steven Isserlis cello Berlin I Love a Piano Tom Waits The Piano Has Been Drinking Jeremy Denk piano Ives The Circus Band; General William Booth Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Enters into Heaven Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63; Van Heusen Polka Dots and Moonbeams; 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 Here’s That Rainy Day Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45 Arlen I’ve Got the World on a String Gene Scheer From Voices from World War II: At Returns Only Howard Hawks’ House & Omaha Beach Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Barber With Rue my Heart is Laden Weill This is the Life from Love Life Tuesday 23 April 7.30pm Bernstein Lonely Town from On the Town; Steven Isserlis cello with Janine Jansen violin Captain Hook’s Soliloquy from Peter Pan Arisa Fujita violin Amihai Grosz viola & Connie Goodman City of New Orleans Shih piano William Bolcom From Cabaret Songs: Song of Black Max, Fur (Murray the Furrier) & Over Sunday 16 June 7.30pm the Piano Steven Isserlis cello with Anthony Marwood Ben Moore The Lake Isle of Innisfree; Darkling violin Irène Duval violin Eivind Holtsmark I Listen Ringstad viola Dénes Várjon piano & Izabella Gorney Brother can you spare a dime? Simon piano Trad/Irish The Parting Glass £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Sunday 24 March 11.30am Dover Quartet Mendelssohn 4 Pieces Op. 81 Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A flat Op. 105 £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ sherry/juice

Joshua Bell Dover Quartet Nathan Gunn © Eric Kabik © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco © Joshua Spencer 18 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 25 March Tuesday 26 March 1.00pm 7.30pm

Novus String Quartet Zlata Chochieva piano Respighi Quartetto dorico Rachmaninov Suite from Violin Partita: Berg Lyric Suite Prélude, Gavotte & Gigue (transcr. for piano £16 concs £14 after JS Bach) Chopin Mazurka in C minor Op. 30 No. 1; Mazurka in C B82; Mazurka in A minor Op. posth. Monday 25 March Skryabin Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 3 7.30pm No. 2; Mazurka in F minor Op. 25 No. 1; Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 25 No. 7 Jun Lin Wu piano Liszt Valse oubliée No. 2 S215; Mephisto Waltz Jaques Samuel Intercollegiate Piano No. 2 S515 Competition 2018 Winner’s Recital Rachmaninov Canon in E minor; Prelude in F; Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Fragments; Oriental Sketch Chopin Nocturne in B Op.62 No. 1; Nocturne Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor in E Op. 62 No. 2; Scherzo in E Op. 54 No. 4 Op. 28 Albéniz From Cantos de España Op. 232: £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Prelude & Córdoba; Tango from España In Memory of Peter Flatter Op. 165 (arr. Leopold Godowsky); Triana from Iberia Book 2 Wednesday 27 March Ravel Jeux d’eau; Pavane pour une infante 12.15pm défunte; La valse £16 Pre-Concert Talk Sponsored by Bechstein, Fazioli and S. W. Mitchell Capital LLP The OPUS2018 winner discusses their new work with Dr Kate Kennedy ahead of its London première in the lunchtime concert. Free (ticket required)

Novus String Quartet Jun Lin Wu Zlata Chochieva Britten Sinfonia © Jin-ho Park © Qiu Wang © Nefeli Mousoura © Harry Rankin wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 19

Wednesday 27 March Thursday 28 March 1.00pm 7.30pm

Britten Sinfonia Waynne Kwon cello Trad/Scottish Hirta (arr. James MacMillan) Maksim Kinasov piano James MacMillan For Sally; For Max Anna Denisova piano Maxwell Davies Farewell to Stromness OPUS2018 winner New work (London première) Michael Brailey performer £16 concs £14 RNCM Gold Medal Winners Concert Beethoven Third movement from Piano Sonata Wednesday 27 March No. 30 in E Op. 109 7.30pm Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Book I) Op. 35 Carolyn Sampson soprano Poulenc Cello Sonata The King’s Consort Saint-Saëns Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (arr. for cello and piano) Robert King director Michael Brailey New work (world première) Handel in Italy Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 Handel Dietro l’orme fuggaci (Armida Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 S514 abbandonata) HWV105 Hasse Fuga e Grave Glinka/Balakirev The Lark in G minor Handel Tra le fiamme HWV170 £16 Geminiani Concerto grosso in E minor Op. 3 No. 3 Handel Agrippina condotta a morire Friday 29 March HWV110 10.15am and 11.45am £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Chamber Tots: On the Farm Thursday 28 March Interactive music-making sessions for children 1.00pm – 4.00pm aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with songs, percussion and the chance to meet some Steven Isserlis Masterclass exciting instruments up close. Presented by Acclaimed British cellist Steven Isserlis hosts music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever a masterclass with students from London alongside emerging chamber ensembles. music colleges. 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & Approximately 3 hours in duration, including 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) an interval Approximately 1 hour in duration £10 concs £8 Children £7 Adults £5

Carolyn Sampson Steven Isserlis Waynne Kwon Chamber Tots © Marco Borggreve © Kevin Davis © Benjamin Ealovega 20 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 29 March Sunday 31 March 7.30pm 11.30am £5 TICKETS Kristóf Baráti violin Horszowski Trio István Várdai cello Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 UNDER 35s Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Jean-Efflam Bavouzetpiano £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Op. 36 (arr. sherry/juice for piano trio) Discover Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor Op. posth. Sunday 31 March Ravel Piano Trio in A minor 7.30pm at Wigmore Hall £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Alexander Melnikov Residency Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: oboe Free tickets for schools and 8-25 year olds at selected concerts, Marcel Ponseele supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please Lorenzo Coppola clarinet contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Javier Zafra Saturday 30 March Teunis van der Zwart horn 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Mozart Adagio in B minor K540; Quintet in Mahan Esfahani harpsichord E flat for piano and winds K452 Beethoven Horn Sonata in F Op. 17; Bach Suite in G minor BWV822; Fugue in Quintet in E flat for piano and winds Op. 16 B flat BWV954; Partita No. 4 in D BWV828; Fantasia in G minor BWV917; Partita No. 5 in £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 G BWV829 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8-25 year olds at selected concerts, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Tuesday 9 July 7.30pm Friday 21 June 7.00pm Alexander Melnikov piano with Alexander Rudin cello

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Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West Restaurant and Bars End and is easily accessible by public transport or car. Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshments can be found at wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by Tubes calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141. Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations are both close by. Disabled Access and Facilities Full details from 020 7935 2141 Buses or [email protected] A large number of buses travel along Oxford Street, which is approximately a five-minute walk from Wigmore Hall. Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Car Parking Bronze Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square and Harley Street, both of which are less than a five-minute walk This brochure is available in alternative formats. from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland If this would be of assistance to you, please Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers email [email protected] or call 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the box 020 7935 2141. office for further details or visit our website. Front cover photos: Sir George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd | Carolyn Sampson © Marco Borggreve Mariam Batsashvili © Attila Kleb

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