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2018/19 Season September - December 2018 2 •

I am very much looking forward to focusing on a beloved composer in 2018/19. Our Schumann Song Series will explore in depth the great composer’s extraordinary output, which is amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition. I am very pleased to welcome Florian Boesch who, with , will open the series. As the season progresses, we will be focusing on ’s highly personal art with the Elias interpreting his great string quartets. Whether as classical violinist or improviser, composer or orchestral director, Pekka Kuusisto certainly Director’s enlivens the musical scene with levels of energy and engagement few can match. As he continues to refresh the classics, he proves equally able to enthuse Introduction audiences for new music conceived in a variety of genres. He joins us in residence throughout the season. Mozart made his home for the last decade of his life, and now Viennese Elisabeth Leonskaja will be presenting a series which brings his music together with works from the school founded by , whose impact on the course of musical history would be profound. With his interest in period instruments and historically-informed performance practice, Alexander Melnikov is one of the most stimulating musicians of our time. You will have a chance to experience just how seamlessly he can move between different repertoires when, in the opening concert of his residency, he offers Prokofiev’s wispy but characterful collection of 20 miniature ‘fleeting visions’. He will follow this by joining the in Brahms’s grandly impassioned Quintet, a cornerstone of the Romantic chamber repertory. Another pianist of special qualities, Christian Blackshaw turns 70 during the course of this season, when his unique artistry will be celebrated in a series of concerts in which he is partnered by distinguished colleagues. ‘Of all the great composers’, said Sir András Schiff, ‘Schubert touches me the most’. In his concert on 10 October we have the enviable opportunity to hear him present three major works, including the ambitious composed in the spa of Bad Gastein in 1825 and the freely-flowing Fantasie-Sonate of the following year. Although founded just nine years ago, Ensemble Correspondances has won an international reputation for its historically-informed performances of music from the French Baroque period. I am delighted they are returning to Wigmore with programmes which focus on Charpentier, Purcell and de Lalande. The Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis has also acquired a wide reputation for its specialist programming and I am very pleased to welcome them in residence this season. Dame has maintained a standard of excellence in the house as in concert and recital halls. She joins us throughout the 18/19 season offering a truly eclectic repertoire ranging from the Baroque masters through bel canto, Wagner and Elgar to new works. I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall this season. • 3

Contents

At a Glance 4 Calendar 6 September 8 October 28 November 52 December 73 Contemporary Music Series 90 Spring Preview 92 Summer Preview 96 Booking Information 104 At a Glance September – December 2018

See pages 8 – 89 for full details of these concerts and page 104 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… 84 Sat 3 Nov Music in the Round 53 Schumann Song Series 8 Avi Avital 86 Wed 7 Nov Takács Quartet 56 La Serenissima 9 Brenda Rae 87 Fri 9 Nov Takács Quartet 59 Joshua Redman 10 Dunedin Consort 89 Sun 11 Nov Academy of St Martin in the 60 Fields/ Dorothea Röschmann 11 Contemporary Music Series 90-91 Tue 13 Nov 61 Pekka Kuusisto Residency 12 Wed 14 Nov /Lauma Skride/ 62 Mozart & the 2nd Viennese School: 14 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Trio Palladio/Antonina Suhanova Elisabeth Leonskaja Mon 10 Sep Ilker Arcayürek/ 9 Ammiel Bushakevitz Thu 15 Nov 61 Dame Sarah Connolly Residency 15, 48 Mon 17 Sep Trio Mediæval 15 Sat 17 Nov Isabelle Faust/Steven 64 Ravel Song Series 16, 63 Mon 24 Sep Lucy Crowe/Joseph Middleton 21 Isserlis/Alexander Melnikov/ Schubert Cycles 17, 18 Rachel Roberts/Katharine Gowers Mon 1 Oct Chiaroscuro Quartet/ 28 James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 17 Wed 21 Nov 66 Annelien Van Wauwe Parry Focus 19 Thu 22 Nov 67 Mon 8 Oct /Yuka Beppu 35 Alexander Melnikov Residency 20 Sat 24 Nov 67, 69 Mon 15 Oct / 38 Nash Ensemble Christian Blackshaw Focus 21, 87 Sun 25 Nov 69 Mon 22 Oct Karina Gauvin/Maciej Pikulski 45 Anthony Marwood/ Russian Song Series 22, 73 Susan Tomes/Aleksandar Mon 29 Oct Thibaut Garcia 50 Madžar/Richard Lester/ Manuel Walser 25 Mon 5 Nov Aleksey Semenenko/ 55 Doric String Quartet Schumann String Quartet Series 26 Inna Firsova Mon 26 Nov /Paul Cannon 70 Composers and Their Muses 27 Mon 12 Nov Jonathan Biss 60 Fri 30 Nov / 73 Mahan Esfahani 28, 82 Mon 19 Nov Roberta Invernizzi/ 65 Cédric Tiberghien Robin Tritschler 30 Craig Marchitelli/ Mon 3 Dec 76 Franco Pavan/Rodney Prada : The Bach Odyssey 32 Wed 5 Dec Benedetti Elschenbroich 77 Mon 26 Nov Silke Avenhaus/Tai Murray 71 Marlis Petersen Residency 34, 73 Grynyuk Trio Mon 3 Dec 75 35 Sat 8 Dec Nash Ensemble/ 80 Mon 10 Dec / 81 Sophie Bevan/ Sir András Schiff 36, 37 Charles Owen Mon 10 Dec 79 Jeremy Denk 41 Mon 17 Dec Ensemble Zefiro 83 Wed 12 Dec Quatuor Ebène 81 Nash Ensemble 42-43, 67, 69, 80 ‘German Romantics’ Mon 17 Dec 85 Season 60th Birthday Concert Ensemble Correspondances 44 Wed 12 Se Schumann String Quartet 11 Residency Sat 29 Dec Trio Wanderer 88 Thu 13 Sep Pekka Kuusisto/Additional 12 Piotr Beczała 46 Sun 30 Dec Castalian Quartet 89 Artists TBC Martin Helmchen 47 Thu 20 Sep Alexander Melnikov/ 20 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Michaela Schuster 47 Cuarteto Casals Sun 9 Sep Doric String Quartet 9 Yaniv d’Or/Ensemble NAYA 49 Fri 21 Sep James Ehnes/ 17 Sun 16 Sep 13 René Pape 54 Andrew Armstrong Sun 23 Sep /Yeol Eum Son 19 Takács Quartet: 56, 59 Sun 23 Sep Heath Quartet 19 Sun 30 Sep 25 Associate Artists Mon 24 Sep Christian Blackshaw/ 21 Hermès Quartet Vox Luminis Residency 58 Soloists of the Berliner Sun 7 Oct Adrian Brendel/ 31 Philharmoniker Christian Ihle Hadland Joshua Bell/Academy of 60 St Martin in the Fields Tue 25 Sep Pavel Haas Quartet 23 Sun 14 Oct /Petr Limonov 37 100th Anniversary of the 62 Wed 26 Sep Elena Bashkirova/ 23 Sun 21 Oct Quatuor Voce 45 Proclamation of the Republic of Latvia Jerusalem Chamber Music Sun 28 Oct Emma Johnson/ 50 Festival Ensemble Faure/Schumann Project 64 Finghin Collins Fri 28 Sep Elias String Quartet/ 26 Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon 70 Sun 4 Nov Music in the Round 53 Jonathan Biss Christian Gerhaher/ 72 Sun 11 Nov Daniel Lebhardt 60 Sat 29 Sep Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih 27 Brahms Plus: 74 Sun 18 Nov Parker String Quartet 63 Tue 2 Oct Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 29 Jonathan Plowright Pavel Kolesnikov Sun 25 Nov Aquinas 69 Soile Isokoski 75 Fri 5 Oct IMS Prussia Cove 29 Sun 2 Dec Vadym Kholodenko 75 Escher String Quartet: 76 Sat 6 Oct Pieter Wispelwey 31 Sun 9 Dec Benjamin Baker/ 80 American Series Daniel Lebhardt Sat 13 Oct Veronika Eberle/Dénes Várjon 37 /Jonathan Cohen 77 Sun 16 Dec Novus String Quartet 83 Tue 16 Oct Danish String Quartet 39 Janáček Focus 78, 79 Sun 23 Dec Quatuor Arod 87 Sat 20 Oct Nash Ensemble 42-43 Bertrand Chamayou 82 Sun 30 Dec RTÉ Contempo Quartet/ 89 Fri 26 Oct The Endellion String Quartet 49 Richard Goode 83 Arcadia Quartet www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5

Early Music and Baroque Series Mon 17 Sep /Thomas Adès 18 Mon 15 Oct Nicholas Daniel/Charles Owen 38 Sun 9 Sep La Serenissima/ 9 Wed 19 Sep Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès 17 Thu 18 Oct Jeremy Denk 41 Adrian Chandler Sat 22 Sep Olena Tokar/Pavel Kolgatin/ Sun 21 Oct Quatuor Voce 45 Nikolay Didenko/Iain Burnside 22 Tue 18 Sep Classical Opera/The Mozartists 15 Fri 26 Oct Andrew Watts/Iain Burnside 47 Sun 23 Sep Mary Bevan/Nicky Spence/ 19 Thu 27 Sep The Cardinall’s Musick 23 Mon 29 Oct 50 William Vann Thibaut Garcia Mon 1 Oct Mahan Esfahani 28 Sun 30 Sep Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli 25 Tue 30 Oct Nicolas Hodges 51 Mon 8 Oct Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ 35 Wed 3 Oct Robin Tritschler/ 30 Tue 13 Nov Artemis Quartet 61 Malcolm Martineau Wed 14 Nov Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride/ 62 Mon 15 Oct Richard Egarr 38 Sun 7 Oct ENO Harewood Artists 33 Trio Palladio/Antonina Suhanova Sun 21 Oct Ensemble Correspondances 44 Tue 9 Oct Marlis Petersen/ 34 Thu 15 Nov Belcea Quartet 61 Wed 24 Oct Dame Sarah Connolly/ 48 Matthias Lademann Sun 25 Nov Anthony Marwood/Susan 69 Tenebrae/Nigel Short/ Thu 11 Oct Benjamin Appl/ 35 Tomes/Aleksandar Madžar/ Eugene Asti Graham Johnson Richard Lester/ Sat 27 Oct Yaniv d’Or/Ensemble NAYA 49 Fri 19 Oct Independent Opera Scholars’ Doric String Quartet Sun 28 Oct 50 Recital 2018 41 Mon 26 Nov Silke Avenhaus/Tai Murray 71 Wed 31 Oct L’Arpeggiata 51 Sun 21 Oct Tareq Nazmi/Gerold Huber 45 Mon 26 Nov Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon 70 Mon 5 Nov Florilegium 55 Mon 22 Oct Piotr Beczała/Helmut Deutsch 46 Fri 30 Nov Alina Ibragimova/ 73 Cédric Tiberghien Thu 8 Nov Vox Luminis 58 Thu 25 Oct Michaela Schuster/ 47 Matthias Veit Mon 10 Dec Augustin Hadelich/ 81 Tue 20 Nov The English Concert 65 Fri 26 Oct Andrew Watts/Iain Burnside 47 Charles Owen Fri 7 Dec Arcangelo 77 Fri 2 Nov Marie-Nicole Lemieux/ 52 Thu 20 Dec Andreas Scholl/ 84 Tue 11 Dec La Nuova Musica/Lucy Crowe 81 Roger Vignoles Sat 15 Dec Mahan Esfahani 82 Sun 4 Nov Hanna-Elisabeth Müller/ 55 Sat 22 Dec Avi Avital/Venice 86 Juliane Ruf Learning Baroque Orchestra Tue 6 Nov René Pape/Camillo Radicke 54 Wed 12 Sep Chamber Tots: Autumn 11 Mon 31 Dec Dunedin Consort 89 Fri 16 Nov Dame Sarah Connolly/ 63 Thu 13 Sep Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A 12 James Newby/Joseph Middleton Sat 15 Sep Family Concert: Folk Up North 13 Wed 21 Nov Samling Showcase 66 Pianoforte Series Wed 19 Sep Dame Sarah Connolly 15 Wed 28 Nov 72 Fri 14 Sep Elisabeth Leonskaja 14 Christian Gerhaher/ Masterclass Gerold Huber Sun 16 Sep Andreas Staier 13 Sat 22 Sep Open House Day 17 Thu 29 Nov Justina Gringytė/Andrey 73 Thu 20 Sep Alexander Melnikov/ 20 Zhilikhovsky/Iain Burnside Sat 22 Sep Pre-Concert Talk 22 Cuarteto Casals Sat 1 Dec Marlis Petersen/ 73 Fri 28 Sep For Crying Out Loud! 25 Thu 4 Oct Angela Hewitt 32 Die Kölner Akademie Wed 3 Oct Chamber Tots: Autumn 29 Sun 7 Oct Francois-Frédéric Guy 33 Tue 4 Dec Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen 75 Sun 7 Oct Silver Sunday 33 Wed 10 Oct Sir András Schiff 36 Fri 14 Dec 82 Tue 16 Oct Come and Sing 39 Fri 12 Oct Sir András Schiff 37 Foundation Gala Thu 18 Oct Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 39 Thu 18 Oct Jeremy Denk 41 Tue 18 Dec Fatma Said/James Vaughan 85 Sat 20 Oct Relaxed Concert: 41 Tue 23 Oct Martin Helmchen 47 Wed 19 Dec /Simon Lepper 85 Magnard Ensemble Tue 30 Oct Nicolas Hodges 51 Thu 20 Dec Andreas Scholl/ 84 Tamar Halperin Sat 27 Oct Family Day: Autumn Senses 49 Thu 1 Nov Federico Colli 52 Fri 21 Dec Alice Coote/ 87 Tue 30 Oct Bechstein Sessions: 51 Sat 10 Nov Cédric Tiberghien 59 Christian Blackshaw The Hermes Experiment Mon 19 Nov Alexandre Tharaud 65 Sun 23 Dec Brenda Rae/Jonathan Ware 87 Thu 1 Nov Schools Concert: 52 Tue 27 Nov Boris Giltburg 71 The King with Donkey Ears Fri 28 Dec Nicky Spence/Roger Vignoles 88 Sun 2 Dec Jonathan Plowright 74 Sat 3 Nov Family Concert: 53 We are grateful to The Monument Trust for essential The King with Donkey Ears Sun 9 Dec Thomas Adès 79 additional support for our expanded vocal series Thu 13 Dec Bertrand Chamayou 82 Wed 7 Nov Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 57 Sun 16 Dec Richard Goode 83 Jazz Series Thu 8 Nov For Crying Out Loud! 57 Thu 27 Dec Nick van Bloss 88 Tue 11 Sep Joshua Redman/Ola Kvernberg 10 Thu 8 Nov Artists in Conversation 58 Fri 9 Nov Music for the Moment 57 Song Recital Series Contemporary Music Series Sat 17 Nov Chamber Tots: Into Space 63 Sat 8 Sep Florian Boesch/ 8 Thu 13 Sep Pekka Kuusisto 12 Sat 24 Nov Come and Sing: Vivaldi’s Gloria 67 Malcolm Martineau Fri 21 Sep James Ehnes/ 17 Tue 27 Nov Wigmore Study Group 71 Mon 10 Sep Dorothea Röschmann/ 11 Andrew Armstrong commences Malcolm Martineau Sun 23 Sep Heath Quartet 19 Thu 6 Dec Chamber Tots: Into Space 77 Sat 15 Sep Mary Bevan/Henk Neven/ 16 Sun 7 Oct 33 Joseph Middleton Francois-Frédéric Guy Mon 10 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 79 Calendar

September – December 2018

September Thu 4 Oct 7.00pm Angela Hewitt 32 Sat 8 Sep 7.30pm Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 8 Fri 5 Oct 7.30pm IMS Prussia Cove 29 Sun 9 Sep 11.30am Doric String Quartet 9 Sat 6 Oct 3.00pm Pieter Wispelwey 31 7.30pm La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler 9 7.30pm Pieter Wispelwey 31 Mon 10 Sep 1.00pm Ilker Arcayürek/Ammiel Bushakevitz 9 Sun 7 Oct 11.30am Adrian Brendel/Christian Ihle Hadland 31 7.30pm Dorothea Röschmann/ 11 12 noon Silver Sunday 33 Malcolm Martineau 3.00pm ENO Harewood Artists 33 7.30pm Francois-Frédéric Guy 33 Tue 11 Sep 7.30pm Joshua Redman/Ola Kvernberg 10 Mon 8 Oct 1.00pm Catriona Morison/Yuka Beppu 35 Wed 12 Sep 10.15am Chamber Tots: Autumn 11 7.30pm Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/ 35 11.45am Chamber Tots: Autumn 11 Sandrine Piau 7.30pm Schumann String Quartet 11 Tue 9 Oct 7.30pm Marlis Petersen/ 34 Thu 13 Sep 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto/Teemu Korpipää/ 12 Stephan Matthias Lademann Suvi Savola/Maija Tammi/Jukka Huitila 9.30pm Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A 12 Wed 10 Oct 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 36 Fri 14 Sep 7.30pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 14 Thu 11 Oct 7.30pm Benjamin Appl/Graham Johnson 35 Sat 15 Sep 11.00am Family Concert: Folk Up North 13 Fri 12 Oct 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 37 7.30pm Mary Bevan/Henk Neven/ 16 Sat 13 Oct 7.30pm Veronika Eberle/Dénes Várjon 37 Joseph Middleton Sun 14 Oct 11.30am Jennifer Pike/Petr Limonov 37 Sun 16 Sep 11.30am Wihan Quartet 13 7.30pm Larissa Gergieva/ 38 7.30pm Andreas Staier 13 Singers from the Mariinsky Academy Mon 17 Sep 1.00pm Trio Mediæval 15 Mon 15 Oct 1.00pm Nicholas Daniel/Charles Owen 38 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès 18 7.30pm Richard Egarr 38 Tue 18 Sep 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 15 Tue 16 Oct 10.30am Come and Sing 39 7.30pm Classical Opera/The Mozartists 15 7.30pm Danish String Quartet 39 Wed 19 Sep 1.00pm Dame Sarah Connolly Masterclass 15 Thu 18 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 39 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Thomas Adès 17 11.45am Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 39 Thu 20 Sep 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov/Cuarteto Casals 20 7.30pm Jeremy Denk 41 Fri 21 Sep 7.30pm James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 17 Fri 19 Oct 7.30pm Independent Opera Scholars’ 41 Recital 2018 Sat 22 Sep 10.30am Open House Day 17 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 22 Sat 20 Oct 3.00pm Relaxed Concert: Magnard Ensemble 41 7.30pm Olena Tokar/Pavel Kolgatin/ 22 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 42-43 Nikolay Didenko/Iain Burnside 7.30pm Nash Ensemble 42-43 Sun 23 Sep 11.30am Natalie Clein/Yeol Eum Son 19 Sun 21 Oct 11.30am Quatuor Voce 45 3.00pm Mary Bevan/Nicky Spence/William Vann 19 3.00pm Tareq Nazmi/Gerold Huber 45 7.30pm Heath Quartet 19 7.30pm Ensemble Correspondances 44 Mon 24 Sep 1.00pm Lucy Crowe/Joseph Middleton 21 Mon 22 Oct 1.00pm Karina Gauvin/Maciej Pikulski 45 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw/ 21 7.30pm Piotr Beczała/Helmut Deutsch 46 Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker Tue 23 Oct 7.30pm Martin Helmchen 47 Tue 25 Sep 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet 23 Wed 24 Oct 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Tenebrae/ 48 Wed 26 Sep 7.30pm Elena Bashkirova/ 23 Nigel Short/Eugene Asti Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble Thu 25 Oct 7.30pm Michaela Schuster/Matthias Veit 47 Thu 27 Sep 7.30pm The Cardinall’s Musick 23 Fri 26 Oct 1.00pm Andrew Watts/Iain Burnside 47 Fri 28 Sep 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 25 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 49 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 25 Sat 27 Oct 10.30am Family Day: Autumn Senses 49 7.30pm Elias String Quartet/Jonathan Biss 26 7.30pm Yaniv d’Or/Ensemble NAYA 49 Sat 29 Sep 7.30pm Steven Isserlis/Connie Shih 27 Sun 28 Oct 11.30am Emma Johnson/Finghin Collins 50 Sun 30 Sep 11.30am Hermès Quartet 25 7.30pm The English Concert 50 7.30pm Manuel Walser/Anano Gokieli 25 Mon 29 Oct 1.00pm Thibaut Garcia 50 Tue 30 Oct 5.45pm Bechstein Sessions: 51 October The Hermes Experiment Mon 1 Oct 1.00pm Chiaroscuro Quartet/Annelien Van Wauwe 28 7.30pm Nicolas Hodges 51 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 28 Wed 31 Oct 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata 51 Tue 2 Oct 7.30pm Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Kolesnikov 29 Wed 3 Oct 10.15am Chamber Tots: Autumn 29 11.45am Chamber Tots: Autumn 29 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Malcolm Martineau 30 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 7

November Mon 26 Nov 1.00pm Silke Avenhaus/Tai Murray 71 7.30pm Arditti Quartet/Paul Cannon 70 Thu 1 Nov 11.00am Schools Concert: The King with Donkey Ears 52 7.30pm Federico Colli 52 Tue 27 Nov 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: America 71 7.30pm Boris Giltburg 71 Fri 2 Nov 7.30pm Marie-Nicole Lemieux/Roger Vignoles 52 Wed 28 Nov 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 72 Sat 3 Nov 11.00am Family Concert: The King with Donkey Ears 53 7.30pm Music in the Round 53 Thu 29 Nov 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: America 71 7.30pm Justina Gringytė/Andrey Zhilikhovsky/ 73 Sun 4 Nov 11.30am Music in the Round 53 Iain Burnside 7.30pm Hanna-Elisabeth Müller/Juliane Ruf 55 Fri 30 Nov 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 73 Mon 5 Nov 1.00pm Aleksey Semenenko/Inna Firsova 55 7.30pm Florilegium 55 Tue 6 Nov 7.30pm René Pape/Camillo Radicke 54 December Wed 7 Nov 12.30pm Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 57 2.00pm Chamber Tots: Bear Hunt 57 Sat 1 Dec 7.30pm Marlis Petersen/Die Kölner Akademie 73 7.30pm Takács Quartet 56 Sun 2 Dec 11.30am Vadym Kholodenko 75 Thu 8 Nov 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 57 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 74 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 57 Mon 3 Dec 1.00pm Lara Melda 75 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 58 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: America 71 7.30pm Vox Luminis 58 7.30pm Escher String Quartet 76 Fri 9 Nov 3.00pm Music for the Moment 57 Tue 4 Dec 7.30pm Soile Isokoski/Ilkka Paananen 75 7.30pm Takács Quartet 59 Wed 5 Dec 7.30pm Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio 77 Sat 10 Nov 11.30am Graham Johnson Songmakers’ 59 Thu 6 Dec 10.15am Chamber Tots: Into Space 77 Almanac Lecture 11.45am Chamber Tots: Into Space 77 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien 59 Fri 7 Dec 7.30pm Arcangelo 77 Sun 11 Nov 11.30am Daniel Lebhardt 60 7.30pm Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ 60 Sat 8 Dec 5.30pm Nash Ensemble/Sophie Bevan 80 Joshua Bell 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Roderick Williams 80 Mon 12 Nov 1.00pm Jonathan Biss 60 Sun 9 Dec 11.30am Benjamin Baker/Daniel Lebhardt 80 7.30pm Truls Mørk/Behzod Abduraimov 61 7.30pm Thomas Adès 79 Tue 13 Nov 7.30pm Artemis Quartet 61 Mon 10 Dec 1.00pm Augustin Hadelich/Charles Owen 81 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 79 Wed 14 Nov 7.30pm Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride/ 62 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet 79 Trio Palladio/Antonina Suhanova Tue 11 Dec 7.30pm La Nuova Musica/Lucy Crowe 81 Thu 15 Nov 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 61 Wed 12 Dec 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène 81 Fri 16 Nov 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/James Newby/ 63 Joseph Middleton Thu 13 Dec 7.30pm Bertrand Chamayou 82 Sat 17 Nov 10.15am Chamber Tots: Into Space 63 Fri 14 Dec 7.30pm Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Gala 82 11.45am Chamber Tots: Into Space 63 Sat 15 Dec 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 82 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Steven Isserlis/ 64 Sun 16 Dec 11.30am Novus String Quartet 83 Alexander Melnikov/Rachel Roberts/ 7.30pm Richard Goode 83 Katharine Gowers Mon 17 Dec 1.00pm Ensemble Zefiro 83 Sun 18 Nov 11.30am Parker String Quartet 63 7.30pm Steven Isserlis 60th Birthday Concert 85 Mon 19 Nov 1.00pm Roberta Invernizzi/Craig Marchitelli/ 65 Tue 18 Dec 7.30pm Fatma Said/James Vaughan 85 Franco Pavan/Rodney Prada 7.30pm Alexandre Tharaud 65 Wed 19 Dec 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Simon Lepper 85 Tue 20 Nov 7.30pm The English Concert 65 Thu 20 Dec 7.30pm Andreas Scholl/Tamar Halperin 84 Wed 21 Nov 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 66 Fri 21 Dec 7.30pm Alice Coote/Christian Blackshaw 87 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 66 Sat 22 Dec 7.30pm Avi Avital/Venice Baroque Orchestra 86 7.30pm Samling Showcase 66 Sun 23 Dec 11.30am Quatuor Arod 87 Thu 22 Nov 7.30pm Hagen Quartet 67 7.30pm Brenda Rae/Jonathan Ware 87 Sat 24 Nov 10.00am Come and Sing: Vivaldi’s Gloria 67 Thu 27 Dec 7.30pm Nick van Bloss 88 5.30pm Nash Ensemble 67 Fri 28 Dec 7.30pm Nicky Spence/Roger Vignoles 88 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Christine Rice 69 Sat 29 Dec 7.30pm Trio Wanderer 88 Sun 25 Nov 11.30am Aquinas Piano Trio 69 7.30pm Anthony Marwood/Susan Tomes/ 69 Sun 30 Dec 11.30am RTÉ Contempo Quartet/Arcadia Quartet 89 Aleksandar Madžar/Richard Lester/ 7.30pm Castalian Quartet 89 Doric String Quartet Mon 31 Dec 7.00pm Dunedin Consort 89 8 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Schumann Song Series Wigmore Hall’s opening concert focuses on a beloved composer whose works will be widely featured in various series throughout the 2018/19 season. The Schumann Song Series is devised by Malcolm Martineau and musicologist Susan Youens with singers chosen by John Gilhooly. Launched in partnership with Florian Boesch, it explores in depth the great composer’s extraordinary output, amongst the most rewarding within the entire Lieder tradition.

Saturday 8 September 7.30pm

Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Opening Concert of the 2018/19 Season Franz Selection of settings by Heine Schumann Abends am Strand Liszt Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Du bist wie eine Blume; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (S272/1); Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Die Loreley Schumann Belsazar; Die beiden Grenadiere; Morgens steh’ich auf und frage; Schöne Wiege, meiner Leiden; Warte, warte, wilder Schiffman; Anfangs wollt ich fast verzagen; Mit Myrten und Rosen; From Myrthen: Die Lotosblume, Was will die einsame Träne?, Du bist wie eine Blume & Tragödie I-III

The German-born, Parisian-resident Heinrich Heine was a favoured source of texts for Romantic composers, none more regularly than his contemporary Schumann. In this first concert in the sequence, alternative settings by Liszt and Robert Franz are interspersed with Schumann’s own.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Friday 11 January 2019 with Anne Schwanewilms soprano

Monday 4 February 2019 7.30pm with soprano

Wednesday 24 April 2019 7.30pm with Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano & Robin Tritschler tenor

Malcolm Martineau © K K Dundas www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 9

Sunday 9 September Sunday 9 September Monday 10 September 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Doric String Quartet La Serenissima Ilker Arcayürek tenor Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 Adrian Chandler director, Ammiel Bushakevitz No. 5 piano Beethoven String Quartet in B Hilary Summers The Path of Life flat Op. 130 Neal Davies bass baritone Schubert Fischerweise; An Silvia; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Atys; The Dorics, amongst Britain’s Per Sua Maestà Cattolica Cesarea leading quartets, make a welcome Sei mir gegrüsst; Wehmut; Der Programme to include arias and return with a programme Wanderer (D493); Am Tage aller works from: combining the humour of one Seelen (Litanei auf das Fest aller Caldara/Matteis Ormisda, Re di of Haydn’s ‘Russian’ quartets Seelen); Einsamkeit Persia Conti Il finto Policare – whose opening gesture once Caldara Scipione nelle Spagne earned it the nickname ‘How do The former BBC Radio 3 New Caldara/Matteis Cajo Marzio you do?’ – with the profundity Generation Artist enjoys a rising Coriolano Caldara Sirita of one of Beethoven’s late reputation as a Lieder singer, Vivaldi Concerto in C for violin, masterpieces. joining here with the Israeli- strings and continuo RV171 South African pianist who won £16 concs £14 incl. programme both the pianist and Schubert The musical legacy of Holy and coffee/sherry/juice prizes at the 2013 Wigmore Hall/ Roman Emperor Charles VI is Kohn Foundation International In Memory of Peter Flatter commemorated with vocal and Song Competition. instrumental works by Viennese court composers Antonio Caldara £16 concs £14 and Francesco Conti, as well as Vivaldi, whose hopes of local preferment were dashed by the Emperor’s death. In this concert, La Serenissima explore various arias, sinfonias and concertos from His Majesty’s Imperial Court.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Doric String Quartet Adrian Chandler Ilker Arcayürek © George Garnier © Paul Hurst © Janina Laszlo 10 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Tuesday 11 September 7.30pm Joshua Redman saxophone Ola Kvernberg violin

Two pioneers of their instruments join forces as a duo, once described as a ‘collaboration for the history books’. First meeting at Molde International Jazz Festival in 2006, when Joshua Redman was Artist in Residence, they made their first live appearance together ten years later when Ola Kvernberg took the reins. ‘Certainly one of the most intriguing, demanding and ultimately rewarding collaborations I have ever been a part of, and quite possibly the most unique’, notes Redman.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

© Thor Egil www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 11

Monday 10 September Wednesday 12 September Wednesday 12 September 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm

Dorothea Röschmann Chamber Tots: Autumn Schumann Quartet soprano Schubert String Quartet in D D74 Malcolm Martineau piano We invite children aged 1 to 5 Mendelssohn String Quartet in E and their parents/carers to join Beethoven Die Trommel gerühret; flat Op. 12 us in celebrating the season! Freudvoll und leidvoll; Kennst du Mozart String Quartet in D minor This interactive music-making K421 das Land; Wonne der Wehmut; workshop features songs, Aus Goethes Faust: Es war einmal percussion and the chance to ein König Schumann 5 Lieder Written at the age of 16, meet some exciting instruments Schubert’s engaging score der Maria Stuart Brahms Von up close, led by our experienced waldbekränzter Höhe; Sapphische precedes an accomplished Chamber Tots music leaders Mendelssohn work composed on Ode; Unbewegte laue Luft; Auf alongside emerging ensembles. dem Kirchhofe; O wüsst ich his first visit to and the doch den Weg zurück; Meine 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & anxious second of six quartets Liebe ist grün; Von ewiger Liebe 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) Mozart dedicated to Haydn, the Brahms From Zigeunerlieder: He, Approximately 1 hour in duration only one in a minor key. Zigeuner, greife; Hochgetürmte Rimaflut; Wisst ihr, wann mein Children £7 Adults £5 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Kindchen; Lieber Gott, du weisst; Not booked for Chamber Tots In Memory of Peter Flatter Brauner Bursche führt zum before? Buy your tickets at half Tanze; Röslein dreie in der Reihe; price, either by phone or in person. Kommt dir manchmal & Rote Abendwolken ziehn

Schumann’s intensely moving settings of poems attributed to Mary Stuart and a clutch of gypsy melodies arranged by Brahms form part of this beautiful programme.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Dorothea Röschmann Chamber Tots Schumann Quartet © Harald Hoffmann/Sony Entertainment © Benjamin Ealovega © Kaupo Kikkas 12 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 13 September Pekka Kuusisto 7.30pm

Residency Pekka Kuusisto violin Whether as classical violinist or improviser, composer or Teemu Korpipää electronics orchestral director, Pekka Kuusisto enlivens the musical scene with levels of energy and engagement few can Suvi Savola speaker match. Over the course of his residency, he brings Maija Tammi photography innovative and thought-provoking programmes to the Jukka Huitila visual designer Hall, focusing on challenging subject matter and diverse musical responses. Programme to include: Bartók Sonata for solo violin BB124 Perttu Haapanen New work (UK première)* Improvisations *commissioned by Silence Festival

The Finnish violinist champions Bartók’s solo sonata, a late work beginning with a large- scale , which was written during the composer’s battle with leukaemia. Perttu Haapanen’s new work also explores the idea of mutation within the chaconne form, and responds musically to Henrietta Lacks’s immortalised cancer cells, which have proven vital in the development of medicine. Cancer researcher Suvi Savola joins to speak throughout, and photographer and researcher Maija Tammi’s photographs of cancer cells examine the dichotomy between the cells’ inherent threat to life and their invaluable use in medical research.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Thursday 13 September 9.30pm

Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A

The concert will be followed by an Open Mic session, with audience members invited to participate in a live Q&A with the artists.

Free (with evening concert ticket)

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019 7.30pm

Wednesday 1 May 2019 7.30pm Pekka Kuusisto © Kaapo Kamu www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 13

Saturday 15 September Sunday 16 September Sunday 16 September 11.00am – 12 noon 11.30am 7.30pm

Family Concert: Wihan Quartet Andreas Staier piano Folk Up North Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959; For ages 5 plus Quartet Piano Sonata in B flat D960 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Though an appreciation of their Join the Donald Grant Quartet vast scale and structural novelty and presenter Lucy Drever for this concert exploring Scottish Decades after his death in a was slow in coming, Schubert’s folk music, featuring a specially concentration camp in 1942, Ervín final – of which Andreas commissioned film projected live Schulhoff’s output is steadily Staier plays the very last two – onstage, created by Emmy-award gaining recognition, including his have deservedly achieved a status sharp-edged but entertaining suite and popularity commensurate winning cinematographer Oliver of character pieces evoking the with their unique and monumental Wilkins. This concert delves into the mysterious stories of Scottish waltz, and , paired individuality. folklore and the unique soundworld here with Schubert’s death- of Scottish traditional music. haunted masterpiece. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Children £10 Adults £12 £16 concs £14 incl. programme Not booked for a Family Concert and coffee/sherry/juice before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

Folk Up North Family Concert Wihan Quartet Andreas Staier © Benjamin Ealovega © Marklik.cz © Josep Molina 14 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 14 September Mozart & the 2nd 7.30pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Viennese School Mozart Piano Sonata in C K330 Vienna has been home to several musical traditions. In Schoenberg Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19 this series the magisterial Russian pianist brings together Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat K333; Piano music by Mozart – who made the Austrian capital his Sonata in F K332 home for the last nine years of his life – with works by the Webern Op. 27 school founded by Arnold Schoenberg, whose impact on Mozart Piano Sonata in A K331 the course of musical history would be profound.

Elisabeth Leonskaja, one of the most authoritative musicians of our time, intersperses some of Mozart’s best known sonatas with scores by his 20th-century Viennese successors: Schoenberg’s aphoristic Six Little Piano Pieces and Webern’s emotionally intense Variations, his only published work for solo piano.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Tuesday 16 July 2019 7.30pm

Elisabeth Leonskaja © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 15

Monday 17 September Tuesday 18 September Wednesday 19 September 1.00pm 6.00pm 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Trio Mediæval Pre-Concert Talk Dame Sarah Connolly Anon (England) Salve Mater Ian Page introduces Bastien und mezzo-soprano Miscericordie Trad (Norway) Bastienne, written when Mozart Masterclass Solbønn Trad () Limu was only 12 years old. Limu Lima Trad (Norway) Lova Line Anon (Iceland) Anda Famed for her breadth of £5 þinn guð mér gef þú vist Trad repertoire – from Purcell and (Norway) Sven Svane Anon Handel through Elgar, Mahler (England) Alma mater/Ante Tuesday 18 September and Strauss to Brett Dean and 7.30pm thorum; Benedicta es caelorum Mark-Anthony Turnage – one of regina Anon (Iceland) Rís upp, the great mezzos of our time gives drottni dýrð Trad (Sweden) Om The Mozartists/ a masterclass with students from ödet skulle skicka mig; Jag haver Classical Opera the London colleges. ingen kärare; St Örjan och draken Ian Page Conductor Trad (Norway) So ro liten tull; Ellie Laugharne Bastienne £10 concs £8 Sulla lulla Anon (Iceland) O Jesu Alessandro Fisher Bastien Supported by The Hargreaves and dulcissime Trad (Norway) Fryd Darren Jeffery Colas Ball Trust dig du Kristi brud Haydn Symphony No. 49 in F minor The all-female vocal and ‘La Passione’ Anon Four arias from instrumental trio blend sounds Teutsche Comoedie Arien from medieval and Mozart Bastien und Bastienne K50 Scandinavian folk song in a performance enhanced with The MOZART 250 series continues melody chimes, shruti box and with the one-act Bastien und hardanger fiddle. Bastienne, composed in Vienna 250 years ago. This performance recreates the original version for £16 concs £14 the first time since its première, alongside a Haydn ‘Sturm und Drang’ great, also composed in 1768.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Trio Mediæval Ian Page Dame Sarah Connolly © Åsa Maria Mikkelsen © Peter Warren 16 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Ravel Song Series was a complex, creative figure, in whose sophisticated art elements from his native French tradition meld with other influences, notably a fascination with Spanish culture and an attraction to various kinds of exoticism – aspects explored in this series brought together by pianist Joseph Middleton, with singers chosen by John Gilhooly.

Saturday 15 September 7.30pm

Mary Bevan soprano Henk Neven baritone Joseph Middleton piano Members of Ravel, Orientalism and the Decadents Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques; D’Anne jouant de l’espinette; D’Anne qui me jecta de la neige Hahn From Études latines: Vile potabis & Tyndaris Ravel Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer Stravinsky Three Japanese Lyrics Ravel Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Debussy Trois poèmes de Mallarmé Berlioz La captive Chausson Chanson perpétuelle Ravel Noël des jouets Debussy Noël des enfants qui n’ont pas de maison Ravel Sur l’herbe Fauré La bonne chanson Op. 61

The appeal of the exotic runs like a colourful thread through the work of Ravel and other French Romantics, with elements of ancient cultures, paralleled by the exploration of decadent poets. Joseph Middleton is joined by renowned singers Mary Bevan and Henk Neven in the opening concert of his series.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Friday 16 November 7.30pm with Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano & James Newby baritone

Monday 6 May 2019 7.30pm with Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano & Roderick Williams baritone Mary Bevan © Victoria Cadisch www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 17

Schubert Cycles Wednesday 19 September Friday 21 September Saturday 22 September 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.30am – 3.00pm

Ian Bostridge tenor James Ehnes violin Open House Day Thomas Adès piano Andrew Armstrong piano Join us for an opportunity to look Repeat of concert on 17 September Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in behind the scenes at Wigmore A minor Op. 105 Hall, with free performances and £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G workshops taking place throughout Brahms Scherzo in C minor from the day. F-A-E Sonata (Sonatensatz) Corigliano Violin Sonata Bring the family and join music leaders Lucy Drever and Georgia ’s violin sonata put Duncan for a musical mystery him on the map when his work trail around the building, as well designed for two equally virtuosic as free music-making workshops partners won the 1964 Festival at 11.00am, 12.15pm and 1.30pm. of Two Worlds chamber music Please sign up for workshops on prize. Here it follows Ravel’s jazz- the day. influenced sonata and Brahms’ ebullient tribute to Joachim. Free (no ticket required)

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Ian Bostridge James Ehnes Open House Day © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega 18 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Schubert Cycles One of the finest Lieder singers of our time, Ian Bostridge brings his unique vocal personality and interpretative mastery to bear on Schubert’s three great cycles, in each of which he shares the platform with a leading pianist in performances that will be recorded for release on the Wigmore Hall Live digital label.

Monday 17 September 7.30pm

Ian Bostridge tenor Thomas Adès piano Schubert D911

Encompassing more than 100 performances as well as a searching literary study of this endlessly fascinating masterpiece, Ian Bostridge’s lifelong commitment to Schubert’s song cycle continues in his collaboration with Thomas Adès, a special partnership in this work. Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Concert Repeated

Wednesday 19 September 7.30pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Saturday 13 April & Monday 15 April 2019 7.30pm with Sir piano

Tuesday 2 July & Thursday 4 July 2019 7.30pm with Lars Vogt piano

Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 19

Parry Focus Sunday 23 September Sunday 23 September Sunday 23 September 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Natalie Clein Mary Bevan soprano Heath Quartet Yeol Eum Son piano Nicky Spence tenor Bach Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus XIV) from The Bloch Suite ‘From Jewish Life’ William Vann piano Art of Fugue BWV1080 Suite No. 1 for solo cello My Heart is Like a Singing Bird Vaughan Williams Six Studies in Gubaidulina Reflections on the English Folksong Parry My true love hath my heart Theme B-A-C-H Bridge Cello Sonata in D minor Bennett Maienthau Brahms Therese; Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Die Mainacht; So lass uns wandern! Op. 36 Parry O mistress mine; Take, O take Beethoven String Quartet in According to an early interpreter, those lips away; Blow, blow thou A minor Op. 132 Frank Bridge’s sonata was written winter wind; Through the Ivory Gate ‘in utter despair over the futility of Vaughan Williams Summum bonum war and the state of the world’, Britten’s second string quartet, Parry Weep you no more Ireland while Vaughan Williams’ studies originally premièred at Wigmore The trellis Parry On a time the in 1945, makes a welcome return testify to one of the deepest amorous Silvy; Nightfall in Winter; sources of his inspiration. to the Hall. The Heath Quartet My heart is like a singing bird; From precedes this with Gubaidulina’s a City Window Stanford O mistress emotional take on Bach’s great £16 concs £14 incl. programme mine Holst The Heart Worships unfinished fugue and close the and coffee/sherry/juice Bridge The last invocation performance with Beethoven’s A Parry The sound of hidden music minor quartet, with its beautiful Howells An Old Man’s Lullaby Adagio, full of overlapping and entwining melodies. A centenary tribute to one of the most distinguished of English £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 musicians. His exceptional song settings are interspersed with other examples by friends, colleagues, pupils, and , whom Parry particularly admired.

All seats £16

Natalie Clein Mary Bevan Heath Quartet © Neda Navaee © Victoria Cadisch © Simon Way 20 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Alexander Melnikov Residency With his ability to move seamlessly between different repertoires, and a long-term interest in period instruments and historical performance practice, Alexander Melnikov is one of the most stimulating musicians of our time, whose prodigious technique harnessed by intellectual curiosity enables him to chart an especially rewarding path.

Thursday 20 September 7.30pm

Alexander Melnikov piano Cuarteto Casals Haydn String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5 Prokofiev Visions fugitives Op. 22 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

The Russian pianist offers Prokofiev’s wispy but characterful collection of 20 miniature ‘fleeting visions’, written between 1915 and 1917, before joining the Cuarteto Casals in Brahms’s grandly impassioned piano quintet, a cornerstone of the Romantic chamber repertory.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Thursday 10 January 2019 7.30pm with Andreas Staier piano

Sunday 31 March 2019 7.30pm with Teunis van der Zwart horn Lorenzo Coppola Javier Zafra bassoon & Marcel Ponseele

Friday 21 June 2019 7.00pm

Alexander Melnikov © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 21

Christian Blackshaw Residency Monday 24 September A pianist of unique qualities, Christian Blackshaw turns 70 during 1.00pm this season, when his artistry will be celebrated in a series of concerts in which he is partnered by distinguished colleagues, Lucy Crowe soprano including Alice Coote and soloists from the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Joseph Middleton piano Monday 24 September Purcell/Britten Lord, what is 7.30pm Man?; O solitude Weldon/Britten Alleluia Christian Blackshaw piano Head Over the rim of the moon Ireland The trellis; My true love Soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker hath my heart; When I am dead, Noah Bendix-Balgley violin my dearest; If there were dreams Máté Szücs to sell; Earth’s call Bruno Delepelaire cello Walton Daphne; Through gilded Matthew McDonald double bass trellises; Old Sir Faulk Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478; Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat K493 Lucy Crowe and Joseph Middleton Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’ present a programme of English song, ranging from Purcell’s 17th- Commissioned as a set of three – though only two were completed century examples – as refracted – Mozart’s piano quartets were the first works for the medium and through Britten’s imaginative demonstrate his inventive powers at their height. The evening is realisations – to settings by crowned by Schubert’s immensely popular ‘Trout’ quintet. Britten’s teacher John Ireland and his older contemporaries William £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Walton and Michael Head. With grateful thanks to the 2018/19 Season Benefactors

£16 concs £14 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Friday 21 December 7.30pm with Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

Sunday 27 January 2019 7.30pm Christian Blackshaw 70th Birthday Gala

Lucy Crowe Christian Blackshaw © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega 22 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Russian Song Series One of the most widely experienced and knowledgeable accompanists of our time, Iain Burnside has explored the repertoire for voice and piano with extraordinary diligence. Here, he traverses the outputs of leading Russian composers from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.

Saturday 22 September Forthcoming Concerts in this Series 6.00pm Thursday 29 November 7.30pm with Justina Gringytė mezzo-soprano Pre-Concert Talk & Andrey Zhilikhovsky baritone

Iain Burnside and Philip Ross Bullock, Professor Monday 28 January 2019 7.30pm of Russian Literature and Music, introduce the with Sofia Fomina soprano Oleksiy Russian Song Series ahead of its opening concert. Palchykov tenor & Rodion Pogossov baritone £5 Friday 1 March 2019 7.30pm Saturday 22 September with Kristina Mkhitaryan soprano & 7.30pm Dmytro Popov tenor

Olena Tokar soprano Pavel Kolgatin tenor Nikolay Didenko bass Iain Burnside piano Rimsky-Korsakov A flock of passing clouds Borodin For the shores of thy far native land Glinka I remember that wonderful moment Tchaikovsky The Nightingale; Zemfira’s song Glazunov Drinking Song; The Wish Cui The statue at Tsarskoye Selo; The Last Flowers Vlasov To the fountain of Bakhchisaray Medtner The Rose; The Singer Dargomïzhsky The night zephyr stirs the air Medtner Incantation Shostakovich Jenny; O wert thou in the cauld blast; Macpherson’s Farewell Myaskovsky My Heart’s in the Highlands; Mary Rachmaninov Before my window; The muse; How painful for me; Fate; Night is Mournful; They answered; Lilacs; Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky

The opening concert takes a wide overview of Russian song over the course of a century from Glinka to Shostakovich, and includes some important lesser-known figures among the more familiar names.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Olena Tokar © Frank Tuerpe www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 23

Tuesday 25 September Wednesday 26 September Thursday 27 September 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Pavel Haas Quartet Elena Bashkirova piano The Cardinall’s Musick Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor Jerusalem Chamber The Company of Heaven D703; String Quartet in A minor Music Festival Ensemble Palestrina Missa Tu es Petrus D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Michael Barenboim violin Gregorian Propers for the Feast Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A Mohamed Hiber violin of St Peter’s Chains flat Op. 105 Gérard Caussé viola Victoria O quam gloriosum Kyril Zlotnikov cello est regnum Schubert’s single quartet Gyula Orendt baritone Bassano O Rex gloriae movement is a heartfelt fragment, Gombert Virgo sancta Katherina Schumann 6 pieces in canonic while the troubled ‘Rosamunde’ Victoria Doctor bonus amicus form Op. 56; Märchenbilder quartet’s slow movement borrows Dei Andreas Op. 113; Liederkreis Op. 39; a well-known theme from some Palestrina Magnus Sanctus Liederkreis Op. 24; Piano Quartet incidental music. Conversely, Paulus a8 in E flat Op. 47 Dvořák transferred a memorable Handl Sanctus Bartholomeus theme from his final quartet to his Victoria Magnificat primi toni symphonic poem A Hero’s Song. Celebrated pianist Elena Bashkirova brings an all-Schumann The liturgical calendar once placed programme uniting chamber works £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 the lives of the saints at the centre with Lieder, including the delightful of public devotions. Palestrina’s ‘Fairy-tale Pictures’ and his Mass in honour of St Peter opens canonic pieces originally written for a programme that also pays pedal-piano, alongside two major obeisance to saints Catherine of cycles – the Heine and Eichendorff Alexandria, Paul, Bartholomew collections, both written in 1840 and the Virgin Mary. – interpreted by the Hungarian- Romanian baritone Gyula Orendt. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Pavel Haas Quartet Elena Bashkirova The Cardinall’s Musick © Marco Borggreve © Nikolaj Lund © Ben Eolavega 24 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

CARDINAL HUME CENTRE SINGING GROUP

Wigmore Hall Learning has been working in ‘I came to the session today feeling quite partnership with Cardinal Hume Centre, which down, but this will keep me upbeat for the supports people who have experienced poverty and homelessness, since 2010. rest of the week now!’ In January 2018 we launched a new weekly singing group, which promotes healthy singing and offers the chance to explore group singing and songwriting. It is open to all who access the Centre, including staff, clients and volunteers. The links between group singing and improved health and wellbeing are well documented, and this group has improved a sense of community cohesion, helping to reduce social isolation and creating a safe and supportive environment for anyone in the Centre to access.

Cardinal Hume Centre © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 25

Friday 28 September Sunday 30 September Sunday 30 September 11.00am and 12.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

For Crying Out Loud! Hermès Quartet Manuel Walser baritone Mozart String Quartet in D K575 Anano Gokieli piano Hear outstanding performances ‘Prussian’ by musicians from the Royal Brahms Von ewiger Liebe; Die Debussy String Quartet in G Mainacht Rachmaninov The Academy of Music in these minor Op. 10 concerts presented especially for Dream Strauss Traum durch parents or carers and babies under die Dämmerung Rachmaninov Opening with the first of Mozart’s Morning Strauss Morgen Brahms 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and three ‘Prussian’ quartets, accommodating environment. Dein blaues Auge hält so still dedicated to King Friedrich Rachmaninov She is as Lovely as Approximately 45 minutes in duration Wilhelm II of Prussia, the Hermès the Noon Brahms Wie rafft ich Quartet crown their performance mich auf Rachmaninov Oh no, I Adults £8.50 (babies come free) with Debussy’s Op. 10, the only beg you, forsake me not Brahms Not booked for a For Crying Out quartet he ever completed. Verzagen Strauss Zueignung; Loud! concert before? Buy your Nichts Brahms Meine Liebe tickets at half price, either by £16 concs £14 incl. programme ist grün; Salamander Strauss phone or in person. and coffee/sherry/juice Das Rosenband; Ach weh, mir In partnership with the Royal WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT unglückhaften Mann Brahms Academy of Music Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Wie bist du, meine Königin Rachmaninov In the silence of the

secret night; Child! You are as fair as a flower Strauss Ich trage meine Minne; Liebeshymnus; Leise Lieder Rachmaninov Sing not to me, beautiful maiden

A creative engagement between voice and piano in a programme of textual sensitivity and heightened lyrical expression.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

For Crying Out Loud! Hermès Quartet Manuel Walser © Benjamin Ealovega © Christian Steiner © Thomas Walser 26 • SEPTEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Schumann String Quartet Series Robert Schumann’s highly personal art again provides the theme, with the Elias musicians exploring his string quartets. At different periods the composer concentrated on different genres: 1842 was the year he threw himself at chamber music, producing within 12 months all three of his string quartets and several other individual masterpieces.

Friday 28 September 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet Jonathan Biss piano Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105; String Quartet in F Op. 41 No. 2; Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44

The ensemble’s regular collaborator Jonathan Biss joins them for a programme whose centrepiece is the second of Schumann’s quartets – a work of immense melodic immediacy and charm – and which ends with the most popular of all his chamber works.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In Memory of Peter Flatter

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Friday 22 February 2019 7.30pm

Thursday 23 May 2019 7.30pm www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SEPTEMBER • 27

Composers and their Muses Saturday 29 September 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello and Connie Shih piano

Clara Schumann 3 Romances Op. 22 (arr. Isserlis) Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Kaprálová Ritournelle Op. 25 Martinů Cello Sonata No. 1 Holmès Récitatif et chant from La vision de la reine (arr. Isserlis) Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano

Steven Isserlis highlights significant relationships between Clara and Robert Schumann with their respective Romances, Vitězslava Kaprálová and Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis her teacher Martinů with her 1940 Ritournelles, and Augusta Holmès and her teacher César Franck with an extract from her 1895 scène lyrique.

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Mahan Esfahani Bach Harpsichord Works Monday 1 October 1.00pm Ever since he gave the first solo harpsichord recital at in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen Chiaroscuro Quartet instrument to a new level of prominence, his distinctive personality enabling him to engage with audiences throughout a repertoire Annelien Van Wauwe he is helping to expand but which retains the works of Johann clarinet Sebastian Bach as its focal point. Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Monday 1 October Mozart in A K581 7.30pm

Dedicated to Grand Duke Paul of Mahan Esfahani harpsichord – hence their collective Bach Duetto No. 1 BWV802; Partita No. 1 in B flat BWV825; Italian nickname as the ‘Russian’ Concerto in F BWV971; Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831 quartets – Haydn’s Op. 33 shows the composer wrong-footing his audience, especially in No. 2’s The second volume of Bach’s Keyboard Exercises consists of a solo sequence of false endings, concerto modelled on Italian examples and an overture emulating here succeeded by Mozart’s suites by his French contemporaries, Esfahani preceding these sublime quintet. with the first of the four solo keyboard ‘duets’ from volume III.

All seats £16 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Saturday 15 December 7.30pm

Saturday 30 March 2019 7.30pm

Tuesday 9 July 2019 7.30pm

Chiaroscuro Quartet Mahan Esfahani © Eva Vermandel © Bernhard Musil/DG www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 29

Narek Hakhnazaryan Series Tuesday 2 October Wednesday 3 October Friday 5 October 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm

Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Chamber Tots: Autumn IMS Prussia Cove Pavel Kolesnikov piano Alexi Kenney violin We invite children aged 1 to 5 Timothy Crawford violin Tchaikovsky Nocturne in D minor; and their parents/carers to join Ulrike-Anima Mathé violin Pezzo capriccioso Op. 62; Mélodie us in celebrating the season! Lars Anders Tomter viola in E flat Op. 42 No. 3 from Souvenir This interactive music-making Adrian Brendel cello d’un lieu cher (arr. Hakhnazaryan) workshop features songs, Marie Macleod cello Myaskovsky Cello Sonata No. 2 in percussion and the chance to Zoltán Fejérvári piano A minor Op. 81 meet some exciting instruments Rachmaninov Elégie from Haydn Piano Trio in F sharp up close, led by our experienced Morceaux de fantaisie Op. 3 No. 1 minor HXV:26 Chamber Tots music leaders Glazunov Chant du ménestrel Op. 71 Kurtág 3 pieces from Signs, alongside emerging ensembles. Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D Games and Messages minor Op. 40 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & Janáček String Quartet No. 2 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) ‘Intimate Letters’ Bartók Duos for 2 Two major Russian sonatas form the Approximately 1 hour in duration soulful centrepieces of a programme (selection) Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat that otherwise features smaller, Children £7 Adults £5 Op. 44 lighter works by Tchaikovsky and Not booked for Chamber Tots Rachmaninov, the Mélodie (in Narek before? Buy your tickets at half IMS Prussia Cove brings together Hakhnazaryan’s own arrangement) price, either by phone or in person. recalling the former composer’s some of the finest international happiness on his patron Nadezhda musicians for their Annual von Meck’s Ukrainian estate. Autumn Tour, at the invitation of Artistic Director Steven Isserlis. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Experienced musicians will work in partnership with young rising Forthcoming Concerts in this Series stars of the next generation, offering an exciting programme. Sunday 10 February 2019 11.30am £30 £25 £20 £16 £10 Saturday 25 May 2019 7.30pm with Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Narek Hakhnazaryan Chamber Tots Alexi Kenney © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega © Yang Bao 30 • OCTOBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 3 October Robin Tritschler 7.30pm

The Seasons Robin Tritschler tenor A questioning artist who explores deeply whatever he Malcolm Martineau piano sings, and conveys his discoveries with eloquence, the Schubert’s Winter Journey Irish tenor has selected The Seasons as the overall theme of his series, exploring winter, spring and Schubert Der Einsame; Nähe des Geliebten; Der summer through the creative minds of some of the Winterabend; Die Sterne (D939); Nachtgesang greatest Lieder poets and composers. (D119); Schäfers Klagelied; Der Musensohn; Der Knabe in der Wiege; Der Vater mit dem Kind; Vor meiner Wiege; Vom Mitleiden Mariä; Fahrt zum Hades; Nachtstück; Der Tod und das Mädchen; Nachthymne; An mein Herz; Alinde; An die Laute; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Willkommen und Abschied

Winterreise is surely Schubert’s single greatest achievement in song, but he explored wider aspects of the season in other contexts, as revealed in this varied programme of Lieder composed during the winter months. Not necessarily all wintry in mood, the programme features songs that mix his personal isolation and torments with ones of a happier time.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Monday 14 January 2019 7.30pm with Graham Johnson piano

Sunday 26 May 2019 7.30pm with Simon Lepper piano

Robin Tritschler © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 31

Pieter Wispelwey Cello Bach Complete Cello Suites Sunday 7 October 11.30am Saturday 6 October 3.00pm Adrian Brendel cello Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 3 in C Christian Ihle Hadland BWV1009; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011 piano Beethoven 12 Variations on It was only when took them up at the beginning of ‘See the conqu’ring hero comes’ the 20th century that Bach’s cello suites began to attract wide from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus attention, eventually achieving their current status as treasurable WoO. 45 centrepieces of the instrument’s repertoire. Widor Cello Sonata Op. 80 Liszt Elegy No. 2 S197 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Beethoven Cello Sonata in G Approximately 1 hour 25 mins in duration, including an interval minor Op. 5 No. 2 In Memory of Peter Flatter A substantial work written in 1907, Charles-Marie Widor’s Saturday 6 October impassioned cello sonata 7.30pm demonstrates that there is more to this French late-Romantic Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 4 than his organ music; it finds its in E flat BWV1010; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 place in a programme alongside Beethoven’s dramatic sonata and An artist, like Casals, closely associated with the Cello Suites – his entertaining Handel variations. which he has recorded on both historic and modern instruments – Pieter Wispelwey seeks in his performances ‘a balance between the £16 concs £14 incl. programme erudite and the sensual, between the physical and the emotional’. and coffee/sherry/juice

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Pieter Wispelwey Adrian Brendel © Caroline Sikkink © Jack Liebeck 32 • OCTOBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 4 October Angela Hewitt 7.00pm NB time

The Bach Odyssey Angela Hewitt piano The keyboard works of have been Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II part of Angela Hewitt’s daily life since childhood, resulting BWV870-893 in an involvement with his music that informs her inspiring performances. ‘To develop in his company one’s musical Conceived and composed in two separate intelligence, technique, beauty of sound and spirit,’ she has parts produced some 20 years apart, Bach’s written, ‘is a great gift and a lifelong adventure’. collection has long been regarded as one of the cornerstones of Western musical literature. Angela Hewitt continues her series paying attention to the second volume of his magnum opus The Well-tempered Clavier, which promises to be a concert not to miss. Approximately 3 hours in duration, including an interval

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Thursday 18 April 2019 7.30pm

Thursday 13 June 2019 7.30pm

Angela Hewitt © Keith Saunders www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 33

Sunday 7 October Sunday 7 October Sunday 7 October 12 noon – 4.30pm 3.00pm 7.30pm

Silver Sunday François-Frédéric Guy Iain Burnside piano piano As part of Silver Sunday, we invite Boulez 12 Notations people living with dementia and Programme to include: Works by Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven 15 Variations and a their family, friends and carers to Fugue on an Original Theme in join us in the beautiful space of Shostakovich, Messiaen, Finzi & Bennett E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 The Wallace Collection. Meet at Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in The Wallace Collection at 12 noon F minor Op. 5 for tea and sandwiches before Iain Burnside curates a very special programme of song, exploring the gallery, then turn Boulez’s fascinating early collection pictures into music with Julian working with members of the ENO Harewood Artist programme. of short but highly charged piano West, Tim Keasley and students pieces begins this concert which from the . Established in 1998, this flagship scheme provides coaching, features works spanning 150 years. Beethoven’s inventive variations Free (booking required) training and mentorship for the next generation of opera talent. on a theme of great significance Book through the Wigmore Hall Former artists include Sophie to him precede Brahms’s Learning department on Bevan, Allan Clayton, Elizabeth quasi-symphonic final sonata. 020 7258 8246 or Llewellyn, Elizabeth Watts, Iain [email protected] Paterson, Leigh Melrose and £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In partnership with The Wallace Sarah Tynan. Collection, Resonate Arts and the Royal Academy of Music £16 concs £14

Silver Sunday ENO The Winter’s Tale ENO Chorus Samantha Price François-Frédéric Guy © James Berry (c) Johan Persson © Caroline Dourtre 34 • OCTOBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Marlis Petersen Residency With an exceptional commitment to whatever she sings – whether new works, Baroque opera, coloratura and bel canto roles or Romantic Lieder – the German soprano is one of the most enterprising as well as one of the most virtuosic of our time, her programmes bound together by a coherent intellectual thread.

Tuesday 9 October 7.30pm

Marlis Petersen soprano Stephan Matthias Lademann piano Robert Schumann Himmel und Erde Schubert Cora an die Sonne Schubert An die untergehende Sonne Sommer Herbstabend Schubert Die Mutter Erde; Naturgenuss Robert Schumann Die Hütte Mozart Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge Schubert Die Berge Brahms Juchhe! Robert Schumann Des Sennen Abschied Brahms Däm’rung senkte sich von oben Mozart Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt Brahms Der Strom, der neben mir verrauschte; Op. 70 No. 3 Koch Das Los des Menschen from Die wilden Schwäne Sommer Gesang des Lebens Robert Schumann Sehnsucht Wagner Stehe still! Schubert Am See Mein Stern Beethoven Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel Brahms Feldeinsamkeit Robert Schumann Mondnacht Sommer Erinnerung

Two neglected late-Romantic composers – the German Hans Sommer and the Swedish Sigurd von Koch – make rare appearances in a programme exploring themes of Heaven and Earth, Man and Nature, Fate and Awareness, Hope and Longing.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Saturday 1 December 7.30pm with Die Kölner Akademie

Thursday 31 January 2019 7.30pm with Werner Güra tenor & Christoph Berner piano

Monday 25 February 2019 7.30pm with Anke Vondung mezzo-soprano Werner Güra tenor Paul Armin Edelmann baritone Christoph Berner piano & Camillo Radicke piano Marlis Petersen © Y.Mavropoulos www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 35

Monday 8 October Monday 8 October Thursday 11 October 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Catriona Morison Sandrine Piau soprano Benjamin Appl baritone mezzo-soprano Sebastian Wienand Graham Johnson piano Yuka Beppu piano harpsichord Schubert Strophe aus ‘Die Programme to include: Freiburg Baroque Götter Griechenlands’; Orest auf Mahler Rückert Lieder Orchestra Tauris; Der zürnenden Diana; Korngold Fünf Lieder Op. 38 Der entsühnte Orest; An die Songs by Brahms Plamena Nikitassova Leier; Amphiaraos Fauré Lydia director, violin Duparc Phidylé Debussy Le The Scottish mezzo won the main Rebel Les caractères de la danse faune from Fêtes galantes Book prize at the 2017 BBC Rameau Pièces de clavecin II; La chevelure from Chansons Singer of the World competition Clérambault La Muse de l’Opéra ou de Bilitis Chabrier L’île heureuse while also sharing the song prize. les caractères lyriques Butterworth Look not in my eyes Having already made her Proms Destouches Suite from Les élémens from A Shropshire Lad Warlock debut, she is now a member of the Couperin Concert Royal IV Heraclitus L Berkeley From Three Radio 3 New Generation Artists. Montéclair La Morte di Lucretia Greek Songs Op. 38: To Aster & Spring Song Britten Sokrates £16 concs £14 Celebrated soprano Sandrine Piau und Alcibiades Schubert Atys; embodies the Muse of French Freiwilliges Versinken; Lied des opera in Clérambault’s cantata and , als er in die Hölle ging; the tragic Lucretia in Montéclair’s, Fahrt zum Hades; Prometheus as part of a diverse programme also taking in harpsichord pieces by Drawing on a wide range of Rameau and suites by other leading musical traditions to explore the figures of the French Baroque. continuing impact of its ancient culture, this anthology of songs with £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Greek resonances charts a course between gods and mythology, With grateful thanks to the Early philosophers and love poetry. Music and Baroque Circle £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Wednesday 10 October 7.30pm Sir András Schiffpiano Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D845; Piano Sonata in D D850; Fantasy Sonata in G D894

‘Of all the great composers’, said Sir András Schiff, ‘Schubert touches me the most’. Here he presents three major works, including the ambitious sonata composed in the spa of Bad Gastein in 1825 and the freely-flowing Fantasy Sonata of the following year.

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Concert repeated

Friday 12 October 7.30pm

Sir András Schiff © Nadia F Romanini/ECMRecords www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 37

Friday 12 October Saturday 13 October Sunday 14 October 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Sir András Schiffpiano Veronika Eberle violin Jennifer Pike violin Dénes Várjon piano Petr Limonov piano Repeat of concert on 10 October Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E Bacewicz Polish Caprice BWV1016 Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 2 BB85 Vaughan Williams The Lark Janáček Violin Sonata Ascending Schumann Violin Sonata No. 3 in Szymanowski Nocturne and A minor Tarantella for violin and piano Op. 28 Of the two early 20th-century sonatas, Janáček’s was written Grażyna Bacewicz was an in the summer of 1914, when he exceptional violinist who later ‘could hear the sounds of steel concentrated on composition: clashing in my troubled head’, her folk-based Polish Caprice while Bartók’s rhapsodic second forms a vivid contrast with her sonata of 1922 is one of his most compatriot Szymanowski’s exploratory achievements. Mediterranean-inspired miniatures and with Vaughan Williams’ idyllic £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 pastoral vision.

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Sunday 14 October Monday 15 October Monday 15 October 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

The Mariinsky Nicholas Daniel oboe Richard Egarr harpsichord Academy of Young Charles Owen piano Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat Opera Singers Bach Sinfonia from Easter Oratorio BWV825; Partita No. 4 in D BWV249 ‘Kommt, eilet und laufet’ BWV828; French Suite No. 5 in G Larissa Gergieva piano (arr. for oboe and piano) BWV816; Partita No. 6 in E minor Arias, songs, duets and trios Haas Oboe Suite BWV830 by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, The Bearded Lady Borodin, Cui, Glinka and Arensky. Stravinsky Russian Maiden’s song Appearing in print between 1726 (arr. for oboe and piano) and 1731, Bach’s six varied partitas Under their accompanist and Bowen Sonata for oboe and piano marked the first publications of his director Larissa Gergieva, works supervised by the composer postgraduate singers from the A diverse programme taking in the himself; given the posthumous title world-famous Mariinsky Academy richly lyrical oboe sonata (1927) of ‘French Suites’, similar collections – who regularly take part in English Romantic York Bowen, and of characterful dance movements performances at the theatre itself the quasi-vocal Oboe Suite (1939) would follow. – offer songs, arias and ensembles by Pavel Haas, which includes a by leading figures from the late- hidden text as an act of resistance £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Romantic period of Russian music. to the Nazis.

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Larissa Gergieva Nicholas Daniel Richard Egarr © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 39

Tuesday 16 October Tuesday 16 October Thursday 18 October 10.30am – 1.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am

Come and Sing Danish String Quartet Chamber Tots: For families living with dementia Beethoven String Quartet in A Bear Hunt Op. 18 No. 5 If you are, or someone you know Webern String Quartet (1905) We invite children aged 1 to 5 and is, living with dementia, join us Beethoven String Quartet in C their parents/carers to join us for a session of group singing, Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ on a bear hunt! This interactive exploring a mixture of music old music-making workshop features and new, followed by tea and Works written near the beginning songs, percussion and the chance coffee. No previous experience and end of Beethoven’s creative to meet some exciting instruments needed, just an enthusiasm to sing! life are intersected by Webern’s up close, led by our experienced expressive string quartet, an Chamber Tots music leaders Free (ticket required) early piece inspired by the alongside emerging ensembles. work of the Italian visual artist Book through the Wigmore Hall 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & Giovanni Segantini. Learning department on 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) 020 7258 8246 or Approximately 1 hour in duration [email protected] £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In partnership with Resonate Arts Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person.

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MUSIC FOR LIFE

We believe that dementia should not stop people ‘It widens the horizons of my life. It from doing the things they love, or from trying new gives me a lot of happiness and it things. With the right support people can live well with dementia, and Wigmore Hall is committed to this goal: keeps me going.’ helping to build a dementia-friendly society and enabling people living with dementia to continue accessing high quality, life-enriching musical experiences. Music for Life is a pioneering programme for people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers. The project was founded by Linda Rose in 1993 and has been led by Wigmore Hall since 2009. Over the course of the years the programme has continued to develop from working primarily in care settings to incorporate a growing number of projects and events in community settings and at the Hall itself. We are proud to work in partnership with a range of community, arts, health and social care organisations to provide a range of meaningful opportunities for people at all stages of dementia.

Music for Life © James Berry www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 41

Thursday 18 October Friday 19 October Saturday 20 October 7.30pm 7.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Jeremy Denk piano Independent Opera Relaxed Concert: Beethoven 5 Variations in D on Scholars’ Recital 2018 Magnard Ensemble ‘Rule Britannia’ WoO. 79 Claire Lees soprano John Adams Pocket Variations Michael Mofidian bass-baritone This relaxed concert is open to (European première) Ida Ränzlöv mezzo everyone and provides a special Bizet Variations chromatiques de Svetlina Stoyanova mezzo opportunity to explore music in concert Nino Chokhonelidze piano an informal environment. Join the Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses Magnard Ensemble, a wind quintet in D minor Op. 54 Programme to include: which has recently released its Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Mozart From Mass in C Minor: debut album, and enjoy a cup of Op. 98 (trans. Liszt) Domine Deus & Et incarnatus est; tea or coffee afterwards. Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 Ravel Deux mélodies hebraïques Rossini Nacqui all’affanno... There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and house lights Jeremy Denk’s first half consists Non piu mesta Britten The Tower Scene Larsson Kyssande will remain up. Audience members of variations, among them a rare are able to move in and out of the and virtuosic set by Bizet and the Vind Nystroem Havet Sjunger Rangström En Gammal dansrytm auditorium as they need to, and European première of a new work there is a designated quiet area. by John Adams. His second half Arensky 3 Romances Op. 38 links Schumann’s improvisatory Pipkov Nani mi nani, Damyancho £5 Fantasie with Beethoven’s song Tchaikovsky Noch Ēriks Ešenvalds cycle, which Schumann quotes, New work (world première) here transcribed by Liszt. Independent Opera’s annual £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 showcase shines a spotlight on today’s young stars. Joined by prizewinning pianist Nino Chokhonelidze, they will explore works from German Lieder to 20th-century Swedish song.

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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble: German Romantics 19th-century Romanticism offered German music new relationships with literature, fine art and nature, with an emphasis on drama and first-person expressivity, all couched in language and forms that broke free of earlier precedents. Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Ensemble in residence presents a season-long exploration of the German repertoire of the era, from Beethoven and Weber, via Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms and Wagner to and Richard Strauss. The interest and variety of the Ensemble’s programmes is enhanced by the collaboration of a cohort of leading singers of our time. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 43

Saturday 20 October Forthcoming Concerts in this Series 6.00pm Saturday 24 November 5.30pm Pre-Concert Talk Saturday 24 November 7.30pm with Christine Rice mezzo-soprano An introduction to the series by writer, lecturer and broadcaster Katy Hamilton. Saturday 8 December 5.30pm with Sophie Bevan soprano Free (ticket required) Saturday 8 December 7.30pm Saturday 20 October with Roderick Williams baritone 7.30pm Saturday 12 January 2019 5.30pm

Nash Ensemble Saturday 12 January 2019 7.30pm Richard Hosford clarinet Saturday 16 February 2019 7.30pm Bruch String Octet with Lucy Crowe soprano Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in B flat Op. 87 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Sunday 10 March 2019 11.30am

Gramophone declared that the Nash’s recent Max Tuesday 19 March 2019 5.30pm Bruch disc ‘needs to be heard by everyone who with students from the Royal Academy of Music loves German Romantic chamber music’. His very last chamber work opens the first concert Tuesday 19 March 2019 7.30pm of the series, followed by two other late works, with Maximilian Schmitt tenor Mendelssohn’s powerful second quintet and Brahms’s autumnal quintet for clarinet and strings.

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Sunday 21 October Ensemble 7.30pm Ensemble Correspondances Correspondances Orpheus Chant Residency Purcell Here the deities approve from Welcome to Founded in Lyon in 2009 by the musicologist, organist all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day) Z339 and harpsichord player Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Charpentier La descente d’Orphée aux enfers Correspondances has won an international reputation for H488 (Act 1) its historically informed performances of music from the Purcell If love’s a sweet passion from The Fairy French Baroque period which fulfil the spirit as well as the Queen; Prepare, the rites begin! from Theodosius, letter of the scores they revive. or The Force of Love Charpentier La descente d’Orphée aux enfers H488 (Act 2) Purcell When Orpheus sang from Celestial music did the Gods inspire Z322

After his death was mourned as ‘Orpheus Britannicus’. In a programme in which ‘Orpheus Sings’, his connections with the legendary singer are celebrated alongside those of a French contemporary whose chamber opera was written for private performance in 1686.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Monday 22 April 2019 7.30pm

Friday 5 July 2019 10.00pm

Ensemble Correspondances © Molina Visuals www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 45

Sunday 21 October Sunday 21 October Monday 22 October 11.30am 3.00pm 1.00pm

Quatuor Voce Tareq Nazmi bass Karina Gauvin soprano Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 Gerold Huber piano Maciej Pikulski piano ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Schumann Der frohe Hahn Quand je fus pris au Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Wandersmann; Frühlingsfahrt; pavillon from Rondels; Si mes Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Der Schatzgräber; Der Einsiedler; vers avaient des ailes; A Chloris Kerner Lieder Op. 35; Die beiden Debussy Nuit d’étoiles; Now risen to a high position Grenadiere; Die feindlichen Mandoline; Beau soir; Récitatif et amongst contemporary ensembles, Brüder; Die Nonne; Es leuchtet air de Lia from L’Enfant prodigue the Quatuor Voce returns with a meine Liebe; Mein Wagen rollet Poulenc Trois poèmes de Louise programme linking Györgi Ligeti’s langsam; Belsazar Lalanne; Métamorphoses; Deux early Bartók-inspired nocturnal poèmes de Louis Aragon variations with Beethoven’s A programme almost entirely Bizet Guitare; La Coccinelle; exhilarating ‘Harp’ quartet, whose selected from Schumann’s famous Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe; Ouvre nickname references pizzicato ‘year-of-song’ in 1840 focuses ton cœur passages in the first movement. on three poets particularly dear to the composer: Joseph von The Canadian soprano and her £16 concs £14 incl. programme Eichendorff, Heinrich Heine, and Polish accompanist select an and coffee/sherry/juice Justinus Kerner, whose celebrated entirely French programme, with WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT Kerner Lieder Op. 35 makes a many of the best-known songs Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust welcome return to Wigmore Hall. of her four chosen composers, among them Reynaldo Hahn’s All seats £16 Victor Hugo setting ‘Si mes vers’, published when he was just 13.

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Monday 22 October 7.30pm Piotr Beczała tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Donaudy Vaghissima sembianza; Freschi luoghi, prati aulenti; O del mio amato ben Wolf-Ferrari Quando ti vidi; Jo dei saluti; E tanto c’è pericol; O sì che non sapevo Respighi Lagrime; Scherzo; Stornellatrice; Nevicata; Pioggia; Nebbie Tosti L’ultima canzone; Chi sei tu che mi parli from Malinconia; Ideale Szymanowski 6 Songs Op. 2 Karłowicz Sometimes when long I dream; On the calm, dark sea; Rusty Leaves; The Still Night; A grieving Maiden; Before the Eternal Night; The Enchanted Princess Moniuszko Dwie Zorze; Prząśniczka; Polna różyczka; Krakowiaczek

The Polish tenor sings songs by Stanisław Moniuszko, who created their mutual homeland’s first national , as well as his successors Mieczysław Karłowicz and , whose Op. 2 settings represent a highlight of his early output.

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Piotr Beczała © Jean-Baptiste Millot www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 47

Tuesday 23 October Thursday 25 October Friday 26 October 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Martin Helmchen piano Michaela Schuster mezzo Andrew Watts Robert Schumann From Novelletten Matthias Veit piano Op. 21: No. 1 in F, No. 3 in D, No. Unvergänglichkeit Iain Burnside piano 4 in D, No. 5 in D, No. 6 in A, No. A Countertenor Songbook 7 in E & No. 8 in F sharp minor Korngold Unvergänglichkeit; Clara Schumann From Soirées Sommer; Das eilende Bächlein; Tansy Davies A song of pure musicales: Toccatina & Notturno Mond so gehst du wieder nothingness Schoenberg Nos. 2 – 6 from 6 Little auf; Gefasster Abschied; Handel What though I trace each Piano Pieces Op. 19 Liebesbriefchen; Alt-spanisch; herb from Bach Sarabande from Partita No. 4 Glückwunsch Reger Es blüht Tippett Three songs for Ariel in D for solo piano BWV828 ein Blümlein rosenrot; Von der Neville Bower Songs of Innocence Messiaen Regard des hauteurs from Liebe; Zwiesprach; Mei Bua; Joe Cutler Song for Arthur Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus In einem Rosengärtelein; Klein Raymond Yiu When thou and I first Chopin Grande valse brillante in Marie; Mit Rosen bestreut; one another saw; Forget-Me-Not A minor Op. 34 No. 2 Mausefangen; Zwei Mäuschen Liszt Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Mahler Phantasie aus Don Juan; Marking the launch of Andrew Nuages gris S199 Frühlingsmorgen; Erinnerung; Watts’s CD on the NMC label, his Starke Einbildungskraft; Nicht Songbook ranges from Handel’s This intriguing programme moves wiedersehen!; Das schlafende oratorio through Tippett’s backwards and forwards from Bach Kind; Stärker als der Tod; Shakespearean incidental via the Romantic period of Robert Selbstgefühl Weill Wie lange music, and Blake settings by the Schumann (whose Novelettes noch?; im Licht-Song; neglected Neville Bower to recent provide regular points of return) Nannas Lied; Der Abschiedsbrief works by Tansy Davies, Joe Cutler and his wife Clara, as well as and Raymond Yiu. Chopin and Liszt, and on through Korngold’s 1933 song-cycle Schoenberg to . Unvergänglichkeit, German for All seats £16 immortality, intersperses a £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 programme which focuses on his contemporaries Mahler and Weill, In Memory of Peter Flatter and the neglected Reger.

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Wednesday 24 October Dame Sarah 7.30pm Residency Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Connolly Tenebrae vocal ensemble Appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2017, Dame Sarah Connolly has maintained a standard Nigel Short conductor of excellence in the opera house as in concert and Eugene Asti piano recital halls. With a repertoire ranging from the Baroque masters through bel canto, Wagner and Elgar to new A Walk with Ivor Gurney works, she continues to explore a wide variety of music Elgar They are at rest with dedication and unique interpretative skills. Gurney Since I believe in God the Father Almighty; By a Bierside; In Flanders Judith Bingham A Walk with Ivor Gurney Howells Take him, earth, for cherishing Gurney Sleep Parry Songs of Farewell Schoenberg Friede auf Erden

Written for Dame Sarah Connolly and Tenebrae, Judith Bingham’s setting of Gurney’s poetry is surrounded by three of his songs, as well as valedictory pieces by Elgar and by Gurney’s friend Herbert Howells, preceding Schoenberg’s unaccompanied choral plea for peace on earth.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2018/19 Wigmore Series

Concerts in this Series

Wednesday 19 September 1.00pm Masterclass

Friday 15 March 2019 7.30pm with piano

Tuesday 23 July 2019 7.30pm with Malcolm Martineau piano

Dame Sarah Connolly © Peter Warren www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 49

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

The Endellion Family Day: Yaniv d’Or countertenor String Quartet Autumn Senses Ensemble NAYA Mendelssohn String Quartet in D For ages 5 plus Psalms Exaltation (arr. Yaniv d’Or) Op. 44 No. 1 King Alfonso X of Spain Rosas das Britten String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94 When autumn comes around, it Rosas (arr. Yaniv d’Or) Bésard Ma Beethoven String Quartet in E brings with it (apart from the rainy Belle, Si ton Áme Rossi Barechu minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ weather!) some amazing sights, Trad (Sephardi) El Nora Alila; A sounds and smells. Join music la Nana y a la Buba; Ya Viene El This year celebrating its 40th leader Georgia Duncan to explore Cativo; La Mañana de San Juan; season together, the quartet opens our senses during this season, and El Nora Alila Trad (Sufi) Demedim with an exciting programme of be inspired to create your own Mi; Aşkın Ile Âşıklar Llobet El Mendelssohn and Beethoven music and soundscapes. Testament d’Amelia Frescobaldi Se L’aura Spira Tutta Vezzosa Trad alongside a Britten quartet which We invite you to join us as a family (Bosnian) Yemei Horpi (arr. Shem- it has championed throughout in this interactive and exploratory Tov Levi) Anon Mareta, Mareta its career, recording for EMI and day for children aged 5 plus and No’m Faces Plorar Trad (Turkish) again for Warner. their families. Üsküdara gideriken, Katibim Murat ‘There’s always a feeling when Cakmaz Hayat Muwashshah listening to the Endellion Quartet Children £10 Adults £16 (Arab-Andalusian) Lamma Bada that you’re listening to the Urtext Not booked for a Family Day Yatathanna Erez Mounk Lluvia de method of quartet playing.’ before? Buy your tickets at half Pensamientos de Falla Nana Gramophone price, either by phone or in person. Following the success of their £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 collections Liquefacta Est and Latino-Ladino, tonight’s performers present a new programme collating the traditions of three monotheistic religions from various periods and cultures.

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Sunday 28 October Sunday 28 October Monday 29 October 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Emma Johnson clarinet The English Concert Thibaut Garcia guitar Finghin Collins piano Harry Bicket director, Barrios Mangoré La Catedral Beethoven Variations on La Ci fortepiano Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Darem La Mano (arr. Johnson) The Art of the Arrangement Tansman Inventions & Passacaille Brahms in Mozart Fantasia in F minor K608 F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Dušan Bogdanović Suite (arr. Bicket) Hommage a Bach Stravinsky Three pieces for solo Haydn Symphony No. 104 clarinet ‘London’ (arr. Salomon) Ravel Pièce en forme de Habanera Bach continues to be an Mozart Fantasia in F minor K594 inspiration to today’s musicians, (arr. for clarinet and piano) (arr. Bicket) Bernstein Clarinet Sonata including the Franco-Spanish BBC Haydn Divertimento II, after Radio 3 New Generation Artist, String Quartet in D Op. 71 No. 2 who plays the great Chaconne The clarinettist’s programme pays (arr. Wranitzky) homage to from the D minor Partita alongside in his centenary year with his Bach tributes by Franco- Composers have long been Polish Alexandre Tansman and first published piece, dating from inspired by the music of others, 1942 and already full of those Serbian-born American guitarist reworking their ideas into new Dušan Bogdanović. characteristically jazzy inflections forms. Bach transcribed Vivaldi’s that can also be detected in concerti for alternative instruments, £16 concs £14 Stravinsky’s solo pieces of 1919. Mozart reorchestrated , and Mendelssohn set to work on £16 concs £14 incl. programme the St Matthew Passion. Here, and coffee/sherry/juice The English Concert explore arrangements of Haydn and Mozart through the eyes of later generations.

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Emma Johnson Harry Bicket Thibaut Garcia © Helen Maybanks © Richard Haughton © Luis Castilla www.wigmore-hall.org.uk OCTOBER • 51

Tuesday 30 October Tuesday 30 October Wednesday 31 October 5.45pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Bechstein Sessions: Nicolas Hodges piano L’Arpeggiata The Hermes Experiment Lutyens Five Impromptus Op. 116 Christina Pluhar director, theorbo Héloïse Werner soprano (World première) Céline Scheen soprano Oliver Pashley clarinet Liszt Nuages gris S199; Unstern! Komm, süsser Tod Sinistre, disastro S208; La Marianne Schofield double bass Schütz Es steh’ Gott auf SWV356; Anne Denholm harp lugubre gondola S200 Untitled No. 7 Erbarm Dich mein, o Herre Gott (UK première)*† SWV447; Von Gott will ich nicht Join us for our latest Bechstein Brahms Ballade in D Op 10 No 2 lassen SWV366 Merula Chiaccona Session, as part of a new series Ballade.Rauschen a3 Bach Mein Jesu, was vor of informal performances in the (UK première)* Seelenweh BWV487; Prelude Bechstein Bar, which offer a from Cello Suite No. 2 in D *Co-commissioned by Westdeutscher platform for emerging artists. minor; Komm, süsser Tod, komm, Rundfunk, with support from Winners of the Tunnell Trust selge Ruh BWV478 Biber Die Kunststiftung NRW, and Wigmore Hall, Awards 2016, Park Lane Group Verkündigung Anon Ninna nanna with the support of André Hoffmann, Young Artists 2015/16 and al Bambin Giesù Cazzati Ciaccona president of the Foundation Hoffmann, Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands Merula Hor ch’è tempo di dormire a Swiss grant-making foundation 2014, The Hermes Experiment is a Kapsberger L’Arpeggiata contemporary quartet. Capitalising †With the support of The Hargreaves Mealli La Vinciolina Sances on its deliberately idiosyncratic and Ball Trust Monteverdi Laudate combination of instruments, the Dominum in sanctis eius SV287 ensemble regularly commissions A champion of contemporary new works, as well as creating its music, Nicolas Hodges includes L’Arpeggiata is joined by own innovative arrangements and a work by the powerful musical celebrated soprano Céline Scheen venturing into live free improvisation. personality of Elizabeth Lutyens, to explore connections between German composer Hans Thomalla’s the German and Italian traditions £5 2014 piece – subsequently with a focus on the spiritual. expanded into a concerto – and Approximately 1 hour in duration a short but intricate miniature by £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 James Clarke. Approximately 1 hour 30 mins in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Thursday 1 November Thursday 1 November Friday 2 November 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm 7.30pm

Schools Concert: The Federico Colli piano Marie-Nicole Lemieux King with Donkey Ears Scarlatti Sonatas: in F minor contralto Key Stage 2 Kk481, in E Kk380, in G minor Roger Vignoles piano Kk450, in F minor Kk69, in Schumann Kennst du das Land?; D minor Kk32, in D minor K396, Pssst! Did you hear? The King has Lied der Suleika from Myrthen in D Kk492, in D minor Kk9, in donkey ears! Don’t let anyone know… Schubert Der Musensohn; A Kk208, in D minor Kk1 & in A Ganymed; Gretchen am Spinnrade The Royal Barber has an Kk39 Beethoven Wonne der Wehmut; important job, an important pair Mozart Fantasia in D minor K397 Die Trommel gerühret Fanny of scissors and a VERY important Brahms Theme and Variations in Mendelssohn Harfners Lied; secret to keep. But sometimes, D minor Op. 18b Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh Wolf secrets have a way of coming out Bach/Busoni Chaconne from Blumengruss; Frühling übers Jahr; into the open… Partita No. 2 in D minor Mignon IV – Kennst du das Land? Join the impeccably-coiffed BWV1004 Chausson L’albatros Fauré Chant Castalian Quartet and hairy d’automne de Séverac Les hiboux presenter Sam Glazer for a Mozart forms the centrepiece of Fauré Hymne Charpentier La mort morning of musical storytelling this programme by the winner des amants Debussy Le jet d’eau; for Key Stage 2 students and of the 2011 Mozart Recueillement Duparc L’invitation their teachers, inspired by this Competition, who surrounds it au voyage; La vie antérieure traditional Somali folk tale. with a varied clutch of Scarlatti’s distinctive sonatas, Brahms’s The Canadian contralto moves Children £4 / Accompanying early set of variations, and Bach’s from an all-Goethe Lieder first Adults Free (ticket required) great Chaconne in Busoni’s mighty half to a second half devoted to transcription. mélodies set to Charles Baudelaire in which the neglected figures of £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Déodat de Séverac and Gustave Charpentier find a place alongside their more famous colleagues.

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Schools Concert Federico Colli Marie-Nicole Lemieux © Benjamin Ealovega © Sarah Ferrara © Denis Rouvre www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 53

Music in the Round Saturday 3 November Saturday 3 November 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm

Family Concert: The Roderick Williams baritone King with Donkey Ears Ensemble 360 For ages 5 plus Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Howard Skempton Man and Bat for baritone, string quintet and Pssst! Did you hear? The King has piano (London première) donkey ears! Don’t let anyone know… Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 The Royal Barber has an important job, an important pair Framed by two major chamber works from the late 19th-century of scissors and a VERY important Czech repertoire is Howard Skempton’s D. H. Lawrence setting, secret to keep. But sometimes, premièred last year by Roderick Williams and Ensemble 360 secrets have a way of coming out following successful performances of the composer’s The Rime of into the open… the Ancient Mariner. Join the impeccably-coiffed £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Castalian Quartet and hairy presenter Sam Glazer for a Sunday 4 November morning of musical storytelling 11.30am for families, inspired by this traditional Somali folk tale. Ensemble 360 Children £10 Adults £12 Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Not booked for a Family Concert Brahms Horn Trio in E flat Op. 40 before? Buy your tickets at half price, either by phone or in person. The versatile Ensemble 360 – who can field an extraordinary range of players, from duos up to 11 musicians for new commissions – offer two late-Romantic works: Dvořák’s American-influenced quartet and Brahms’s horn trio, partly composed in response to his mother’s death.

£16 concs £14 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Family Concert Roderick Williams Ensemble 360 © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega © David Saphiro 54 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 6 November 7.30pm René Pape bass Camillo Radicke piano

Programme to include: Works by Sibelius & Schubert

One of the great basses of our time, René Pape possesses a vast repertoire ranging from major operatic roles, with a particular accent on Wagner, through to contemporary music. He returns to Wigmore with a programme of works by Schubert and Sibelius, amongst others.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

René Pape © Jiyang Chen www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 55

Sunday 4 November Monday 5 November Monday 5 November 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Aleksey Semenenko Florilegium soprano violin Ashley Solomon director Juliane Ruf piano Inna Firsova piano Elin Manahan Thomas Schumann Sechs Gesänge Op. 107 Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor soprano Poulenc La courte paille Op. 45 Handel Suite No. 3 in G HWV350 Zemlinsky Walzer-Gesänge nach Ysaÿe Sonata No. 3 in D minor ‘Water Music’; Calm thou my soul... toskanischen Volksliedern Op. 6 Op. 27 No. 3 ‘Ballade’ Convey me to some peaceful Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire Debussy La plus que lente shore from Alexander Balus; With Schumann 6 Gedichte von N. Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34 plaintive notes from Samson; Da Lenau und Requiem Op. 90 Paganini La Campanella tempeste from Vivaldi Concerto in D RV562; Emerging from the shadow of Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe’s Concerto in G minor for flute Op. contemporary admirers Mahler solo sonatas are among the 10 No. 2 ‘La notte’ RV439; From and Schoenberg, Zemlinsky summits of the repertoire, the third Griselda: Agitata da due venti & reveals a charming aspect both rhapsodic and gripping. The Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori to his creativity in this set of Ukrainian violinist, who is a BBC Handel Music for the Royal vocal waltzes based on Tuscan New Generation Artist, follows Fireworks HWV351 folksongs, placed in between with three lighter pieces, including mature Schumann groups and the ‘even slower’ waltz by Ysaÿe’s November 5 seems a suitable two delicately ambiguous Poulenc friend and adherent Debussy. day to experience Handel’s Royal song-cycles for Hanna-Elisabeth Fireworks – though it actually Müller’s exciting Wigmore debut. £16 concs £14 debuted in April 1749. Here it is preceded by the originally river- £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 borne Water Music (1717), with the Welsh soprano complementing them with popular Baroque arias.

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Takács Quartet: Associate Artists Wednesday 7 November 7.30pm

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Takács Quartet Friday 9 November 7.30pm Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Wednesday 15 May 2019 7.30pm Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80 Friday 17 May 2019 7.30pm with piano Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists open with a fascinating programme: the first of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets, dedicated to his most revered contemporary, a work by Shostakovich written during his second period in official disgrace, and Mendelssohn’s moving memorial to his sister.

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Takács Quartet © Glenn Asakawa www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 57

Wednesday 7 November Thursday 8 November Friday 9 November 12.30pm and 2.00pm 11.00am and 12.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Chamber Tots: For Crying Out Loud! Music for the Moment Bear Hunt Hear outstanding performances If you are, or someone you know We invite children aged 1 to 5 and by musicians from the Royal is, living with dementia, please their parents/carers to join us Academy of Music in these join us for this informal afternoon on a bear hunt! This interactive concerts presented especially concert with musicians from the music-making workshop features for parents or carers and babies Royal Academy of Music. You are songs, percussion and the chance under 1 to enjoy together in a warmly invited to join us for tea to meet some exciting instruments relaxed and accommodating and coffee from 2.30pm. up close, led by our experienced environment. Chamber Tots music leaders Approximately 45 minutes in duration Free (ticket required) alongside emerging ensembles. In partnership with Resonate Arts 12.30pm (1-2 year-olds) & Adults £8.50 (babies come free) and the Royal Academy of Music 2.00pm (3-5 year-olds) Not booked for a For Crying Out Loud! concert before? Buy your Approximately 1 hour in duration tickets at half price, either by phone or in person. Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots In partnership with the Royal before? Buy your tickets at half Academy of Music price, either by phone or in person.

Chamber Tots For Crying Out Loud! Music for the Moment © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega © www.benjaminharte.co.uk 58 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 8 November Vox Luminis 7.30pm Residency Vox Luminis Founded in 2004 by singer, musician and conductor Musikalische Exequien Lionel Meunier, the Belgian vocal ensemble has acquired a wide reputation for its specialist Schütz Musikalische Exequien SWV279-281; Selig sind programming realised to a standard of creative die Toten SWV391; Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener imagination that places it at the forefront of such SWV352 groups today, drawing on rigorous historical research Selle Die mit Tränen säen to achieve music-making of prodigious vitality. Johannes Bach Weint nicht um meinen Tod Johann Michael Bach Herr, ich warte auf dein Heil Johann Christoph Bach Der Mensch vom Weibe geboren Thursday 8 November Scheidt Ist nicht Ephraim 6.00pm Johann Ludwig Bach Das Blut Jesu Christi

Artists in Conversation The early music ensemble’s 2011 disc of Heinrich Schütz’s Funeral Music won numerous awards. Here Join Lionel Meunier as he shares his experience as they perform a similar programme, incorporating related artistic director and founder of Vox Luminis ahead pieces by the Saxon composer’s contemporaries and of the evening concert. successors, including four members of the Bach family.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Wednesday 20 March 2019 7.30pm

Saturday 13 July 2019 7.30pm

Vox Luminis © Ola Renska www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 59

Friday 9 November Saturday 10 November Saturday 10 November 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Takács Quartet Graham Johnson Cédric Tiberghien piano Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 Songmakers’ Almanac Lecture Armistice recital No. 4 Skryabin Vers la flamme ‘Poème’ Bartók String Quartet No. 1 BB52 Graham Johnson presents a Op. 72 Brahms String Quartet in A minor history of his Songmakers’ Bridge 3 Improvisations for the Op. 51 No. 2 Almanac founded in 1976 – a Left-Hand H134 concept imitated by Debussy Nos. 7, 8 & 9 from The fourth of Haydn’s ‘Sun’ and their singers throughout Études Book II quartets – so-called because of the the world. Three decades of Szymanowski Twelve Études device of a rising sun emblazoned legendary Almanac evenings Op. 33 on an early published score – is covered every imaginable theme Debussy Nos. 10, 11 & 12 from notable for the ‘gypsy’ inflections and were a proud Wigmore Études Book II in its final two movements, while tradition. Programmes such as Debussy Études Book I Bartók’s first quartet mourns an these also have a role to play in Hindemith In einer Nacht...Träume unhappy love affair. the Hall’s future. und Erlebnisse Op. 15

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £16 concs £14 In this programme immediately In Memory of Peter Flatter Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in preceding Armistice Day, the duration, without an interval French pianist offers a thoughtful and varied collection of works written during the First World War by composers from the former combatant nations, including rarely heard pieces by Hindemith and Frank Bridge.

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Takács Quartet Cédric Tiberghien © Ellen Appel © Jean-Baptiste Millot 60 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 11 November Sunday 11 November Monday 12 November 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Daniel Lebhardt piano Joshua Bell violin Jonathan Biss piano Schubert Fantasy Sonata in G D894 Academy of St Martin Haydn Piano Sonata in A flat Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 2 in the Fields Chamber HXVI:46 in B flat minor Op. 36 Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Ensemble Op. 6 Begun in Rome in 1913 and Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Op. 20 premièred in that same Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 Few pieces offer more insight into year, Rachmaninov’s virtuosic Schumann’s soul than his collection second sonata was revised by the A double helping of youthful string of 18 character pieces based on a composer in 1931, but it is the longer octets, with the ever popular mazurka by his beloved Clara, and and more challenging first version Mendelssohn work – composed individually signed by ‘Florestan’ that the Hungarian pianist performs. when he was a mere 16 – and ‘Eusebius’ – pseudonyms succeeded by another by George representing different aspects of £16 concs £14 incl. programme Enescu that dates from 1900, the composer’s personality. and coffee/sherry/juice when the Romanian composer was just three years older. £16 concs £14

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Daniel Lebhardt Joshua Bell Jonathan Biss © Kaupo Kikkas © Eric Kabik © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 61

Monday 12 November Tuesday 13 November Thursday 15 November 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Truls Mørk cello Artemis Quartet Belcea Quartet Behzod Abduraimov Haydn String Quartet in G minor Mozart String Quartet in B flat piano Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ K589 ‘Prussian’ Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Demetz String Quartet No. 2 Joseph Phibbs String Quartet Op. 5 No. 1 Schumann String Quartet in No. 3 (European première) Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge G minor Op. 19 Broken Islands is the title of the Op. 133 quartet with which Eduard Demetz Premièred in 1950 by Mstislav – from the German-speaking Following its world première in Rostropovich and Sviatoslav Italian Alps – won a competition the US in October 2018, Joseph Richter, Prokofiev’s sonata is a for a new work organised by the Phibbs’ third quartet comes to late work written at a time of ensemble, its title referring to a London, where its composer political disfavour, and forms a kayak journey off Vancouver Island. was born in 1974; two previous worthy companion to the equally quartets for the medium by this substantial masterpiece composed £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 former Birtwistle pupil have attracted exceptional praise. by his Russian predecessor in 1901. With grateful thanks to the String Quartet Circle £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Truls Mørk Artemis Quartet Belcea Quartet © Johs Boe © Nikolaj Lund © Marco Borggreve 62 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 14 November 7.30pm

100th Anniversary of the Republic of Latvia Baiba Skride violin Lauma Skride piano Antonina Suhanova piano Trio Palladio piano trio Vītols From 10 Chants populaires Lettons Op. 29: Aijā žūžū lāča bērni; Āvu, āvu baltas kājas & Pūt, vējiņi Rachmaninov Preludes: in C Op. 32 No. 1, in G Op. 32 No. 5, in A minor Op. 32 No. 8, in G sharp minor Op. 32 No. 12 & in D flat Op. 32 No. 13 Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes (arr. for piano trio) Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’

Latvian musicians perform a work by the country’s leading contemporary composer inspired by his country’s landscapes and ending, as he describes, ‘with a vision of nature awakening’. Originally a choral piece, Plainscapes is heard here in Vasks’s arrangement for piano trio.

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Baiba Skride © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 63

Ravel Song Series Friday 16 November Saturday 17 November Sunday 18 November 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 11.30am

Dame Sarah Connolly Chamber Tots: Parker Quartet mezzo-soprano Into Space Mozart String Quartet in E flat K428 James Newby baritone Ravel String Quartet in F Joseph Middleton piano We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join us on a Completed in 1903, Ravel’s Adam Walker flute journey into space! This interactive sole, subtle string quartet owes Amy Harman bassoon music-making workshop features something to Debussy’s similarly songs, percussion and the chance solitary example penned 10 years L’Invitation au Voyage to meet some exciting instruments earlier, and received an approving Duparc L’invitation au voyage up close, led by our experienced response from the elder composer Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Chamber Tots music leaders himself. It is preceded by the first Saint-Saëns Une flûte invisible alongside emerging ensembles. of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets. Ravel Shéhérazade 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & Chabrier L’invitation au voyage 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) £16 concs £14 incl. programme Ravel Histoires naturelles and coffee/sherry/juice Séverac Les hiboux Approximately 1 hour in duration Sauguet Le chat Debussy Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire Children £7 Adults £5 Not booked for Chamber Tots A programme that takes the before? Buy your tickets at half audience on various exotic journeys price, either by phone or in person. courtesy of Maurice Ravel, his predecessors and contemporaries, notably to the east in Tristan Klingsor’s oriental triptych and to the animal kingdom in Jules Renard’s witty natural histories.

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Dame Sarah Connolly Chamber Tots Parker Quartet © Peter Warren © Benjamin Ealovega 64 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 17 November Fauré/Schumann 7.30pm

Isabelle Faust violin Project Katharine Gowers violin Steven Isserlis has regularly championed individual composers, his love and enthusiasm for their music Rachel Roberts viola shining through his exceptional interpretations. In this Steven Isserlis cello series he joins with a group of distinguished musical friends to focus on two contrasting figures, in each case Alexander Melnikov piano concentrating on a body of work that deserves to be Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 better known. Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120; Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117 Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 44

Schumann’s ebullient quintet (1842) – the first important work ever composed for this combination – dates from the year the composer threw himself into writing chamber music, while the two Fauré works represent his late style at its most elusive.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Saturday 23 March 2019 7.30pm with Joshua Bell violin & Jeremy Denk piano

Tuesday 23 April 2019 7.30pm with violin Amihai Grosz viola & Connie Shih piano

Sunday 16 June 2019 7.30pm with Anthony Marwood violin Dénes Várjon viola & Izabella Simon piano

Steven Isserlis © Kevin Davis www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 65

Monday 19 November Monday 19 November Tuesday 20 November 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Roberta Invernizzi soprano Alexandre Tharaud piano The English Concert Rodney Prada viola da gamba Couperin La logivière; Les Harry Bicket director, Calotines; Les rozeaux; Craig Marchitelli lute harpsichord, organ Passacaille; Les ombres errantes; Dorothee Mields soprano Franco Pavan lute Le tic-toc-choc, ou Les maillotins Caccini Dolcissimo sospiro; Dalla Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 James Hall countertenor porta d’oriente in E Op. 109 Hugo Hymas tenor Kapsberger Passacaglia Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi bass-baritone Monteverdi Ecco di dolci raggi; d’un faune (arr. Tharaud) Disprezzata Regina Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland: Bassani Toccata per B quadro in C minor Op. 111 Music for Advent Frescobaldi Canzone a basso solo Bach Cantata: Nun komm, der Merula Folle è ben che si crede Distinguished French pianist Heiden Heiland BWV61; Cantata: Rossi La bella più bella Alexandre Tharaud places two of Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Kapsberger Arpeggiata Beethoven’s final sonatas – works BWV62; Cantata: Schwingt D’India Intenerite voi, lagrime which in their depth, imagination, freudig euch empor BWV36 mie; Cruda Amarilli range and originality continue to Erlebach Ouverture in G minor Monteverdi Sí dolce è’l tormento; fascinate as well as to challenge No. 6 Voglio di vita uscir the greatest artists – alongside six pieces for keyboard by Couperin In the build-up to Christmas, A collection of instrumental and and Tharaud’s own take on The English Concert turns to JS vocal works from Italy dating from Debussy’s colourful Prélude à Bach’s three surviving cantatas the decades when the Renaissance l’après-midi d’un faune. written for Advent. Despite Bach’s style was giving way to the Baroque. gruelling schedule composing £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 almost one cantata per week, his All seats £16 music is still full of characteristic invention, including the French overture style that opens ‘Nun komm, der heiden heiland’.

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Roberta Invernizzi Alexandre Tharaud Harry Bicket © Ribalta Luce Studios © Richard Haughton 66 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 21 November Wednesday 21 November Wednesday 21 November 12.15pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia Samling Showcase

Luke Styles discusses his new Jacqueline Shave violin Elin Pritchard soprano work with Dr Kate Kennedy Miranda Dale violin Svetlina Stoyanova mezzo-soprano Clare Finnimore viola Nicky Spence tenor Caroline Dearnley cello Julien Van Mellaerts baritone Free (ticket required) piano Christopher Glynn piano Mark Padmore tenor Jâms Coleman piano Alex Jennings actor Luke Styles New work* (London première) Programme to include: Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge Mahler Revelge Brahms Da unten im Tale Schubert Der Fischer; Erlkönig *Co-commissioned by Britten Schumann Blaue Augen Liszt Die Sinfonia with the support of donors drei Zigeuner Tchaikovsky Was I to the Musically Gifted campaign, and not a blade of grass? Grieg Solveigs by Wigmore Hall with the support sang Sibelius Flickan kom ifrån sin of André Hoffmann, president of the älsklings möte Shostakovich Lullaby Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant- Canteloube Malurous qu’o uno fenno making foundation Grainger Bold William Taylor Ireland The three ravens Warlock Yarmouth Tenor Mark Padmore is joined by Fair Clarke The Seal Man Britten principals of Britten Sinfonia for Tom Bowling the London première of a new song cycle by Luke Styles, former Samling Artists from across the Young Composer-in-Residence at years explore songs inspired by Glyndebourne. The programme is folklore. Telling stories of childhood, crowned by Vaughan Williams’s On spirits, soldiers and lovers, this Wenlock Edge, which depicts rural colourful programme includes life at a time when the First World songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben War was drawing near. Wunderhorn with songs and readings from many other lands. £16 concs £14 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Luke Styles Britten Sinfonia Samling Showcase Detail from ‘Avenue’ (oil on canvas) © Kira Doherty © Harry Rankin © by kind permission of Julian Vilarrubi www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 67

Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Thursday 22 November Saturday 24 November Saturday 24 November 7.30pm 10.00am – 3.30pm 5.30pm NB time

Hagen Quartet Come and Sing: Nash Ensemble Schubert String Quartet in Vivaldi’s Gloria Philippa Davies flute G minor D173 Adrian Brendel cello Lucy Wakeford harp Berg String Quartet Op. 3 Join choral leader Charles Ian Brown piano Haydn String Quartet in B flat MacDougall for a day exploring Alasdair Beatson piano Op. 55 No. 3 Vivaldi’s joyful Gloria. Get to know the music from the inside, develop Brahms Waltzes for two Composed in 1910, Berg’s early your singing skills and finish the Op. 39 masterpiece shows a composer day with a performance on the Spohr Fantasie in C minor for finely balanced between his late- Wigmore Hall stage. solo harp Op. 35 Romantic heritage and the nascent Weber Trio in G minor for flute, modernism he was discovering in £25 concs £20 cello and piano Op. 63 his studies with Schoenberg; the closing work is the last of Haydn’s This early evening concert brings first set of ‘Tost’ quartets. three Romantic rarities: five of Brahms’s waltzes for piano duet, £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 arranged by the composer for two pianos, a fantasia written by Spohr for his harpist wife, and Weber’s substantial trio, with its slow movement called ‘Shepherd’s Lament’.

All seats £4

Hagen Quartet Come and Sing Nash Ensemble © Harald Hoffmann © Benjamin Ealovega © K Leighton 68 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

FAMILY SOUNDS

In Spring 2018, Wigmore Hall led three days of dedicated � Thanks very much for arranging activity for children in early childhood and their families, the Wigmore Hall music workshop as part of our Seven Ages festival. Over the course of the three days, Wigmore Hall co-produced a new piece, today. We had a fantastic morning! ’ and we were delighted to partner with Positively UK, Westminster Early Help, Fairbeats! and Great Ormond Street Hospital to offer their families the chance to take part in workshops. The piece we created together included voices, text, soundscapes and multi-sensory play. We celebrated the participants’ creations through capturing the work with a sound artist and sharing it online at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning.

© Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 69

Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Saturday 24 November Sunday 25 November Sunday 25 November 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Aquinas Piano Trio Anthony Marwood violin Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Haydn Piano Trio in A HXV:18 Richard Lester cello Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 Schumann Andante and variations Susan Tomes piano for 2 pianos, 2 and horn Aleksandar Madžar piano Wagner Wesendonck Lieder One of a set of three trios dating Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in from 1793-4 and dedicated to the Doric String Quartet wife of Haydn’s patron Prince G minor Op. 25 Peasmarsh Festival: 20th Anton Esterházy, the genial A Anniversary Concert Exploring some delightful major work precedes Brahms’s Schubert Sonata (Sonatina) in D discoveries, the Nash open with richly Romantic first piano trio, D384 Dohnányi Piano Quintet No. 1 a bold work by Schumann scored composed in 1854 but radically in C minor Op. 1 Thomas Adès for an unusual combination of revised in 1881. The Four Quarters Mozart Piano forces, followed by a Wagner song Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 cycle written at the same time as £16 concs £14 incl. programme Tristan and Isolde – here sung by and coffee/sherry/juice Thomas Adès’s The Four Quarters the in-demand mezzo Christine In Memory of Peter Flatter (2010) reflects on the diurnal Rice. The concert ends with the cycle, with its final movement – more familiar territory of Brahms’s The Twenty-Fifth Hour – taking extravert G minor quartet for the listener beyond measurable piano and strings, with its gypsy- time. Composed when he was style finale. 18, Ernő von Dohnányi’s work is the Hungarian master’s official £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Opus 1. Established for its first 15 years as the Florestan Trio’s Festival in Peasmarsh, 2018 sees the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival celebrate 20 years of music making in Sussex.

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Christine Rice Aquinas Piano Trio Anthony Marwood © Patricia Taylor © Felix van Dijk 70 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 26 November 7.30pm Arditti Quartet Paul Cannon double bass Dan Yuhas Quartet Mark Barden Viscera for viola, cello and bass James Clarke String Quartet No. 4 (world première)* *Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall String Quartet No. 3; Christus Resurgens

The Ardittis première James Clarke’s latest alongside a recent piece by Brian Ferneyhough drawn from his cycle Umbrations, based on music by the Renaissance composer Christopher Tye, while also celebrating the 70th birthday of Israeli composer Dan Yuhas.

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Arditti Quartet © Astrid Karger www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 71

Wigmore Study Group: Monday 26 November America Tuesday 27 November 1.00pm 7.30pm Tuesday 27 November Tai Murray violin 3.00pm – 6.00pm Boris Giltburg piano Thursday 29 November Silke Avenhaus piano 3.00pm – 6.00pm Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin Grieg Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Monday 3 December Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 Op. 13 3.00pm – 6.00pm in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Pendulum Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3 in Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 Immerse yourself in the American A minor Op. 28 in D minor Op. 75 styles that became a fresh and Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 vibrant force in the music of the in F Op. 73 (arr. Giltburg) Written to celebrate the 90th 20th-century. Explore the film music anniversary of the American Civil of Hollywood, featuring Bernard The Russian-born Israeli pianist Liberties Union, Pendulum received Herrmann’s scores for such iconic made his transcription of its première in its second form as films as Hitchcock’s Psycho and Shostakovich’s third string quartet a duo in New York in 2011, having North by Northwest, as well as the following the success of his been premièred as a piano trio on work of composers who fled from arrangement of the Eighth. In this Ellis Island the previous year. Hitler’s Europe for the United States programme he surrounds it with including Erich Korngold, hailed as a mighty sonatas by Beethoven and genius by Mahler when he was still Prokofiev and Ravel’s charming £16 concs £14 only a child. We look at the reciprocal 18th-century pastiche. influences between European and American composers exemplified by £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 the relationship between Gershwin In Memory of Peter Flatter and Ravel. These study afternoons are presented by composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts, alongside musicologist Ian Christie and student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £70 including three study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on Monday 3 December.

Tai Murray Bernard Herrmann Boris Giltburg © Julia Wesely © Sasha Gusov 72 • NOVEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 28 November 7.30pm Christian Gerhaher baritone Gerold Huber piano Wolf Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass; Wanderers Nachtlied Tasso-Gedanken (UK première) Schubert Sei mir gegrüsst; Dass sie hier gewesen; Lachen und Weinen; Greisengesang; Du bist die Ruh; Abendbilder; Himmelsfunken Berg Vier Lieder Op. 2 Wolf Begegnung; Um Mitternacht; Schlafendes Jesuskind; Gebet; Auf eine Christblume II; Lied eines Verliebten; Grenzen der Menschh

Appearances by Lieder specialist Christian Gerhaher and his regular accompanist Gerold Huber have become red-letter dates at Wigmore Hall. Very much at home in this ambience, the renowned baritone is certain to provide a special occasion with a programme of Wolf, Schubert and Berg, crowned by the UK première of a new song-cycle by Wolfgang Rihm, Tasso-Gedanken.

£60 £50 £45 £40 £25

Christian Gerhaher © Thomas Egli www.wigmore-hall.org.uk NOVEMBER • 73

Russian Song Series Marlis Petersen Residency Thursday 29 November Friday 30 November Saturday 1 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Justina Gringytė mezzo Alina Ibragimova cello Marlis Petersen soprano Christian Gerhaher baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky Cédric Tiberghien piano Die Kölner Akademie baritone Stravinsky Suite italienne for Telemann and CPE Bach Iain Burnside piano violin and piano Gerold Huber piano CPE Bach Symphony No. 1 in Tchaikovsky I should like in a Work by Mendelssohn D Wq183; Flute Concerto in G single word; The fires in the room George Crumb Four Nocturnes Wq169; Cantata: Der Frühling were already out; We sat together; Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in Wq237 for soprano and strings The sun has set; I opened the D minor Op. 121 Telemann Divertimento in E Flat window; Frenzied nights; Dusk major TWV50:21; Cantata: Ino fell on the earth; Again, as before, Dating from 1964 and following TWV20:41 alone; Why? on from George Crumb’s chamber Medtner Twilight; Whenever I hear work of the previous year, the Marlis Petersen continues her birdsong; Sleeplessness four nocturnes (or Night Music II) residency opening with fascinating Rachmaninov Sing not to me, consist of music of tremendous works by CPE Bach, later beautiful maiden; Oh, do not Grieve; delicacy and refinement, while exploring Telemann at his most Fragment from Musset; The Dream; Stravinsky’s Suite italienne draws companionable, in a divertimento Before the icon; No Prophet, I; material from the Pergolesi- celebrating a hunt and a meal, and Christ is Risen; To the Children; The derived . at his most dramatic, in a cantata Ring; Again I am alone; There are recounting the fate of ’s Many Sounds; Spring Waters £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 sister Ino.

A programme that explores the £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 late-Romantic tradition of the lyrical Russian romance through three central figures: Tchaikovsky, his follower Rachmaninov, and their compatriot and the latter’s friend , who spent his last 15 years in exile in London.

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Justina Gringytė Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien Marlis Petersen © Paul Marc Mitchell © Sussie Ahlburg © Y Mavropoulos 74 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Brahms Plus Series Sunday 2 December 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright piano Brahms plus Bach Brahms Variations on a Hungarian Song Op. 21 No. 2 Bach French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816 Brahms Variations on an Original Theme Op. 21 No. 1 Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op. 24

Music in the French and Italian styles by Johann Sebastian Bach intersperses three sets of variations by Brahms written in his twenties, which reach a creative high point in his masterly variations on a movement from a harpsichord suite by Handel.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Monday 4 March 2019 7.30pm Brahms plus Beethoven

Sunday 21 July 2019 7.30pm Brahms plus Schubert

Jonathan Plowright © Diane Shaw www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 75

Sunday 2 December Monday 3 December Tuesday 4 December 11.30am 1.00pm 7.30pm

Vadym Kholodenko piano Lara Melda piano Soile Isokoski soprano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 2 in Chopin Ballade No. 1 in G minor Ilkka Paananen piano A Op. 2 No. 2 Op. 23; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38 Peterson-Berger Fyra visor i Tchaikovsky Piano Sonata Op. 37 Liszt Ballade No. 2 S171 svensk folkton ‘Grand Sonata’ Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A flat Rangström Den mörka blomman Op. 47; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia Beethoven’s vital early sonata Op. 52 Schumann 5 Lieder der Maria precedes a rare performance of Stuart Op. 135 Tchaikovsky’s only piano sonata, its Composed between 1831 and Sibelius Se’n har jag ej frågat four movements written on a quasi- 1842, and amongst the most mera; Illalle; Lastu lainehilla; symphonic scale and in a style that ambitious and technically Längtan heter min arvedel; I demands not only an impregnable demanding of all his works, systrar, I bröder, I älskande par!; technique but an almost orchestral Chopin’s ballades are the first Den första kyssen; Flickan kom approach to sonority. instrumental pieces to employ a ifrån sin älsklings möte literary title that would later be Kilpinen Tunturilauluja £16 concs £14 incl. programme taken up by Liszt, Brahms and and coffee/sherry/juice many others. The Finnish soprano focuses on songs by composers from her £16 concs £14 homeland, including the neglected figure of Yrjö Kilpinen and his Tunturilauluja (Songs of the Fells, 1926), as well as the Swedish Wilhelm Peterson-Berger’s Four Folk Ballads of 1892.

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Vadym Kholodenko Lara Melda Soile Isokoski © Ira Polyarnaya © Benjamin Harte © Heikki Tuuli 76 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 3 December American Series 7.30pm Music either from or written in America is the theme of this residency by the New York-based Escher String Escher String Quartet Quartet, one of today’s most acclaimed ensembles, Herrmann Psycho Suite for Strings here concentrating on the artistic productions of their Korngold String Quartet No. 3 in D Op. 34 homeland while also glancing at works influenced by Gershwin Lullaby Ravel String Quartet in F the rich heritage of America’s own home-grown music – especially jazz. American Styles: Hollywood, Jazz

Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Hitchcock’s regular collaborator Bernard Herrmann both remain best known for their film scores. Much of the former’s third quartet is borrowed from his score for The Sea Hawk, while the latter made his own concert suite from Psycho, notable for its piercing strings.

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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Tuesday 5 February 2019 7.30pm

Wednesday 10 April 2019 7.30pm

Escher String Quartet © Sarah Skinner www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 77

Wednesday 5 December Thursday 6 December Friday 7 December 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm

Benedetti Elschenbroich Chamber Tots: Arcangelo Grynyuk Trio Into Space Jonathan Cohen director, violin harpsichord Leonard Elschenbroich cello We invite children aged 1 to 5 and Sophie Gent violin Alexei Grynyuk piano their parents/carers to join us on a Louis Creach violin journey into space! This interactive Max Mandel viola Strauss Cello Sonata in F Op. 6; music-making workshop features Jonathan Byers cello Violin Sonata in E flat Op. 18 songs, percussion and the chance Schubert Notturno in E flat D897 Thomas Dunford lute to meet some exciting instruments Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C soprano up close, led by our experienced Op. 87 Chamber Tots music leaders Tim Mead countertenor alongside emerging ensembles. The individual members of the Alessandro Scarlatti Cantata: acclaimed trio offer early sonatas 10.15am (1-2 year-olds) & Piango, sospiro, e peno; Mentre by Strauss – the Mendelssohnian 11.45am (3-5 year-olds) sul carro aurato from Clori e Mirtillo Handel Trio Sonata Op. 2 work for cello and the heroic piece Approximately 1 hour in duration for violin – before coming together No. 1 HWV386b Porpora Ecco for an isolated slow movement che il primo albore; Lasciovi al fin Children £7 Adults £5 grandezze (Il ritiro); Sinfonia da by Schubert and Brahms’s Not booked for Chamber Tots camera in G minor Op. 2 No. 3 impassioned second piano trio. before? Buy your tickets at half Handel Cantata: Amarilli Vezzosa price, either by phone or in person. HWV82 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

In Memory of Peter Flatter Two leading singers join Jonathan Cohen and his period-instrument orchestra for cantatas by Scarlatti, Handel and the latter’s onetime rival, the Neapolitan Porpora – prolific vocal composer and teacher of the famed castrato Farinelli.

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Nicola Benedetti Chamber Tots Arcangelo © Simon Fowler © Benjamin Ealovega © Adam Swann 78 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Janáček Focus Once considered eccentric, or at the very least in need of interventionist editing by other hands, the music of Leoš Janáček has grown exponentially in appeal over the decades to become a much-loved part of our modern listening experience, universally prized for its profound originality and emotional directness.

Thomas Adès © Brian Voce www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 79

Sunday 9 December Monday 10 December Monday 10 December 7.30pm 6.00pm 7.30pm

Thomas Adès piano Pre-Concert Talk Pavel Haas Quartet Janáček On an Overgrown Path Smetana String Quartet No. 2 in (Book I); Na památku; Piano Musicologist and broadcaster Nigel D minor Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the Simeone explores Leoš Janáček’s Janáček String Quartet No. 1 Street’; On an Overgrown Path impassioned string quartets ahead ‘Kreutzer Sonata’; String Quartet (Book II); Narodil se Kristus Pán; of the evening concert. No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ Malostranský palác; Vzpomínka; In the Mists £5 Janáček’s two highly personal quartets have earned their places Thomas Adès explores the piano as 20th-century classics of the music of one of his favourite medium, the first inspired by composers, on whom he has Tolstoy’s passionate novella The written perceptively, defining the Kreutzer Sonata, about an extra- greatness of In the Mists as lying marital affair, the second reflecting ‘in its very claustrophobia, an his own love for the married austerity of means affecting every Kamila Stösslová. aspect of the music’. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 80 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Nash Ensemble: German Romantics Saturday 8 December Saturday 8 December Sunday 9 December 5.30pm NB time 7.30pm 11:30am

Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble Benjamin Baker violin Philippa Davies flute Roderick Williams Daniel Lebhardt piano Richard Hosford clarinet baritone Marie Lloyd Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Ian Brown piano Bruch String Quintet in E flat Poulenc Violin Sonata Brahms Six Songs (arr. for voice Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in Sophie Bevan soprano and ensemble by David Matthews) D Op. 94bis Konzertstück Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte in F minor Op. 113 Op. 98 Poulenc composed his sonata Reinecke Ballade for flute and Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in (1942-3) in memory of the poet piano Op. 288 D minor Op. 49 Lorca, whose line ‘La guitare Songs by Clara Schumann fait pleurer les songes’ is quoted Songs by Fanny Mendelssohn A late string quintet by Max at the beginning of the second Bruch and Mendelssohn’s popular movement, while Prokofiev’s Much-loved soprano Sophie D minor trio frame two items contemporary sonata is his Bevan performs a selection of featuring Wigmore favourite arrangement of a work for flute. the attractive songs by Robert Roderick Williams: a selection Schumann’s wife Clara and Felix of well-known Brahms songs £16 concs £14 incl. programme Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny. clothed by master-arranger David and coffee/sherry/juice They’re prefaced by wind music Matthews in new instrumental by Felix Mendelssohn and Carl colours, and Beethoven’s Reinecke, a friend of both families. pioneering song cycle To the distant beloved. All seats £4 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Sophie Bevan Roderick Williams Benjamin Baker © Sussie Ahlburg © Benjamin Ealovega © Kaupo Kikkas www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 81

Monday 10 December Tuesday 11 December Wednesday 12 December 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Augustin Hadelich violin La Nuova Musica Quatuor Ebène Charles Owen piano David Bates director Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Lucy Crowe soprano Op. 78 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Vivaldi Overture from Farnace; Op. 51 No. 1 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in E minor Siam navi from L’Olimpiade; Op. 27 No. 4 (à ) Beethoven String Quartet in F Gelido in ogni vena from Farnace Op. 135 John Adams Road Movies Corelli Concerto Grosso in F Op. 6 No. 9 John Adams describes the title Two Beethoven quartets, one Vivaldi Motet: In Furore from his first opus for the medium of Road Movies as ‘total whimsy’, Handel Gloria HWV deest; probably suggested by the (1801), the second his final quartet, Sonata a5 HWV288 composed a quarter of a century ‘groove’ in the piano part, all of Two motets (London which is required to be played in later; in between comes Brahms’s première) first quartet, long delayed partly a ‘swing mode’ – rising to ‘40% Handel From Il trionfo del tempo swing’ in the finale. due to his consciousness of e del disinganno: Tu del ciel Beethoven’s sovereign examples. ministro eletto, Un pensiero £16 concs £14 nemico de pace & Come nembo £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 che fugge col vento

David Bates and his Baroque ensemble bring together operatic extracts by Vivaldi and items from Handel’s very first oratorio Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (The Triumph of Beauty and Disillusion) alongside a concerto by the highly influential Corelli, and a London première of a new work by Nico Muhly.

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Augustin Hadelich Lucy Crowe Quatuor Ebène © Luca Valenta © Marco Borggreve USA © Julien Mignot 82 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Thursday 13 December Friday 14 December Saturday 15 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 7:30pm

Bertrand Chamayou piano Nardus Williams soprano Mahan Esfahani Schumann Blumenstück in D flat Bianca Andrew mezzo harpsichord Op. 19; Carnaval Op. 9 Bach Duetto No. 2 BWV803; Thomas Atkins tenor Ravel Miroirs Praeludium et Partita del Tuono Saint-Saëns Les cloches de Las Phillip Rhodes baritone Terzo BWV833; Partita No. 2 in Palmas from Six études Op. 111; Gary Matthewman piano C minor BWV826; Fantasia in Mazurka No. 2 in G minor Op. 24; C minor BWV906; Partita No. 3 Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Gala Mazurka No. 3 in B minor Op. 66; in A minor BWV827 Étude en forme de valse Op. 52 With a spoken introduction from Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Amongst some rarely heard An exceptional pianist as well as Programme to include works by pieces, Bach’s partitas – suites a great organist, Camille Saint- Mozart, Strauss, Duparc, Jake by any other name, made up of Saëns was a man of many talents, Heggie, Puccini and Verdi dances and character pieces whose piano music – represented preceded by a more formal here by four lighter pieces – Kiri Te Kanawa created her introductory movement – contrast testifies to his technical skills and Foundation 15 years ago to support with the freer structure of the inventive powers. exceptional young singers. Hear C minor fantasia. four rising stars tonight in a concert £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 where the net proceeds go directly £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 to the Foundation. A limited number of best seats, priced at £150, which include an invitation to a special reception, are available exclusively from the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation on 0207 622 8549 or by email to [email protected]

£100 £75 £50 £30 £15

Bertrand Chamayou Nardus Williams Mahan Esfahani © Marco Borggreve Warner Classics © Bernhard Musil DG www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 83

Sunday 16 December Sunday 16 December Monday 17 December 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Novus String Quartet Richard Goode piano Ensemble Zefiro Mendelssohn String Quartet Haydn Variations in F minor Mozart Serenade in B flat K361 No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 HXVII:6 ‘Gran Partita’ Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 Mozart March in C K408; in D Op. 11 Courante in E flat K399; Minuet in In 18th-century Austria serenades D K355; Gigue K574 were a popular form of outdoor Mendelssohn’s A minor quartet Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 26 evening entertainment, and though is an early work, written in 1827 in E flat Op. 81a �Les Adieux’ the exact occasion for the writing when he was 18 and shows the Janáček In the Mists of this piece (which probably dates impact of Beethoven’s recent Chopin Impromptu No. 3 in G flat from 1781-2) is unknown, its scale late quartets – many of them Op. 51; 4 Mazurkas; Fantaisie in and seriousness have earned it unpublished at the time – as well F minor Op. 49 the name ‘Gran Partita’. as an early use of cyclic form. With his tremendous authority All seats £16 £16 concs £14 incl. programme in the repertoire, Richard Goode and coffee/sherry/juice devotes his first half to the Viennese classics before moving on to two improvisatory works by Chopin and Janáček’s four-movement cycle, composed in 1912 at a time of isolation and depression.

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Novus String Quartet Richard Goode Ensemble Zefiro © Jin-ho Park © Steve Riskind © Vito Magnanini 84 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 20 December 7.30pm Andreas Scholl countertenor Tamar Halperin piano The Twilight People Ari Frankel The Rest Copland From Old American Songs II: The Little Horses & At the river Vaughan Williams In the Spring Berg Wo der Goldregen steht Vaughan Williams Silent Noon from The House of Life Copland I Bought me a Cat from Old American Songs I Cage Jazz Study Britten The Ash Grove Joseph Tawadros Beauty is Life (arr. Matt McMahon) Pärt Es sang vor langen Jahren; Vater Unser Britten Greensleeves Berg Abschied; Vielgeliebte schöne Frau; Ferne Lieder Vaughan Williams The Twilight People; Tired from Four Last Songs Cage In a Landscape Britten The Salley Gardens Joseph Tawadros A Truth (arr. Matt McMahon)

An intriguing programme that takes its title from a song by Vaughan Williams setting a poem by the Irishman Seamus O’Sullivan, and which treads a path through a wide literary and musical heritage, including contemporary figures Ari Frankel and Joseph Tawadros.

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Andreas Scholl © James McMillan Decca www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 85

Monday 17 December Tuesday 18 December Wednesday 19 December 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Steven Isserlis cello Fatma Said soprano Mark Padmore tenor Joshua Bell violin James Vaughan piano Simon Lepper piano Songs by Walton, Debussy, Haydn She never told her love; baritone Strauss, Abdel-Rahim The Spirit’s Song; Antwort auf & Obradors die Frage eines Mädchens piano Connie Shih Mozart Das Veilchen; piano Bringing a programme themed Abendempfindung Sir András Schiffpiano on ‘travelling around the world’, Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, Cairo-born Egyptian soprano neues Leben; Aus Goethes Additional performers to be Fatma Said, currently a BBC Faust: Es war einmal ein König; announced Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Adelaide; Selbstgespräch; Steven Isserlis is now appearing in some of the Resignation; Abendlied unterm 60th Birthday Concert world’s leading concert venues gestirnten Himmel Schumann Kerner Lieder Programme to include works and opera houses, garnering by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, plaudits for her exceptional voice, Schumann & Fauré musicality and interpretative skills. Mark Padmore’s Lieder selection includes well known examples by Haydn (including two of his A celebration of Steven Isserlis £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 English songs), Mozart and on the occasion of his 60th In association with the Beethoven, before meeting the birthday brings together a group Veronica Dunne International larger challenge of Schumann’s of the cellist’s many distinguished Singing Competition collection of 12 texts by Justinus musical friends in music that Kerner, a member of the Swabian means much to him by composers school of poets. he has resolutely championed, notably Fauré and Schumann. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £75 £60 £45 £30 £18

Joshua Bell Fatma Said Mark Padmore © Lisa Marie Mazzuco © Felix Bröde © Marco Borggreve 86 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 22 December 7.30pm Avi Avital mandolin Venice Baroque Orchestra Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor after Corelli’s ‘La Follia’ Op. 5 No. 12 Vivaldi Concerto in D for lute and strings RV93; Sinfonia in G RV146; Concerto in A minor Op. 3 No. 6 RV356; Concerto in D minor for strings RV127; Mandolin Concerto in C RV425 Paisiello Concerto in E flat for mandolin Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for mandolin, strings and basso continuo; Summer from The Four Seasons

Israeli Avi Avital is dedicated to giving the mandolin a higher profile, his mission involving commissioning new pieces, but his focus here is original or attributed works and arrangements from 18th-century Italy, including his own transcriptions.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Avi Avital www.wigmore-hall.org.uk DECEMBER • 87

Christian Blackshaw Residency Friday 21 December Sunday 23 December Sunday 23 December 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Quatuor Arod Brenda Rae soprano Christian Blackshaw piano Haydn String Quartet in E flat Jonathan Ware piano Programme to include: Op. 76 No. 6 Strauss Die Nacht; Befreit; Haydn Arianna a Naxos Beethoven String Quartet in C Muttertändelei; Schlagende Songs by Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Herzen; Frühlingsgedränge Brahms & Mahler Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel BBC Radio 3 New Generation Wanderlied; Warum sind denn Joining Christian Blackshaw on this Artists, Quatuor Arod plays the die Rosen so blass? Wo kommst occasion is mezzo-soprano Alice last of Haydn’s late set of six du her? Die furchtsame Träne; Coote, whose deeply expressive quartets, whose nickname recalls Bergelust Liszt Comment, disaient- artistry is well matched with his dedicatee Count Erdődy, and the ils S276; Es muss ein Wunderbares own; their mainly 19th-century last of Beethoven’s set of three sein S314; Bist du S277; Wie singt programme also includes Haydn’s commissioned by the Russian die Lerche schön S312; Oh! quand dramatic cantata in which Ariadne ambassador to Vienna. je dors S282 Debussy Rondel laments her desertion by Theseus. chinois; Clair de lune from Fêtes £16 concs £14 incl. programme galantes Book I; Pierrot; Apparition Schubert Vergebliche Liebe; Von £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and coffee/sherry/juice Ida; Aus �Diego Manzanares’ (Ilmerine); Du bist die Ruh; Die verfehlte Stunde; Lied der Delphine

Enjoying an international career as a lyric coloratura soprano, the American Brenda Rae offers a programme that explores 19th- century German Lieder and the French mélodie from Schubert to Strauss and Debussy, with the cosmopolitan Liszt straddling both traditions.

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Alice Coote Quatuor Arod Brenda Rae © Benjamin Ealovega © Richard Dumas © Kristin Hoebermann 88 • DECEMBER Box Office: 020 7935 2141

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

Nick van Bloss piano Nicky Spence tenor Trio Wanderer Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Roger Vignoles piano Haydn Piano Trio in E flat minor Bach Goldberg Variations Schumann From Myrthen: HXV:31 BWV988 Hochländers Abschied, Jemand, Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Hochländisches Wiegenlied, Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ A creation of E. T. A. Hoffmann, Niemand & Jemand; Dem roten Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Johannes Kreisler was a fictional Röslein gleicht mein Lieb E flat D929 (with original final Kapellmeister whom Schumann Shostakovich O wert thou in the movement) also viewed as an alter ego. cauld blast; Macpherson’s Farewell Supposedly composed to alleviate Britten Who are these Children? Paying homage to Schubert in the insomnia of a Russian Musgrave A Song for Christmas their name, the Trio Wanderer diplomat, Bach’s variations are Hughes Oh men from the fields performs the longer, original arguably the greatest ever written Stanford The Monkey’s Carol version of the composer’s already for keyboard. Howells Come sing and dance large-scale piano trio, one of Respighi Nevicata Rodrigo his final major works, alongside £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Pastorcito Santo Britten That Dvořák’s so-called ‘Dumky’ trio, yongë child Debussy Noël des which alternates sorrowful with enfants qui n’ont pas de maison cheerful . Strauss Weihnachtsgefühl; Winterweihe Wolf Epiphanias £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Originally from Dumfries, the versatile tenor presents a cornucopia of song, including an all-Scottish first half – with Robert Schumann and Shostakovich setting Robert Burns, and setting William Soutar – before an even more varied and seasonal second half.

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RTÉ Contempo Quartet Castalian Quartet Dunedin Consort Arcadia Quartet Mozart String Quartet in C K465 John Butt director, harpsichord Bartók Romanian Folk Dances (arr. ‘Dissonance’ Bach Suite No. 2 in A minor for string quartet by M. Naughtin) Fauré String Quartet in E minor BWV1067a Enescu String Octet in C Op. 7 Op. 121 Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Beethoven String Quartet in Lied BWV225 E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Revered by every musician with Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 whom he came into contact, in G BWV1049 the Romanian George Enescu At the end of his life Fauré Bach Magnificat BWV243 produced his String Octet in 1900, attempted the genre of the string when he was just 19. As with quartet, which – he claimed – The Dunedin Consort’s New Year’s Mendelssohn’s more famous work, ‘causes all those not Beethoven to Eve all-Bach programme includes an early composition turned out to be terrified’. The fearless German one of his intricate double-choir be a major masterpiece. himself appears with the second motets and the resplendent of his quartets dedicated to Count Magnificat, both dating from his long Razumovsky. £16 concs £14 incl. programme period as Thomaskantor in Leipzig, and coffee/sherry/juice plus a reconstructed early version £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 of the second orchestral suite.

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Wigmore Hall stands as a major Thursday 13 September 7.30pm supporter of contemporary Pekka Kuusisto violin chamber music and song, Perttu Haapanen and as a commissioner of new works and a champion Friday 21 September 7.30pm of living composers. The Hall James Ehnes violin is determined to bring fresh Andrew Armstrong piano creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive John Corigliano commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and Sunday 7 October 7.30pm London premières. François-Frédéric Guy piano Boulez ‘Our commissioning scheme

is already the most extensive Monday 15 October 1.00pm in Europe for chamber music’, Charles Owen piano comments Wigmore Hall Director, Nicholas Daniel oboe , John Gilhooly, ‘and in recent years Julian Anderson Wigmore Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for Thursday 18 October 7.30pm contemporary chamber music.’ Jeremy Denk piano John Adams

Sunday 21 October 11.30am Quatuor Voce string quartet Ligeti Music Series Contemporary Contemporary www.wigmore-hall.org.uk C ontempORARY music • 91

Friday 26 October 1.00pm Thursday 15 November 7.30pm Friday 30 November 7.30pm Iain Burnside piano Belcea Quartet string quartet Cédric Tiberghien piano Andrew Watts countertenor Joseph Phibbs* Alina Ibragimova violin Tansy Davies, Neville Bower, George Crumb Joe Cutler, Raymond Yiu Sunday 25 November 7.30pm Anthony Marwood violin Monday 10 December 1.00pm Monday 29 October 1.00pm Susan Tomes piano Charles Owen piano Thibaut Garcia guitar Aleksandar Madžar piano Augustin Hadelich violin Dušan Bogdanović Richard Lester cello John Adams Doric String Quartet string quartet Tuesday 30 October 7.30pm Thomas Adès Thursday 20 December 7.30pm Nicolas Hodges piano Andreas Scholl countertenor Monday 26 November 1.00pm James Clarke*, Hans Thomalla* Tamar Halperin piano Tai Murray violin John Adams, Joseph Tawadros, Silke Avenhaus piano Tuesday 13 November 7.30pm Ari Frankel, Arvo Pärt Philip Glass Artemis Quartet string quartet Eduard Demetz Monday 26 November 7.30pm Arditti Quartet string quartet Wednesday 14 November 7.30pm Paul Cannon double bass Baiba Skride violin Dan Yuhas, Mark Barden, James Lauma Skride piano Clarke*, Brian Ferneyhough Trio Palladio piano trio Antonina Suhanova piano Pēteris Vasks *Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

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January 2019

Wed 2 Jan Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper Tue 15 Jan 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 3 Jan Sergio Tiempo Wed 16 Jan Christian Gerhaher/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Gerold Huber © Benjamin Ealovega Fri 4 Jan The King’s Consort/ Thu 17 Jan The Sixteen 7.30pm Iestyn Davies 7.30pm Sat 5 Jan Come & Sing Fri 18 Jan For Crying Out Loud! 1.30pm 9.00am Sat 5 Jan Christoph Pohl/Marcelo Amaral Fri 18 Jan Christian Zacharias Pavel Kolesnikov © Eva Vermandel 7.30pm 7.30pm Lecture-Recital Sun 6 Jan Rolston String Quartet Sat 19 Jan Alina Ibragimova/ 11.30am 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien Sun 6 Jan Pavel Kolesnikov Sun 20 Jan Israeli Chamber Project/ 7.30pm 11.30am Antje Weithaas Doric String Quartet © George Garnier Mon 7 Jan Alexander Gavrylyuk Sun 20 Jan The Endellion String Quartet 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 8 Jan Sunwook Kim Mon 21 Jan Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek 7.30pm 1.00pm Wed 9 Jan Tasmin Little/Piers Lane Mon 21 Jan Rafał Blechacz Christian Gerhaher © Thomas Egli 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 10 Jan Andreas Staier/ Tue 22 Jan François Le Roux/Olivier Godin 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov 1.00pm Fri 11 Jan Anne Schwanewilms/ Tue 22 Jan Mary Bevan/Marcus 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau 7.30pm Farnsworth/Christopher Glynn Alina Ibragimova © Eva Vermandel Sat 12 Jan Nash Ensemble Wed 23 Jan Pekka Kuusisto 5.30pm 7.30pm Sat 12 Jan Nash Ensemble Thu 24 Jan Graham Johnson’s 7.30pm 7.30pm Songmakers’ Almanac Sun 13 Jan Hyeyoon Park/ Fri 25 Jan ECMA Showcase Mary Bevan © Victoria Cadisch 11.30am pianist to be announced 1.00pm Sun 13 Jan Doric String Quartet Fri 25 Jan Roman Rabinovich 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 14 Jan Juilliard String Quartet Sat 26 Jan ECMA Showcase 1.00pm 11.00am Pekka Kuusisto © Kaapo Kamu Mon 14 Jan Robin Tritschler/ Sat 26 Jan ECMA Showcase 7.30pm Graham Johnson 1.00pm www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SPRING PREVIEW • 93

January 2019

Sat 26 Jan Mon 28 Jan Sofia Fomina/Oleksiy Palchykov/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Rodion Pogossov/Iain Burnside Sun 27 Jan Borodin Quartet Tue 29 Jan Les Arts Florissants/ 11.30am 7.30pm William Christie Marlis Petersen Sun 27 Jan ECMA Showcase Wed 30 Jan The Cardinall’s Musick © Y Mavropoulos 3.00pm 7.30pm Sun 27 Jan Christian Blackshaw Thu 31 Jan Marlis Petersen/Werner Güra/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Christoph Berner

Mon 28 Jan Simon Höfele/Frank Dupree William Christie 1.00pm © Denis Louvre

February 2019

Sat 2 Feb Piers Lane Sun 10 Feb Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 7.30pm 7.30pm Sun 3 Feb Zahir Quartet Mon 11 Feb François-Frédéric Guy 11.30am 1.00pm James Newby Sun 3 Feb James Newby/Joseph Middleton Mon 11 Feb Alisa Weilerstein/Inon © Ben McKee 3.00pm 7.30pm Barnatan/Sergey Khachatryan Sun 3 Feb Piers Lane/Goldner Quartet Tue 12 Feb Leon McCawley 7.30pm 7.30pm

Mon 4 Feb Sophie Pacini Wed 13 Feb Britten Sinfonia Christiane Karg 1.00pm 1.00pm © Gisela Schenker Mon 4 Feb Christiane Karg/Malcolm Wed 13 Feb Nikolaj Znaider/Robert Kulek 7.30pm Martineau 7.30pm Tue 5 Feb Escher String Quartet Thu 14 Feb For Crying Out Loud! 7.30pm 9.00am Wed 6 Feb Britten Sinfonia Thu 14 Feb Stile Antico © Ribalta Luce Studio 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 7 Feb Sonia Prina Fri 15 Feb Anne Schwanewilms/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau

Fri 8 Feb Llŷr Williams Sat 16 Feb Nash Ensemble Llyr Williams 7.30pm 7.30pm © Benjamin Ealovega Fri 8 Feb Michael Collins/Michael McHale Sun 17 Feb Trio Isimsiz 7.30pm 11.30am Sun 10 Feb Narek Hakhnazaryan/ Sun 17 Feb Elīna Garanča/ 11.30am Oxana Shevchenko 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau Elina Garanca © Holger Hage 94 • SPRING PREVIEW Box Office: 020 7935 2141

February 2019

Mon 18 Feb Kitty Whately/Simon Lepper Sun 24 Feb 1.00pm 7.30pm Tue 19 Feb /Henk Neven Mon 25 Feb Quatuor Arod 7.30pm 1.00pm Elias String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega Wed 20 Feb Skride Quartet Mon 25 Feb Marlis Petersen/Anke Vondung/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Werner Güra/Paul Armin Edelmann/Christoph Berner/ Thu 21 Feb Les Talens Lyriques

7.30pm Camillo Radicke Tue 26 Feb Quatuor Zaïde Fri 22 Feb Elias String Quartet Kirill Gerstein 7.30pm © Marco Borggreve 7.30pm Wed 27 Feb Garrick Ohlsson Sat 23 Feb Trio Zimmermann 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 28 Feb Dame Sun 24 Feb Albion String Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Dame Emma Kirkby

March 2019

Fri 01 Mar Kristina Mkhitaryan/ Thu 7 Mar Denis Kozhukhin 7.30pm Dmytro Popov/Iain Burnside 7.30pm Sat 2 Mar Stéphane Degout/ Fri 8 Mar The English Concert 7.30pm pianist to be announced 7.30pm Kristina Mkhitaryan Sun 3 Mar Kronberg Academy Sat 9 Mar Hans Keller Day 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 3 Mar Ian Bostridge/Brad Mehldau Sun 10 Mar Nash Ensemble 7.30pm 11.30am

Brad Mehldau Mon 4 Mar Mariam Batsashvili Sun 10 Mar Marc-André Hamelin © Michael Wilson 1.00pm 7.30pm Mon 4 Mar Jonathan Plowright Mon 11 Mar Belcea String Quartet 7.30pm 1.00pm Tue 5 Mar Ensemble Modern/ Mon 11 Mar Nils Mönkemeyer/William Youn 7.30pm Sir George Benjamin 7.30pm Sir George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd Wed 6 Mar Florilegium Tue 12 Mar Janine Jansen/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Alexander Gavrylyuk Wed 6 Mar Wigmore at the Roundhouse: Wed 13 Mar Die Kölner Akademie/ 7.30pm Ensemble Modern Orchestra/ 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani Sir George Benjamin Die Kolner Akademie Thu 14 Mar Simon Bode/Igor Levit © Wolfgang Burat 7.30pm www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SPRING PREVIEW • 95

March 2019

Fri 15 Mar Dame Sarah Connolly/ Sat 23 Mar Steven Isserlis/Joshua Bell/ 7.30pm Julius Drake 7.30pm Jeremy Denk Sat 16 Mar Heath Quartet Sun 24 Mar Dover String Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Simon Bode Sun 17 Mar String Quartet Sun 24 Mar Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn © Barbara Aumueller 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 17 Mar Renata Pokupić/La Serenissima/ Mon 25 Mar Novus String Quartet 7.30pm Adrian Chandler 1.00pm

Mon 18 Mar Jeremy Denk Mon 25 Mar / Dame Sarah Connolly 1.00pm 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau © Peter Warren Mon 18 Mar Young Producers Tue 26 Mar Zlata Chochieva 5.45pm 7.30pm Tue 19 Mar Nash Ensemble Wed 27 Mar Britten Sinfonia 5.30pm 1.00pm Renata Pokupić Tue 19 Mar Nash Ensemble Wed 27 Mar The King’s Consort 7.30pm 7.30pm Wed 20 Mar Side by Side Fri 29 Mar Kristóf Baráti/Vikingur 1.00pm 7.30pm Ólafsson/István Várdai

Wed 20 Mar Vox Luminis Sat 30 Mar Mahan Esfahani Vox Luminis 7.30pm 7.30pm © Ola Renska Thu 21 Mar Christoph Prégardien/ Sun 31 Mar Horszowski Trio 7.30pm Ensemble Pentaèdre 11.30am Fri 22 Mar Škampa Quartet Sun 31 Mar Alexander Melnikov/Teunis van 7.30pm 7.30pm der Zwart/Lorenzo Coppola/ Joshua Bell Javier Zafra/Marcel Ponseele © Eric Kabik

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April 2019

Tue 1 Apr Ekaterina Semenchuk/ Sun 14 Apr Gavan Ring/Simon Lepper 7.30pm Semjon Skigin 3.00pm Tue 2 Apr Royal Academy of Music Song Sun 14 Apr Lise de la Salle 7.30pm Circle 7.30pm Arcangelo © Adam Swann Wed 3 Apr London Handel Players Mon 15 Apr / 7.30pm 1.00pm Adam Walker/Agnès Clément Thu 4 Apr /Tom Poster Mon 15 Apr Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio 7.30pm 7.30pm Pappano Fri 5 Apr Arcangelo Tue 16 Apr Solomon’s Knot Siljanov 7.30pm 7.30pm Sat 6 Apr JACK Quartet Wed 17 Apr The Sixteen 7.30pm 7.30pm Sun 7 Apr Tesla String Quartet Thu 18 Apr Angela Hewitt 11.30am 7.30pm Christina Landshamer © Marco Borggreve Sun 7 Apr Milan Siljanov/Nino Sat 20 Apr Trio Mediæval 3.00pm Chokhonelidze 7.30pm Sun 7 Apr Louis Schwizgebel Sun 21 Apr Kelemen String Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Mon 8 Apr Katarina Karnéus/Julius Drake Mon 22 Apr Pavel Haas Quartet Sir Antonio Pappano © Musacchio & Ianniello 1.00pm 1.00pm Mon 8 Apr Christina Landshamer/ Mon 22 Apr Ensemble Correspondances 7.30pm Gerold Huber 7.30pm Tue 9 Apr The Chamber Music Society of Tue 23 Apr Steven Isserlis/Janine Jansen/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Amihai Grosz/Connie Shih Trio Mediaeval © Åsa Maria Mikkelsen Wed 10 Apr Escher String Quartet Wed 24 Apr Awards 7.30pm 1.00pm Semi-Final Thu 11 Apr Sally Matthews/Simon Lepper Wed 24 Apr Robin Tritschler/Paula Murrihy/ 7.30pm 7.30pm Malcolm Martineau Fri 12 Apr Music for the Moment Thu 25 Apr Consort Pavel Haas Quartet © Marco Borggreve 3.00pm 7.30pm Fri 12 Apr Nash Ensemble Fri 26 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final 7.30pm 6.00pm Sat 13 Apr Ian Bostridge/Sir Antonio Sat 27 Apr /Reto 7.30pm Pappano 7.30pm Bieri/Polina Leschenko Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marco Borggreve Sun 14 Apr Alexandra Dariescu Sun 28 Apr Ning Feng/Thomas Hoppe 11.30am 11.30am www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SUMMER PREVIEW • 97

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Sun 28 Apr Louis Lortie Mon 29 Apr Hagen Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 29 Apr Julian Prégardien/Eric Le Sage Tue 30 Apr Marcus Farnsworth/James 1.00pm 7.30pm Baillieu Louis Lortie © Elias

May 2019

Wed 1 May Pekka Kuusisto/additional Sat 11 May Steven Osborne/Alban Gerhardt 7.30pm artists to be announced 7.30pm Thu 2 May Notos Quartet Sun 12 May Castalian Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Clara Mouriz Fri 3 May Sun 12 May Sumi Jo/Gary Matthewman © JM Bielsa 7.30pm 3.00pm Fri 3 May /additional Mon 13 May Gould Piano Trio 10.00pm artists to be announced 1.00pm

Sat 4 May Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Mon 13 May Håkan Hardenberger/Roland Sir Andras Schiff 7.30pm 7.30pm Pöntinen © Nadia F Romanini Sun 5 May Jan Vogler/Boris Giltburg Tue 14 May Sir András Schiff 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 5 May Paula Murrihy/Malcolm Wed 15 May For Crying Out Loud! 3.00pm Martineau 9.00am Castalian Quartet Sun 5 May Aaron Pilsan Wed 15 May Takács Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas 7.30pm 7.30pm Mon 6 May The King’s Singers Thu 16 May YCAT Public Audition Finals 1.00pm 3.00pm

Mon 6 May Clara Mouriz/Roderick Fri 17 May Takács Quartet/Garrick Ohlsson Sumi Jo 7.30pm Williams/Joseph Middleton 7.30pm Tue 7 May Andreas Staier Sun 19 May Jonathan Plowright 7.30pm 11.30am Wed 8 May Sun 19 May Royal Academy of Music 7.30pm 3.00pm Soloists/Thomas Gould Hakan Hardenberger Thu 9 May Jerusalem Quartet Sun 19 May Royal Academy of Music 7.30pm 7.30pm Soloists/Thomas Gould Fri 10 May Sir András Schiff Mon 20 May Andreas Haefliger 7.30pm 1.00pm Mon 20 May Imogen Cooper/Adrian Brendel/ Sat 11 May Sumi Jo Masterclass Imogen Cooper 1.00pm 7.30pm Henning Kraggerud © Sussie Ahlburg 98 • SUMMER PREVIEW Box Office: 020 7935 2141

May 2019

Tue 21 May Castalian Quartet/Aleksandar Mon 27 May Kuss Quartet 7.30pm Madžar/Anthony Marwood 1.00pm Wed 22 May Igor Levit Mon 27 May Igor Levit 7.30pm 7.30pm Igor Levit © Gregor Hohenberg Thu 23 May Voiceworks Tue 28 May L’Arpeggiata 1.00pm 7.30pm Thu 23 May Elias String Quartet Wed 29 May RNIB Study Day 7.30pm 1.30pm

L’Arpeggiata Fri 24 May Igor Levit Wed 29 May The Endellion String Quartet 7.30pm 7.30pm Sat 25 May Piatti Quartet Thu 30 May 1.00pm 7.30pm Sat 25 May Narek Hakhnazaryan/Pavel Fri 31 May Jason Moran 7.30pm Kolesnikov 7.00pm Hilary Hahn © Peter Miller Sun 26 May Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata Fri 31 May Amaan Ali Bangash/ 11.30am Kanneh-Mason 10.00pm Ayaan Ali Bangash Sun 26 May /Alisdair 3.00pm Hogarth

Jason Moran Sun 26 May Robin Tritschler/Simon Lepper 7.30pm

June 2019

Sat 1 Jun Till Fellner Thu 6 Jun Katya Apekisheva 7.30pm 7.30pm Sun 2 Jun Daniel Pioro/Roderick Chadwick Fri 7 Jun Cinquecento 11.30am 7.30pm Camilla Tilling © Mats Widén Sun 2 Jun Graham Johnson’s Sat 8 Jun Nicholas Daniel Oboe Day 7.30pm Songmakers’ Almanac 7.30pm Mon 3 Jun Ilya Gringolts/Peter Laul Sun 9 Jun Hugo Wolf Quartett 1.00pm 11.30am

Maximilian Schmitt Mon 3 Jun Doric String Quartet/ Sun 9 Jun Julia Kleiter/pianist to be © Christian Kargl 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 7.30pm announced Tue 4 Jun Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius Mon 10 Jun Jean Rondeau 7.30pm 1.00pm Wed 5 Jun Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Mon 10 Jun Pavel Haas Quartet 7.30pm Huber 7.30pm Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond www.wigmore-hall.org.uk SUMMER PREVIEW • 99

June 2019

Tue 11 Jun The English Concert Fri 21 Jun Alexander Melnikov 7.30pm 7.00pm Wed 12 Jun Stile Antico Fri 21 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 7.30pm 10.00pm Isabelle Faust Thu 13 Jun For Crying Out Loud! Sat 22 Jun Franz-Josef Selig/Gerold Huber © Felix Broede 9.00am 7.30pm Thu 13 Jun Angela Hewitt Sun 23 Jun Andrew Tyson 7.30pm 11.30am

Fri 14 Jun Jean-Guihen Queyras/Isabelle Sun 23 Jun Ensemble Marsyas Gerald Finley 7.00pm Faust/Alexander Melnikov 7.30pm © Sim Canetty-Clarke Fri 14 Jun Mon 24 Jun /pianist to 10.00pm 1.00pm be announced Sat 15 Jun Gerald Finley/Julius Drake Mon 24 Jun /pianist to be 7.30pm 7.30pm announced Chineke! Orchestra Sun 16 Jun Heath Quartet Tue 25 Jun Emanuel Ax/Simon Keenlyside/ © Eric Richmond 11.30am 7.30pm Dover Quartet Sun 16 Jun Steven Isserlis/Dénes Várjon/ Wed 26 Jun Matthias Goerne/pianist to be 7.30pm Izabella Simon/Anthony Marwood 7.30pm announced

Mon 17 Jun Nicolas Altstaedt Thu 27 Jun La Nuova Musica Christopher Maltman 1.00pm 7.30pm © Pia Clodi Mon 17 Jun Cuarteto Casals/Alban Gerhardt Fri 28 Jun Alice Sara Ott 7.30pm 7.30pm Tue 18 Jun Sergei Babayan Fri 28 Jun Sean Shibe 7.30pm 10.00pm Rachel Podger Wed 19 Jun Leeds Lieder Fundraising Gala Sat 29 Jun © Theresa Pewal 7.30pm 7.30pm Thu 20 Jun The Cardinall’s Musick Sun 30 Jun Vision String Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am

July 2019

Mon 1 Jul Colin Currie Quartet Tue 2 Jul Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt 1.00pm 7.30pm Mon 1 Jul Rachel Podger/additional artists Wed 3 Jul Brett Polegato/Iain Burnside 7.30pm to be announced 7.30pm Ian Bostridge © Sim Canetty-Clarke 100 • SUMMER PREVIEW Box Office: 020 7935 2141

July 2019

Thu 4 Jul Ian Bostridge/Lars Vogt Fri 19 Jul Music for the Moment 7.30pm 3.00pm Fri 5 Jul Lucas Debargue Fri 19 Jul Kian Soltani/pianist to be 7.00pm 7.00pm announced Lars Vogt © Giorgia Bertazzi Fri 5 Jul Ensemble Correspondances Fri 19 Jul Susan Bullock/pianist to be 10.00pm 10.00pm announced Sat 6 Jul Xavier Phillips/François- Sat 20 Jul Come & Sing 7.30pm Frédéric Guy 1.30pm

Mahan Esfahani Sun 7 Jul Smetana Trio Sat 20 Jul Ronald Brautigam © Bernhard Musil 11.30am 7.30pm Sun 7 Jul Wihan Quartet Sun 21 Jul Calidore String Quartet 7.30pm 11.30am Mon 8 Jul Imogen Cooper Sun 21 Jul Jonathan Plowright 1.00pm 7.30pm Django Bates © Nick White Mon 8 Jul Classical Opera Mon 22 Jul Lana Trotovšek/Maria 7.30pm 7.30pm Canyigueral Tue 9 Jul Mahan Esfahani Tue 23 Jul Dame Sarah Connolly/Malcolm 7.30pm 7.30pm Martineau

Elisabeth Leonskaja Thu 11 Jul Max Emanuel Cenčić/Ensemble Wed 24 Jul Mark Padmore/ © Marco Borggreve 7.30pm Desmarest/Ronan Khalil 7.30pm Fri 12 Jul James Newby/Adam Walker/ Thu 25 Jul Kit Armstrong 10.00pm Seas Shibe/Owen Gunnell 7.30pm Sat 13 Jul Vox Luminis Fri 26 Jul Simon Keenlyside/Matthew 7.30pm 7.30pm Regan/Howard McGill/Richard Susan Bullock Pryce/Gordon Campbell/Mike © Christina Raphaelle Sun 14 Jul Maxim Bernard 11.30am Smith Sat 27 Jul Le Concert Spirituel Sun 14 Jul Django Bates/additional artists 7.30pm 7.30pm to be announced Sun 28 Jul Chiaroscuro Quartet Mon 15 Jul István Várdai/Sunwook Kim Mark Padmore 11.30am © Marco Borggreve 1.00pm Mon 15 Jul Young Producers 5.45pm Tue 16 Jul Elisabeth Leonskaja 7.30pm Simon Keelyside © Uwe Arens Wed 17 Jul Alexi Kenney/Orion Weiss 7.30pm Thu 18 Jul Werner Güra/Christoph Berner 7.30pm

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The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes: Royal Patron Piano Circle Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and Selina and David Marks* HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Mrs Arline Blass The London Community Foundation‡ Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Clive Butler John Crisp* Michael and Lynne McGowan* Honorary Patrons Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* George MeyerL Aubrey Adams OBE Philip and Susan Feakin Michael and Felicia Crystal* Michael Watson Charitable Trust André and Rosalie Hoffmann Charles Green Celia and Andrew Curran Milton Damerel TrustL Kohn Foundation Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Anthony Davis* David Moldon in memory of his Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Edith Randall In memory of Margaret Dewhirst brother Peter L Moldon Grace Yu James Dooley The Monument Trust Season Patrons 2017/18 The Foundation – Amyas and Louise Morse* Aubrey Adams OBE* Voices at Wigmore in memory of Harry M Weinrebe A C and F A Myer Tony and Marion Allen* Geoffrey Barnett In memory of Robert Easton Sara Naudi American Friends of Wigmore Hall Katie Bradford Douglas and Janette Eden Valerie O’ConnorL Karl Otto Bonnier* Wolf-Reiner Braun and The Eldering/Goecke Family Paxos Festival Trust Henry and Suzanne Davis John Sinclair Annette Ellis* The du Plessis Family Foundation The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Michael Brind Vernon and Hazel Ellis* Isabel and Jonathan Popper The Elton Family Pauline and Ian Howat* Nicola Coldstream Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Emmanuel Kaye Foundation Harry Lee and Clive Potter* Pauline Del Mar The Radcliffe Trust Caroline Erskine Valerie O’Connor J L Drewitt Greg and Karen Reid Margery Gray The Fidelio Charitable Trust Stuart and Bianca RodenL Hamish Parker Patricia and Jeffrey Fine Victoria and Simon Robey In memory of Ray Hall Charles Rose* Benjamin Hargreaves In memory of Peter Flatter Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* David Rockwell and John and Amy Ford Zsombor Csoma* Dame The Rubinstein Circle Julia MacRae* The Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3L Julia Schottlander* Neil and Deborah Franks* L John and Ann Tusa The Sampimon Trust Cita and Irwin Stelzer* Michael Freegard Susan Ward Annette Scawen Morreau William and Alex de Winton* Friends of Wigmore Hall L David and Frances Waters* Julia Schottlander* and several anonymous donors Jonathan Gaisman* David Evan Williams Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* The Garfield Weston Foundation Rhona Shaw Season Benefactors 2017/18 and an anonymous donor Alan and Joanna Gemes* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Corporate Supporters John Gilhooly* Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Mark Echlin and Victoria Gath Capital Group (corporate John and Lauren Goldsmith* Voluntary Settlement Lord and Lady Lloyd matched giving) Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Serena Simmons and Julia MacRae* Complete Coffee Ltd Peter Goodwin Michael Thomas* Elaine and Peter Hallgarten The Tertis Foundation Dawood & Tanner Specialist Jo and Barry Slavin Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Kathleen Verelst* Dental Practice The Estate of N S L Smart The Harbour FoundationL Philip and Emeline Winston* The Howard de Walden Estate Sir Martin and Lady Smith* The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Kirker Holidays Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Early Music and Baroque Circle The Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationL Martin Randall Travel Ltd Spencer Hart Charitable TrustL Geoffrey Barnett Malcolm Herring* Rothschild & Co Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Sandra Carlisle Simon Hillary Steinway & Sons Nicholas Hodgson In memory of Colin Steele Dr C Endersby and Gill and Keith Stella* Prof. D Cowan OBE Donors and Sponsors André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Gay Huey Evans* John Stephens OBE, HonFTCL* Dr M T A Evans The 29th May 1961 Charitable TrustL Lord and Lady Stirrup* Deborah Finkler and Mr Eric Abraham* Graham and Amanda Hutton* Hyde Park Place Estate CharityL Anne and Paul Swain* Allan Murray-Jones Neville and Nicola Abraham Simone Hyman* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* David Rockwell and Elaine Adair Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells Coen Teulings Zsombor Csoma* Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Allen L. Thomas and Jane Simpson Philip T Smith Alexis Gregory Foundation and L Peter and Nikki Jeffcote The Three Monkies Trust Professor Christopher Thompson the Vendome Prize John Lyon’s CharityL Robin Vousden* Marina Vaizey* Ian Allan Andrew and Hilary Walker* L Marc Jourdren* Anne and David Weizmann The Andor Charitable Trust In memory of Donald Kahn David and Margaret Walker* and an anonymous donor Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation Su and Neil Kaplan* Professor Janet Walker CD David and Jacqueline Ansell* and Professor Doug Jones AO* The Haydn String Quartet Circle David and Louise Kaye* Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ Kohn Foundation Dame Fanny Waterman* Nicola Coldstream Arts Council England Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Michael and Rosemary Warburg Katherine Douglas Mrs Arlene Beare Maryly La Follette* The Welton Foundation Nina Drucker Alan Bell-Berry Gabor Lacko David and Martha Winfield* Felicity Fairbairn Mr Nicholas J Bez Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss William and Alex de Winton*L Margery Gray Mrs Arline Blass The Leverhulme TrustL The Wolfson Foundation Benjamin Hargreaves David and Mary Bowerman* The Linbury TrustL Youth MusicL Pauline and Ian Howat* John and Julia Boyd* Tim Llewellyn and several anonymous donors Harriet and Michael Maunsell Alan Bradley* The Loveday Charitable Trust Roy and Celia Palmer Donald Campbell Simon and Sophie Ludlam* * Rubinstein Circle members Louise Scheuer A bequest from the late Peter Canter Marianne and Andy Lusher* ‡ Contemporary Music Series Michael and Claudia Spies Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL David Lyons* supporters In Memory of Robert Streit Lord and Lady Chadlington* Anne and Brian Mace L Learning Programme supporters Marina Vaizey* Charities Advisory TrustL Julia MacRae*L Gerry Wakelin* Mary and Robert Childs The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE Details correct as of February 2018 Colin Clark Simon Majaro MBE The Wigmore Hall Trust Sheila Clarke* The Marchus Trust‡ Registered Charity No. 1024838 Experience Exceptional

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