February 2015 Miloš Karadaglic´ INSIDE: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Lisa Batiashvili & Paul Lewis Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien | Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Early Opera Company | Imogen Cooper | Martin Fröst | Christiane Karg Steven Osborne | Maria João Pires | and many more Box Office 020 7935 2141 Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk How to Book Wigmore Hall Box Office 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP In Person 7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. No advance booking in the half hour prior to a concert. By Telephone: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10 am – 7 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration fee for each transaction, which includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits. Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. You can now select your own seat. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge. Standby Tickets Standby tickets for students, senior citizens and the unemployed are available from one hour before the performance (subject to availability) with best available seats sold at the lowest price. NB standby tickets are not available for Lunchtime and Coffee Concerts. Group Discounts Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability. Latecomers Latecomers will only be admitted during a suitable pause in the performance. Facilities for Disabled People For full details please call 020 7258 8210 TICKETS A–D Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into four prices ranges: BALCONY T–X Stalls C – M Highest price Q–S Stalls A – B, N – P N–P 2nd highest price Balcony A – D STALLS 2nd highest price C–M Stalls BB, CC, Q – S A–B 3rd price CC CC BB BB PLATFORM Stalls AA, T – X AA AA Lowest price This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contact the Box Office if this would be of assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141, or Email: [email protected]. The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary. Wigmore Hall • John Gilhooly OBE Director The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838 Cover: Miloš Karadaglic´ © Lars Borges/Mercury Classics Benjamin Ealovega 2 Sunday 1 February 11.30 am 1 Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence Nash Ensemble Keith Saunders Bea Levine-Humm Richard Hosford clarinet Marianne Thorsen violin Laura Samuel violin Lawrence Power viola Adrian Brendel cello Richard Hosford Marianne Thorsen Laura Samuel Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Brahms Jack Liebeck Jack Liebeck The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players present Haydn’s much-loved ‘Sunrise’ Quartet, so called because of its gently rising opening theme, a work infused with the bold gestures and effects he cultivated during his time in London. The ensemble is joined by its long-serving clarinettist Richard Hosford in Brahms’s autumnal chamber masterwork. Brahms created his Clarinet Quintet in B minor to suit the burnished playing of Richard Mühlfeld, who first introduced Lawrence Power Adrian Brendel the composition to London audiences in the 1890s. Returns only Sunday Morning Coffee Concert/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season Sunday 1 February 3.00 pm Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle SCHUBERT’S HIDDEN GEMS Schubert Am Flusse (D766); Am Flusse (D160); Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Fluss; Der Jüngling am Bache; Gondelfahrer; Des Mädchens Klage; Die Knabenzeit; Herbst; Herbstlied; Liane; Licht und Liebe; Nach einem Gewitter; Marie; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Rückweg; Vollendung; Winterlied; Die Erde; Heiss mich nicht reden When Max Friedlaender was preparing the final volume of his Schubert Lieder Edition for Peters, many songs (such as ‘Herbst’) were unknown to him. The Royal Academy of Music Song Circle presents twenty such gems that are not included in the seven Lieder volumes of the Peters Editions and are still too rarely performed. £15 concs £12.50 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Royal Academy of Music Richard Lewis Song Circle Song Recital Series 3 Sunday 1 February 7.30 pm Robin Tritschler tenor Graham Johnson piano Clive Barda Garreth Wong Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35 SONGS FROM THE (BARD’S) SHOWS Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute Leveridge Who is Silvia? Anon. (17th century) Jog on, jog on the footpath way Moeran The sweet o’ the year Eisler Horatios Monolog Castelnuovo-Tedesco The clown in the churchyard Finzi Songs of Hiems and Ver Castelnuovo-Tedesco Caliban Tippett Songs for Ariel Robin Tritschler Graham Johnson Gurney Under the greenwood tree Korngold Blow, blow thou winter wind Quilter It was a lover and his lass Castelnuovo-Tedesco The Fool Dale O Mistress Mine Finzi Come away, come away, death Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson present a treat for song-lovers with their captivating programme. Schumann’s Kernerlieder, like so many of the songs he created in 1840, convey the strength of his fervent love for Clara Wieck. He completed his ‘song sequence’ soon after their marriage, a union contracted against her father’s wishes. For the second half, the duo performs settings of Shakespeare from a selection of his most celebrated plays. £35 £30 £25 £18 Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Song Recital Series Monday 2 February 1.00 pm 2 Steven Osborne piano Rachmaninov Études-tableaux (a selection) Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Benjamin Ealovega Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal and expressive nuance, distinguishes Steven Osborne’s interpretations of the great works of the keyboard literature. His receptivity to the romantic depths of the Slavic soul invariably rises to the surface in his acclaimed interpretations of Russian music. ‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianly Pictures on record,’ observed Gramophone following the release of his recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition. £13 concs £11 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Steven Osborne Monday 2 February 7.30 pm Takács Quartet Lecture-Recital Lecture-Recital on Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Keith Saunders The Takács Quartet presents a rare opportunity to hear its highly developed thoughts about a seminal work of the string quartet repertoire. This lecture-recital opens with a discussion of the String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’, illustrated with excerpts from the work. The evening’s second half contains a complete performance of Beethoven’s pioneering score. £30 £25 £20 £15 Takács Quartet Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists 4 Tuesday 3 February 1.00pm 3 YCAT Lunchtime Series 2014/15 Trio Isimsiz Kaupo Kikkas Takemitsu Between Tides Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, under the guidance of Louise Hopkins, Carole Presland and Alasdair Tait. Engagements this season include a residency in Aldeburgh and return visits to the Purcell Room and Colston Hall Bristol. £12.50 concs £10 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support for this series from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, the Goulding Murray Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake. Trio Isimsiz Tuesday 3 February 7.30pm EXAUDI James Weeks director Leonin Organum Scelsi Tre Canti Sacri Heinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (excerpts) (UK première) Machaut La Messe de Nostre Dame (excerpts) Ciconia Le ray au soleyl Rodericus Angelorum psalat Michael Finnissy Kelir Worlds collide in this scintillating programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson and EXAUDI’s director James Weeks: medieval and modern, sacred and profane, European and Eastern. Twelfth-century Parisian polyphony elides with the drone-rich imagination of Giacinto Scelsi; Heinz Holliger’s fascination with Machaut can be heard in the luminous Angelus Silesius settings of nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; and the intricate rhythmic world of the Ars Subtilior finds a parallel in the ardent, tangled vocality of Finnissy’s dramatic Kelir. £30 £25 £20 £15 Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence Matthew Andrews EXAUDI 5 Wednesday 4 February 12.15 pm 4 Pre-Concert Talk An introduction to the lunchtime concert with Ben Comeau, the Winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop. Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required) Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series Wednesday 4 February 1.00 pm Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Harry Rankin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Catherine Musker viola Caroline Dearnley cello Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29 Ben Comeau New work* (world première) Vaughan Williams Phantasy String Quintet * Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Britten Sinfonia Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy for string quintet was dedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose celebrated competition encouraged young composers to write new chamber