2019/20 SEASON

APRIL - JULY 2020 2 •

Director’s Introduction • 3

We are looking forward to a summer packed full of fun, ambitious and exceptional performances. Leading soprano Roberta Invernizzi gathers a host of friends to celebrate women Baroque composers in April, while acclaimed Norwegian pianist returns for his second appearance in the season, performing a solo recital for two evenings in a row. continues to champion contemporary composers and emerging artists, and in May we combine the two endeavours in a Composer in Focus day featuring musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music. Saturday 9 May will spotlight the work of ‘the renaissance woman of contemporary British music’, Errollyn Wallen. Further explorations of the music of Britten, Brahms and Beethoven thread through the summer programme, including the culmination of Jonathan Biss’ Beethoven sonata cycle, a concert dedicated to Britten’s Canticles with Allan Clayton, Iestyn Davies and others, and more Brahms from the Castalian , joined in April by Nils Mönkemeyer and Ursula Smith. Sir András Schiffwill lecture on and perform Schubert’s D960 in April and Beethoven’s final piano sonatas in June.Rachel Podger continues her focus on Bach in her residency, and the wonderful Winds with Jeroen Bal on piano presents a BBC lunchtime concert at the end of April. Les Talens Lyriques presents a programme of love songs with renowned tenor Julian Prégardien in May, followed less than a week later by Lionel Meunier’s ensemble Vox Luminis and a programme featuring more Britten – his Hymn to St Cecilia and Sacred and Profane top and tail the performance.

On Easter Saturday, presents a superb evening of music with vocal ensemble Gallicantus, featuring baritone as the in a programme of Schein and Schütz.

‘No-one could accuse the Quatuor Danel of doing things by halves’, wrote Richard Whitehouse (Classical Opera) after the quartet’s first instalment of their Weinberg/Shostakovich focus in October. The quartet’s ambitious two- season series continues with Weinberg’s fifth and sixth string quartets as well as Shostakovich’s Op. 101.

More summer highlights include Solomon’s Knot, pianist Francesco Piemontesi’s Schubert Cycle and a day celebrating the music of Haydn, cultivated by Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich. Contents I am delighted to announce that Angela Hewitt, following the final concert At a Glance 4 in her Bach Odyssey series in May, will be awarded the Wigmore Medal for her outstanding contribution to chamber music both at Wigmore Hall Calendar 8 and internationally. April 10 With further appearances from Sir Bryn Terfel, Leonidas Kavakos and the May 32 JACK Quartet, we have a summer full to the brim with outstanding artists, June 57 and we look forward to welcoming you once again through our doors. July 81 Contemporary Music Series 102 Booking Information 106 At a Glance April - July 2020

See pages 10-99 for full details of these concerts and page 106 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 58 Mon 8 Jun Veronika Eberle/Dénes Várjon 62 Leif Ove Andsnes 10 Beethoven Violin Sonatas 59 Mon 15 Jun NGA: Elisabeth Brauss 68 Brahms Series 12 Cycle 60 Mon 22 Jun Giuliano Carmignola/ 75 Riccardo Doni Tim Mead/Les Musiciens de 11 Mozart and the Second Viennese School 62 Mon 29 Jun Vision String Quartet 79 Saint-Julien/François Lazarevitch Vijay Iyer Residency: Musicality 64 Mon 6 Jul Nicky Spence/ 84 Kitty Whately/Joseph Middleton 13 Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Project 63 Václava Housková/ Leon McCawley 14 Marc-André Hamelin 65 Julius Drake/Singers from Guildhall School of Music Fretwork/Gallicantus/Charles Daniels 15 Iestyn Davies Residency 66 & Drama Janine Jansen/Denis Kozhukhin 17 Duo Contraste 67 Mon 13 Jul Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 90 Emmanuelle Haïm Residency 19 Benjamin Grosvenor 68 The Chamber Music Society 21 Philippe Cassard/Cédric Pescia 71 of Lincoln Center Chamber Music Season Django Bates 71 Sir András Schiff 18, 72 Fri 3 Apr Castalian String Quartet/ 12 Jordi Savall/Le Concert des Nations 74 Schubert Song Cycles 21 Nils Mönkemeyer/ Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 76 Ursula Smith Rachel Podger Residency 20 Steven Osborne 79 Wed 8 Apr Doric String Quartet/ 15 Beethoven 250 22 Cédric Tiberghien / Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn 80 Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle 23 Alina Ibragimova Cédric Tiberghien: Beethoven Variations 82 Mon 13 Apr 17 Roberta Invernizzi and friends 24 Janine Jansen/Denis Kozhukin Anne Sofie von Otter/Bengt Forsberg 83 Wed 15 Apr 21 Britten Series 26 The Chamber Music Brahms Plus Series 83 Society of Lincoln Center Tetzlaff Quartet 27 /Alexei Grynyuk 85 Thu 23 Apr Joshua Bell/Alessio Bax 27 Franco Fagioli/Il Pomo d’Oro 28 Janáček: The Diary of One 84 Sat 25 Apr Usha Kapoor/Edward Leung 27 31 who Disappeared Sat 25 Apr Tetzlaff Quartet 27 Sir Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau 30 La Nuova Musica 87 Wed 29 Apr Arditti Quartet 31 Beethoven Piano Trios 33 Christiane Karg Focus 87 Fri 1 May RAM Baroque Soloists/ 32 Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze 35 Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 88 Rachel Podger Leonidas Kavakos/Enrico Pace 34 Concert for Parkinson’s UK 89 Sat 2 May Artemis Quartet/ 33 Eckart Runge /Pavel Nikl/ 36 Fretwork: Musick’s Monument 93 Danjulo Ishizaka Mon 4 May Leonidas Kavakos/ 34 Dame Sarah Connolly/Andrew Staples/ 93 Enrico Pace Les Talens Lyriques 38 Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Tue 5 May Connaught Brass 36 RNCM Composer in Focus: Errollyn Wallen 40 Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Mahler Day 94 Tue 5 May 36 Takács Quartet 42 Pavel Haas Quartet/ Zlata Chochieva 95 Pavel Nikl/Danjulo Ishizaka Vox Luminis 43 Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside 95 Sat 9 May RNCM Composer in Focus: 40 Collegium Vocale Gent 44 Charles Richard-Hamelin 96 Errollyn Wallen Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle 45 Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata Kanneh-Mason 99 Mon 11 May Takács Quartet/Roger Tapping 42 Solomon’s Knot 46 Wed 13 May Takács Quartet 42 Garrick Ohlsson 47 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Sat 16 May Quatuor Danel 45 Michael Collins Residency 47 Tue 19 May Piano Trio 47 Mon 6 Apr Emily Beynon/Andrew West 14 Britten Canticles 49 Wed 20 May Vienna Piano Trio/ 49 Mon 13 Apr 17 Kirill Gerstein 51 Michael Collins Mon 20 Apr ATOS Trio 25 Wigmore Lates 48 Sat 23 May Doric String Quartet 51 Mon 27 Apr Concertgebouw Winds/ 31 Sun 24 May JACK Quartet 50 JACK Quartet 50 Jeroen Bal Sat 30 May Jess Gillam/Ollie Howell/ 54 Ensemble Marsyas Residency 53 Mon 4 May Christian Lindberg/ 35 Musicians from the Roland Pöntinen Francesco Piemontesi: Schubert Cycle 52 Tri-borough Music Hub Mon 11 May Stuart Skelton/Richard Peirson 41 L’Arpeggiata 55 Sun 31 May Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day 56 Mon 18 May NGA: Aris Quartet 45 Hear Our Voices: HarrisonParrott 54 Mon 1 Jun Trio Gaspard 57 Foundation Fundraising Concert Mon 25 May Paolo Pandolfo 53 Thu 4 Jun James Ehnes/ 59 Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day 56 Mon 1 Jun Daniel Hope/ 57 Andrew Armstrong Simon Crawford-Phillips wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5

Fri 5 Jun 60 Early Music and Baroque Series Wed 27 May Francesco Piemontesi 52 Sat 6 Jun Leonore Piano Trio 61 Sat 4 Apr Tim Mead/Les Musiciens 11 Tue 2 Jun Angela Hewitt 58 Sun 7 Jun Belcea Quartet 60 de Saint-Julien Mon 8 Jun Elisabeth Leonskaja 62 Tue 16 Jun Novus String Quartet 69 Sun 5 Apr The English Concert 13 Fri 12 Jun Marc-André Hamelin 65 Sat 20 Jun Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 73 Sat 11 Apr Fretwork 15 Sun 14 Jun Benjamin Grosvenor 68 Wed 24 Jun Britten Sinfonia/Iestyn Davies 77 Tue 14 Apr Emmanuelle Haïm/ 19 Wed 17 Jun Philippe Cassard/Cédric Pescia 71 Le Concert d’Astrée Wed 24 Jun Birmingham Contemporary 76 Fri 19 Jun Sir András Schiff Lecture 72 Music Group Sat 18 Apr Rachel Podger/ 20 Kristian Bezuidenhout Fri 19 Jun Mishka Rushdie Momen 72 Fri 26 Jun Tamsin Waley-Cohen/ 78 Sun 21 Jun Sir András Schiff 72 Tue 21 Apr Roberta Invernizzi and friends 24 Thu 25 Jun Jonathan Biss 78 Tue 30 Jun Castalian String Quartet 81 Tue 28 Apr Franco Fagioli/Il Pomo d’Oro 28 Sat 27 Jun Steven Osborne 79 Fri 3 Jul 82 Fri 8 May Les Talens Lyriques/ 38 Julian Prégardien Thu 2 Jul Cédric Tiberghien 82 Sun 5 Jul Nicola Benedetti/ 85 Alexei Grynyuk Tue 12 May La Serenissima 42 Sat 4 Jul Jonathan Plowright 83 Thu 9 Jul Quatuor Danel 87 Thu 14 May Vox Luminis 43 Sun 19 Jul Zlata Chochieva 95 Sun 12 Jul Concert for Parkinson’s UK 89 Fri 15 May Collegium Vocale Gent 44 Wed 22 Jul Charles Richard-Hamelin 96 Thu 16 Jul The Endellion String Quartet 91 Sun 17 May Solomon’s Knot 46 Fri 24 Jul Alexei Volodin 97 Tue 21 Jul Michael Collins/ 97 Tue 26 May Ensemble Marsyas 53 Isabelle Van Keulen/ Thu 28 May L’Arpeggiata 55 Laura Samuel/Veronica Hagen/ Song Recital Series Wed 3 Jun The English Concert 58 Torleif Thedeen/Katy Wolley/ Sun 5 Apr Kitty Whately/Joseph Middleton 13 Gustavo Nuñes Tue 9 Jun The Sixteen 63 Tue 7 Apr Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 14 Thu 23 Jul Elias String Quartet/ 97 Thu 11 Jun Mahan Esfahani 63 Alice Neary Thu 16 Apr Mark Padmore/ 21 Tue 23 Jun Jordi Savall/ 74 Kristian Bezuidenhout Le Concert des Nations Tue 21 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 25 Sunday Morning Concerts Wed 1 Jul Ensemble Marsyas 81 2020: Semi-final Sun 5 Apr Navarra String Quartet 13 Mon 6 Jul Rachel Podger/ 86 Wed 22 Apr Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 26 Brecon Baroque Sun 12 Apr Zemlinsky Quartet 17 Fri 24 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 25 Wed 8 Jul La Nuova Musica 87 2020: Final Sun 19 Apr 25 Sat 11 Jul Arcangelo/ 88 Sun 26 Apr Kathryn Rudge/ 29 Sun 26 Apr Elias String Quartet/ 29 Jean-Guihen Queyras Christopher Glynn Michael Collins/Peter Whelan/ Alec Frank-Gemmill/ Tue 14 Jul The Mozartists 91 Thu 30 Apr Sir Bryn Terfel/ 30 Laurène Durantel Fri 17 Jul Fretwork 93 Malcolm Martineau Sun 3 May 33 Sun 3 May 35 Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Sat 25 Jul Iestyn Davies/Dunedin Consort 98 Ronan Collett/ Nicholas Rimmer Sun 10 May Rachel Podger 41 Sun 3 May Milan Siljanov/ 35 Sun 17 May Pavel Kolesnikov/Samson Tsoy 45 Pianoforte Series Nino Chokhonelidze Sun 24 May Jupiter String Quartet 51 Wed 1 Apr Leif Ove Andsnes 10 Thu 7 May Sarah Fox/Ema Nikolovska/ 39 Sun 31 May Roman Rabinovich/Heath Quartet 56 Simon Bode/ Thu 2 Apr Leif Ove Andsnes 10 Marcus Farnsworth/ Sun 7 Jun 62 Mon 6 Apr Leon McCawley 14 Graham Johnson Sun 14 Jun Benjamin Frith/ 67 Sun 10 May Matthias Goerne/Jan Lisiecki 41 Andrew Brownell Fri 17 Apr Sir András Schiff 18 lecture-recital Sun 21 May Iestyn Davies/Allan Clayton/ 49 Sun 21 Jun Danish String Quartet 75 Fri 17 Apr Schaghajegh Nosrati 21 James Newby/ Sun 28 Jun Salieca Piano Trio 79 Alec Frank-Gemmill/ Sun 19 Apr Sir András Schiff 18 Olivia Jageurs/James Baillieu Sun 5 Jul Wihan Quartet 85 lecture-recital Sun 31 May Roman Rabinovich/ 56 Sun 12 Jul Vadim Gluzman/Angela Yoffe 89 Mon 20 Apr Jonathan Biss 23 Paula Murrihy/ Sun 19 Jul Aquinas Piano Trio 95 Sun 26 Apr Aleksandar Madžar 29 Sarah Wolstenholme/ Christopher Murray Sun 26 Jul Jean Rondeau 98 Wed 6 May Barry Douglas 37 Sat 13 Jun Iestyn Davies/Joseph Middleton 66 Sat 9 May Jonathan Biss 39 Sun 14 Jun Duo Contraste 67 Mon 18 May Garrick Ohlsson 47 Mon 29 Jun Roderick Williams/ 80 Fri 22 May Kirill Gerstein 51 Christopher Glynn 6 • Box Office: 020 7935 2141 At a Glance April - July 2020

Tue 7 Jul Mark Padmore/ 86 Mon 4 May Christian Lindberg/ 35 Thu 7 May Exploring Beethoven’s Piano 37 Kristian Bezuidenhout Roland Pöntinen Sonatas with Jonathan Biss Fri 10 Jul Christiane Karg/ 87 Tue 5 May Connaught Brass 36 Sat 9 May Errollyn Wallen in Conversation 40 Malcolm Martineau Sat 9 May Musicians from the Royal 40 Sat 9 May Post-Concert Talk with 39 Tue 14 Jul Graham Johnson/Sarah Cox/ 90 Northern College of Music Jonathan Biss and Joël Terrin: Book Launch Fri 22 May Kirill Gerstein 51 Recital Wed 13 May Voiceworks 43 Sun 24 May Jupiter String Quartet 51 Wed 15 Jul Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 91 Sat 16 May Relaxed Concert: Liselotte 43 Sun 24 May JACK Quartet 50 Fri 17 Jul Dame Sarah Connolly/ 93 Östblom/Rupert Cox Duo Andrew Staples/ Sat 30 May Jess Gillam/Ollie Howell/ 54 Tue 19 May Michael Collins Masterclass 47 Aurora Orchestra/ Musicians from the Nicholas Collon Tri-borough Music Hub Wed 20 May Chamber Tots: 49 Jungles and Rivers Sat 18 Jul Paula Murrihy/ 94 Mon 1 Jun Trio Gaspard 57 Sholto Kynoch Wed 27 May Family Day: 55 Fri 5 Jun Guy Johnston/Tom Poster 61 The Experiment Sat 18 Jul Marcus Farnsworth/ 94 Wed 10 Jun Vijay Iyer/Aurora Orchestra 64 James Cheung Tue 2 Jun Come and Sing with Singing 57 Fri 12 Jun Marc-André Hamelin 65 with Friends Sat 18 Jul Catriona Morison/ 94 Julius Drake Fri 12 Jun Attacca Quartet 65 Wed 3 Jun Angela Hewitt Masterclass 58 Sat 18 Jul Birgid Steinberger/ 94 Wed 24 Jun Britten Sinfonia/ 77 Thu 4 Jun Chamber Tots: Train Ride 59 Stephan Loges/ Iestyn Davies Thu 4 Jun Introduction to... 59 Sholto Kynoch Wed 24 Jun Birmingham Contemporary 76 Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Mon 20 Jul Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside 95 Music Group/Alice Rossi Fri 5 Jun Schools Concert: 60 Sat 25 Jul Iestyn Davies/Dunedin 98 Fri 26 Jun Tamsin Waley-Cohen/ 78 Pioneering Women Consort/John Butt Huw Watkins Thu 11 Jun Chamber Tots: At the Seaside 63 Mon 29 Jun Roderick Williams/ 80 Thu 11 Jun Introduction to... 59 Christopher Glynn Jazz Series Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Fri 10 Jul Jess Gillam 88 Wed 10 Jun Vijay Iyer/Aurora Orchestra 64 Sat 13 Jun Come and Sing 67 Mon 20 Jul Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside 95 Thu 18 Jun Django Bates/Iain Ballamy/ 71 Mon 15 Jun Bechstein Session: Miyabi Duo 68 Josefine Lindstrand The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Tue 16 Jun Liselotte Östblom/ 69 Rupert Cox Duo Wigmore Lates Wed 17 Jun For Crying Out Loud! 71 Thu 18 Jun Introduction to... 59 Fri 17 Apr Schaghajegh Nosrati 21 Wigmore Hall Learning Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Fri 3 Apr 11 Fri 22 May Matthew Wadsworth/ 48 Music for the Moment Fri 19 Jun Sir András Schiff Lecture 72 Cecilia Bernardini Wed 15 Apr Wigmore Study Group: Britten 19 Sat 20 Jun Chamber Tots: 73 Fri 5 Jun Guy Johnston/Tom Poster 61 Thu 16 Apr Sir András Schiff: 18 Jungles and Rivers Fri 12 Jun Attacca Quartet 65 Music Comes Out of Silence Book Launch Sat 20 Jun Family Concert: 73 Fri 19 Jun Mishka Rushdie Momen 72 Pioneering Women Fri 17 Apr Wigmore Study Group: Britten 19 Fri 26 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 78 Wed 24 Jun Pre-Concert Talk: Tim Watts 77 Fri 17 Apr Sir András Schiff 18 Fri 3 Jul Anne Sofie von Otter/ 83 lecture-recital: Schubert D960 Wed 24 Jun Exploring Beethoven’s Piano 77 Bengt Forsberg Sonatas with Jonathan Biss Sun 19 Apr Exploring Beethoven’s Piano 23 Fri 10 Jul Jess Gillam 88 Sonatas with Jonathan Biss Thu 25 Jun Introduction to... 59 Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Fri 17 Jul Dame Sarah Connolly/ 93 Sun 19 Apr Sir András Schiff 18 Andrew Staples/ lecture-recital: Schubert D960 Thu 25 Jun Post-Concert Talk with 78 Aurora Orchestra/ Jonathan Biss Mon 20 Apr 23 Nicholas Collon Post-Concert Talk with Jonathan Biss and Thu 2 Jul Music for the Moment 81 Jan Swafford The Wigmore Lates Series is supported Thu 2 Jul Artist in Conversation: 82 by the Hargreaves and Ball Trust Wed 22 Apr Wigmore Study Group: Britten 19 Cédric Tiberghien Wed 29 Apr Bechstein Session: 31 Sat 4 Jul Family Day: RNIB 83 Bloomsbury Quartet Contemporary Music Series Mon 6 Jul Artist in Conversation: 86 Fri 1 May Chamber Tots: Train Ride 32 Rachel Podger Sun 5 Apr Kitty Whately/Joseph Middleton 13 Sat 2 May Family Concert: Glitter Bird 32 Tue 14 Jul Graham Johnson Book 90 Mon 6 Apr Emily Beynon/Andrew West 14 Launch Recital Wed 6 May Chamber Tots: At the Seaside 36 Wed 29 Apr Arditti Quartet 31 Tue 14 Jul Pre-Concert Talk: Ian Page 90 Thu 7 May For Crying Out Loud! 37 Sat 2 May Artemis Quartet/Eckart Runge 33 The BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Hour long concerts broadcast live from Wigmore Hall Mondays at 1pm Tickets £16 Concs £14

Veronika Eberle © Felix Broede Calendar

April – July 2020

April May Wed 1 Apr 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes 10 Fri 1 May 10.15am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 32 Thu 2 Apr 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes 10 11.45am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 32 7.30pm Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists/ 32 Fri 3 Apr 3.00pm Music for the Moment 11 Rachel Podger 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer/ 12 Ursula Smith Sat 2 May 3.00pm Family Concert: Glitter Bird 32 7.30pm Artemis Quartet/Eckart Runge 33 Sat 4 Apr 7.30pm Tim Mead/Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien/ 11 François Lazarevitch Sun 3 May 11.30am Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 33 3.00pm Ronan Collett/Nicholas Rimmer 35 Sun 5 Apr 11.30am Navarra String Quartet 13 7.30pm Milan Siljanov/Nino Chokhonelidze 35 3.00pm Kitty Whately/Joseph Middleton 13 7.30pm The English Concert/Harry Bicket/ 13 Mon 4 May 1.00pm Christian Lindberg/Roland Pöntinen 35 Robin Johannsen/Katie Bray/Gwilym Bowen/ 7.30pm Leonidas Kavakos/Enrico Pace 34 Stephan Loges Tue 5 May 1.00pm Connaught Brass 36 Mon 6 Apr 1.00pm Emily Beynon/Andrew West 14 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet/Pavel Nikl/Danjulo Ishizaka 36 7.30pm Leon McCawley 14 Wed 6 May 12.30pm Chamber Tots: At the Seaside 36 Tue 7 Apr 7.30pm Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 14 2.00pm Chamber Tots: At the Seaside 36 7.30pm Barry Douglas 37 Wed 8 Apr 7.30pm Doric String Quartet/Alina Ibragimova/ 15 Cédric Tiberghien Thu 7 May 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 37 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 37 Sat 11 Apr 7.30pm Fretwork/Richard Boothy/Gallicantus/ 15 3.00pm Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 37 Gabriel Crouch/Charles Daniels with Jonathan Biss Sun 12 Apr 11.30am Zemlinsky Quartet 17 7.30pm Sarah Fox/Ema Nikolovska/Simon Bode/ 39 Mon 13 Apr 1.00pm Escher String Quartet 17 Marcus Farnsworth/Graham Johnson 7.30pm Janine Jansen/Denis Kozhukin 17 Fri 8 May 7.30pm Les Talens Lyriques// 38 Tue 14 Apr 7.30pm Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d’Astrée 19 Julian Prégardien/Gilone Gaubert/ Wed 15 Apr 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Britten 19 Jocelyn Daubigney/Atsushi Sakai 7.30pm The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 21 Sat 9 May 10.30am RNCM Composer In Focus: Errollyn Wallen 40 Thu 16 Apr 1.00pm Sir András Schiff Book Launch: 18 12 noon RNCM Composer In Focus: Errollyn Wallen 40 Music Comes Out of Silence in Conversation 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout 21 2.00pm RNCM Composer In Focus: Errollyn Wallen 40 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 39 Fri 17 Apr 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Britten 19 9.30pm Post-Concert Talk with Jonathan Biss 39 7.00pm Sir András Schiff lecture-recital: Schubert D960 18 and Mitsuko Uchida 10.00pm Schaghajegh Nosrati 21 Sun 10 May 11.30am Rachel Podger 41 Sat 18 Apr 4.00pm Rachel Podger/Kristian Bezuidenhout 20 7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Jan Lisiecki 41 7.30pm Rachel Podger/Kristian Bezuidenhout 20 Mon 11 May 1.00pm Stuart Skelton/Richard Peirson 41 Sun 19 Apr 11.30am Sacconi Quartet 25 7.30pm Takács Quartet/Roger Tapping 42 3.00pm Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 23 with Jonathan Biss Tue 12 May 7.30pm La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler/ 42 7.30pm Sir András Schiff lecture-recital: Schubert D960 18 Julia Doyle/Renata Pokupić/Hilary Summers Mon 20 Apr 1.00pm ATOS Trio 25 Wed 13 May 1.00pm Voiceworks 43 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 23 7.30pm Takács Quartet 42 9.30pm Post-Concert Talk with Jonathan Biss 23 Thu 14 May 7.30pm Vox Luminis/Lionel Meunier 43 and Jan Swafford Fri 15 May 7.30pm Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe 44 Tue 21 Apr 1.00pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2020: Semi-Final 25 Sat 16 May 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Liselotte Östblom/ 43 7.30pm Roberta Invernizzi/Franco Pavan/ 24 Rupert Cox Duo Gabriele Palomba/Flora Papadopoulos/ 7.30pm Quatuor Danel 45 Alberto Guerrero/Claudia Combs/Rossella Croce Sun 17 May 11.30am Pavel Kolesnikov/Samson Tsoy 45 Wed 22 Apr 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Britten 19 7.30pm Solomon’s Knot 46 7.30pm Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 26 Mon 18 May 1.00pm Aris Quartet 45 Thu 23 Apr 7.30pm Joshua Bell/Alessio Bax 27 7.30pm Garrick Ohlsson 47 Fri 24 Apr 6.00pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2020: Final 25 Tue 19 May 1.00pm Michael Collins Masterclass 47 Sat 25 Apr 7.30pm Usha Kapoor/Edward Leung 27 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio 47 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet 27 Wed 20 May 10.15am Chamber Tots: Jungles and Rivers 49 Sun 26 Apr 11.30am Elias String Quartet/Michael Collins/ 29 11.45am Chamber Tots: Jungles and Rivers 49 Peter Whelan/Alec Frank-Gemmill/ 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio/Michael Collins 49 Laurène Durantel Thu 21 May 7.30pm Iestyn Davies/Allan Clayton/James Newby/ 49 3.00pm Kathryn Rudge/Christopher Glynn 29 Alec Frank-Gemmill/Olivia Jageurs/James Baillieu 7.30pm Aleksandar Madžar 29 Fri 22 May 7.00pm Kirill Gerstein 51 Mon 27 Apr 1.00pm Concertgebouw Winds/Jeroen Bal 31 10.00pm Matthew Wadsworth/Cecilia Bernardini 48 Tue 28 Apr 7.30pm Franco Fagioli/Il Pomo d’Oro 28 Sat 23 May 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 51 Wed 29 Apr 6.15pm Bechstein Session: Bloomsbury Quartet 31 Sun 24 May 11.30am Jupiter String Quartet 51 7.30pm Arditti Quartet 31 7.30pm JACK Quartet 50 Thu 30 Apr 7.30pm Sir Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau 30 Mon 25 May 1.00pm Paolo Pandolfo/Amélie Chemin/ 53 Thomas Boysen/Markus Hunniger wigmore-hall.org.uk • 9

Tue 26 May 7.30pm Ensemble Marsyas/Peter Whelan/ 53 Wed 24 Jun 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 77 Anna Devin/Sophie Gent 1.00pm Members of Britten Sinfonia/Iestyn Davies 77 Wed 27 May 10.30am Family Day: The Jazz Experiment 55 3.00pm Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 77 7.30pm Francesco Piemontesi 52 with Jonathan Biss 7.30pm Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/ 76 Thu 28 May 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar/Céline Scheen/ 55 Geoffrey Paterson/Alice Rossi Barbara Furtuna Thu 25 Jun 4.45pm Introduction to... Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 59 Fri 29 May 3.00pm YCAT Public Final Auditions 2020 55 7.30pm Jonathan Biss 78 7.00pm YCAT Public Final Auditions 2020 55 9.30pm Post-Concert Talk: Jonathan Biss 78 Sat 30 May 7.30pm Jess Gillam/Ollie Howell/ 54 Fri 26 Jun 7.00pm Tamsin Waley-Cohen/Huw Watkins 78 Musicians from the Tri-borough Music Hub 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra 78 Sun 31 May 11.30am Roman Rabinovich/Heath Quartet 56 Sat 27 Jun 7.30pm Steven Osborne 79 3.00pm Roman Rabinovich/Paula Murrihy/ 56 Sun 28 Jun 11.30am Salieca Piano Trio 79 Sara Wolstenholme/Christopher Murray Mon 29 Jun 1.00pm Vision String Quartet 79 7.30pm Roman Rabinovich 56 7.30pm Roderick Williams/Christopher Glynn 80 Tue 30 Jun 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet 81 June Mon 1 Jun 1.00pm Daniel Hope/Simon Crawford-Phillips 57 July 7.30pm Trio Gaspard 57 Wed 1 Jul 7.30pm Ensemble Marsyas/Peter Whelan/ 81 Tue 2 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing with Singing with Friends 57 Tara Erraught/Robin Tritschler/Padraic Rowan 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 58 Thu 2 Jul 3.00pm Music for the Moment 81 Wed 3 Jun 1.00pm Angela Hewitt Masterclass 58 6.00pm Artist in Conversation: Cédric Tiberghien 82 7.30pm The English Concert/Harry Bicket 58 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien 82 Thu 4 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 59 Fri 3 Jul 7.00pm Wihan Quartet 82 11.45am Chamber Tots: Train Ride 59 10.00pm Anne Sofie von Otter/Bengt Forsberg 83 4.45pm Introduction to... Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 59 Sat 4 Jul 11.00am Family Day: RNIB 83 7.30pm James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 59 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 83 Fri 5 Jun 11.00am Schools Concert: Pioneering Women 60 Sun 5 Jul 11.30am Wihan Quartet 85 7.00pm Belcea Quartet 60 7.30pm Nicola Benedetti/Alexei Grynyuk 85 10.00pm Guy Johnston/Tom Poster 61 Mon 6 Jul 1.00pm Nicky Spence/Václava Krejčí Housková/ 84 Sat 6 Jun 7.30pm Leonore Piano Trio 61 Julius Drake/Singers from the Guildhall Sun 7 Jun 11.30am Kopelman Quartet 62 School of Music & Drama 6.00pm 86 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 60 Artist in Conversation: Rachel Podger 7.30pm Rachel Podger/Brecon Baroque 86 Mon 8 Jun 1.00pm Veronika Eberle/Dénes Várjon 62 Tue 7 Jul 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Kristian Bezuidenhout 86 7.30pm Elisabeth Leonskaja 62 Wed 8 Jul 7.30pm La Nuova Musica/David Bates/ 87 Tue 9 Jun 7.30pm The Sixteen/Harry Christophers 63 Anna Dennis/Nick Pritchard Wed 10 Jun 7.30pm Vijay Iyer/Aurora Orchestra/Duncan Ward 64 Thu 9 Jul 7.30pm Quatuor Danel 87 Thu 11 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots: At the Seaside 63 Fri 10 Jul 7.00pm Christiane Karg/Malcolm Martineau 87 11.45am Chamber Tots: At the Seaside 63 10.00pm Jess Gillam 88 4.45pm Introduction to... Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 59 Sat 11 Jul 7.30pm Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen/ 88 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 63 Jean-Guihen Queyras Fri 12 Jun 7.00pm Marc-André Hamelin 65 Sun 12 Jul 11.30am Vadim Gluzman/Angela Yoffe 89 10.00pm Attacca Quartet 65 7.30pm Carolin Widmann/Amihai Grosz/ 89 Sat 13 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing 67 Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata Kanneh-Mason 7.30pm Iestyn Davies/Joseph Middleton 66 Mon 13 Jul 1.00pm Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 90 Sun 14 Jun 11.30am Benjamin Frith/Andrew Brownell 67 Tue 14 Jul 1.00pm Graham Johnson/Sarah Cox/Joël Terrin 90 3.00pm Duo Contraste 67 Book Launch Recital 7.30pm Benjamin Grosvenor 68 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk: Ian Page 90 Mon 15 Jun 1.00pm Elisabeth Brauss 68 7.30pm The Mozartists/Ian Page/Chiara Skerath 91 6.15pm Bechstein Session: Miyabi Duo 68 Wed 15 Jul 7.30pm Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 91 7.30pm Élisabeth Pion 69 Thu 16 Jul 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 91 Tue 16 Jun 5.30pm Liselotte Östblom/Rupert Cox Duo 69 Fri 17 Jul 7.00pm Fretwork/Reiko Ichise/Silas Wollston 93 7.30pm Novus String Quartet 69 10.00pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Andrew Staples/ 93 Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon Wed 17 Jun 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 71 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 71 Sat 18 Jul 11.00am Paula Murrihy/Sholto Kynoch 94 7.30pm Philippe Cassard/Cédric Pescia 71 1.00pm Marcus Farnsworth/James Cheung 94 4.00pm Catriona Morison/Julius Drake 94 Thu 18 Jun 4.45pm Introduction to... Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas 59 7.30pm Birgid Steinberger/Stephan Loges/ 94 7.30pm Django Bates/Iain Ballamy/Josefine Lindstrand 71 Sholto Kynoch Fri 19 Jun 7.00pm Sir András Schiff Lecture 72 Sun 19 Jul 11.30am Aquinas Piano Trio 95 10.00pm Mishka Rushdie Momen 72 7.30pm Zlata Chochieva 95 Sat 20 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots: Jungles and Rivers 73 Mon 20 Jul 7.30pm Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside 95 11.45am Chamber Tots: Jungles and Rivers 73 Tue 21 Jul 7.30pm Michael Collins/Isabelle Van Keulen/ 97 3.00pm Family Concert: Pioneering Women 73 Laura Samuel/Veronica Hagen/Torleif Thedeen/ 7.30pm Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch 73 Katy Wooley/Gustavo Nuñes Sun 21 Jun 11.30am Danish String Quartet 75 Wed 22 Jul 7.30pm Charles Richard-Hamelin 96 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 72 Thu 23 Jul 7.30pm Elias String Quartet/Alice Neary 97 Mon 22 Jun 1.00pm Giuliano Carmignola/Riccardo Doni 75 Fri 24 Jul 7.30pm Alexei Volodin 97 Tue 23 Jun 7.30pm Jordi Savall/Le Concert des Nations 74 Sat 25 Jul 7.30pm Iestyn Davies/Dunedin Consort/John Butt 98 8.00pm External: Jonathan Biss at the 75 Sun 26 Jul 11.30am Jean Rondeau 98 New North London Synagogue 7.30pm Sheku Kanneh-Mason/Isata Kanneh-Mason 99 10 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 1 April 7.30pm

Repeated Thursday 2 April 7.30pm Leif Ove Andsnes piano Dvořák Poetic Tone Pictures Op. 85 Bartók 3 Burlesques for solo piano BB55 Schumann Carnaval Op. 9

The acclaimed Norwegian pianist has garnered numerous awards, including one each from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Gilmore Foundation, and no fewer than six from Gramophone magazine. His programme includes a set of 13 character pieces by Dvořák plus three by Bartók.

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Leif Ove Andsnes © Gregor Hohenberg wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 11

Come and Create Friday 3 April Saturday 4 April 3.00pm Forthcoming Workshops 7.30pm Saturday 4 April Saturday 16 May Music for the Moment Saturday 6 June Tim Mead Saturday 11 July Les Musiciens de If you are, or someone you know All dates 10.30am – 1.00pm is, living with dementia, please Saint-Julien join us for this informal afternoon Come and Create is a monthly François Lazarevitch concert with musicians from the music club at Wigmore Hall for young people aged 15–19 with flute, musette, director Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for Autism Spectrum Conditions. Purcell: Songs and Dances The group explores and creates tea and coffee from 2.30pm in the Purcell Curtain Tune; O solitude, new music together alongside Bechstein Room. my sweetest choice; Sweeter professional musicians. Each than Roses; One charming night; session finishes with an informal Free (ticket required) Chaconne; O let me weep; Here sharing for parents and carers, the Deities approve; March; Song In partnership with Resonate Arts and the chance to spend time Tune; Hornpipe; ‘Tis nature’s and the Royal Academy of Music together as a group. voice; Here let my life with as Everyone is welcome, from much silence slide; 3 Parts upon experienced instrumentalists a Ground Z731; Evening Hymn to those who have no musical Z193; If music be the food of love; experience and want to try May her blest example chase; something new. Wigmore Hall is committed Fairest Isle; What power art thou; to playing its part in Air; Scotch Tune; ‘Twas within building a dementia-friendly Free (application required) a furlong of Edinboro; Minuet – society, and is proud to Hornpipe – Boree; Strike the , Booking is essential as places have 3 Dementia Friends Touch the Champions and 44 Dementia are limited. For more information Friends on its staff team. contact Benjamin Redmayne on To find out more visit 020 7258 8246 or In tandem with the English dementiafriends.org.uk [email protected] countertenor, the French Baroque group offers a programme of Purcell’s songs, arias and instrumental dances.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Brahms Series Few composers have left such an exceptional heritage of music for the Forthcoming Concerts in the Series recital hall as , who had equal mastery in the fields of song, piano music and chamber music. Monday 11 May 7.30pm The Brahms Series is made possible with additional support from the Takács Quartet Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Roger Tapping Monday 18 May 7.30pm Friday 3 April 7.30pm Garrick Ohlsson piano Tuesday 19 May 7.30pm

Castalian String Quartet Vienna Piano Trio Nils Mönkemeyer viola Ursula Smith Wednesday 20 May 7.30pm Brahms String Quintet No. 1 in F Op. 88 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Michael Collins clarinet Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G Op. 36 Vienna Piano Trio

Tuesday 30 June 7.30pm Two distinguished individual string players join the members of the youthful quartet. Castalian String Quartet

Saturday 4 July 7.30pm £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Jonathan Plowright piano: In Memory of Peter Flatter Brahms Plus Liszt All concerts featuring the Castalian String Quartet in the 2019/20 Brahms Series are supported by a contribution from Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

Castalian String Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 13

Sunday 5 April Sunday 5 April Sunday 5 April 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Navarra String Quartet Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano The English Concert Lassus From Prophetiae Joseph Middleton piano Harry Bicket director, organ Sibyllarum: Prolog, Sibylla G Mahler Rückert Lieder Robin Johannsen soprano Agrippa & Sybilla Delphica A Mahler Bei dir ist es traut; Janáček String Quartet No. 1 Katie Bray mezzo-soprano Ich wandle unter Blumen; Laue ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Sommernacht Gwilym Bowen tenor Mozart String Quartet in G K387 C Schumann Liebst du um (as Evangelist) ‘Spring’ Schönheit; Ihr Bildnis; Lorelei Stephan Loges bass Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci The wide-ranging musicians of Clarke The Seal Man (as Jesus) the Navarra String Quartet include Judith Weir The song of a girl Bach BWV245 arrangements of three Renaissance ravished away by the fairies in South motets from the posthumously Uist from Songs from the Exotic In the trial scene at the centre published collection Prophetiae Juliana Hall Godiva: monodrama of the John Passion, Pilate asks Sybillarum by Orlande de Lassus for mezzo-soprano and piano on Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ The work’s (1532-94) – fascinatingly chromatic a libretto by Caitlin Vincent themes, and the questions it asks, pieces setting Sibylline prophecies. resonate acutely in the 21st century, Female composers – Clara transcending the religious context. £16 concs £14 inc. programme Schumann, Alma Mahler, Rebecca and coffee/sherry/juice With its compelling recitatives, Clarke, Judith Weir, plus a recent electrifying choruses and heart- monodrama by the American wrenching arias, Bach’s John Juliana Hall – feature prominently in Passion is almost operatic in its this recital by the rising star mezzo. drama. With a stellar cast of just eight voices directed from the keyboard by £16 Harry Bicket, The English Concert will bring the score alive and deliver one of the greatest works of all time.

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Monday 6 April Monday 6 April Tuesday 7 April 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Emily Beynon flute Leon McCawley piano Gerald Finley bass-baritone Andrew West piano Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664 Julius Drake piano Janáček On an Overgrown Path Belle Epoque Fauré Chanson d’amour; Aurore; (Book I) Les berceaux; Après un rêve; Enescu Cantabile et presto Grieg Sommerfugl Op. 43 No. 1; L’horizon chimérique Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi Liten fugl Op. 43 No. 4; Til våren d’un faune (arr. Emily Beynon) Duparc Sérénade; Phidylé; Op. 43 No. 6 L’invitation au voyage; Le manoir G Mucha Naše cesta Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Fauré Fantaisie Op. 79 de Rosemonde; La vie antérieure Martinů Flute Sonata Barber There’s Nae Lark; Bessie The widely admired pianist has Bobtail; Nocturne; Rain has fallen; received consistent praise for Sleep now; I hear an army Welsh-born Emily Beynon his Schubert playing, both live Ives Feldeinsamkeit; The explores her enthusiasm for the and recorded; his programme Housatonic at Stockbridge; Tom Czech artist Alphonse Mucha includes character pieces by three Sails Away; Memories: a. Very in a programme that unites two composers, as well as one of the Pleasant, b. Rather Sad; 1, 2, 3 great cities; and Prague. most lyrical of Schubert’s major Arlen It’s Only a Paper Moon; Mucha, best known for his iconic piano works. Blues in the Night posters of Sarah Bernhardt, was Porter Night and Day from Gay also a champion of Art Nouveau. £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Divorce; The Tale of the Oyster As a young chorister in Brno, he from Fifty Million Frenchmen befriended Janáček, and music inspired him throughout his life. Mucha’s son Jirí was also a A combination of the French friend of Martinů and married the and American song traditions in Scottish composer featured in this programme by the Canadian tonight’s programme, Geraldine baritone, mixing art songs by (née Thomson, 1917-2012). Ives and Barber with the Great American Songbook. £16 concs £14 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Emily Beynon Leon McCawley Gerald Finley © Eduardus Lee © Sara Porter © Sim Canetty-Clarke wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 15

Wednesday 8 April Saturday 11 April 7.30pm 7.30pm

Doric String Quartet Fretwork Alina Ibragimova violin Richard Boothy director Cédric Tiberghien piano Gallicantus Lekeu in G Gabriel Crouch director Debussy String Quartet in Charles Daniels baritone (as Evangelist) G minor Op. 10 Chausson Concert in D Op. 21 Schein Suite No. 7 in A minor from Banchetto musicale Schütz Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz SWV478; A leading quartet is joined by Historia der Auferstehung Jesu Christi SWV50 two exceptional soloists for a fin-de-siècle programme including To mark Easter two major works by Heinrich Schütz, preceded two rarities: the masterly sonata by a suite from the Musical Banquet (1617) by his contemporary (1893) by the tragically short-lived Johann Hermann Schein, performed by two leading early-music Guillaume Lekeu (1870-94), and ensembles and with tenor soloist Charles Daniels the Evangelist in Chausson’s unusual concerto Schütz’s Resurrection Story. (1891) for a chamber formation. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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MUSIC FOR LIFE: RESIDENCY

Learning from our innovative Partner Schools This responsive and in-depth approach has enabled Programme, over the past two years we have developed a meaningful relationships to form over time between residency in one care setting, in partnership with Jewish musicians, staff and residents. Together we have Care. The activity has been shaped in response to staff, created space for shared experiences and for all those residents and their families, and has included weekly involved to learn more about one another, communicate choir sessions for residents and family members, relaxed in new ways, and form deeper connections. concerts, staff singing sessions, one to one visits with musicians and residents, and improvisation sessions.

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Sunday 12 April Monday 13 April Monday 13 April 11.30am 1.00pm 7.30pm

Zemlinsky Quartet Escher String Quartet Janine Jansen violin Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor Dvořák Selections from Denis Kozhukhin piano D703 Cypresses; String Quartet No. 11 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in Borodin String Quartet No. 1 in A in C Op. 61 C minor Op. 30 No. 2 Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat Named after the distinguished Founded in 2005 and made up Op. 18 composer Alexander Zemlinsky, of students from the Manhattan Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3 in once a leading figure in Prague’s School of Music, the Escher C minor Op. 45 musical life, the eponymous offers an all-Dvořák programme ensemble has achieved wide featuring a major work written The Dutch violinist and the international success, with many hurriedly after the composer Russian pianist have enjoyed an awards to its credit. Its programme saw an announcement of its extensive collaboration and here comprises two gems of the quartet forthcoming première, together perform three sonatas very much literature: Schubert’s isolated with a selection from his collection within the duo tradition. Written single movement of 1820 and Cypresses – composed as in 1887-8, the Strauss piece is Borodin’s melodious example love songs. an ambitious early work that was completed in 1879. championed by Jascha Heifetz. £16 concs £14 £16 concs £14 inc. programme £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 and coffee/sherry/juice

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Sir András Schiff Thursday 16 April Friday 17 April Sunday 19 April 1.00pm 7.00pm NB time 7.30pm

Sir András Schiff: Sir András Schiff Sir András Schiff Music Comes Out lecture-recital: lecture-recital: of Silence Schubert D960 Schubert D960 Book Launch Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat Repeat of lecture-recital on D960 Friday 17 April 7.00pm Join Sir András Schiff as the pianist is interviewed about Through the searching artistry of £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 his new book Music Comes Out Sir András Schiff we experience of Silence by Wigmore Hall’s his absorption in music he has Director, John Gilhooly. regularly espoused for many years. Following on from the £5 ticket only format of an earlier Beethoven £20 ticket and a copy of Music series, this programme combines Comes Out of Silence a lecture in the first half, in which audiences will be able to hear his thoughts on Schubert’s final sonata, with its performance after the interval. Lecture-recital repeated on Sunday 19 April 7.30pm

Sir András Schiff © Nadia F Romanini £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 19

Emmanuelle Haïm Residency Wigmore Study Group: Tuesday 14 April Britten 7.30pm Wednesday 15 April Emmanuelle Haïm harpsichord, organ, director Friday 17 April Wednesday 22 April Le Concert d’Astrée All dates 3.00pm – 6.00pm David Plantier violin Come and explore the song Mauro Lopes Ferreira violin cycles of . ‘One of my chief aims,’ he wrote, ‘is Michel Renard viola to try to restore to the musical Myriam Cambreling viola setting of the English Language Felix Knecht cello a brilliance, freedom and vitality that have been curiously rare Nicola Dal Maso double bass since the death of Purcell.’ Britten Eric Bellocq lute was courageous in expressing homosexual love through works Banchetto Musicale – Dances and Delights from the 17th Century such as the Seven Sonnets of Rosenmüller Sonata No. 9 a5 in D Michelangelo. Later cycles show a Schein Suite No. 1 in D minor from Banchetto musicale preoccupation with sin and death Biber Sonata No. 3 in D minor from Fidicinium sacro-profanum (The Holy Sonnets of John Donne), Anon Pavane faite pour le mariage de Henri le Grand en 1600 the fragility of innocence in a Anon From Concert donné a Louis XIII en 1627: Les Ombres, Les corrupt world (Winter Words) and Suisses, Les Suissesses, Les nimphes de la Grenouillère, Les the disillusionment of middle age Bergers & Les Ameriquains (Songs from the Chinese). These Bertali Sonata a5 in D minor study afternoons are presented Fischer Lament on Herzlich tut mich verlangen by composer Julian Philips, with MuffatSonata No. 5 from Armonico Tributo pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and student performers Under the French harpsichordist and conductor, Emmanuelle from Guildhall School of Music Haïm’s Baroque specialist group brings a rich musical banquet & Drama. of dances and delights to Wigmore, including an extract from Heinrich Schein’s variation collection of 1617. Series ticket price £70 including 3 study sessions and a ticket £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 for the evening concert on With grateful thanks to the Early Music and Baroque Circle Wednesday 22 April

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Rachel Podger Residency Widely acclaimed as a Baroque violinist and orchestral director, Rachel Podger has made superlative recordings of Bach’s music – her set of the solo sonatas and partitas was the recommended choice in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library, while her discs of concertos and accompanied sonatas have been equally highly praised.

Saturday 18 April Saturday 18 April 4.00pm 7.30pm

Rachel Podger violin Rachel Podger violin Kristian Bezuidenhout Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord harpsichord Bach Violin Sonata No. 1 in Bach Violin Sonata No. 4 in B minor BWV1014; Violin Sonata C minor BWV1017; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015; Violin No. 5 in F minor BWV1018; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019

Here working in tandem with one Bach’s six long-admired examples of today’s leading exponents of of the violin and keyboard sonata early keyboard instruments, Podger are conceived in the more abstract undertakes Bach’s six sonatas ‘da chiesa’ (or church) form, with for violin and cembalo – thought two slow movements alternating to date from the composer’s final with two fast movements, as years in Köthen and specifically the opposed to the more dance-based period 1720-23. ‘da camera’ (chamber) model. Approximately 75 minutes in Approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval duration, without an interval

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Forthcoming Concerts and Events in the Series Sunday 10 May 11.30am Bach Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas Monday 6 July 6.00pm Artist in Conversation: Rachel Podger Monday 6 July 7.30pm Bach Double and Triple Concertos with Brecon Baroque

Rachel Podger © Theresa Pewal wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 21

Building Bridges Schubert Song Cycles Wigmore Lates Wednesday 15 April In collaboration with the leading Friday 17 April 7.30pm Dutch fortepianist Kristian 10.00pm Bezuidenhout, tenor Mark Padmore has made an in-depth exploration The Chamber Music Schaghajegh Nosrati of Schubert’s cycles. Society of Lincoln Center piano Thursday 16 April Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor Paul Huang violin 7.30pm BWV826 Paul Neubauer viola Zimmermann Extemporale David Finckel cello Schubert Piano Sonata in Wu Han piano Mark Padmore tenor C minor D958 Dohnányi Serenade for string trio Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano in C Op. 10 Having won encomia from the Saint-Saëns Piano Trio No. 1 in Schubert Winterreise D911 likes of Sir András Schiff and F Op. 18 Robert Levin, the young German Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A The duo’s recording of Winterreise pianist has established a particular Op. 26 has received exceptional praise for reputation as an interpreter of the insight and artistic boldness Bach, with acclaimed recordings of Co-artistic directors of The with which both musicians the composer’s keyboard concertos Chamber Music Society of Lincoln scrutinize Wilhelm Müller’s text and and to her credit. Center and of Chamber Music Schubert’s notes. Building Bridges is an initiative Today in Seoul, South Korea, the Approximately 75 minutes in devised by Sir András Schiff to American cellist David Finckel duration, without an interval support and nurture the next and his Taiwanese pianist wife generation of exceptional pianists. Wu Han return alongside her Artists are selected from all over violinist compatriot and his £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 the world for the scheme by Sir fellow-American viola player for Supported by the members of the András, following masterclasses a programme including Brahms’ Rubinstein Circle or auditions, and he then works piano quartet that drew influence with each pianist to hone recital from Schubert. Forthcoming Concert in the Series programmes which showcase Tuesday 7 July 7.30pm their special talents. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Schubert Schwanengesang D957 £16

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Beethoven 250 His music forming a thread throughout a season celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth, Beethoven remains an artistic colossus to today’s performers and audiences, his ground-breaking expansion of existing forms and ambition for music as an expressive medium continuing to inspire in intimate contexts as well in his grandest public statements. Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle Foundation, and additional support from the Beethoven Circle

Ludwig van Beethoven © Joseph Karl Stieler wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 23

Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle Beethoven is a specialism of the American pianist Jonathan Biss, whose recording of the complete series is an ongoing project. He has collaborated with Coursera to create the free video course Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas and in 2011 released the eBook Beethoven’s Shadow, a meditation on the performance of the works themselves. Each of Jonathan’s evening recitals will be followed by post-concert talks about the repertoire; he will also be providing more informal talks in the Wigmore Restaurant on his Coursera lectures in collaboration with the Curtis Institute. Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega

Sunday 19 April Monday 20 April Monday 20 April 3.00pm 7.30pm 9.30pm

Exploring Beethoven’s Jonathan Biss piano Post-Concert Talk with Piano Sonatas with Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 25 Jonathan Biss and Jonathan Biss in G Op. 79; No. 11 in B flat Jan Swafford Op. 22; No. 14 in C sharp minor Join Jonathan Biss in the Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’; No. 24 Following each concert in the Restaurant, where the pianist will in F sharp Op. 78; No. 30 in E Beethoven sonata cycle, Jonathan discuss his Coursera lectures on Op. 109 Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Biss will be joined by one of his favourite musicians to discuss the Jonathan Biss’s programme coursera.org/learn/Beethoven- repertoire. Tonight he is joined by samples works representing piano-sonatas American composer and author, different periods of Beethoven’s Jan Swafford. Free (ticket required) creativity, from the B flat sonata, Op. 22 (1800), through to the Free (with evening concert ticket) E major, Op. 109 (1820), and including one of the best known of all in the Sonata quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2 (1801), nicknamed the ‘Moonlight’.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Supported by Aubrey Adams OBE Saturday 9 May 7.30pm

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Tuesday 21 April 7.30pm Roberta Invernizzi soprano Franco Pavan theorbo Gabriele Palomba theorbo Flora Papadopoulos harp Alberto Guerrero cello Claudia Combs violin Rossella Croce violin Celebrating Women Baroque Composers Strozzi From Diporte di Euterpe: Lagrime mie & Tradimento Leonarda Sonata a tre Op. 16 No. 5 S Caccini Due luci ridenti; Si miei tormenti Leonarda Sonata a più strumenti Op. 16 No. 7 Strozzi Sino alla morte from Diporte di Euterpe Jacquet de la Guerre Passacaille from Céphale et Procris Strozzi Mi fa rider la Speranza from Diporte di Euterpe; Hor che Apollo

A programme presenting some leading Baroque women composers: Venetian singer Barbara Strozzi and her contemporary Settimia Caccini, Italian nun Isabella Leonarda and French harpsichordist Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Approximately 70 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Roberta Invernizzi © Ribaltaluce Studio wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 25

Kathleen Ferrier Sunday 19 April Monday 20 April Awards 2020 11.30am 1.00pm The annual auditions for the Sacconi Quartet ATOS Trio famous singing competition, founded in memory of one of Beethoven String Quartet in Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in the UK’s best-loved contraltos, F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ A minor Op. 50 attract capacity houses from both Mendelssohn String Quartet in devoted lovers of vocal art and E flat Op. 12 Founded in 2003, the ATOS Trio students of singing. carried off four prizes at the Formed in 2001 by four graduates Melbourne International Chamber Tuesday 21 April from the , Music Competition in 2007 and 1.00pm – 6.00pm the Sacconi Quartet takes its name went on to become a BBC New from the highly influential violin Generation Artist between 2009 restorer and Stradivari expert and 2011. Renowned for the Semi-Final Simone Sacconi. Its artistic journey expressivity of its playing, here has seen it win numerous awards it brings a fresh approach to £19 students £12 as it explores original ways of Tchaikovsky’s sole but large-scale performing standard works as well work for this medium. Friday 24 April as championing new repertoire. 6.00pm – 10.30pm £16 concs £14 £16 concs £14 inc. programme Final and coffee/sherry/juice £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Please note there will be a supper interval at approximately 8.30pm. Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant on 020 7258 8292 to make your supper reservation.

Sacconi Quartet ATOS Trio © Alejandro Tamagno © Steven Haberland

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Wednesday 22 April Britten Series 7.30pm As both a performer and a composer who made vital contributions to the genres of chamber music and song, Allan Clayton tenor early in his career Benjamin Britten developed a long- James Baillieu piano lasting relationship with Wigmore Hall. Rainier Cycle for Declamation The Britten Series is made possible with support from the Purcell/Britten Take not a woman’s anger ill; I take Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund no pleasure in the sun’s bright beams; If music be the food of love Z379c; Sweeter than Roses Croft/Britten A Hymn on Divine Musick Humfrey/Britten Lord! I have sinned; A Hymn to God the Father Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne Op. 35

The leading tenor’s programme features Britten’s realisations of music from the Baroque period and song cycles setting John Donne by both Britten (whose Holy Sonnets received their world première at Wigmore Hall) and the South African-British composer Ivy Priaulx Rainier.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Voices at Wigmore Circle

Forthcoming Concerts in the Series

Thursday 14 May 7.30pm Vox Luminis

Thursday 21 May 7.30pm Iestyn Davies countertenor Allan Clayton tenor James Newby baritone Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Olivia Jageurs harp James Baillieu piano

Monday 13 July 1.00pm Allan Clayton tenor James Baillieu piano

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Thursday 23 April Saturday 25 April Saturday 25 April 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Joshua Bell violin Usha Kapoor violin Tetzlaff Quartet Alessio Bax piano Edward Leung piano Schoenberg String Quartet No. 1 Programme to include: Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata in in D minor Op. 7 Schubert Rondo brillante in D minor Op. 75 Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor Op. 30 B minor D895 John Corigliano Violin Sonata Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano Duo Kapoor-Leung won the The German violinist Christian Bach Violin Sonata No. 4 in First Prize at the inaugural RBC Tetzlaff and his cellist sister C minor BWV1017 Birmingham International Piano Tanja are both founder members Bloch Baal Shem Chamber Music Competition in of the quartet, which originated 2018 with stunning performances in 1994. The ensemble’s debut One of the great violinists of our of French and American repertoire. recording included Schoenberg’s time came to wide attention at the Highlights of their current First Quartet, of which ‘few age of 14 when he performed with season include appearances at recordings have found so viable the Orchestra under the Ulverston, Winchester and an equilibrium between density of Riccardo Muti. Over his diverse Wye Valley festivals, and their argument and formal ingenuity’ career he has won a vast following debut recording for Resonus (International Record Review). for his live performances and Classics label featuring works by recordings and has been music American composers. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 director of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields since 2011. £15

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Tuesday 28 April 7.30pm Franco Fagioli countertenor Il Pomo d’Oro Durante Concerto No. 2 in G minor Vinci From Il trionfo di Camilla: Ove corri? ... Sorge talora fosca l’aurora & Più non so finger sdegni Hasse Sinfonia a quattro in G minor Op. 5 No. 6 Vinci Gelido in ogni vena from Siroe, re di Persia; Nave altera from Gismondo, re di Polonia Handel Se potessero i sospir miei from Imeneo; Sento brillar nel sen from Il pastor fido Durante Concerto No. 1 in F minor Handel Cara sposa from Rinaldo Fiorenza Concerto in A for 3 violins and continuo Handel Crude furie degl’ orridi abissi from Serse

With the Argentinian countertenor the soloist in a selection of operatic arias, the Italian period-instrument ensemble explores a diverse group of Baroque composers.

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Franco Fagioli © Julian Laidig wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 29

Sunday 26 April Sunday 26 April Sunday 26 April 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Elias String Quartet Kathryn Rudge mezzo- Aleksandar Madžar piano soprano Michael Collins clarinet Schoenberg 3 Klavierstücke Op. 11 piano Schubert 4 Impromptus D899 Peter Whelan bassoon Christopher Glynn Chopin 4 Impromptus Berlioz Les nuits d’été Op. 7 Alec Frank-Gemmill horn Debussy Children’s Corner; L’isle Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Laurène Durantel double bass All’ mein Gedanken from joyeuse Schubert Octet in F D803 Schlichte Weisen; Das Rosenband; Die Nacht; Allerseelen; The distinguished Serbian pianist first made his mark on UK Formed in 1998, the Elias String Wiegenlied; Zueignung; Nichts audiences as a prizewinner in the Quartet is renowned worldwide for 1996 Leeds Piano Competition; now its lively and mutually responsive Two composers make up the resident in , he teaches at music making: ‘few quartets at programme of this recital by a the Conservatory while maintaining any stage of their evolution’, wrote versatile, highly individual and a busy international schedule. the Philadelphia Enquirer, ‘have this increasingly high-profile mezzo, much personality’. Together with with Berlioz’s song cycle preceding £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 three exceptional wind players and a popular Strauss selection. a double bassist, they perform one of the most companionable works £16 in the entire chamber repertoire.

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

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Thursday 30 April 7.30pm Sir Bryn Terfel bass-baritone Malcolm Martineau piano Truly one of the mastersingers of our age, Sir Bryn Terfel has been a presence in our musical lives ever since he was awarded the Lieder Prize in the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition; his ongoing commitment to the recital and concert hall has been matched by an equal enthusiasm for opera that has made him a leading exponent of Wagner.

£60 £50 £45 £40 £25

Sir Bryn Terfel © Mitch Jenkins wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 31

Monday 27 April Wednesday 29 April Wednesday 29 April 1.00pm 6.15pm – 7.05pm 7.30pm

Concertgebouw Winds Bechstein Session: Arditti Quartet Jeroen Bal piano Bloomsbury Quartet Wolfgang Rihm Geste zu Vedova Martinů Sextet for piano and wind Join us and the Bloomsbury (UK première) Peter Gilbert The voice opens instruments Quartet in the Bechstein Bar for wide to forget that which you are Janáček Mládi the next instalment in our series Poulenc Sextet for wind quintet of informal performances. Fresh singing (UK première) and piano from its year with us as our Royal David Felder Quartet No. 3 Academy of Music/Wigmore Hall ‘Netivot’ (UK première) Toshio Hosokawa New work (UK Made up of wind players from one Fellowship Ensemble 2018/19, première) of the world’s leading orchestras, the quartet explores exciting Henze String Quartet No. 5 the ensemble offers works that works from the 19th and 20th can also be heard on their first CD centuries. Each of the members – Janáček’s 1924 tribute to youth, are passionate about connecting One of the world’s leading Martinů’s witty Parisian work of with people through music, and ensembles specialising in 1929, and Poulenc’s entertaining their performances have been contemporary music, the Arditti 1932 divertissement; pianist described as ‘forward thinking returns with a programme that Jeroen Bal joins them for the latter with big ideas’ and ‘magnificently includes no fewer than four major two pieces. assured and stylish’. UK premières of recent works by Wolfgang Rihm, Peter Gilbert, David Felder and Toshio Hosokawa. £16 concs £14 £5

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Friday 1 May Friday 1 May Saturday 2 May 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Chamber Tots: Royal Academy of Family Concert: Train Ride Music Baroque Soloists Glitter Bird Rachel Podger director Recommended for families with Join us on a musical adventure children aged 5-7 on a train in these interactive The Pleasure Gardens of London music sessions for children aged Geminiani Concerto Grosso in When the Queen hears the most 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. D minor Op. 5 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ beautiful birdsong in all the world, she Discover exciting instruments, Stanley Organ Concerto in B flat knows she must have it for herself. songs, and stories with Op. 10 No. 3 But when Glitter Bird is trapped away experienced music leaders and Hook Flute Trio in G Op. 83 No. 6 from all he loves, he forgets how to emerging chamber ensembles. Mudge Trumpet Concerto No. 1 sing. Come and help us find his voice March to your own beat as we Handel Concerto Grosso in F on this magical journey of empathy explore, play and move together! Op. 3 No. 4 and understanding. Arne Excerpts from Alfred Join musical story telling trio 10.15am–11.15am (1–2 year-olds) Boyce Symphony No. 5 in D WRANGLE! for this brand-new 11.45am–12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) performance written for families Celebrating the lost pleasure with children aged 5-7, drawing on Children £7 Adults £5 gardens of London – notably over 300 years of music! Vauxhall and (not far from Wigmore Hall) Marylebone – the Arrive early for free arts activities in the Bechstein Room, led on a first Baroque Soloists’ programme First Time Booker Offer come, first served basis. Drop in reflects the music one might have New to Family events at between 1.45pm and 2.30pm. heard at these venues during the Wigmore Hall? Buy your 18th century. tickets for half price, either Children £10 Adults £12 by phone or in person. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 First Time Booker Offer New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

Chamber Tots Rachel Podger Glitter Bird © Benjamin Ealovega © Theresa Pewal © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 33

Beethoven Piano Trios Saturday 2 May Three leading musicians – violinist , cellist Raphael 7.30pm Wallfisch and pianist Arnon Erez – came together in 2009 to form a subsequently highly successful trio. Their contribution to Wigmore’s Artemis Quartet Beethoven season comprises the entirety of his piano trios, works that continue to provide the bedrock of the modern repertoire. Eckart Runge cello Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead Beethoven String Quartet in C gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle Foundation, and Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ additional support from the Beethoven Circle Lera Auerbach New work for string quartet* (UK première) Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ (arr. for Sunday 3 May string quintet) 11.30am *Co-commissioned by Gewandhaus Leipzig, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Konzerthausgesellschaft, Carnegie Beethoven Allegretto in B flat WoO. 39; Variations in G on ‘Ich bin Hall and Tonhallegesellschaft der Schneider Kakadu’ Op. 121a; Piano Trio in E flat Op. 70 No. 2

Founded in 1989 and renewing A substantial trio (1808) is preceded by two unusual pieces: its membership over the years, variations on a song from an opera by Wenzel Müller probably the Artemis has retained a high written around 1803 and revised in 1816-17, and Beethoven’s final reputation for its Beethoven original work for the medium, composed in 1812. performances in particular. Joined by its former cellist, the quartet £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice plays an anonymous arrangement (1832) of Beethoven’s violin Forthcoming Concert in the Series sonata alongside a new work by Lera Auerbach. Saturday 20 June 7.30pm

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Monday 4 May 7.30pm Leonidas Kavakos violin Enrico Pace piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Schumann Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor Op. 121 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2 Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 in C sharp minor BB84

Four major duo works covering a century and more form the programme by the Greek violinist and his regular Italian pianist partner, with whom he has recorded all the Beethoven sonatas to considerable acclaim.

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Leonidas Kavakos © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 35

Sunday 3 May Sunday 3 May Monday 4 May 3.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Ronan Collett baritone Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Christian Lindberg trombone Nicholas Rimmer piano Nino Chokhonelidze piano Roland Pöntinen piano Ravel Histoires naturelles Schubert Prometheus; Grenzen Stravinsky 3 Movements from Eisler From Hollywood Songbook: der Menschheit; Fahrt zum Hades; The Firebird Suite (arr. Christian Der Sohn I, Der Sohn II, An den Der Atlas from Schwanengesang Lindberg/Roland Pöntinen) kleinen Radioapparat, In den Weiden, Liszt Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Weber Romance Frühling, Über den Selbstmord, Die Es war ein König in Thule; Es Christian Lindberg Land of the Flucht & Der Kirschdieb muss ein Wunderbares sein Rising Sun Ives Walking; Like a sick eagle; Pfitzner Sehnsucht Op. 10 No. 1; Roland Pöntinen L’Heure Bleue The Cage; The Greatest Man; Zum Abschied meiner Tochter; (world première) Afterglow; Watchman!; Swimmers Stimme der Sehnsucht Debussy Feux d’artifice from Gruenberg From Animals and Musorgsky Songs and Dances Préludes Book II Insects: The Lion, An Explanation of Death Christian Lindberg/Roland of the Grasshopper, The Poulenc Chansons gaillardes Pöntinen Black Hawk Eagle Mysterious Cat & Two Old Crows The winner of the Wigmore Hall/ A trombone recital by one of Now enjoying a major career, Kohn Foundation International Song the instrument’s outstanding the baritone offers a varied Competition in 2015, the Swiss- exponents includes two of his programme including extracts Macedonian bass-baritone and his own works (Roland Pöntinen from Hanns Eisler’s Hollywood Georgian pianist return with songs has realised the piano part of Songbook (1938-43) and songs by from three national traditions. Black Hawk Eagle), a new work the neglected American composer by his regular Swedish pianist Louis Gruenberg (1884-1964). £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 collaborator, and their joint Stravinsky arrangement. £16 £16 concs £14

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Tuesday 5 May Tuesday 5 May Wednesday 6 May 1.00pm 7.30pm 12.30pm and 2.00pm

Connaught Brass Pavel Haas Quartet Chamber Tots: Philip Jones International Brass Pavel Nikl viola At the Seaside Ensemble Competition Winner Danjulo Ishizaka cello Monteverdi Scherzi musicali a Join us on a musical adventure Dvořák String Sextet in A Op. 48 tre voci by the sea in these interactive Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence James MacMillan Adam’s Rib music sessions for children aged Op. 70 Ewald Andantino from Quintet 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. No. 4 Discover exciting instruments, The ensemble’s former violist, Pirchner L’homme au Marteau songs, and stories with Pavel Nikl, now returns regularly dans la Poche experienced music leaders and to the group on those occasions emerging chamber ensembles. when a second viola is required: The five Connaught musicians March to your own beat as we here the quartet is also joined by came together in 2016 and are explore, play and move together! the German cellist with whom already making their mark in the it won a Gramophone Chamber wider musical world: in July 2019 12.30pm–1.30pm (1–2 year-olds) Award in 2014 for their recording the youthful British brass formation 2.00pm–3.00pm (3–5 year-olds) of the Schubert String Quintet. won the inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Children £7 Adults £5 £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Competition, created in memory of the distinguished trumpeter and his With grateful thanks to the Patron, world-famous group. Benefactor & Supporter Friends of First Time Booker Offer Wigmore Hall New to Family events at £16 Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

Connaught Brass Pavel Haas Quartet Chamber Tots © Les Brewster © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 37

Wednesday 6 May Thursday 7 May Thursday 7 May 7.30pm 11.00am and 12.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Barry Douglas piano For Crying Out Loud! Exploring Beethoven’s Tchaikovsky From The Seasons Piano Sonatas with Parents or carers and their babies Op. 37b: January, February, Jonathan Biss October & December; Piano under 1 can enjoy an informal Sonata in G Op. 37 ‘Grand Sonata’ concert featuring musicians from Join Jonathan Biss in the Musorgsky Pictures from the Royal Academy of Music. Restaurant, where the pianist will an Exhibition Move and groove to the music or sit back and unwind. Parents-to- discuss his Coursera lectures on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas. As a former winner of the be are also warmly welcomed. International Tchaikovsky Approximately 45 minutes in duration coursera.org/learn/Beethoven- Competition in , the Irish piano-sonatas pianist and conductor has retained Adults £8.50 (babies come free!) a passion for Russian music. He Free (ticket required) In partnership with the Royal chose Pictures from an Exhibition Academy of Music for his very first recording and has also released performances of both the neglected Tchaikovsky Sonata and the suite The Seasons. First Time Booker Offer £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

Barry Douglas For Crying Out Loud! Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega 38 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 8 May 7.30pm Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset director, harpsichord Julian Prégardien tenor Gilone Gaubert violin Jocelyn Daubigney flute Atsushi Sakai viola da gamba Chants d’amour Lambert Rochers vous êtes sourds; Par mes chants tristes et touchants; Vos mespris chaque jour me causent mille alarmes Couperin Sonata from Premier Ordre ‘La Françoise’ from Les Nations Clérambault Orphée Leclair Deuxième récréation de musique Op. 8 Rameau Orphée

Christophe Rousset’s acclaimed Baroque ensemble joins with a leading German tenor for a programme of love songs by some of the leading lights of the French Baroque period.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18 The ensemble Les Talens Lyriques receives subsidies from the French Ministry of Culture-Drac Ile-de-France and the City of Paris, and generous support from its Circle of Patrons. The ensemble wishes to thank its principal Patrons, the Annenberg Foundation / GRoW – Gregory and Regina Annenberg Weingarten, Madame Aline Foriel-Destezet and Mécénat Musical Société Générale

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Les Talens Lyriques © Eric Larrayadieu wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 39

Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle Thursday 7 May Saturday 9 May Saturday 9 May 7.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm

Sarah Fox soprano Jonathan Biss piano Post-Concert Talk: Ema Nikolovska mezzo- Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 19 Jonathan Biss and soprano in G minor Op. 49 No. 1, No. 16 Mitsuko Uchida in G Op. 31 No. 1, No. 7 in D Simon Bode tenor Op. 10 No. 3, No. 2 in A Op. 2 Following each concert in the No. 2 & No. 31 in A flat Op. 110 Marcus Farnsworth Beethoven sonata cycle, Jonathan baritone Biss will be joined by one of his In a genre to whose development piano favourite musicians to discuss the Graham Johnson he made an exceptional repertoire. Tonight he is joined by 2020 Vision – The Eyes Have It contribution, this programme classical pianist and conductor, ranges from the composer’s Mitsuko Uchida. 2020 Vision renders opticians earliest published works (the obsolete, even in 2019. The A major Sonata Op. 2, 1795) Free (with evening concert ticket) eyes have it in their youth, and to one of his late-period not only those of successful masterpieces (Op. 110, 1821). parliamentarians where depth of vision is as important as £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 sharp focus. Schubert famously Our Beethoven Celebration has been wore spectacles but far-sighted made possible thanks to a lead gift composers like him allow us to from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, hear myriad vocal colours. This the Foyle Foundation, and additional Songmakers’ Almanac programme support from the Beethoven Circle is an anthology of seeing and looking, vision and perception; it is also a salute to those twinned ocular marvels, die Augen, les yeux, los ojos, the eyes, that have elicited star-struck and passionate responses from poets and composers across the centuries.

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Schubert’s spectacles Jonathan Biss © Internationales Institut © Benjamin Ealovega 40 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

In Focus: Errollyn Wallen The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall are delighted Saturday 9 May to present a day of music to celebrate the work of internationally renowned Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen MBE. Musicians from the Royal Described as the ‘renaissance woman of contemporary British Northern College of Music music’ (The Observer), Wallen writes works that effortlessly 10.30am move between musical genres. Whether through pop-influenced songs or large-scale orchestral works, Wallen draws inspiration Errollyn Wallen Greenwich Variations for from a broad palette of genres and styles. This focus day solo piano; Red (Homage to Rodrigo) for features solo, chamber and vocal works performed by students solo guitar; Dervish for cello and piano; All from the RNCM. the Blues I See for flute and string quartet In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music An all-instrumental programme, including Greenwich Variations, whose first performance was in 2000, and Dervish, first premièred at Wigmore Hall in 2001.

12 noon Errollyn Wallen in Conversation

Wallen received an MBE for her services to music in 2007 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2013. Her ongoing success as a composer and performer and her impressive list of collaborators have given her a unique position from which to air her views on British musical life. As part of the day, join Wallen in conversation with Manus Carey, Deputy Principal of the RNCM.

2.00pm Errollyn Wallen Comfort Me With Apples for soprano, bass, oboe d’amore and string quartet; Another America: Air for tenor and piano; Daedalus for mezzo-soprano and string quartet; and selected songs

A programme of vocal music, including a group of Wallen’s many songs, plus the chamber work Daedalus (2003), Comfort Me With Apples (2006), setting a text from the Song of Songs, and the opera for tenor and piano Another America.

All seats £5 (each event) or day ticket £12

Errollyn Wallen © Azzurra Primavera wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 41

Rachel Podger Residency Sunday 10 May Sunday 10 May Monday 11 May 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Rachel Podger violin Matthias Goerne baritone Stuart Skelton tenor Bach Sonata No. 3 in C for solo Jan Lisiecki piano Richard Peirson piano violin BWV1005; Partita No. 3 Beethoven Resignation; An die Trad/Icelandic 5 folksongs in E for solo violin BWV1006 Hoffnung Op. 32; Lied aus der Grainger Folksongs Ferne; Mailied; Der Liebende; 6 Liszt Victor Hugo settings In this further instalment of her Lieder von Gellert Op. 48; An Korngold Abschiedslieder Op. 14 residency, Rachel Podger plays die Hoffnung Op. 94; Adelaide; Turina Poema en forma de two major solo works. BWV1005 Wonne der Wehmut; Das Liedchen canciones Op. 19 is a typical sonata da chiesa in four von der Ruhe; An die Geliebte; An movements, alternating slow with die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 One of the leading tenors of fast, the second a fugue whose our time travels widely in his theme derives from the chorale A recipient of the Wigmore Medal, programme covering his native ‘Komm, Heiliger Geist’, while the one of the world’s greatest Lieder Australia, Iceland, and partita comprises a prelude followed singers joins with the young Germany, plus French settings by by six standard dance movements. Canadian pianist to explore an the Hungarian Liszt. undeservedly neglected output. £16 concs £14 inc. programme £16 concs £14 and coffee/sherry/juice £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Rachel Podger Matthias Goerne Stuart Skelton © Theresa Pewal © Caroline de Bon © Sim Canetty-Clarke 42 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Brahms Series Monday 11 May Tuesday 12 May 7.30pm 7.30pm

Takács Quartet La Serenissima Roger Tapping viola Adrian Chandler director, Webern Langsamer Satz violin Brahms String Quintet in F Op. 88; String Quintet in G Op. 111 Julia Doyle soprano mezzo- The legendary quartet concentrates on two major works by Brahms, Renata Pokupić each requiring a second viola, taken here by a former member who soprano is now in the Juilliard Quartet. The short opening work by Webern Hilary Summers contralto (1905) follows directly on from the Brahmsian tradition. Vivaldi’s Women

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Vivaldi Concerto in G for violin ‘in tromba marina’, strings and Wednesday 13 May continuo RV311; Nulla in mundo 7.30pm pax sincera RV630; Concerto in D minor for viola d’amore RV394; Introduzione al Gloria Takács Quartet ‘Cur sagittas, cur tela, cur faces’ Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 RV637; Concerto in D minor for Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat violin and organ RV541; Nisi Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 135 Dominus RV803

A programme of outstanding works, ranging from the father of Vivaldi’s student-performers at the the string quartet through a composer who expanded the genre Ospedale della Pietà in Venice were to one of its masters from the early Romantic period. The Haydn all women, their virtuosity celebrated comes from the first (1788) of two sets dedicated to Johann Tost, in a programme by the UK’s leading a violinist in the Esterházy orchestra. Venetian-specialist ensemble.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 The Brahms Series is made possible with support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Takács Quartet La Serenissima © Amanda Tipton © Eric Richmond wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 43

Britten Series Wednesday 13 May Thursday 14 May Saturday 16 May 1.00pm – 2.00pm 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon

Voiceworks Vox Luminis Relaxed Concert: Lionel Meunier artistic director Liselotte Östblom/ This lunchtime concert features brand new works for voice, the Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Op. 27 Rupert Cox Duo result of a unique collaboration Tallis O nata lux de lumine White between writers, composers, singers Christe qui lux es et dies IV Byrd Join Wigmore Hall’s first jazz and instrumentalists from the Ave verum corpus Britten A Hymn Fellowship ensemble with vocalist Guildhall School of Music & Drama. to the Virgin Purcell Remember Liselotte Östblom and pianist not, Lord, our offences; An Evening Rupert Cox as they present a Hymn Morley Funeral Sentences Free (ticket required) concert of music from the diverse Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord; O tradition of jazz, ranging from the dive custos Auriacae domus (Ode American song book to Nina Simone on the death of Queen Mary); Man and original music of the duo. that is born of a woman; In the This relaxed concert is open to midst of life; Thou knowest Lord everyone and provides an opportunity the secrets of our hearts Britten to hear live music in an informal Sacred and Profane Op. 91 environment. There is a relaxed attitude to noise and movement, and The widely praised Belgian vocal house lights remain up. Audience ensemble returns with a programme members can move in and out of the of English music, including Britten’s auditorium as they wish, and there is Hymn to St Cecilia which received its a designated quiet area. première at Wigmore Hall. £5 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Supported by Victoria Gath and Mark Echlin The Britten Series is made possible with support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Voiceworks Lionel Meunier Liselotte Östblom © Benjamin Ealovega © Evy Ottermans 44 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Friday 15 May 7.30pm Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe director Gesualdo Dolcissima mia vita

Under the artistic direction of Philippe Herreweghe, a choir known for its exceptional abilities will place them at the disposal of the complete Fifth Book of madrigals by the notorious , published in 1611, 21 years following his terrible crime; according to some commentators it presents evidence of his tormented spirit. Approximately 65 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Collegium Vocale Gent © Foppe Schut wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 45

Weinberg/ Shostakovich Cycle Sunday 17 May Monday 18 May Weinberg composed prolifically 11.30am 1.00pm in many forms; important to both his personal life and career was Pavel Kolesnikov piano Aris Quartet his friendship with Shostakovich, Samson Tsoy piano Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 which began during the Second No. 4 World War. Schubert Ländler for 2 and 4 hands (a selection) Hindemith String Quartet No. 2 in Financed by the Ministry of Culture F minor Op. 10 Britten Introduction and Rondo and National Heritage of the Republic alla burlesca Op. 23 No. 1 of Poland as part of the multi-annual Schubert Variations on a French Founded in 2009, the quartet has programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022 song D624 won numerous awards, including The Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle Britten Mazurka elegiaca Op. 23 in 2016 alone the International is made possible with additional No. 2 Joseph Joachim Competition support from the Wigmore Hall Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940 in Weimar, the Jürgen Ponto Endowment Fund Foundation Prize, and no fewer A pianist of originality and than five prizes at ’s ARD fascination, the young Russian International Music Competition. has established a loyal following The quartet became a BBC Radio 3 Saturday 16 May at Wigmore as elsewhere. In this New Generation Artist in 2018. 7.30pm duet programme with his Kazakh- born compatriot, he performs £16 concs £14 Quatuor Danel rarities by Britten and Beethoven Weinberg String Quartet No. 5 alongside Schubert’s masterpiece. Op. 27 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101 Weinberg String £16 concs £14 inc. programme Quartet No. 6 Op. 35 and coffee/sherry/juice

The ensemble positions Weinberg’s spare Fifth quartet (1945) and his busy, nervous Sixth (1946) on either side of his friend’s satirical Sixth (1956).

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Sunday 17 May 7.30pm Solomon’s Knot Not the Christmas Oratorio Bach Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV214; Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen BWV213; Preise dein Glücke, gesegnetes Sachsen BWV215

The vocal ensemble specialising in singing from memory devotes its programme to three secular cantatas, music from which Bach went on to re-use in his Christmas Oratorio.

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Solomon’s Knot © Gerard Collett wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 47

Brahms Series Michael Collins Brahms Series Monday 18 May Residency Tuesday 19 May 7.30pm The first ever BBC Young Musician 7.30pm of the Year enjoys an international Garrick Ohlsson piano reputation as one of the clarinet’s Vienna Piano Trio Brahms Scherzo in E flat minor leading exponents. Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 4; Variations on a Theme by Op. 99; Violin Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor Tuesday 19 May in A Op. 100; Piano Trio No. 3 Op. 9; Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1; 1.00pm – 4.00pm in C minor Op. 101 Waltzes Op. 39; 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Michael Collins The ensemble was founded in Masterclass 1988 by pianist Stefan Mendl, In the words of a review of his more recently joined by violinist complete set of the composer’s David Carroll and cellist Clemens Giving a masterclass to students variations in BBC Music Magazine, Hagen. They continue our Brahms of the instrument on which he is a the Canadian pianist is ‘a born Series with a variety of the supreme performer, Michael Collins Brahmsian’. He selects works composer’s chamber works. received the Royal Philharmonic both light and serious and from Society’s Instrumentalist of the early and late in the great German Year Award in 2007 and was an £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Romantic’s creative career. Artist in Residence at Wigmore In Memory of Peter Flatter Hall in 2016; his ensemble £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 London Winds celebrated its 25th The Brahms Series is made possible The Brahms Series is made possible anniversary in 2013. Today he with support from the Wigmore Hall with support from the Wigmore Hall works with students from London Endowment Fund Endowment Fund music colleges.

£10 concs £8

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Tuesday 21 July 7.30pm

Garrick Ohlsson Michael Collins Vienna Piano Trio © Dario Acosta © Benjamin Ealovega © Nancy Horowitz 48 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wigmore Lates Firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, Wigmore Lates make the ideal start to the weekend. Join us for a late-night concert followed by live music in the bar. Visit wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details.

Friday 22 May Other Concerts in the Series 10.00pm Friday 17 April 10.00pm Friday 3 July 10.00pm Schaghajegh Nosrati piano Anne Sofie von Ottermezzo-soprano lute Matthew Wadsworth Bengt Forsberg piano Cecilia Bernardini violin Friday 5 June 10.00pm Friday 10 July 10.00pm Schmelzer Sonata No. 4 in D from Guy Johnston cello Sonatae Unarum Fidium Kapsberger Tom Poster piano Jess Gillam saxophone Toccata arpeggiata Castello Sonata Friday 12 June 10.00pm Friday 17 July 10.00pm Seconda from Sonate Concertate, Libro Secondo Pandolfi Mealli Sonata Attacca Quartet Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo- Op. 4 No. 1 ‘La Bernabea’ Piccinini soprano 10.00pm Toccata VI Biber Sonata No. 3 (1681) Friday 19 June Andrew Staples tenor Mishka Rushdie Momen piano Aurora Orchestra Lutenist Matthew Wadsworth Nicholas Collon conductor 10.00pm joins with Baroque violinist Friday 26 June Cecilia Bernardini for a Chineke! Orchestra programme of music from late 17th-century Austria and Italy.

£16 © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 49

Brahms Series Britten Series Wednesday 20 May Wednesday 20 May Thursday 21 May 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm 7.30pm

Chamber Tots: Jungles Vienna Piano Trio Iestyn Davies countertenor and Rivers Michael Collins clarinet Allan Clayton tenor Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in James Newby baritone Join us on a musical adventure D minor Op. 108; Clarinet Trio in Alec Frank-Gemmill horn in the jungle in these interactive A minor Op. 114; Piano Trio No. 1 music sessions for children aged in B Op. 8 (revised version) Olivia Jageurs harp 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. James Baillieu piano Discover exciting instruments, Michael Collins joins the ensemble Britten Canticle I: My beloved is songs, and stories with for a performance of Brahms’ late mine; Canticle II: Abraham and experienced music leaders and chamber work – one of a sequence Isaac; Canticle III: Still Falls the emerging chamber ensembles. of works in which the composer Rain – the Raids, 1940, Night and March to your own beat as we was inspired by the playing of Dawn; Canticle IV: Journey of the explore, play and move together! soloist Richard Mühlfeld, giving him Magi; Canticle V: The Death of a new lease of creative life. 10.15am–11.15am (1–2 year-olds) Saint Narcissus 11.45am–12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 A team of exceptional singers Children £7 Adults £5 The Brahms Series is made possible and musicians come together with support from the Wigmore Hall to perform all five of Britten’s Endowment Fund canticles: the third, Still Falls the Rain, received its first First Time Booker Offer performance at a memorial New to Family events at concert at Wigmore Hall in 1955. Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle

The Britten Series is made possible with support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Chamber Tots Vienna Piano Trio Allan Clayton © Benjamin Ealovega © Nancy Horowitz © Sim Canetty-Clarke 50 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 24 May 7.30pm JACK Quartet Sky Macklay Many Many Cadences Helmut Lachenmann String Quartet No. 3 ‘Grido’ Catherine Lamb divisio spiralis (European première)

Founded in 2005 in New York, the ensemble swiftly attained a leading position amongst such groups dedicated to the performance of recent or entirely new compositions in a diversity of styles. This programme concludes with a European première of a new work by the American composer Catherine Lamb.

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JACK Quartet © Beowulf Sheehan wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 51

Friday 22 May Saturday 23 May Sunday 24 May 7.00pm NB time 7.30pm 11.30am

Kirill Gerstein piano Doric String Quartet Jupiter String Quartet Liszt Ungarischer Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 Geschwindmarsch S233; No. 3 ‘The Bird’ ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Mephisto-Polka S217; Csárdás Mendelssohn String Quartet Schubert String Quartet in D minor obstiné S225 No. 2 No. 2 in A minor Op. 13 D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Thomas Adès Blanca Variations Mozart String Quartet in B flat Brahms Variations on a K589 ‘Prussian’ Described by The New Yorker as Hungarian Song Op. 21 No. 2 ‘an ensemble of eloquent intensity Bartók Piano Sonata BB88 The Doric recently enjoyed an that has matured into one of Haydn Fantasia in C HXVII:4 Aldeburgh residency which the mainstays of the American György Kurtág Játékok (a selection) included playing and recording all chamber-music scene’, the Jupiter Schubert Fantasy in C D760 Britten’s quartets. It is currently musicians return for a programme ‘Wanderer’ recording Mendelssohn’s works including an early work by Ligeti for the medium, and to its much- influenced by his compatriot Bartók. Based on a traditional Sephardic praised sequence of Haydn song, Thomas Adès’ Blanca recordings will shortly add Op. 33. £16 concs £14 inc. programme Variations were given their official and coffee/sherry/juice première by the Russian-American £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 pianist and winner of the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award in New York in February 2019; much of the rest of his programme has a distinctly Hungarian feel.

£35 £30 £26 £22 £18

Kirill Gerstein Doric String Quartet Jupiter String Quartet © Marco Borggreve © George Garnier © Sarah Gardner 52 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Francesco Piemontesi: Schubert Cycle In August 2018, the Swiss pianist commenced a cycle at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg and Hohenems in which he will explore over several seasons all the piano works of the beloved composer – a substantial and rewarding musical legacy – in an ongoing project in which Wigmore audiences have been able to share.

Wednesday 27 May 7.30pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano Schubert Fantasy Sonata in G D894 Schubert/Liszt A selection of Lieder transcriptions Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Two major works by two major composers, the Schubert sonata a piece whose first movement the publisher Haslinger dubbed ‘Fantasie’, the Liszt a creation of startling originality and thematic unity; a selection of Schubert’s songs in Liszt’s highly imaginative transcriptions brings the two into alignment.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Francesco Piemontesi © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 53

Ensemble Marsyas Residency Monday 25 May Under the direction of founder Peter Whelan, the flexible 1.00pm Edinburgh-based ensemble has steadily built a reputation for vital performances and imaginatively researched repertoire, much of it brought to modern attention for the first time. Paolo Pandolfo viola da gamba Tuesday 26 May Amélie Chemin viola da 7.30pm gamba Thomas Boysen theorbo, Ensemble Marsyas lute, guitar Peter Whelan director Markus Hunniger Anna Devin soprano harpsichord Sophie Gent violin Marais Suite in D minor from Dublin 1742 Pièces de violes 3e livre; Tombeau Handel Sinfonia in B flat HWV339Vivaldi Concerto in A Op. 3 de Mr. Méliton; Sujet & Diversitez; No. 5 Dubourg 3 arias from the Royal Birthday Odes for Dublin Suite in G for 2 from Pièces Castle; Concerto for violin; Eileen Aroon, with variations set de violes 1er livre by Mr Dubourg; Dubourg’s Maggot Handel From Giulio Cesare: Da tempeste & Piangerò; Concerto Grosso in C HWV318; From In collaboration with some regular : I know that my Redeemer liveth & Rejoice greatly, O specialist musical partners, the daughter of Zion Geminiani Concerto Grosso in D minor Op. 5 virtuoso recently dubbed ‘the No. 12 ‘La Follia’ Paganini of the viola da gamba’ presents a programme dedicated A programme telling the musical backstory to the première of to the French Baroque master Handel’s Messiah in Dublin in April 1742. Marin Marais (1656-1728), a pupil of Lully and an early exponent of programme music. £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Supported by Dunard Fund £16 concs £14 Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Wednesday 1 July 7.30pm

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Hear Our Voices: Jess Gillam & Ollie Howell in concert with Tri-borough musicians

Jess Gillam saxophone Saturday 30 May Ollie Howell 7.30pm instrumentalist, composer Programme to include: Musicians from the Ravel Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera Tri-borough Music Hub Milhaud Scaramouche Op. 165b Ollie Howell Discovery Charlotte Harding Convo

‘Hear Our Voices’ showcases the talents of a young ensemble alongside performances from saxophonist Jess Gillam and instrumentalist Ollie Howell. This fundraising concert features extracts from Convo, a work by Charlotte Harding set for musicians from Tri-borough Music Hub. The concert is in aid of the newly formed HarrisonParrott Foundation, established to bring greater diversity and inclusivity to classical music.

£25 £20 £15 £5 tickets for Under 35s In partnership with HarrisonParrott & Tri-borough Music Hub

Convo at Royal Albert Hall, March 2019 © Sheila Burnett wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 55

Wednesday 27 May Thursday 28 May Friday 29 May 10.30am – 3.30pm 7.30pm 3.00pm and 7.00pm

Family Day: L’Arpeggiata YCAT Public Final The Jazz Experiment Christina Pluhar theorbo, Auditions 2020 Recommended for families with director Young Classical Artists Trust: children aged 7-11 Céline Scheen soprano Launching the careers of young artists for 35 years Barbara Furtuna vocal Join music leader Julian West ensemble and the Wigmore Hall Learning/ YCAT Artists are selected through Open Academy Fellowship Via Crucis – Baroque Passion a rigorous annual auditions Ensemble, the Liselotte Östblom/ Trad Maria le sette spade Biber process. In this third and final Rupert Cox Duo, for a day of jazz Sonata No. 1 in D minor ‘The round, outstanding young soloists experimentation! Create your own Annunciation’ Trad Ninna nanna and chamber ensembles, selected ensemble, write brand new pieces sopra la Romanesca Merula Hor from over 100 applicants in the of music and perform together on ch’è tempo di dormire Trad/ preliminary rounds, audition before the Wigmore Hall stage. Merlandi/Marchetti Maria Ferrari a distinguished jury. Join YCAT in Queste pungente spine Trad Suda celebrating the very best emerging Children £10 Adults £15 sangue Donati O gloriosa Domina talent at this exciting event. Anon Stabat Mater Pandolfi Mealli Artists YCAT has supported Sonata Op. 4 No. 6 ‘La Vinciolina’ include Alison Balsom, Adam Sances Stabat Mater Mambrini/ Walker, Llŷr Williams, Joanna Casalonga/Acquaviva Lamentu di MacGregor, Belcea Quartet and Ghjesu Cazzati Ciaccona Monteverdi Ian Bostridge. Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Both sessions £20 Christina Pluhar’s uniquely colourful Individual session £12 concs £10 approach to is here combined with traditional music YCAT is grateful for support from Italy and Corsica. from the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity, Help Musicians UK and Approximately 85 minutes in the International Music and Art duration, without an interval Foundation for this series

£50 £40 £30 £25 £18

Family Day Celine Scheen © Benjamin Harte © Dina Köttgen © Kaupo Kikkas 56 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day In 2008, Rabinovich won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. A leading champion of Haydn’s work, for whom ‘his wit, emotional depth and musical invention have been a source of inspiration’, Rabinovich has devised this day honouring a unique genius on the anniversary of his death.

Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust

Sunday 31 May

11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Roman Rabinovich piano Roman Rabinovich piano Roman Rabinovich piano Heath Quartet Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano Haydn Piano Sonatas: in F HXVI:23, in D HXVI:42, in Sturm und Drang Sara Wolstenholme violin B minor HXVI:32, in A HXVI:30 & Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor Christopher Murray cello in E flat HXVI:52 HXVI:20; String Quartet in London F minor Op. 20 No. 5; Piano Trio A speciality of the pianist is Haydn English Canzonettas in F sharp minor HXV:26 Haydn’s piano sonatas, which (a selection); Piano Sonata he is currently performing as a in C HXVI:50; Scottish Songs Roman Rabinovich’s first cycle. ‘No-one had an arsenal of (a selection); Arianna a Naxos programme concentrates on ideas like Haydn,’ he has written. works exemplifying ‘Sturm und ‘You never know what to expect Haydn’s visits to London set the seal Drang’ – originally the title of a play around the corner, and he will on his international reputation and by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger always be ahead of you’. published in 1776, though used inspired some of his most notable works. Here a sonata first published more widely to refer to musical £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 and literary works notable for their in London in 1794 and a cantata heightened emotional charge. which enjoyed particular success in the city are complemented by £16 concs £14 inc. programme folksong arrangements made and coffee/sherry/juice specifically for British audiences.

Roman Rabinovich £16 © Robin Mitchell wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 57

Monday 1 June Monday 1 June Tuesday 2 June 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.30am – 1.30pm

Daniel Hope violin Trio Gaspard Come and Sing with Simon Crawford- Beethoven Variations in E flat on Singing with Friends an Original Theme Op. 44 Phillips piano For people living with dementia and Helena Winkelman Goya Bagatelles their friends, families and carers Enescu Impromptu concertant for piano trio (England première) in G flat Beethoven Variations in G on ‘Ich If you are, or you are caring Ravel Violin Sonata No. 1 in bin der Schneider Kakadu’ Op. 121a for someone who is, living with A minor (Sonate Posthume) Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in Franck Sonata in A for violin dementia, join us for a session of C minor Op. 66 group singing, exploring a mixture of and piano music old and new, followed by tea Kreisler Liebeslied In the Beethoven anniversary year, and coffee. No previous experience a new work from Swiss composer needed, just an enthusiasm to sing! Broadcaster, author, producer Helena Winkelmann that connects and musical activist as well as Beethoven to one of his greatest Free (booking is essential as violinist, Daniel Hope returns artistic contemporaries – Francisco places are limited) to Wigmore Hall with regular Goya (1746-1828). The programme collaborator, pianist and conductor also includes two of the composer’s To book and for more information please contact Resonate Arts Simon Crawford-Phillips, for a own sets of variations. programme of late 19th- and early on 020 7321 2702 or [email protected] 20th-century works. £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 In partnership with Resonate Arts £16 concs £14

Wigmore Hall is committed to playing its part in building a dementia-friendly society, and is proud to have 3 Dementia Friends Champions and 44 Dementia Friends on its staff team. To find out more visit dementiafriends.org.uk

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Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Wednesday 3 June Wednesday 3 June Bach’s keyboard works have been 1.00pm – 4.00pm 7.30pm part of Angela Hewitt’s daily life since childhood – an ongoing Angela Hewitt The English Concert involvement that continues to inform Masterclass Harry Bicket director, her inspiring performances today. harpsichord Born into a musical family and a Mozart’s 40th Tuesday 2 June pianist from her earliest years, 7.30pm Canadian Angela Hewitt has Mozart Serenade in G K525 ‘Eine introduced countless listeners to kleine Nachtmusik’; A Musical Angela Hewitt piano the music of Bach while helping Joke K522; Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546; Symphony No. 40 Bach The Art of Fugue BWV1080 those already familiar with it to deepen their understanding. Bach in G minor K550 remains the foundation of a career Left incomplete on his death in that ranges much more widely, Though Mozart’s short life spanned 1750, Bach’s vast contrapuntal work while Hewitt’s masterclasses only 35 years, he lived it to the full. nevertheless stands not only as – both live and on the internet – His music expresses the whole a monument to his extraordinary have drawn a substantial following. spectrum of human emotion from abilities in this field but also to his Today she works with students unbridled joy to profound despair, determination to create an exemplar from London music colleges. frequently revealing an irreverent wit. for others to follow. Angela Hewitt’s recording had The Times extolling its Instantly recognisable from its ‘radiant majesty and humanity’. Tickets £10 concs £8 opening, the elegant Eine kleine Nachtmusik K525 is contrasted In this final concert of theBach Supported by The Hargreaves and with the bitingly satirical A Musical Odyssey series, Angela Hewitt Ball Trust Joke, while the Adagio and Fugue in will be awarded the Wigmore C minor reveals Mozart’s fascination Medal, which recognises major with Baroque and Renaissance international artists and significant techniques. The programme figures in classical music who have culminates in the justly celebrated a strong association with the Hall. 40th symphony. Approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Angela Hewitt © Richard Termine © Barbara Krafft wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 59

Introduction to... Beethoven Violin Sonatas Thursday 4 June Beethoven’s Piano The great Canadian violinist and 10.15am and 11.45am his pianist partner demonstrate the Sonatas composer’s development between the late 1790s and 1812, in works that Chamber Tots: Thursday 4 June reflect their two instruments balanced Train Ride Thursday 11 June in a partnership of true equals. Thursday 18 June Our Beethoven Celebration has been Join us on a musical adventure Thursday 25 June All dates 4.45pm – 6.00pm made possible thanks to a lead gift on a train in these interactive from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, music sessions for children aged the Foyle Foundation, and additional Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. support from the Beethoven Circle Discover exciting instruments, have been referred to as ‘The New songs, and stories with Testament’ of music; Bach’s 48 experienced music leaders and Preludes and Fugues occupy the other emerging chamber ensembles. space. A chronological exposure to March to your own beat as we these pieces takes the listener from Thursday 4 June the almost outrageously assertive explore, play and move together! 7.30pm and experimental early works (including the well-known ‘Pathétique’) 10.15am–11.15am (1–2 year-olds) through the expansive middle period James Ehnes violin 11.45am–12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) (‘Waldstein’ and ‘Appassionata’) to Andrew Armstrong piano the transcendental explorations of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas: No. 8 in Children £7 Adults £5 ‘Hammerklavier’ and the last three G Op. 30 No. 3, No. 10 in G Op. 96 sonatas. In his final sonata Op. 111, and & No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’ especially in its second movement, Beethoven takes music to a place First Time Booker Offer Three major works form the unvisited by any other musician. In New to Family events at programme of this last instalment this series, Roy Stratford will give Wigmore Hall? Buy your in the series, the charming G major an overview of the whole of this tickets for half price, either sonata Op. 30 No. 3 (1801-2) and extraordinarily diverse series of works, by phone or in person. Beethoven’s ethereal final work in perhaps the most significant body of the form in the same key (1812) music written for a single instrument. followed by the musically expansive and technically highly challenging Series ticket price £33 ‘Kreutzer’ sonata of 1803.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Beethoven Quartet Cycle Friday 5 June Few would dispute the notion that Beethoven’s string quartets 11.00am – 12 noon form an essential genre within his oeuvre, one that reflected his ongoing development both as an artist and an individual and which Schools Concert: called forth some of his most profound creations. Pioneering Women Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle Foundation, and Key Stage 2 additional support from the Beethoven Circle

Join presenter Jessie Maryon Davies and the dynamic Friday 5 June Bloomsbury Quartet to explore 7.00pm NB time music by female composers in this interactive concert for Key Stage 2 audiences. Discover stories of Belcea Quartet pioneering women through their Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet inspirational music for string quartet. in B flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

Children £4 Accompanying adults The distinguished quartet has enjoyed a long a fruitful relationship free (ticket required) with Wigmore Hall. Here Beethoven’s first published quartet precedes his penultimate example.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Sunday 7 June 7.30pm

Belcea Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2; String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in C sharp minor Op. 131

Another programme bringing together quartets from different periods of Beethoven’s extraordinary creative journey, including the searching C sharp minor masterpiece.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Jessie Maryon Davies Belcea Quartet © Sarah Ainslie © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 61

Wigmore Lates Friday 5 June Saturday 6 June 10.00pm 7.30pm

Guy Johnston cello Leonore Piano Trio Tom Poster piano Haydn Piano Trio in G HXV:25 ‘Gypsy Rondo’ Beethoven 7 Variations on ‘Bei Dvořák Piano Trio in B flat Op. 21 Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’ from Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte WoO. 46 Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Haydn’s best-known piano trio in a programme also including an A flat Op. 70 early (1875) work by Dvořák from the trio formed in 2012 by players Fauré Romance Op. 69 who came together under the auspices of Ensemble 360 and who Mendelssohn Variations have gone on to comprise an important independent ensemble. concertantes in D Op. 17 James MacMillan Kiss on Wood £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Rachmaninov Vocalise Op. 34 No. 14 Martinů Variations on a Theme of Rossini

An event given by long-term artistic partners who present a programme in which three notable sets of variations are interspersed with smaller independent pieces, including James MacMillan’s 1993 meditation on a Good Friday versicle.

£16

Guy Johnston Leonore Piano Trio © Kaupo Kikkas © Eric Richmond 62 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Mozart and the Second Sunday 7 June Monday 8 June Viennese School 11.30am 1.00pm In this series the magisterial Russian pianist brings together Kopelman Quartet Veronika Eberle violin music by Mozart – who made the Austrian capital his home for the Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Dénes Várjon piano Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 last nine years of his life – with Jörg Widmann Sommersonate works by the school founded by in D Op. 11 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Shostakovich 2 pieces for string Arnold Schoenberg, whose impact Op. 100 quartet on the course of musical history would be profound. Starting violin lessons at the age In the 1970s the quartet’s of 6, today’s soloist made her members were all students at the Monday 8 June concert debut at the age of 10 and 7.30pm , but it was came to widespread attention in only 25 years later that they came 2006 with her performance at together to form an ensemble. the Salzburg Easter Festival of Elisabeth Leonskaja piano Their programme consists of two the Beethoven concerto with the Mozart Piano Sonata in D K576 major Romantic Russian pieces Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Schoenberg Suite for piano Op. 25 plus Shostakovich’s earliest work Simon Rattle. Mozart Fantasia in C minor K475; for the medium. Piano Sonata in C minor K457 £16 concs £14 £16 concs £14 inc. programme Schoenberg’s quasi-Baroque- and coffee/sherry/juice form Piano Suite Op. 25 (1923-5) was the first work in which the composer employed a single tone-row throughout; it is accompanied on this occasion by three of Mozart’s most strikingly expressive works for solo piano.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Kopelman Quartet Veronika Eberle Elisabeth Leonskaja © Hans Speekenbrink © Felix Broede © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 63

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Tuesday 9 June Thursday 11 June Harpsichord Project 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am Since he gave the first ever solo harpsichord recital at The Sixteen Chamber Tots: At the in 2011, the Iranian-American has brought his chosen instrument Harry Christophers Seaside to a new level of international conductor prominence, his exuberant Join us on a musical adventure Handel Chandos Anthems personality enabling him to engage by the sea in these interactive with audiences throughout a Handel Overture to Chandos music sessions for children aged repertoire he is determined to Anthem No. 6 ‘As pants the 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. expand but which retains the works hart’ HWV251b; Spande ancor a Discover exciting instruments, of JS Bach as its focal point. mio dispetto HWV165; Chandos songs, and stories with Anthem No. 2 ‘In the Lord put I experienced music leaders and my trust’ HWV247; Overture to emerging chamber ensembles. Thursday 11 June Chandos Anthem No. 1 ‘O be joyful’ March to your own beat as we 7.30pm HWV246; Cuopre tal volta il cielo explore, play and move together! HWV98; Chandos Anthem No. 5 ‘I Mahan Esfahani harpsichord will magnify thee, O God’ HWV250a 10.15am–11.15am (1–2 year-olds) Bach Praeludium in G BWV902a; 11.45am–12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816; Harry Christophers and his Fugue in B flat ‘after Johann renowned choir perform music Children £7 Adults £5 Christoph Erselius’ BWV955; from four of Handel’s magnificent Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue Chandos Anthems, written while in D minor BWV903; Fantasia the composer was under the and Fugue in A minor BWV904; patronage of James Brydges, French Suite No. 6 in E BWV817 subsequently Duke of Chandos, First Time Booker Offer adding in two of his Italian cantatas, The leading musician’s latest varied produced in Italy in 1707-8. New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your Bach selection includes major tickets for half price, either works from different periods, £60 £50 £40 £30 £18 by phone or in person. including two of the late French Suites and the daringly expressive Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue.

£35 £30 £26 £22 £18

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Vijay Iyer Residency: Musicality A creative figure of exceptional range and reach, as well as a writer and Harvard professor, the American jazz pianist is Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence for 2019/20. Vijay Iyer has received numerous awards – including a MacArthur Fellowship – for work that has seen him shine not only in a variety of purely musical genres but also in prestigious collaborations with poets, filmmakers and choreographers.

Wednesday 10 June 7.30pm

Vijay Iyer piano Aurora Orchestra Duncan Ward conductor Vijay Iyer Song for Flint for solo viola; Musicalities for solo piano; The Law of Returns for piano quartet; Air from Mutations for string quartet; Mozart Effects for string quartet; Run for solo cello; Crisis Modes for strings and percussion* (UK première) *Co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director; KölnMusik GmbH; and Wigmore Hall with the generous support of The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

In a programme featuring the exceptional musicians of Aurora Orchestra, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence will also perform with the group his substantial newly-commissioned work, which received its world première in Los Angeles in January 2019. ‘Crisis Modes,’ says the composer, ‘offers a version of the present in which we call each other to action.’ Approximately 2 hours 15 minutes, including an extended interval

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Vijay Iyer © Lena Adasheva wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 65

Wigmore Lates Friday 12 June Friday 12 June 7.00pm NB time 10.00pm

Marc-André Hamelin piano Attacca Quartet Enescu From Suite No. 3 ‘Pièces impromptues’ Op. 18: Choral & American Beauty Carillon nocturne Plan & Elevation Fauré Barcarolle No. 6 in E flat Op. 70; Nocturne No. 8 in D flat Paul Wiancko Ushiwakamaru Op. 84 No. 8; Nocturne No. 13 in B minor Op. 119 John Adams Selections from Feinberg Piano Sonata No. 6 Op. 13 John’s Book of Alleged Dances Frederic Rzewski The People United will never be Defeated Gabriella Smith Carrot Revolution

A composer as well as a virtuoso pianist, the widely admired ‘They may be a relatively new Canadian is a Wigmore favourite who has garnered numerous quartet’, opined the Washington awards for the authority as well as sheer elan of his musicianship. Post, ‘but already they come very Tireless in his exploration of neglected repertoire, he has restored close to epitomizing the string numerous forgotten composers to the limelight. quartet ideal’. Champions of John Adams and Caroline Shaw, the £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 ensemble also includes a recent work by Paul Wiancko based on a Japanese legend.

£16

Marc-André Hamelin Attacca Quartet © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Shervin Lainez 66 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Iestyn Davies Residency The pre-eminent countertenor spent his 40th birthday last September inaugurating his residency, an occasion heightened with Davies’ award of the prestigious Wigmore Medal. Few singers can match his range of activities, which includes regular appearances in Baroque and contemporary opera, a wealth of repertory performed in concert and recital, and his lead role in Claire van Kampen’s play Farinelli and the King in the West End and on Broadway.

Saturday 13 June 7.30pm

Iestyn Davies countertenor Joseph Middleton piano Schubert Die schöne Müllerin D795

Partnered by one of today’s leading specialists in song accompaniment, Iestyn Davies takes on the substantial challenge of one of Schubert’s great song cycles, a masterpiece of narrative and characterisation requiring the level of vocal, pianistic and interpretative skills that these two gifted performers have always shown themselves ready to provide. Approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18

Forthcoming Concert in the Series

Saturday 25 July 7.30pm with Dunedin Consort

Iestyn Davies © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 67

Saturday 13 June Sunday 14 June Sunday 14 June 10.00am – 3.30pm 11.30am 3.00pm

Come and Sing Benjamin Frith piano Duo Contraste Andrew Brownell piano Cyrille Dubois tenor Join choral leader Isabelle Adams Tristan Raës piano for a day exploring vocal works by Wagner Overture to Tannhäuser Duparc L’invitation au voyage; revolutionary German composer (arr. Léon Roques) Extase; Phidylé; Soupir Ludwig van Beethoven. Get to Saint-Saëns Variations on a Britten Seven Sonnets of know the music from the inside, theme of Beethoven Op. 35 Michelangelo Op. 22 develop your singing skills and Gershwin An American in Paris Poulenc Air grave from Airs finish the day with a performance chantés; La belle jeunesse from on the Wigmore Hall stage. Two leading pianists – one British, one American – tackle rare music Chansons gaillardes; Bleuet Liszt 3 Sonetti di Petrarca S270 £25 concs £20 in two-piano format. Saint-Saëns’ 1874 variations take as their theme Poulenc C from 2 poèmes de Louis the trio of Beethoven’s Piano Aragon; Couplets bachiques from Sonata in E flat, Op. 31 No. 3, while Chansons gaillardes Gershwin’s masterpiece is heard in his own two-piano version. Together forming the Duo Contraste, the French tenor and £16 concs £14 inc. programme his pianist compatriot propose a and coffee/sherry/juice programme of settings of Italian by Britten and Liszt alongside mélodies by Duparc and Poulenc.

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Come and Sing Benjamin Frith Duo Contraste © Hope Fitzgerald © Shirley Harris © Jean-Baptiste Millot 68 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 14 June Monday 15 June Monday 15 June 7.30pm 1.00pm 6.15pm – 7.05pm

Benjamin Grosvenor piano Elisabeth Brauss piano Bechstein Session: Rameau Gavotte and Variations Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 7 Miyabi Duo from Suite in A minor in D Op. 10 No. 3 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 4 in Mendelssohn Variations sérieuses Join us for an informal E flat Op. 7 in D minor Op. 54 performance in the Bechstein ProkofievVisions fugitives Op. 22 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bar, featuring the Miyabi Duo. (a selection) D minor Op. 14 This young and exciting guitar Liszt Berceuse S174; duo has collaborated with several Réminiscences de Norma S394 Appointed a BBC Radio 3 New composers and here performs a Generation Artist for 2018-20, the programme of new and old works Still only in his 20s, the British young German pianist included which pay homage to different pianist is admired by connoisseurs the Beethoven and Prokofiev cultures and ideas, including as well as the wider public. His sonatas on her debut disc, of music inspired by Japan. programme places a distinct which Gramophone wrote, ‘It is accent on Liszt, featuring no fewer rare to encounter this degree of £5 than three of his concert waltzes, instrumental mastery wedded to including the virtuoso transcription musical depth and sensitivity in of the example from Gounod’s one so young.’ Faust. His programme includes a selection of whimsical works by £16 concs £14 Prokofiev alongside Beethoven’s Grand Sonata and Liszt’s reflections on an opera by Bellini.

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Benjamin Grosvenor Elisabeth Brauss Miyabi Duo © Patrick Allen © Monika Lawrenz © Roberts Balanas wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 69

Monday 15 June Tuesday 16 June Tuesday 16 June 7.30pm 5.30pm – 6.15pm 7.30pm

Élisabeth Pion piano Liselotte Östblom/ Novus String Quartet Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Rupert Cox Duo Webern Langsamer Satz 2020 Liselotte Östblom vocals Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 3 Mozart Piano Sonata in F K332 Rupert Cox piano, synths in D Op. 44 No. 1 Schumann Piano Sonata No. 2 in Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 G minor Op. 22 This year’s Royal Academy of Couperin 5 Pièces de Clavecin Music/Wigmore Hall Fellowship Messiaen Le baiser de l’Enfant Ensemble, which performs a range Established at the Korean National Jésus from Vingt Regards sur of repertoire including jazz and University for the Arts in 2007, the l’Enfant Jésus improvisatory music, presents a ensemble has won major prizes Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit programme including the world at ARD in Munich (2012) and at première of a new work by the the Salzburg Mozart Competition The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Rosie Johnson RPS/Wigmore Hall (2014). Reviewing its third album, annually awards an exceptional Apprentice Composer 2019/20, the German radio station rbbKultur described their music making musician from Guildhall School of Claire Roberts. Music & Drama with a Wigmore as ‘enthralling’. Hall recital. Fellow of the Jeunesses Free (ticket required) Musicales du Canada, pianist £35 £30 £26 £22 £18

Élisabeth Pion is currently studying A legacy from the estate of Peter for a Guildhall Artist Masters in Flatter is helping us subsidise tickets Performance. She has won 1st prize for audiences under the age of 35, at the Thousand Islands International as well as supporting our chamber Piano Competition, Grand Prize music concerts. at the Classival Competition, the Banque Nationale Award at the Prix If you would like to support Wigmore d’Europe and 1st Prize at the Shean Hall long into the future with a gift Piano Competition. in your Will, please get in touch with us. All gifts, large or small, matter. £16 concs £14 Thank you. For further information, contact Marie-Hélène Osterweil: Presented in association with [email protected] Guildhall School of Music & Drama

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YOUNG PEOPLE AT CARDINAL HUME CENTRE

We have been working in partnership with Cardinal Singing has shown to be particularly impactful as a Hume Centre, which helps families and young people tool in relieving stress and exploring self-expression: overcome poverty and homelessness, since 2010. ‘Singing, you put it all out there. You During Summer 2019, workshop leaders and don’t hold back. You are able to express musicians led activity at the centre including creative music-making workshops for families and a weekly yourself… Music is a healthy coping song-writing project for young people living in the mechanism. Taking time out for yourself.’ Centre’s hostel. These activities provided a safe space Song-writing project participant for participants to socialise and be creative together, embedding a sense of community whilst helping to improve feelings of wellbeing and confidence.

Vocal leader Abimaro with Cardinal Hume Centre staff and clients © James Berry wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 71

Beethoven 250 Jazz Series Wednesday 17 June Wednesday 17 June Thursday 18 June 11.00am and 12.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

For Crying Out Loud! Philippe Cassard piano Django Bates piano Cédric Pescia piano Iain Ballamy tenor saxophone Parents or carers and their babies under 1 can enjoy an informal Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940 Josefine Lindstrand vocals Beethoven/Liszt Symphony No. 9 concert featuring musicians from Forty Years Outside the Box the Royal Academy of Music. in D minor ‘Choral’ S464 No. 9 Move and groove to the music or As part of year-long celebrations sit back and unwind. Parents-to- Frenchman Philippe Cassard and leading up to his 60th birthday be are also warmly welcomed. the Franco-Swiss Cédric Pescia have recorded Schubert’s mighty in October 2020, Django Bates Approximately 45 minutes in duration F minor piano duet Fantasie presents new solo piano pieces on the La Dolce Vita label. Here including Age Of Flotsam, Iris, Tidal, Adults £8.50 (babies come free!) they extend their collaboration Sophie and Dancey Dancey. In partnership with the Royal with Liszt’s extraordinary two- Then in the second half, looking Academy of Music piano transcription of the Ninth back, Django invites Josefine Symphony, completed in 1851. Lindstrand and Iain Ballamy to join him in revisiting his seminal £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 adventures in song with material from the albums Quiet Nights, Supported by Pauline and Ian Howat You Live and Learn, and Sidsel First Time Booker Offer Endresen’s So I Write and Exile. New to Family events at Wigmore Hall? Buy your £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

For Crying Out Loud! Philippe Cassard Django Bates Still Life Phrenology © Benjamin Ealovega © Jean-Baptiste Millot © Nick White 72 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Building Bridges Beethoven 250 Wigmore Lates Friday 19 June Friday 19 June 7.00pm NB time 10.00pm

Sir András Schiff Lecture Mishka Rushdie Momen piano The great pianist’s profound expertise as an exponent of the Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 Beethoven sonatas provides the basis as well as the necessary insight Schumann Novelletten No. 8 in for his now almost legendary lectures on the composer’s music – in F sharp minor Op. 21 Janáček this instance the epoch-making three final sonatas, Op. 109, 110 Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 ‘From the and 111 (1820-22), a challenge to performers and audiences alike Street’ Brahms Variations on a since they were first conceived. He will follow up the lecture with a Theme by Robert Schumann in performance of the three sonatas on Sunday 21 June at 7.30pm. F sharp minor Op. 9

£40 £35 £30 £25 £18 ‘She has the rare ability’, has said, ‘to communicate Sunday 21 June the essential meaning of whatever 7.30pm she plays’. The London-born pianist includes the Brahms Sir András Schiff piano Schumann Variations, which she has recorded on her first solo disc. Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 30 in E Op. 109, No. 31 in A flat Op. 110 & No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Building Bridges is an initiative devised by Sir András Schiff to Having explored the three final sonatas of Beethoven in his support and nurture the next preceding lecture, Sir András Schiff here turns to the performance generation of exceptional pianists. of these three inexhaustible works, summations of their creator’s Artists are selected from all over the lifelong development as a composer and as a human being. world for the scheme by Sir András, following masterclasses or auditions, Approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval and he then works with each pianist to hone recital programmes which £50 £45 £40 £35 £25 showcase their special talents.

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Sir András Schiff Mishka Rushdie Momen © Nadia F Romanini © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 73

Beethoven Piano Trios Saturday 20 June Saturday 20 June Saturday 20 June 10.15am and 11.45am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Chamber Tots: Jungles Family Concert: Trio Shaham Erez and Rivers Pioneering Women Wallfisch Suitable for children aged 7-11 Haydn Piano Trio in C HXV:27 Join us on a musical adventure Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor in the jungle in these interactive Join presenter Jessie Maryon Op. 1 No. 3; Piano Trio in B flat music sessions for children aged Davies and the dynamic Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ 1 to 5 and their parents or carers. Bloomsbury Quartet to explore Discover exciting instruments, music by female composers in this This final instalment of the series songs, and stories with interactive concert for families includes a late trio (1797) by experienced music leaders and with children ages 7-11. Discover Beethoven’s teacher Haydn (who emerging chamber ensembles. stories of pioneering women found his pupil headstrong!), written March to your own beat as we through their inspirational music some years after their period of explore, play and move together! for string quartets. study (1792-3) and following the Arrive early for free arts activities publication of Beethoven’s own first 10.15am–11.15am (1–2 year-olds) three trios in 1795. 11.45am–12.45pm (3–5 year-olds) in the Bechstein Room, led on a first come, first served basis. Drop in between 1.45pm and 2.30pm. £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Children £7 Adults £5 Our Beethoven Celebration has been Children £10 Adults £12 made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, First Time Booker Offer the Foyle Foundation, and additional New to Family events at First Time Booker Offer support from the Beethoven Circle Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either New to Family events at by phone or in person. Wigmore Hall? Buy your tickets for half price, either by phone or in person.

Chamber Tots Jessie Maryon Davies Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch © Benjamin Ealovega © Sarah Ainslie © Michael Pavia 74 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 23 June 7.30pm Jordi Savall viola da gamba, director Le Concert des Nations Couperin Les Nations

An invigorating presence on the early music scene for half a century, the Spanish viol player, conductor and musicologist has explored numerous repertoires and pointed up connections between many different cultural traditions. His ensemble is named after François Couperin’s 1726 collection Les Nations, which illustrates various national musical styles. Approximately 2 hours 20 minutes in duration, including an interval

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Le Concert des Nations © Toni Peñarroya wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 75

Sunday 21 June Monday 22 June Tuesday 23 June 11.30am 1.00pm 8.00pm NB time

Danish String Quartet Giuliano Carmignola External event: New North London Synagogue Bach Contrapunctus 14 baroque violin (incomplete) from The Art of Riccardo Doni harpsichord Jonathan Biss piano Fugue BWV1080 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 Webern String Quartet Op. 28 Bach e il suo tempo in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Bach Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten Handel Violin Sonata in F HWV370 Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; sein BWV668a Bach Violin Sonata in F BWV1022 Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Shostakovich String Quartet Handel Violin Sonata in D HWV371 Op. 111 No. 10 in A flat Op. 118 Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015 Join Jonathan Biss for a special Regularly connecting music from concert at the New North London different traditions and periods Soloist and latterly conductor Synagogue to raise funds for its – they also perform a good deal Giuliano Carmignola is accompanied work supporting refugees and of folk music – the Scandinavian by harpsichordist Riccardo Doni in asylum seekers. As a passionate ensemble brings together major this programme devoted to Bach and advocate for music’s power to pieces by Webern and Shostakovich his time, which takes in music by transcend barriers, Jonathan Biss with two shorter Bach works – one his greatest contemporary George demonstrates in performance the famously incomplete. Frideric Handel – born just 80 miles timeless nature of Beethoven’s away and one month earlier. works and how they still speak to £16 concs £14 inc. programme a universal human experience. and coffee/sherry/juice £16 concs £14 Approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Danish String Quartet Giuliano Carmignola Jonathan Biss © Caroline Bittencourt © Kasskara / DG © Benjamin Ealovega 76 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Wednesday 24 June Birmingham 7.30pm Rebecca Saunders Stirrings Still Contemporary Lisa Illean Cantor Peter Eötvös Secret Kiss* (world première of English language version)1 Music Group Malika Kishino Aqua vitae Sir Harrison Birtwistle ...when falling asleep (London première); The Woman and the Hare Geoffrey *Co-commissioned by Gageego Ensemble Gothenburg, Casa da Música – Porto, Plural Ensemble Madrid, conductor Okamura & Company, Inc., Musikfabrik Cologne, MÜPA Paterson Budapest, Wigmore Hall and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group as part of BCMG’s Sound Investment Scheme soprano Alice Rossi One of the UK’s leading contemporary ensembles 1 introduces a new work by Peter Eötvös, co-commissioned Peter Eötvös conductor by Wigmore Hall, and adds the London première of a recent work by Birtwistle. In this unusual programme, the Kishino features water used as percussion. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group © Andrew Fox £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 77

Beethoven 250 Wednesday 24 June Wednesday 24 June Wednesday 24 June 12.15pm 1.00pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk Members of Britten Exploring Beethoven’s Sinfonia Piano Sonatas with Join composer Tim Watts in conversation with Dr Kate Iestyn Davies countertenor Jonathan Biss Kennedy ahead of the lunchtime Purcell So when the glitt’ring concert, in which Iestyn Davies Queen of Night (arr. Tim Watts) Join Jonathan Biss in the and musicians from Britten Wolf Sun of the sleepless (arr. Restaurant, where the pianist will Sinfonia will be performing his Tim Watts) discuss his Coursera lectures on new work. Gurney All night under the moon Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas. (arr. Tim Watts) coursera.org/learn/Beethoven- Free (with lunchtime concert ticket) Tim Watts A world in the Moone piano-sonatas (London première) Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 Free (ticket required)

A very special programme of Our Beethoven Celebration has been music featuring the incomparable made possible thanks to a lead gift countertenor Iestyn Davies, from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, performing a programme of music the Foyle Foundation, and additional composed and arranged by Tim support from the Beethoven Circle Watts, taking scores by composers including Purcell, Ivor Gurney and Hugo Wolf. The concert also features the London première of a new work for countertenor and string sextet.

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Britten Sinfonia Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega 78 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle Wigmore Lates Thursday 25 June Friday 26 June Friday 26 June 7.30pm 7.00pm NB time 10.00pm

Jonathan Biss piano Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Chineke! Orchestra Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 8 Huw Watkins piano Coleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet in in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’, Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor G minor Op. 1 No. 22 in F Op. 54, No. 26 Stravinsky Suite italienne for Schubert Piano Quintet in A in E flat Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ & D667 ‘The Trout’ violin and piano No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Huw Watkins New work for violin and piano* (world première) Chineke! burst upon the musical Another programme traversing the Britten Suite for violin and piano scene in 2015, when The Guardian rich, diverse field of Beethoven’s Op. 6 welcomed its first programme with sonatas, from the ‘Pathétique’ of Janáček Violin Sonata a 5-star review. As in that first 1798 through to the last sonata programme, tonight it includes of all (1822), via the concise *Co-commissioned by Wigmore a work by the British composer F major sonata of 1804 and the Hall and Sir Vernon Ellis Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875- programmatic ‘Les Adieux’. 1912), best known for his cantata At the centre of a programme Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, whose £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 otherwise consisting of 20th- Op. 1 (1893) has been successfully century classics is a Wigmore Hall revived in recent years. Supported by the members of the commission from Watkins himself. Rubinstein Circle £16 Thursday 25 June £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 9.30pm In Memory of Peter Flatter Post-Concert Talk: Jonathan Biss Join Jonathan Biss following the evening concert.

Free (with evening concert ticket)

Jonathan Biss Tamsin Waley-Cohen Chineke! Orchestra © Benjamin Ealovega © Ben Russell © Eric Richmond wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 79

Saturday 27 June Sunday 28 June Monday 29 June 7.30pm 11.30am 1.00pm

Steven Osborne piano Salieca Piano Trio Vision String Quartet Programme to include: Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 Beethoven String Quartet in Schubert Andante in A D604; in B flat D898 C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Piano Sonata in A D959 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Ravel String Quartet in F Rachmaninov Fragments; Oriental Op. 15 Sketch; Nunc dimittis from Making its Wigmore debut during Vespers (arr. for piano); Moments Making its London debut with this the 2018/19 season, the multi- musicaux Op. 16 programme, the Salieca Piano award-winning Berlin-based quartet Trio takes its name from the initial regularly experiments with new Winner of the 2013 Royal letters from the surnames of the ways of presenting familiar music: it Philharmonic Society three distinguished musicians plays, for instance, standing up and Instrumentalist of the Year involved. Smetana’s early piano trio from memory. Here its programme Award and well-remembered at (1855-7) should provide the perfect consists of two strikingly contrasted Wigmore for a former residency, foil to a favourite Schubert work. repertory classics. the Scottish pianist devotes his second half to Rachmaninov, £16 concs £14 inc. programme £16 concs £14 including some rarities, among and coffee/sherry/juice them one of the composer’s own arrangements.

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Steven Osborne Salieca Piano Trio Vision String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega © Jack Liebeck © Tim Klöcker 80 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 29 June 7.30pm Roderick Williams baritone Christopher Glynn piano

A Hardy Songbook Britten At day-close in November from Winter Words Holst In a Wood Ireland Summer Schemes Britten Midnight on the Great Western from Winter Words Ireland Great Things Britten Proud songsters from Winter Words Judith Weir Written on Terrestrial Things from The Voice of Desire Bax The Market Girl Ian Venables A Kiss Britten At the railway station, Upway from Winter Words James Burton When I set out for Lyonnesse Vaughan Williams Buonaparty Gurney The Night of Trafalgar Hugh Wood An Ancient to Ancients Britten Before life and after from Winter Words Finzi Before and After Summer Op. 16

An exploration of the vast legacy of Thomas Hardy settings, with examples by several generations of composers right up to the present and including a major cycle by Finzi.

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Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 81

Brahms Series Ensemble Marsyas Residency Tuesday 30 June Wednesday 1 July Thursday 2 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm

Castalian String Quartet Ensemble Marsyas Music for the Moment Brahms String Quartet in C minor Peter Whelan director Op. 51 No. 1 If you are, or someone you know Tara Erraught mezzo-soprano Schumann String Quartet in A is, living with dementia, please Op. 41 No. 3 Robin Tritschler tenor join us for this informal afternoon concert with musicians from the Brahms String Quartet in A minor Padraic Rowan bass-baritone Op. 51 No. 2 Royal Academy of Music. You Mozart Symphony No. 4 in D K19 are warmly invited to join us for Storace The lingering pangs of In this instalment of the Castalian tea and coffee from 2.30pm in the hopeless love, condemn’d from Quartet’s Brahms series, his two Bechstein Room. No Song, No Supper quartets Op. 51 (1865-73) are placed Paisiello Saper bramate from on either side of Schumann’s final Free (ticket required) Il barbiere di Siviglia quartet of his set of three (1842). van Maldere ‘Dublin’ Sinfonia In partnership with Resonate Arts Prior to the Op. 51 works, Brahms in G VR28 and the Royal Academy of Music had apparently composed as many Mozart Exsultate, jubilate K165 as 20 quartets – all subsequently Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie destroyed because they failed to Overture in C Op. 1 No. 2 meet his high standards. Handel/Mozart Overture from Acis and Galatea £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Kelly/Mozart Grazie agl’inganni tuoi All concerts featuring the Castalian Mozart Excerpts from Le nozze Wigmore Hall is committed String Quartet in the 2019/20 di Figaro to playing its part in Brahms Series are supported by building a dementia-friendly a contribution from Sir Siegmund A programme that celebrates the society, and is proud to have 3 Dementia Friends Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement life and career of Irish tenor Michael Champions and 44 Dementia The Brahms Series is made possible Kelly, the first Basilio and Curzio in Friends on its staff team. with additional support from the Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. To find out more visit Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund dementiafriends.org.uk £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 Supported by Dunard Fund

Castalian String Quartet Ensemble Marsyas Music for the Moment © Kaupo Kikkas © Mirjam Devriendt © Benjamin Harte 82 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Cédric Tiberghien: Beethoven Variations Over two seasons the versatile French pianist creates a focus on Friday 3 July Beethoven’s extensive contributions to the variation form. 7.00pm NB time Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle Foundation, and Wihan Quartet additional support from the Beethoven Circle Haydn String Quartet in E flat Op. 76 No. 6 Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Thursday 2 July ‘Spring’ 6.00pm Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Artist in Conversation: Cédric Tiberghien Over more than 30 years of ‘Wigmore Hall will always be my musical home,’ says Tiberghien. existence the quartet has changed ’It has a special energy, a special acoustic, a special history.’ Prior to personnel more than once, yet this evening’s recital, the pianist can be heard in conversation. without sacrificing the distinctive sound that has won universal £5 admiration not only within the Thursday 2 July Czech repertoire but also in 7.30pm Beethoven and other classic masters of the medium.

piano Cédric Tiberghien £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Schumann Etudes in Variation Form on a Theme by Beethoven WoO. 31 Webern Variations Op. 27 Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces In Memory of Pamela Majaro Op. 19 Schumann Geistervariationen WoO. 24 Beethoven 7 Variations on the Quartet ‘Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen’ WoO. 75; 9 Variations on the Aria ‘Quant’ è più bello’ from Paisiello’s La molinara WoO. 69; 6 Variations on a Swiss Song WoO. 64; 6 Variations on the Duet ‘Nel cor più non mi sento’ from La molinara WoO. 70; 8 Variations on the Trio ‘Tändeln und Scherzen’ WoO. 76

The programme includes a selection from Beethoven’s catalogue of variations written during the final decade of the 18th century.

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Cedric Tiberghien Wihan Quartet © Jean-Baptiste Millot © Lukáš Novotný wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 83

Wigmore Lates Brahms Plus Series Friday 3 July Saturday 4 July The British pianist has devised 10.00pm 11.00am – 4.00pm a format in which works by the German late-Romantic master Anne Sofie von Otter Family Day: RNIB are heard alongside those of one of his major predecessors or mezzo-soprano For children with vision impairment contemporaries, thereby shedding Bengt Forsberg piano aged 6-12 years and their families light on both. Purcell/Thomas Adès By Be inspired by art and music Beauteous Softness Saturday 4 July at The Wallace Collection and Britten Voici le Printemps; La belle 7.30pm Wigmore Hall, and create est au jardin d’amour; Fileuse your own masterpieces in Medtner Fairy Tale in F minor this interactive multi-sensory Jonathan Plowright piano Op. 14 No. 1 workshop day. Brahms plus Liszt Shostakovich 6 Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva Op. 143 Brahms Variations on a Theme by Grainger Country Gardens; Blithe Free (application required) Paganini Book I Op. 35 Bells; Handel in the Strand For more information and to book Liszt Consolations S172 Britten At the mid hour of night; The contact Karen Hirst at the RNIB Brahms Variations on a Theme Plough Boy; The Salley Gardens at [email protected] or on by Paganini Book II Op. 35; Piano 07508 009 091 Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5 A characteristically diverse late-night programme from the In this instance the two creative Swedish mezzo and her regular figures brought together both pianist partner, bringing together based major compositions on long-term favourites with unusual Paganini’s virtuoso studies. Liszt’s items, light and serious. Consolations not only offer a vital contrast to Brahms’ variation sets £16 but also emphasise a reflective, unshowy side to his artistry.

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The Brahms Series is made possible with support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Anne Sofie von Otter Family Day: RNIB Jonathan Plowright © Ewa-Marie Rundquist © James Berry © Diane Shaw 84 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 6 July 1.00pm Nicky Spence tenor

Václava Krejčí Housková mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Singers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Janáček The Diary of One who Disappeared

With an increasingly high profile in opera as well as concert and recital work, the Scottish Nicky Spence is a rising star on the musical scene. Joined by mezzo Václava Krejčí Housková and pianist Julius Drake as well as singers from Guildhall, they perform Janáček’s song cycle closely associated with his obsessional love for Kamila Stösslová.

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Nicky Spence © David Bebber wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 85

Sunday 5 July Sunday 5 July 11.30am 7.30pm

Wihan Quartet Nicola Benedetti violin Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 Alexei Grynyuk piano No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78 Paganini Grand Quartet in E Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105 Schubert String Quartet in Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 in G

In their second programme the In recent years awarded both The Queen’s Medal for Music Wihan musicians explore two and a CBE for her services to music, one of the UK’s favourite beloved pieces from the standard performers is as well known for her evangelism on music’s behalf quartet repertoire, placing in as for her exceptional music making, here undertaken with a between an unusual and delightful regular pianist collaborator. work by one of the greatest of all violinists who remains – £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 despite the importance of his famous Caprices for solo violin – neglected as a composer.

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

In Memory of Pamela Majaro

Wihan Quartet Nicola Benedetti © Liz Isles © Andy Gotts 86 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Rachel Podger Residency Rachel Podger Residency Schubert Song Cycles Monday 6 July Monday 6 July Tuesday 7 July 6.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Artist in Conversation: Rachel Podger violin, director Mark Padmore tenor Rachel Podger Brecon Baroque Kristian Bezuidenhout Bach Double and Triple Concertos fortepiano Rachel Podger has performed as Schubert Schwanengesang D957 a soloist and guest director with Bach Double Concerto for oboe, many of the world’s top ensembles violin and strings in C minor When he died in 1828 Schubert and founded her virtuosic group BWV1060R; Triple Concerto for left behind a number of songs Brecon Baroque in 2007. Join 3 violins in D BWV1064R; Triple which Tobias Haslinger published the leading interpreter of baroque Concerto for flute, harpsichord as the composer’s ‘Swan-Song’ violin in conversation ahead of her and violin in A minor BWV1044; the following year. Not a cycle in evening concert, the last in her Double Concerto for 2 violins in the manner of Die schöne Müllerin residency this season. D minor BWV1043 and Winterreise, the collection Four examples of Bach’s multiple nevertheless contains many of the £5 concertos, one (BWV1060R) a composer’s finest lyric inspirations reconstruction of a lost original for and provides a genuinely satisfying oboe and violin that has come down experience as an artistic entity. to us as a work for two harpsichords, Approximately 75 minutes in another (BWV1064R) for three violins duration, without an interval recreated from a surviving work for three harpsichords. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18

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Brecon Baroque Mark Padmore © Theresa Pewal © Marco Borggreve wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 87

Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle Christiane Karg Focus Wednesday 8 July Thursday 9 July Christiane Karg’s career as a lyric 7.30pm 7.30pm soprano has seen her succeed in a wide range of repertoire in many La Nuova Musica Quatuor Danel of the leading opera houses as well as in the concert and recital hall. David Bates director Shostakovich String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108 Anna Dennis soprano Friday 10 July Weinberg String Quartet No. 7 7.00pm NB time Nick Pritchard tenor Op. 59; String Quartet No. 8 Op. 66 An Italian Sojurn Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Christiane Karg soprano Blow God spake sometime in visions piano Purcell Jehova, quam multi Malcolm Martineau Two quartets by each composer, sunt hostes Programme to include: in each instance their seventh and Monteverdi Lamento della ninfa; Mahler Rückert Lieder eighth examples. Both adopting Beatus vir (Primo) elements of the klezmer tradition, Purcell Incassum, Lesbia, Together with master pianist Weinberg’s date from 1957 and incassum rogas (Ode on the Malcolm Martineau, the German 1958 respectively, while the death of Queen Mary); Rejoice in soprano makes Gustav Mahler Shostakovich pair were written in the Lord alway; In Guilty Night the focus of her recital, including 1960 – the highly personal Eighth (Saul and the Witch of Endor) his exquisite cycle of Rückert within a period of three days. Blow Salvator mundi Lieder setting texts by the German Carissimi Jephte Romantic poet. £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Amongst the leading practitioners Financed by the Ministry of £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 of Baroque repertoire, David Culture and National Heritage of Bates and his ensemble offer a the Republic of Poland as part programme placing John Blow and of the multi-annual programme his pupil Purcell in the context of NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022 their Italian predecessors. The Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle is made possible with additional £50 £40 £30 £25 £18 support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

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Wigmore Lates Friday 10 July Saturday 11 July 10.00pm 7.30pm

Jess Gillam saxophone Arcangelo Programme to include music by Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Dowland, and Weill Jean-Guihen Queyras cello A swift rise to fame followed the Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 4 in C minor charismatic young saxophonist’s CPE Bach Cello Concerto in B flat Wq. 171 appearance as finalist and Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 5 in B flat woodwind winner in the 2016 JS Bach From The Art of Fugue BWV1080: Contrapunctus BBC Young Musician of the Year 1, Contrapunctus 4, Contrapunctus 7, Contrapunctus 9, Competition, a positive impression Contrapunctus 11 & Contrapunctus 14 (incomplete) further underlined by her ongoing Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2 in D HVIIb:2 development as a musician, presenter and a champion for The leading French cellist joins with Jonathan Cohen’s group – music in the wider world. Wigmore’s first ever Baroque Ensemble in Residence in 2016/17 – for a programme moving from Baroque via Classical to early Romantic. £16 £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Sunday 12 July Sunday 12 July 11.30am 7.30pm

Vadim Gluzman violin Carolin Widmann violin Angela Yoffe piano Amihai Grosz viola Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’ Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 (transcr. Concert for Parkinson’s UK Schumann for violin and piano) Mozart Duo for violin and viola in G K423 Ravel Tzigane Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 47 Beethoven Duet for viola and cello in E flat WoO. 32 ‘mit zwei The Ukrainian-born, Israeli violinist obligaten Augengläsern’ offers three substantial works, one Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Op. 60 in an unusual version. Together with his pianist wife he performs This distinguished group of musicians have come together to bring the celebrated Bach Chaconne you a collection of well-loved chamber music in order to raise from the D minor solo partita in funds for Parkinson’s UK, a charity close to all their hearts. Robert Schumann’s transcription Concert in Memory of David Kaye for violin and piano – part of a series the latter made in 1852-3. £60 £50 £45 £40 £25 £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

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Britten Series Monday 13 July Tuesday 14 July Tuesday 14 July 1.00pm 1.00pm 6.00pm

Allan Clayton tenor Graham Johnson piano Pre-Concert Talk James Baillieu piano Sarah Cox soprano Conductor Ian Page discusses tonight’s programme ahead of the Britten Who are these Children? Joël Terrin baritone evening concert. Op. 84; 6 Hölderlin-Fragmente Book Launch Recital Op. 61; Folksongs £5 This programme celebrates the Many of Britten’s vocal works were recent publication of Graham specifically designed for the vocal Johnson’s Poulenc: The Life in the characteristics of his partner Peter Songs (Liveright/Norton, New Pears: here one of today’s leading York), a richly-illustrated study tenors takes on the Hölderlin of the composer’s one hundred Fragments (1958) and the cycle of and fifty mélodies and chansons ‘lyrics, rhymes and riddles’ Who woven into the context of his life are these Children? by the Scottish (a year-by-year chronology) and poet William Soutar (1969). the cultural life of France in the first half of the 20th century. New £16 concs £14 translations of the song texts are by Jeremy Sams.

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POULENC

The Life in the Songs

GRAHAM JOHNSON

Translations of the song texts by Jeremy Sams

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Tuesday 14 July Wednesday 15 July Thursday 16 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Mozartists Ilker Arcayürek tenor The Endellion Ian Page conductor Simon Lepper piano String Quartet Chiara Skerath soprano Ewige Freundschaft Final Concert Mozart’s Czech Mates Beethoven Adelaide; Resignation; Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 Vanhal Symphony in G minor An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 3 Gluck Se mai senti spirarti sul Schubert Einsamkeit D620; BB93 Beethoven String Quartet volto from La clemenza di Tito Selige Welt; Fischerweise; Der in E flat Op. 127 Mozart Bella mia fiamma ... zürnenden Diana; Nachtviolen; Resta, o cara Viola; Der Jüngling und der Tod; Haydn, Bartók and Beethoven Mysliveček Se mai senti spirarti Abschied D578; An die Musik have formed the backbone of the sul volto from La clemenza di Tito Endellion’s repertoire since its Benda Scene from Medea ‘Eternal friendship’ is the theme formation in 1979. Haydn’s Kozeluch Symphony in G minor of this dual-composer programme Op. 76 No. 1 is among his greatest given by the Turkish tenor who quartets and has long been an Ian Page and The Mozartists present made his Wigmore debut in 2016, Endellion favourite, not least for a fascinating programme exploring and who joined the BBC Radio 3 the unsurpassed depth of feeling of Mozart’s links and friendships with New Generation Artists the its slow movement. Bartók’s Third a number of contemporaneous following year. Quartet is his most densely compact Bohemian composers. The concert Approximately 1 hour 40 minutes in and intense, hugely creative and is framed by dramatic G minor duration, including an interval communicative. Op. 127 is the symphonies by Vanhal and Kozeluch, first of Beethoven’s great late quartets. This one is supremely and and also features exquisite arias £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 by Gluck, Mysliveček and Mozart warmly lyrical, and it exemplifies himself, as well as a scene from the extraordinary freedom of Benda’s astonishingly visceral Beethoven’s unmatched imagination melodrama Medea. and the profundity of his feelings.

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As part of the Partner Schools Programme, we have partner schools, where we aim to empower teachers been working with our partner Music Education to explore and enjoy their musical skills alongside Hubs and schools to create Continuing Professional their classes. We are constantly evolving the model Development (CPD) days for primary school teachers. and content to respond to schools’ needs and to the This CPD for classroom teachers explores a range changing music education landscape. of ideas and good practice to strengthen the use of music every day in Key Stage 1 and 2. We work ‘Brilliant [training session]. Should be with teachers to build resources and practical skills to integrate music into lessons in a cross-curricular pitched to the government!’ way. CPD sessions have been delivered across our Teacher

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Fretwork: Musick’s Monument Wigmore Lates Since its foundation in 1985 the viol consort has helped Friday 17 July disseminate and renew a strand of music formerly little known 10.00pm beyond a small band of specialists, their extraordinary standard of playing wedded to an approach to repertory that has seen them Dame Sarah Connolly rediscover many forgotten gems. mezzo-soprano Friday 17 July Andrew Staples tenor 7.00pm NB time Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Fretwork Richard Boothby, Joanna Levine, Emily Ashton, Asako Morikawa, Mahler Das Lied von der Erde Sam Stadlen viols (arr. Iain Farrington)

Reiko Ichise viol As an antecedent to the forthcoming Silas Wollston organ Mahler Day on Saturday 18 July, this programme features an unusual Taverner Sanctus from the Missa ‘Gloria tibi Trinitas’ work for Wigmore audiences. Purcell a6 Z746 Two outstanding British singers Byrd Pavan and Galliard a6; Fantasia a6 No. 1 join members of an orchestra led Ferrabosco Almain & Coranto for lyra viol with exceptional imagination by Lawes Consort Sett a6 in C its conductor for a traversal of Purcell Fantasia a3 No. 1 in D minor Z732 Mahler’s great symphony of songs Cornysh Fa la sol in composer Iain Farrington’s Gibbons Fantasies a6 No. 1 & No. 2 arrangement for chamber ensemble. Parsons De la court Ford The wild goose chase; Why Not Here; Snatch and Away; Approximately 65 minutes in duration, A Pill to Purge Melancholie without an interval Lawes Consort Sett a6 in F £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 In his 1676 volume Musick’s Monument the English Baroque musician Thomas Mace paid particular tribute to composers of consort music – a tradition celebrated also in this ongoing series.

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Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Mahler Day Founded in 2002 by pianist Sholto Kynoch, Oxford Lieder has become an outstanding international event. Now, through this collaboration with Wigmore Hall, the festival’s reach is extended further in a tribute focused on Gustav Mahler.

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Paula Murrihy mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison mezzo-soprano Sholto Kynoch piano Julius Drake piano R Schumann From Myrthen: G Mahler Kindertotenlieder Widmung & Aus den östlichen Rosen; Songs by Alma Mahler and Strauss Schneeglöckchen; Jasminenstrauch; Die Blume der Ergebung C Schumann Warum Winner of the 2017 Cardiff Singer of the willst du and’re fragen; Die gute Nacht World Competition, the Scottish mezzo was Mahler Starke Einbildungskraft from Des a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from Knaben Wunderhorn; Hans und Grethe; 2017-19. Both Alma and Gustav Mahler Frühlingsmorgen; From Des Knaben feature in her programme, alongside their Wunderhorn: Ablösung im Sommer & Ich contemporary Richard Strauss. ging mit Lust; Rückert Lieder £16 The high-flying Irish mezzo performs a programme with the founder/artistic 7.30pm director of Oxford Lieder that includes items by the increasingly highly regarded Birgid Steinberger soprano Clara Schumann. Stephan Loges bass-baritone Sholto Kynoch piano £16 Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn 1.00pm A major inspiration to Mahler’s Marcus Farnsworth baritone creativity, the German folk James Cheung piano anthology provides the theme of this recital by three Songs by Wolf exceptional Lieder performers. Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Major cycles by Mahler and Vaughan Williams plus a mixed selection of Wolf in this programme by the admired baritone and his song and chamber specialist pianist partner.

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Sunday 19 July Sunday 19 July Monday 20 July 11.30am 7.30pm 7.30pm

Aquinas Piano Trio Zlata Chochieva piano Ailish Tynan soprano Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Scarlatti Sonata in F minor Iain Burnside piano Op. 1 No. 1 Kk555; Sonata in F Kk542; Wolf From Italienisches Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in Sonata in D Kk29; Sonata in D Liederbuch: Auch kleine Dinge; Du D minor Op. 49 Kk491; Sonata in A Kk212 denkst mit einem Fädchen mich Albéniz La Vega; El Albaicín from zu fangen, Wie lange schon, Mein Two favourite works performed Iberia Book 3 Liebster ist so klein, O wär dein by three young British musicians Granados El fandango de candil Haus durchsichtig & Ich hab in who came together to form an from Goyescas Penna einen Liebsten; Gleich und ensemble whose Wigmore debut Ravel Miroirs gleich; Ganymed; Blumengruss; in 2015 left the audience ‘ecstatic Bizet/Rachmaninov Minuet from Kennst du das Land with joy’ (Musical Opinion), and L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 Duparc L’invitation au voyage who have subsequently continued Bizet/Horowitz Carmen Variations Berlioz L’origine de la harpe to be warmly welcomed wherever Duparc Elégie they perform. Mentored by Mikhail Pletnev, Bachelet Chère nuit the Russian pianist made her Strauss Morgen; Mit deinen £16 concs £14 inc. programme Wigmore debut in 2019 following blauen Augen; Schlechtes Wetter; and coffee/sherry/juice the extraordinary success of her Die Nacht; Befreit discs of Chopin and Rachmaninov; Ives The Cage her current programme has a Jake Heggie Snake from Eve-Songs distinctly Iberian tinge. Ives Memories Libby Larsen Pregnant £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 Ives Songs my mother taught me Amor

A characteristically wide-ranging programme from two much loved Wigmore artists.

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Wednesday 22 July 7.30pm Charles Richard-Hamelin piano Chopin Nocturne in C sharp minor Op. posth.; Impromptu No. 1 in A flat Op. 29; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante Op. 22; Nocturne in B Op. 32 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58

The young Canadian pianist won both the silver medal and the Prize at the 2015 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw; he has gone on to record two well-received discs of the composer’s works, including tonight’s sonata.

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Michael Collins Residency Tuesday 21 July Thursday 23 July Friday 24 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Michael Collins clarinet Elias String Quartet Alexei Volodin piano Isabelle Van Keulen Alice Neary cello Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat violin HXVI:49 Taneyev String Quintet in G Op. 14 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 18 in Laura Samuel violin Schubert String Quintet in C D956 E flat Op. 31 No. 3 Veronica Hagen viola Chopin Polonaise in C sharp minor A leading cellist joins with the Op. 26 No. 1; Nocturne in F sharp Torleif Thedeen cello Elias to perform two major works Op. 15 No. 2; Barcarolle in Katy Wooley horn from the chamber repertory: the F sharp Op. 60; Etude in G flat Schubert a well-loved item, but Gustavo Nuñes bassoon Op. 10 No. 5; Etude in G sharp minor the example by Sergei Taneyev Op. 25 No. 6; Etude in C sharp minor Double bassist to be announced (1856-1915) little known. A Op. 25 No. 7; Etude in C sharp minor master pianist and contrapuntist, Schubert Octet in F D803 Op. 10 No. 4; Scherzo No. 2 in its composer was close to and Beethoven Septet in E flat Op. 20 B flat minor Op. 31 revered by Tchaikovsky; his second string quintet was published The clarinettist joins with musical The Russian pianist is ‘a marvellous in 1904. friends for two beloved works from artist, who peels away layers the chamber repertoire: completed of meaning and expression in in 1800, the Beethoven work was £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 everything he plays’ (Classical one of his most played during his Source); among his best received lifetime, and amongst numerous recordings are discs of Chopin arrangements the composer and Beethoven. himself made one for clarinet, cello and piano. Schubert’s 1824 Octet £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 – which adds a second violin to Beethoven’s forces – was conceived using the earlier piece as a model.

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Iestyn Davies Residency Saturday 25 July Sunday 26 July 7.30pm 11.30am

Iestyn Davies countertenor Jean Rondeau harpsichord Dunedin Consort Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 John Butt director Described by The Washington Post as Schütz Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott SWV447 ‘a master of his instrument with the Bach Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV54 sort of communicative gifts normally Erlebach Ouverture No. 6 in G minor; Trocknet euch ihr encountered in musicians twice his heissen Zähren age’, Jean Rondeau has succeeded Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C BWV1066; Vergnügte Ruh, in impressing audiences with his beliebte Seelenlust BWV170 distinctive musicianship – whether playing the piano or the harpsichord. Here combining his artistry with that of the acclaimed Edinburgh- Here he performs one of the based Baroque ensemble, Iestyn Davies sings works by Schütz masterworks of the entire keyboard and Bach alongside an aria by the neglected Philip Heinrich repertoire on the latter instrument. Erlebach (1657-1714), little of whose music survives. Approximately 80 minutes in duration, without an interval £50 £40 £30 £25 £18

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Final concert of the season Sunday 26 July 7.30pm Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Isata Kanneh-Mason piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1 Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6 Bridge Mélodie Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

Two members of an extraordinarily talented family whose rise to prominence has been fast but entirely well-deserved offer three major duo works for cello and piano: the Barber sonata dates from 1932, and immediately garnered its 22-year-old composer a couple of prizes.

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Transport Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). Make a night of it Buses: A number of bus routes pass along Oxford Street. Our restaurant is the perfect place to start your evening. Join us for a quick bite to eat or even Car Parking a three course dinner. There is limited street parking after 6.30pm (Mon–Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Square and Harley Street, both of which are less than a five-minute walk from the Hall. Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50% discount on their parking when using the Cavendish Square (Q Park Oxford Street) car park. Please contact the Box Office for further details. The Wigmore Hall Restaurant and Bar is open for lunch Disabled Access and Facilities through to dinner every day of the week. Full details from 020 7935 2141 or Whether you are organising a gathering for friends and [email protected] family before enjoying a performance, or simply stopping for lunch away from the hustle and bustle of nearby Oxford Street, our Restaurant offers the perfect setting.

For private entertaining such as personal celebrations, Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Charter business lunches and events, the Wigmore Hall Restaurant Mark from Attitude is Everything and Bechstein Room are available for hire, with a full range of catering options.

For opening times and more information, This brochure is available in alternative formats. visit wigmore-hall.org.uk If this would be of assistance to you, please email or for table reservations and event enquiries, [email protected] or call 020 7935 2141. email [email protected] Information in this brochure was correct at the time of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists and to vary programmes if necessary. Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonRCM, HonFGS, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141

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