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  !"# APRIL – JULY 2015      Welcome

Keith Saunders

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort shed fresh light on Bach’s St John Passion in their revelatory recording, hailed by Gramophone for its ‘naturalness and emotional honesty’. They bring their vision of the work to for a special Holy Week performance, projecting the vivid drama of Christ’s betrayal and suffering, and the profound humanity of Bach’s response to it.

Andreas Scholl has inspired countless new listeners to fall in love with lesser-known works. His artistry reveals the timeless qualities of great music from the distant past, restoring the rhetorical power and emotional impact of pieces conceived for star performers of eighteenth-century Europe. Scholl’s latest Wigmore Hall programme explores the vitality of Italian cantatas by three masters of the genre and frames their work with the seductive songs of Venetian gondoliers.

Formed 70 years ago, soon after the Second World War, the has become synonymous with the works of Shostakovich and Beethoven. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall series offers a complete cycle of the two ’ string quartets, works deeply inscribed in the group’s collective DNA.

Our season-long : A Celebration continues when the much-loved English partners Allan Clayton in a work of timeless musical beauty and artistic truth. Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, which was first performed at Wigmore Hall in 1903, explores a young man’s love, despair, contemplation of death and ultimate recognition of impermanence.

Benjamin Ealovega Body and soul are united in Martin Fröst’s intensely focused approach Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent became pioneers of to making music. The Swedish clarinettist’s entrancing season as Wigmore the Early Music Movement in the 1970s and remain leaders in the Hall’s Artist in Residence draws to a close this summer with a beguiling interpretation of works written long before the Industrial Revolution. In sequence of concerts over the early May Bank Holiday weekend. this concert they explore the extreme emotions and chromatic twists and turns of the mature madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo, the Italian Two visionary artists, Dorothea Röschmann and , explore nobleman who turned to composition soon after he took part in the the expressive range and timeless human insights of two of Schumann’s murder of his wife and her lover. greatest song cycles, landmarks of nineteenth-century music. Röschmann’s artistry has deepened and matured since her sensational international recently made headline news following her appointment breakthrough at the 1995 , securing her place among as Master of the Queen’s Music, the first woman to hold this ancient the best-loved performers of her generation. She is joined by Mitsuko royal position. The world première of her work, written for Uchida, renowned worldwide for her penetrating interpretations of Mozart, and Aurora , is presented in company with two pulsating Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, and music by composers of the compositions, each marked by bold ideas, intense energy and joy. Second Viennese School, among them. Routine is a word beyond the ken of Hervé Niquet and the musicians of Awards and acclaim have followed the pioneering work of the Monteverdi Le Concert Spirituel. Their vibrant, full-blooded interpretations of baroque Choir and its founder, Sir . ‘If there were a Nobel prize masterworks arise from a deep understanding of the music’s expressive for choirs, the Monteverdi Choir should be its laureate’, noted Le Monde. gestures and affects, so much so that they restore a sense of the excitement Their interpretations of everything from medieval music and Monteverdi that must have gripped audiences at the time of their first performances. to the great choral works of Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Brahms have set benchmark standards in terms of style and substance, stripping Celebrating reflections of the musical past in the present, Hugo Ticciati’s away anachronistic performance traditions and keeping faith with the pioneering O/MODӘӘRNT festival at Ulriksdal’s Palace Theatre Confidencen original intentions of composers for their music. The ensemble makes a in explores the relationships between the work of old composers long-awaited return to Wigmore Hall with a programme guaranteed to and the artistic and intellectual creations of modern culture. O/MOD RNT seduce the ear and gladden the heart. comes to the Hall in July to present Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint.

Following the commemoration of Jonathan Harvey’s 75th birthday, the Arcangelo, inspired by Jonathan Cohen’s leadership, has injected fresh Royal Northern College of Music brings the sound of one of the UK’s energy and panache into the performance of Baroque music. The most extraordinary composers to Wigmore Hall. Harvey possessed ensemble’s approach is informed by a deep understanding of the the ability to transform the transcendental and beyond into sound. emotional language and expressive rhetoric of works from the The day culminates in his epic work Bhakti – a mystical exploration seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also draws from the jaw-dropping of the Sanskrit Hymns of Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and virtuosity of the players and their ability to work in consort as chamber quadrophonic tape. musicians. Arcangelo is joined by the internationally acclaimed French baritone Stéphane Degout, among the most versatile artists of his Our wide-ranging Henry Purcell: A Retrospective, generously spread generation, and Samuel Boden, a seasoned performer of lyric works of the over two seasons, continues this summer with unmissable performances French Baroque, in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s intense settings of the of his music for the stage, royal court and private chamber. Lamentations of Jeremiah. Highlights include the ’s birthday odes for Queen Mary, a selection of works for instrumental consort, Alison Balsom’s survey of I would like to mention more highlights but space is limited, so please tunes with and , and a browse the brochure yourself or look at the At a Glance and the new thrilling community based on the legend of King Arthur. Henry Calendar section (on pages 72–73) for an overview. I look forward to Purcell: A Retrospective is made possible thanks to all our contributors welcoming you to the Hall during the Summer Series. to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund John Gilhooly important artistic projects. Director SERIES ATA GLANCE APRIL – JULY 201 5

See pages 4–71for full details of these concerts and page 75 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for… Song Recital Series BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Bach St John Passion Page 5 Tue 7 Apr Andreas Scholl/Avi Avital Page 6 Mon 6 Apr Meta4 Page 6 Marco Frezzato/Tiziano Bagnati Andreas Scholl 6 Mon 13 Apr Kristian Bezuidenhout 9 Tamar Halperin Mon 20 Apr Miah Persson/ 12 The Mozart Odyssey 7, 9, 15, 17 Sun 12 Apr Dominik Köninger/Volker Krafft 8 Birgit Kolar Borodin Quartet Beethoven and 11, 12, 49, 51 Wed 15 Apr Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper 9 Mon 27 Apr Antoine Tamestit 15 Shostakovich Cycle Sun 19 Apr Daniel Behle/ Trio 10 Mon 4 May Elias 20 Interactive Recital: Tana Quartet 14 Mon 20 Apr Alice Coote/ 12 Simon Crawford-Phillips Mon 11 May Sara Mingardo/Giorgio Dal Monte 28 Wed 22 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 13 Garrick Ohlsson Skryabin Focus 16 Ivano Zanenghi Semi-Final Martin Fröst Artist in Residence 18, 20 Mon 18 May Christoph Prégardien/Daniel Heide 32 Fri 24 Apr Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 13 Dorothea Röschmann & Mitsuko Uchida 19 Final Mon 25 May Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 34 Mon 1 Jun Tasmin Little/ 36 Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra 21 Wed 29 Apr Allan Clayton/Paul Lewis 17 Mon 8 Jun Škampa Quartet/Krzysztof Chorzelski 41 Wigmore Lates 23, 24–25, 30, 35, 39, 43, 47, 55, 58, 65 Fri 1 May Miah Persson/Martin Fröst 18 Maxim Rysanov/Roland Pöntinen Mon 15 Jun Gould Trio 45 Jonathan Harvey Study Day 26 Sat 2 May Dorothea Röschmann/Mitsuko Uchida 19 Mon 22 Jun /James Baillieu 48 Henry Purcell: A Retrospective 23, 29, 41, 62 Mon 4 May Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra 21 Mon 29 Jun Ilya Gringolts/ 51 Masterclass 30 Sir John Eliot Gardiner Mon 6 Jul Jean-Guihen Queyras 56 Tue 5 May Dorothea Röschmann/Mitsuko Uchida 19 Mon 13 Jul 60 Czech 28, 32, 33 Sun 10 May Claire Booth/ 27 : Schubert Lieder 31 Sun 10 May Werner Güra/Christoph Berner 27 Early Music and Baroque Series 36 10th Anniversary of the Trasimeno Music Festival Mon 11 May Christianne Stotijn/Julius Drake 28 Thu 2 Apr The English Concert/Harry Bicket 4 Collegium Vocale Gent 37 Sat 16 May Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 31 Terry Wey Elly Ameling Masterclasses 38 Fri 22 May Bernarda Fink/Anthony Spiri 33 Sat 4 Apr Dunedin Consort/John Butt 5 Florian Boesch Residency 39, 41 Fri 29 May Henk Neven/ 35 Anna Dennis/Clare Wilkinson Nicholas Mulroy/Matthew Brook Judith Weir Master of the Queen’s Music 40 Sun 31 May / 36 Cremona Quartet/Kerson Leong Tue 7 Apr Andreas Scholl/Avi Avital 6 Paul Lewis: A Celebration 17, 42 Marco Frezzato/Tiziano Bagnati Thu 4 Jun Mauro Peter/James Baillieu 38 Tamar Halperin Bracing Change: New British String Commissions 44 Sat 6 Jun Alice Coote/Aurora Orchestra 40 Tue 14 Apr London Handel Players 9 Alban Gerhardt Focus 46 Nicholas Collon Sophie Bevan/Daniel Taylor Sun 7 Jun Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 41 The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration 47 Mon 4 May Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra 21 Wed 10 Jun Christiane Iven/Igor Levit 42 Sir John Eliot Gardiner Le Concert Spirituel 50 Mon 15 Jun Christoph Prégardien/Michael Gees 45 Wed 6 May Classical Opera/Ian Page/Allan Clayton 22 Celebrating Carolyn Sampson 52 Tue 12 May Gabrieli Consort & Players 29 Wed 17 Jun Mark Padmore/Roger Vignoles 46 Paul McCreesh & Menahem Pressler 53 Wed 24 Jun Matthew Polenzani/Julius Drake 49 Wed 13 May Gabrieli Consort & Players 29 O/MODӘӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical 54–55 Wed 1 Jul Carolyn Sampson/Heath Quartet 52 Paul McCreesh Counterpoint Thu 2 Jul Matthias Goerne/Menahem Pressler 53 Tue 2 Jun Collegium Vocale Gent 37 Philippe Herreweghe Composer in Residence 57 Thu 9 Jul Ekaterina Semenchuk 57 Tue 9 Jun Phantasm 41 Anthony Marwood and Friends 58 Sat 11 Jul Roger Vignoles 70th Birthday Concert 59 Sat 20 Jun The Cardinall’s Musick 47 Roger Vignoles 70th Birthday Concert 59 Thu 25 Jun Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet 50 Fri 17 Jul Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius 62 Arcangelo 61 Mon 6 Jul The Brook Street Band/Matthew Brook 56 Wed 22 Jul /Helen Collyer 64 Introducing Igor Levit 42, 63 Tue 14 Jul Arcangelo/Samuel Boden 61 Fri 24 Jul 64 Thomas Walker/Stéphane Degout Trio Mediæval 65 Helmut Deutsch Tue 21 Jul Roberta Invernizzi/La Risonanza 63 Contemporary Music Series 67 Sat 25 Jul Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside 65 Fabio Bonizzoni

2 Chamber Music Season Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Contemporary Music Series

Fri 10 Apr Heath Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer Page 7 Sun 5 Apr London Bridge Ensemble Page 4 Fri 8 May The Chamber Music Society of Page 23 Kari Kriikku/Tim Horton Sun 12 Apr Lukas Geniušas 8 Lincoln Center Sat 11 Apr Kuss Quartet 8 Sun 19 Apr London Conchord Ensemble 10 Sat 9 May Jonathan Harvey Study Day 26 Sat 18 Apr Borodin Quartet 11 Sun 26 Apr Piano Trio 15 Sun 24 May Inon Barnatan 34 Sun 19 Apr Borodin Quartet 12 Sun 3 May Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 18 Thu 28 May / 35 Anne Gastinel Tue 21 Apr 13 Sun 10 May Schumann Quartett 27 Sun 31 May Angela Hewitt/Cremona Quartet 36 Sat 25 Apr Arcanto Quartet 14 Sun 17 May London Winds/Michael Collins 31 Kerson Leong/Gerald Finley Sun 26 Apr Heath Quartet/Michael Collins 15 Michael McHale Sat 6 Jun Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon 40 Tue 28 Apr Vienna Piano Trio 17 Sun 24 May Aviv String Quartet 33 Alice Coote Thu 30 Apr Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 17 Sun 31 May Jean-Marc Luisada 36 Sun 14 Jun Carducci String Quartet/Guy Johnston 44 Fri 1 May Martin Fröst/Miah Persson 18 Sun 7 Jun ATOS Trio 39 Fri 19 Jun Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova 46 Maxim Rysanov/Roland Pöntinen Sun 14 Jun Lana Trotovsek/Simon Lane 43 Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer Sun 3 May Heath Quartet 20 Sun 21 Jun Szymanowski Quartet 48 Alban Gerhardt Fri 8 May The Chamber Music Society of 23 Sun 28 Jun Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva 51 Sat 27 Jun Leipzig String Quartet 49 Lincoln Center Sun 5 Jul John O’Conor 56 Wed 1 Jul Carolyn Sampson/Heath Quartet 52 Sat 9 May /Nicolas Bone 23 Sun 12 Jul 58 Sat 4 Jul Hugo Ticciati/Meghan Cassidy 55 Antonio Meneses Sun 19 Jul Sitkovetsky Trio 62 Guy Johnston/Henrik Måwe Sun 17 May Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva 31 Amstel Quartet/Renata Pokupic´ Sun 26 Jul Quatuor Voce 66 Ederson Rodrigues Xavier Wed 20 May /Lawrence Power 32 / Sun 5 Jul Hugo Ticciati/Christian Poltéra 55 Voces8 and friends Sat 23 May Joshua Bell/Pamela Frank 33 London Pianoforte Series Tue 7 Jul Aurora Orchestra/Claire Booth 57 Lawrence Power/Steven Isserlis Jeremy Denk Wed 1 Apr Khatia Buniatishvili 4 Mon 20 Jul Igor Levit 63 Mon 25 May Quatuor Ebène 34 Thu 9 Apr 6 Thu 23 Jul Marc-André Hamelin 64 Tue 26 May James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 34 Wed 22 Apr Kun Woo Paik 13 Thu 28 May Philippe Cassard/David Grimal 35 Thu 23 Apr Alice Sara Ott 14 Wigmore Hall Series Anne Gastinel Mon 27 Apr Garrick Ohlsson 16 Sun 31 May Angela Hewitt/Cremona Quartet 36 Thu 7 May Olli Mustonen 22 Fri 5 Jun Christian McBride Trio 39 Kerson Leong/Gerald Finley Thu 14 May Kirill Gerstein 30 Sat 6 Jun Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon 40 Sun 24 May Inon Barnatan 34 Alice Coote Wigmore Hall Learning Sat 30 May Llyˆr Williams 36 Fri 12 Jun /Alexander Melnikov 42 Wed 3 Jun Richard Goode 38 Sat 11 Apr Family Day: Stories Sung 68 Sun 14 Jun Carducci String Quartet/Guy Johnston 44 Thu 11 Jun Paul Lewis 42 Thu 16 Apr Introduction to Music commences 10 Thu 18 Jun The Endellion String Quartet 46 Sat 13 Jun François-Frédéric Guy 43 Sat 25 Apr Interactive Recital: Tana Quartet 14 Fri 19 Jun Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova 46 Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Mon 27 Apr Artists in Conversation 16 Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer Alban Gerhardt Tue 16 Jun Till Fellner 45 Sun 3 May Family Concert: Martin Fröst 20, 68 Fri 26 Jun Borodin Quartet 49 Fri 10 Jul Gabriela Montero 58 Wed 6 May Artists in Conversation 22 Sat 27 Jun Leipzig String Quartet 49 Mon 13 Jul Janina Fialkowska 60 Sat 9 May RNCM Study Day: Jonathan Harvey 26 Sun 28 Jun Borodin Quartet 51 Mon 20 Jul Igor Levit 63 Tue 12 May Wigmore Study Group commences 28 Thu 14 May Roger Vignoles Masterclass 30 Tue 30 Jun Razumovsky Ensemble 52 Thu 23 Jul Marc-André Hamelin 64 Sun 26 Jul 66 Tue 26 May Voiceworks 68 Fri 3 Jul Hugo Ticciati/Julia Zenko 55 Matan Porat Tango for 3/Amstel Quartet Wed 27 May Family Day: Musical Fairy Tales 69 Fri 3 Jul Svante Henryson Quartet 55 Wigmore Lates Sat 30 May Pre-Concert Talk 36 Sat 4 Jul Hugo Ticciati/Meghan Cassidy 55 Wed 3 Jun Elly Ameling Masterclass 38 Thu 4 Jun Elly Ameling Masterclass 38 Guy Johnston/Henrik Måwe Fri 8 May Alison Balsom/Trevor Pinnock 23 Amstel Quartet/Renata Pokupic´ The English Concert/Lucy Crowe Fri 5 Jun Artists in Conversation 39 Ederson Rodrigues Xavier Tim Mead Sun 7 Jun Post-Concert Talk 41 Sat 4 Jul Hugo Ticciati/Jennifer Stumm 55 Fri 15 May Trish Clowes/Gwilym Simcock 30 Tue 9 Jun Ignite – Celebrating a Year in 69 Bartholomew LaFollette Heath Quartet the Community Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson Alexander Oliver Fri 29 May Simón Bolívar String Quartet 35 Wed 24 Jun RNIB Study Day 48, 69 Sun 5 Jul Hugo Ticciati/Christian Poltéra 55 Fri 5 Jun Florian Boesch/Deutsche 39 Sat 27 Jun RNIB Family Day: A Night at 69 Voces8 and friends Kammerphilharmonie the Museum ӘӘ Tue 7 Jul Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon 57 Fri 12 Jun Arcangelo/Christiane Karg 43 Sun 5 Jul Study Afternoon: O/MOD RNT 55 Claire Booth Fri 19 Jun Fantasticus 47 Tue 7 Jul Artists in Conversation 57 Sun 12 Jul Alexander Chaushian & Friends 59 Fri 3 Jul Svante Henryson Quartet 55 Wed 8 Jul Schools Concert: Sing a Story 70 Wed 15 Jul The Schubert Ensemble 60 Fri 10 Jul Anthony Marwood/James Crabb 58 Thu 16 Jul Reimagining King Arthur 62, 70 Sat 18 Jul Quatuor Mosaïques 62 Graham Mitchell Sat 18 Jul Come and Sing: English Music 62, 70 Sun 19 Jul Quatuor Mosaïques 63 Fri 24 Jul Trio Mediæval 65 Mon 27 – Thu 30 Jul Musical Portraits 71

3 WIGMORESERIES SUMMER SEASON APRIL – JULY 2015

Booking opens (except where stated) to Friends on 13 January, to Mailing List Subscribers on 23 January, and to the General Public/Online on 3 February April

Wednesday 1 April 7.30 pm Thursday 2 April 7.30 pm Saturday 4 April 7.30 pm

Khatia Buniatishvili piano The English Concert Dunedin Consort Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition Harry Bicket director, harpsichord John Butt director Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan S418; countertenor Bach St John Passion BWV245 La leggierezza S144 No. 2; Feux follets S139 No. 5; Terry Wey Étude in G# minor ‘La campanella’ S141 No. 3; Schütz Die mit Tränen säen SWV378 See page opposite for full details Grand galop chromatique S219 JC Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte Liszt/Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in (Lamento) Sunday 5 April 11.30 am C# minor Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75 Energy and electricity seem to flow from Khatia The English Concert, Harry Bicket and a small London Bridge Ensemble Buniatishvili’s being whenever she performs. consort of singers recreate Dietrich Buxtehude's Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 The Georgian pianist, born in 1987, gave her first Membra Jesu Nostri, the seven sections of which Beethoven Piano Trio No. 1 in B D898 concerts as a child and has astonished audiences address different parts of Christ’s crucified body. Schubert b with the visionary power of her performances ever This masterwork of Lutheran oratorio, the title of An early work by Beethoven and a late work by since. She has matured to become one of her which translates as ‘the limbs of our Jesus’, is Schubert mark the historic boundaries of the London generation’s most charismatic artists, acclaimed prefaced by Johann Christoph Bach’s lachrymose Bridge Ensemble’s programme. In terms of their worldwide for creating interpretations of great ‘Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte’, an inestimably contents, however, the two compositions span a vast spontaneity and psychological depth. moving solo cantata that evokes the compassion of cosmos of invention. Haydn, present at the première Easter through its lament, ‘Oh, that I had enough of Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3, was surprised £35 £30 £25 £18 tears in my head to bewail my sins’. and delighted that its well-heeled Viennese audience London Pianoforte Series had ‘so rapidly and easily grasped’ such a quixotic £35 £30 £25 £18 and often tempestuous composition. Early Music and Baroque Series £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Khatia Buniatishvili Julia Wesely Terry Wey Petra Benovsky London Bridge Ensemble operaomnia.co.uk

4 Bach St John Passion

Saturday 4 April 7.30 pm Dunedin Consort John Butt director Anna Dennis soprano Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist, tenor Matthew Brook Jesus, bass

Bach St John Passion BWV245

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort shed fresh light on Bach’s St John Passion in their revelatory recording, hailed by Gramophone for its ‘naturalness and emotional honesty’. They bring their vision of the work to Wigmore Hall for a special Holy Week performance, projecting the vivid drama of Christ’s betrayal and suffering, and the profound humanity of Bach’s response to it.

£50 £40 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series

5 April

Monday 6 April 1.00 pm Thursday 9 April 7.30 pm

Meta4 ANDREAS SCHOLL Andreas Haefliger piano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Beethoven No. 22 in F Op. 54 Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90 Not long after its foundation the Finnish quartet Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5 Meta4 made its mark by winning the 2004 International Shostakovich Quartet Competition Andreas Haefliger’s Perspectives project, in which in . Formerly in the BBC Radio 3 New he explores the complete piano sonatas of Generation Artists scheme, the ensemble returns Beethoven alongside works by other composers to Wigmore Hall with the fascinating combination ranging from Mozart to Ligeti, has formed the focus of Haydn’s String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2, a of his solo recital appearances and recordings in richly textured early masterwork, and Schumann’s recent years. He comes to Wigmore Hall to present intensely Romantic String Quartet in A minor one instalment of his series. Beethoven’s miniature Op. 41 No. 1. masterwork, the exquisitely subtle F major Piano Sonata Op. 54, and his expressive and lyrical £13 concs £11 E minor Piano Sonata Op. 90, are presented in

Andreas Scholl James McMillan/Decca company with the pulsating energy of Bartók’s five Szabadban pieces, and Brahms’s monumental F minor Piano Sonata Op. 5. BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Tuesday 7 April 7.30 pm £35 £30 £25 £18 Andreas Scholl countertenor London Pianoforte Series Avi Avital mandolin Marco Frezzato Tiziano Bagnati lute Tamar Halperin harpsichord Lanzetti Sonata in G for cello and basso continuo Op. 1 No. 7 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C RV82 A Scarlatti Cantata: M’ha diviso il cor dal core Venetian Gondolier songs (Anonymous) L’occasion delle mei pene; La biondino; La farfalle Caldara Cantata: Da tuoi lumi Vivaldi Trio Sonata in G minor RV85 Handel Cantata: Sento là che ristretto Caldara Cantata: Vaghe luci Andreas Scholl has inspired countless new listeners to fall in love with lesser-known works. His artistry reveals the timeless qualities of great music from the distant past, restoring the rhetorical power and emotional impact of pieces conceived for star performers of eighteenth-century Europe. Scholl’s latest Wigmore Hall programme explores the vitality of Italian cantatas by three masters of the genre and frames their work with the seductive songs of Venetian gondoliers. £50 £40 £30 £20 Song Recital Series / Early Music and Baroque Series Meta4 Noora Isoeskeli Andreas Haefliger Marco Borggreve

6 The Mozart Odyssey

Four contrasting programmes celebrate the creative brilliance of Mozart’s chamber music, some of it conceived for gifted amateurs, some for the finest professional musicians of the late 1700s. Our performers are true Mozarteans, armed with the technical, emotional and spiritual qualities required to carry listeners to the heart of the composer’s sublime art. The Mozart Odyssey continues at Wigmore Hall for another year in the 2015/16 Season.

The Mozart Odyssey is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.

Friday 10 April 7.30 pm Forthcoming Concerts in this Series Kari Kriikku Monday 13 April 1.00 pm Nils Mönkemeyer Tim Horton piano Kristian Bezuidenhout Heath Quartet fortepiano Sunday 26 April 7.30 pm Mozart Duo for and viola in B K424; Clarinet Trio in E K498 b b Michael Collins clarinet ‘Kegelstatt’; String Quintet in G minor K516 Heath Quartet

Wigmore Hall’s ambitious Mozart Odyssey Thursday 30 April 7.30 pm continues to unfold with an irresistible collection of the composer’s chamber Alina Ibragimova violin works performed by an ideal gathering of Mozarteans. Their programme opens with Cédric Tiberghien piano one of the two Duos Mozart wrote to help his esteemed Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn honour a commission deadline, Further concerts to be announced and includes the tragic and tender-hearted for the 2015 /16 Season G minor String Quintet, a cornerstone work of the chamber music repertoire.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey

Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft (1764 –1825)

7 April

Saturday 11 April 7.30 pm Sunday 12 April 11.30 am Sunday 12 April 3.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut Kuss Quartet Dominik Köninger* baritone Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 50 No. 6 ‘The Frog’ Lukas Geniušas piano Volker Krafft piano Lutosławski String Quartet Chopin 12 Études Op. 10 *Winner of the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Beethoven String Quartet in B Op. 130 with Grosse b Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1 International Song Competition Fuge Op. 133 Lukas Geniušas, winner of the Silver Medal at the SONGS OF THE ELEMENTS The Kuss Quartet’s interpretations of the chamber 2010 Chopin International Piano Competition, repertoire are informed by a shared desire to studied with his grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva, a WATER recreate the energy and excitement generated by distinguished professor at the . Schubert Der Schiffer; Auf dem Wasser zu singen great works when they were new. The approach is The young pianist’s Wigmore Hall debut programme, Mahler Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt from sure to deliver a compelling account of Beethoven’s complete with Chopin’s dazzling Op. 10 Études, Des Knaben Wunderhorn String Quartet in B flat, performed here complete promises to display his virtuosity as well as the Brahms Verzagen with its original finale, the Grosse Fuge, described characteristic seriousness, intense focus and Wolf Seemanns Abschied by Igor Stravinsky as ‘the most perfect miracle in searching eloquence of his music-making. AIR music … contemporary for ever’. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Brahms Unbewegte laue Luft £30 £25 £20 £15 Mahler Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft from Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Five Rückert Lieder Chamber Music Season Liszt Es rauschen die Winde Brahms Wehe, so willst du mich wieder FIRE Mendelssohn And’res Maienlied Mahler Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen from Kindertotenlieder Wolf Der Feuerreiter EARTH Schubert Die Mutter Erde Brahms Juchhe! Schumann Mondnacht Wolf Nachtgruss Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from Five Rückert Lieder Recipient of the Wigmore Hall/INDEPENDENT OPERA Kuss Quartet Neda Navaee Voice Fellowship, German baritone Dominik Köninger presents a meditation on the four elements and their qualities. His programme engages with the myriad ways in which Romantic composers connected with the essential materials for life and with their immense potential to affect human feelings, sensations and emotions.

£15 concs £12.50 Song Recital Series

Lukas Geniušas Evgenij Evtiukhin Dominik Köninger

8 April

Monday 13 April 1.00 pm Tuesday 14 April 7.30pm Wednesday 15 April 7.30 pm

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano London Handel Players Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano Mozart Piano Sonata in F K332; Adagio in F Sophie Bevan soprano Simon Lepper piano K.Anh. 206a; Piano Sonata in D K284 Daniel Taylor countertenor Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48 Kristian Bezuidenhout continues his survey of Rückert Lieder director, violin Mozart’s works for solo keyboard, opening with a Adrian Butterfield Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt; In meines Vaters Garten; sonata dating from the composer’s early years in ANNA MARIA STRADA AND Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Ich wandle Vienna. The critic Arthur Hutchings wisely described GIOVANNI CARESTINI unter Blumen the F major Piano Sonata’s Adagio as ‘the summit Wagner Wesendonck Lieder of expression Mozart reached without departing Handel Arias, duets and instrumental music from Karen Cargill’s sonorous mezzo-soprano voice has from the formality and reticence of his epoch’. Alcina and Il pastor fido beguiled audiences around the world ever since £13 concs £11 Sophie Bevan and Daniel Taylor join the London she won the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She is Handel Players to sing a selection of the glorious joined for this recital by her regular duo partner, arias and duets that Handel created in Alcina and Simon Lepper, in a programme steeped in the Il pastor fido for two sensational Italian opera stars imagery of Nature and, in the case of Wagner’s of the 1730s. Canadian countertenor Daniel Taylor’s BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert / sublime Wesendonck Lieder, fuelled by the present status as a world-class Handelian rests on The Mozart Odyssey turbulent energy of love. foundations set two decades ago with postgraduate studies in London, while young British soprano £35 £30 £25 £18 Sophie Bevan’s great passion for Handel’s music Song Recital Series began during childhood.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Early Music and Baroque Series

Kristian Bezuidenhout Marco Borggreve

Daniel Taylor Marie Reine Mattera Sophie Bevan Sussie Ahlburg Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper Ken Dundas

9 April

Saturday 18 April 7.30 pm Sunday 19 April 3.00 pm

INTRODUCTION Borodin Quartet Daniel Behle tenor TO MUSIC BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE Oliver Schnyder Trio piano trio See page opposite for full details Schubert (UK première of an arrangement by Behle)

Sunday 19 April 11.30 am Daniel Behle’s perceptive response to poetic texts, apparently infinite vocal nuance and spine-tingling feeling for the silence between individual notes and London Conchord Ensemble phrases have made his song recitals unmissable Duruflé Prélude, Récitatif et Variations for , events. His work as composer has also attracted viola and piano Op. 3 wide attention. Behle’s arrangement of Winterreise Loeffler L’Étang from Two Rhapsodies for voice and piano trio, completed in 2013, Fauré No. 1 in C minor Op. 15 reaches the UK for the first time. stood at the heart of the artistic world for £15 concs £12.50 decades before and after the First World War, a Song Recital Series cosmopolitan melting pot of invention, innovation, conservatism and elegance. The three works in the London Conchord Ensemble’s Coffee Concert evoke the rich variety of the city’s musical milieu, complete with Duruflé’s plainchant-influenced Prélude, Récitatif et Variations of 1928 and Fauré’s noble C minor Piano Quartet.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Ludwig van Beethoven Joseph Karl Stieler c.1820 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Thursday 16 April 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Thursday 23 April 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Thursday 30 April 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Thursday 7 May 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Daniel Behle & Oliver Schnyder Trio Marco Borggreve BEETHOVEN Beethoven’s reputation as arguably the ‘greatest composer’ has remained relatively intact since his death in 1827. He seems to represent our stereotype of an artist – defiant, difficult, temperamental, revolutionary, visionary – and his music is often held up as ‘speaking on behalf of all humanity’. He was a musician with a powerful and individual way of interpreting the classical musical language, inherited from Haydn and Mozart, and fashioning it with a new and radical approach. This series of talks investigates the way in which he uses and develops this language and, in particular, the extraordinary evolution of his style from the dynamic and individualistic early works to the transcendental utterances of the late quartets, piano sonatas and the Missa Solemnis. Series ticket price £30 Wigmore Hall Learning Event London Conchord Ensemble

10 Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Formed 70 years ago, soon after the Second World War, the Borodin Quartet has become synonymous with the works of Shostakovich and Beethoven. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall series offers a complete cycle of the two composers’ string quartets, works deeply inscribed in the group’s collective DNA.

Saturday 18 April 7.30 pm Sunday 19 April 7.30 pm Sunday 28 June 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in Ab Op. 118; Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Op. 73 ‘Razumovsky’ Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in C Interior worlds open up in Shostakovich’s Second £35 £30 £25 £18 Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ String Quartet, completed in September 1944. The work probes dark shadows of the mind, £35 £30 £25 £18 Friday 26 June 7.30 pm conjured up most vividly in its dissonant waltz and final Theme and Variations. Beethoven’s second The series continues with 8 further ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, uses silence Borodin Quartet concerts in the 2015 /16 and and unexpected harmonic shifts to pull the listener Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’ 2016 /17 Seasons deep into mysterious imaginative territory. Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101 Beethoven £35 £30 £25 £18 String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Chamber Music Season / £35 £30 £25 £18 Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Photo: Ny Che Goyang /Aram Nuri Arts Center

11 April

Sunday 19 April 7.30 pm Monday 20 April 1.00 pm Monday 20 April 7.30 pm

Borodin Quartet Miah Persson soprano Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in Ab Op. 118; Birgit Kolar violin Julius Drake piano String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Malcolm Martineau piano Programme to be announced Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Programme to include: Much loved by Wigmore Hall audiences for the By turns furious and fierce, gentle and reflective, Handel Three German Arias tonal beauty, lyrical intensity and coruscating wit of Shostakovich’s Tenth String Quartet charts a vast Spohr 6 deutsche Lieder Op. 103 (a selection) her artistry, Alice Coote is universally acknowledged terrain of emotions while leaving its audience free Donald Waxman Lovesongs to be among the greatest performers of our time. to determine the work’s message. The Borodin Strauss Morgen; Beim Schlafengehen from She launched her 2014/15 season in the title-role Quartet offers it in tandem with the Eighth Quartet, Four Last Songs of Handel’s Xerxes at before an unequivocal indictment of inhumanity as singing Oktavian in at the Vienna experienced by those who lived through Stalin’s Much-loved soprano Miah Persson, celebrated State Opera. Reigniting her recital partnership with Terror and suffered under Nazi oppression, and by The Sunday Times for her Julius Drake, this concert promises an evening of crowns its programme with the ultimately consoling recording ‘mixing charm, depth and romantic captivating and enchanting music. invention of Beethoven’s Quartet in C sharp minor. ardour’, returns with a programme spanning over two and a half centuries of music, from Handel to £35 £30 £25 £18 £35 £30 £25 £18 Donald Waxman’s Lovesongs. The recital is crowned Song Recital Series Chamber Music Season /Borodin Quartet Beethoven by Strauss’s ‘Morgen’ and ‘Beim Schlafengehen’ and Shostakovich Cycle from Four Last Songs, sparkling jewels of the Lieder repertoire.

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Miah Persson Mina Artistbilder Birgit Kolar Alice Coote

12 April

Tuesday 21 April 7.30pm Wednesday 22 April 7.30 pm KATHLEEN FERRIER Wihan Quartet AWARDS 2015 Kun Woo Paik piano Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor Schubert Impromptus D899: No. 1 in C minor; ‘From my life’ Wednesday 22 April No. 3 in Gb; No. 2 in Eb; No. 4 in Ab Janácˇek String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ 1.30 pm Klavierstücke D946: No. 3 in C; No. 1 in Eb minor; Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 SEMI-FINAL No. 2 in Eb ‘Razumovsky’ Moments Musicaux D780: No. 2 in Ab; No. 4 in Friday 24 April C minor; No. 6 in A Over the past three decades, the Wihan Quartet # b 6.00 pm has flourished on the world stage thanks to Described by Gramophone as a pianist of FINAL performances shot through with rhythmic élan and ‘consummate artistry, great tonal finesse and gripping commitment. The ensemble celebrates its elegance’, Kun Woo Paik is admired for his The annual auditions 30th anniversary year with two masterworks from passionate and virtuosic playing. This all-Schubert for the famous singing its Czech homeland and the first of Beethoven’s programme takes us on an emotional journey of competition attract ‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, the haunting Adagio of joy, excitement, torment, conflict and sorrow. which was almost certainly influenced by news of capacity houses £35 £30 £25 £18 death and defeat brought to Vienna from the from both devoted battlefield at Austerlitz. lovers of vocal art London Pianoforte Series and students of £35 £30 £25 £18 singing, since no one Chamber Music Season can resist the challenge of spotting the stars of the future.

22 April All seats £18 students £10 24 April £35 £30 £25 £18

Wihan Quartet Marklik.cz Kun Woo Paik Cho Sei-hon

13 April

Thursday 23 April 7.30 pm Saturday 25 April 7.30 pm Wigmore Hall Debut INTERACTIVE RECITAL Arcanto Quartet Alice Sara Ott piano TANA QUARTET Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 ‘Serioso’ No. 2 ‘The Tempest’ Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV944 ‘From my life’ Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 Partita No. 2 BWV1004 Formed by four outstanding soloists in 2002, the Liszt From Liebesträume S541: Seliger Tod Arcanto Quartet has garnered critical acclaim and (Gestorben war ich); O lieb, o lieb, so lang du audience ovations ever since its debut concert. lieben kannst The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme Liszt Grandes études de Paganini S141 unveils the psychological complexities, expressive Alice Sara Ott’s fiery virtuosity and impassioned transformations and emotional conflicts of three performance style ideally complement the works in Romantic masterworks, each touched by formative her programme, from the unrelenting concentration events in the lives of their composers. of Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata and the cumulative £35 £30 £25 £18 power of the Bach/Busoni Chaconne to Liszt’s Chamber Music Season fiendishly difficult, utterly thrilling Grandes études de Paganini. She also surveys the contrasting qualities of fantasy and contrapuntal rigour at work in Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in A minor.

£35 £30 £25 £18 London Pianoforte Series Tana Quartet Nicolas Draps

Saturday 25 April 2.00 pm – 3.15 pm The Tana String Quartet, founded in 2004, is rapidly gaining a reputation across Europe for its performances of contemporary repertoire. This event focuses on the Spanish school of composition with works by Arriaga, Turina and a world première by Hèctor Parra. Inspired by Velázquez’s painting, ‘Les Fileuses’, Parra’s score* is not the final depiction, but rather the beginning of invention and exploration, and musicians must find space to discover the music and invent their own final score. Tana performs from electronic scores on computers or iPads and, for this recital, the music will also be projected on screen at the back of the stage.

The quartet will introduce its programme from the stage and there will be an opportunity to ask questions.

*Co-commissioned by Musée du Louvre, Festival Nits de Clàssica de Girona, organised by the Concert Hall of Girona, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.

All seats £15 Wigmore Hall Learning Event Alice Sara Ott Marie Staggat/DG Arcanto Quartet Marco Borggreve

14 April

Sunday 26 April 11.30 am Sunday 26 April 7.30 pm Monday 27 April 1.00 pm

Vienna Piano Trio Michael Collins clarinet Antoine Tamestit viola Beethoven Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der Heath Quartet Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007 Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in B Op. 97 Hindemith Sonata for solo viola Op. 25 No. 1 b Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 ‘Archduke’ Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 One of the world’s finest piano trios returns to Antoine Tamestit’s affinity for the music of Bach It would be hard to imagine two more elegiac Wigmore Hall to perform two richly contrasted runs deep. The Parisian viola player, a regular compositions than the clarinet quintets of Mozart works by Beethoven. The composer based his visitor to Wigmore Hall, received five-star reviews and Brahms, both conceived to display the talents delightful Variations in G on a song popular for his recording of three of the composer’s of outstandingly gifted clarinettists. Michael Collins in Vienna in the early 1800s. His ‘Archduke’ Cello Suites. He presents two of the works in his joins the Heath Quartet as part of Wigmore Hall’s Trio, meanwhile, turns to loftier matters and lunchtime recital, together with the wild energy Mozart Odyssey to bring these sublime masterworks projects a sense of symphonic grandeur and and rhapsodic twists and turns of ’s to life. spiritual nobility. Sonata for solo viola of 1922. £35 £30 £25 £18 £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £13 concs £11 Chamber Music Season / Sunday Morning Coffee Concert The Mozart Odyssey

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Heath Quartet Sussie Ahlburg

Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz Michael Collins Benjamin Ealovega Antoine Tamestit Eric Larrayadieu

15 Garrick Ohlsson Skryabin Focus

Monday 27 April 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation Garrick Ohlsson discusses Skryabin with Geoffrey Norris before the final instalment in his two-concert Focus on the composer. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Monday 27 April 7.30 pm

Garrick Ohlsson piano Skryabin Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in F minor Op. 6; No. 8 Op. 66; No. 9 in F Op. 68 ‘Black Mass’; No. 3 in F# minor Op. 23; No. 10 Op. 70

Marking the centenary of Skryabin’s death to the very day, Garrick Ohlsson’s two-concert series focusing on the composer concludes with a programme immersed in the mysticism and transcendental soundscapes of his music. His recital opens with the emotionally volatile F minor Piano Sonata and embraces the haunting chromatic dissonances and meditative intensity of the so-called ‘Black Mass’ Sonata, a work with the power to open minds to new ways of being in the world.

£35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series / Garrick Ohlsson Skryabin Focus

Photo by Paul Body

16 April

Tuesday 28 April 7.30pm Wednesday 29 April 7.30 pm Thursday 30 April 7.30 pm

Vienna Piano Trio Allan Clayton tenor Alina Ibragimova violin Mozart Piano Trio in C K548 Paul Lewis piano Cédric Tiberghien piano Turina Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 35 Schubert Die schöne Müllerin Mozart Violin Sonata in B K454; Violin Sonata in Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 b G K27; Violin Sonata in C K296; Violin Sonata in Our season-long Paul Lewis: A Celebration continues The Vienna Piano Trio’s collective insights, tonal F K547; Violin Sonata in B K31; Violin Sonata in when the much-loved English pianist partners Allan b warmth and irresistible panache contribute to D K306 Clayton in a work of timeless musical beauty and performances that live long in the memory. The artistic truth. Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, which Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien began ensemble’s Wigmore Hall programme includes was first performed at Wigmore Hall in 1903, explores their complete survey of Mozart’s Joaquín Turina’s Piano Trio No. 1, a fascinating a young man’s love, despair, contemplation of death last September as part of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart blend of rigorous counterpoint, folk-like melodies and ultimate recognition of impermanence. Odyssey. In this recital they journey through six and evocative Spanish dance rhythms, first works, including two pieces written during the performed in London in 1927. This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval composer’s prodigious childhood and his final £30 £25 £20 £15 essay in the genre, the delightful Violin Sonata in £35 £30 £25 £18 F K547, described by Mozart as ‘a small piano Chamber Music Season Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle sonata for beginners, with violin’. Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis: A Celebration £35 £30 £25 £18 Supported by the Chamber Music Circle Chamber Music Season/ The Mozart Odyssey

Vienna Piano Trio Nancy Horowitz Paul Lewis Molina Visuals

Allan Clayton Jack Liebeck Cédric Tiberghien & Alina Ibragimova Benjamin Ealovega

17 May

Saturday 2 May 7.30 pm

MARTIN FRÖST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Dorothea Röschmann soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano See page opposite for full details

Sunday 3 May 11.30 am

Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano Brahms Songs (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen): Die Mainacht; Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Mädchenlied Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 14, 19 & 21 (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen) Brahms Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 Martin Fröst pays homage to the music of Brahms as his season as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence draws to a close. He is joined by Roland Pöntinen, Martin Fröst Mats Bäcker a friend and colleague since schooldays, to perform arrangements of well-known songs and Hungarian Body and soul are united in Martin Fröst’s intensely focused approach to making music. Dances in company with the glorious Clarinet Sonata The Swedish clarinettist’s entrancing season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence draws in E flat, praised by the Brahms scholar Karl to a close this summer with a beguiling sequence of concerts over the early May Bank Geiringer for its ‘tender melancholy’ and ‘splendid Holiday weekend. perfection of form’. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Friday 1 May 7.30 pm Sunday Morning Coffee Concert / Martin Fröst clarinet Martin Fröst Artist in Residence Maxim Rysanov viola Roland Pöntinen piano Miah Persson soprano Maxim Rysanov Miah Persson Mozart Clarinet Trio in Eb K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock); Romance from Der häusliche Krieg Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 Kurtág Hommage à Op. 15d Martin Fröst’s term as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence continues with a programme rich in contrasts and correspondences. The clarinettist works with Miah Persson for the first time, joining fellow Swede Roland Pöntinen in Schubert’s enchanting ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’. Mozart’s lyrical ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio and György Kurtág’s epigrammatic Hommage à Robert Schumann add to their recital’s variety.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season /Martin Fröst Artist in Residence Forthcoming Events in this Series

Sunday 3 May 11.30 am Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm Martin Fröst Family Concert

Photos of Maxim Rysanov by Pavel Kazhevnikov and Miah Persson by Mina Artistbilder Roland Pöntinen Mats Bäcker

18 Dorothea Röschmann & Mitsuko Uchida

Saturday 2 May 7.30 pm Repeated Tuesday 5 May 7.30 pm

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Berg Sieben frühe Lieder Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42 Two visionary artists explore the expressive range and timeless human insights of two of Schumann’s greatest song cycles, landmarks of nineteenth-century music. Dorothea Röschmann’s artistry has deepened and matured since her sensational international breakthrough at the 1995 Salzburg Festival, securing her place among the best-loved performers of her generation. She is joined by Mitsuko Uchida, renowned worldwide for her penetrating interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, and music by composers of the Second Viennese School, Alban Berg among them.

£45 £40 £35 £25

Song Recital Series

Photos: Dorothea Röschmann by Jim Rakete; Mitsuko Uchida by Justin Pumfrey/Decca

19 May

Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Sunday 3 May 7.30 pm Monday 4 May 1.00 pm

Martin Fröst clarinet Heath Quartet Elias String Quartet FAMILY CONCERT Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 76 No. 6 Simon Crawford-Phillips piano Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ For ages 5 plus Emily Howard Afference Dvorˇák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106 Working alongside presenter Julian West and pianist Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 Following a survey of ’s string Roland Pöntinen, the dynamic Swedish clarinettist Emily Howard’s Afference, inspired by the flow of quartets at Wigmore Hall last season, the Heath Martin Fröst features in a concert especially for signals between body and brain, provides the Quartet returns with a captivating programme of families introducing the dramatic music of Brahms, pulsating opening to the Elias String Quartet’s BBC mature masterworks. Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 6, first including his thrilling Hungarian Dances. Lunchtime recital. The ensemble is joined by Simon published in London in 1799, balances popular Crawford-Phillips in Schumann’s Piano Quintet, Adults £9 Children £7 melodies with profound reflections on the human another work of great energy and vitality, among condition, while Janácˇek’s First String Quartet Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and the finest pieces created during the composer’s The Monument Trust projects an imaginary response to the life of ‘a poor year-long immersion in chamber music in 1842. woman, tormented and run down, just like the one Wigmore Hall Learning Event / … Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata.’ £13 concs £11 Martin Fröst Artist in Residence £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Family Concert www.benjaminharte.co.uk Simon Crawford-Phillips

Heath Quartet Sussie Ahlburg Elias String Quartet Keith Saunders

20 Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Monday 4 May 7.30 pm Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor

Monteverdi Hor che'l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace; Lamento della ninfa; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Tirsi e Clori Schubert Gondelfahrer (D809); Ständchen (D920); Gebet Brahms Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52

Awards and acclaim have followed the pioneering work of the Monteverdi Choir and its founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner. ‘If there were a Nobel prize for choirs, the Monteverdi Choir should be its laureate’, noted Le Monde. Their interpretations of everything from medieval music and Monteverdi to the great choral works of Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Brahms have set benchmark standards in terms of style and substance, stripping away anachronistic performance traditions and keeping faith with the original intentions of composers for their music. The ensemble makes a long-awaited return to Wigmore Hall with a programme guaranteed to seduce the ear and gladden the heart.

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

£60 £45 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series/Song Recital Series

21 May

Tuesday 5 May 7.30pm Wednesday 6 May 7.30 pm Thursday 7 May 7.30 pm

Dorothea Röschmann soprano Classical Opera Olli Mustonen piano Mitsuko Uchida piano Allan Clayton tenor Beethoven 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from Wranitsky’s ballet Das Waldmädchen in A WoO71 Repeat of concert on 2 May conductor Ian Page Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59; 3 Mazurkas Op. 56 See page 19 for full details ‘WHERE’ER YOU WALK’: Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82 £45 £40 £35 £25 HANDEL’S FAVOURITE TENOR Olli Mustonen has been inspired by visits to the Song Recital Series Programme to include: Handel Un momento di contento from Alcina; Karelia region, an area of mystery, natural beauty Vedi l’ape from Berenice; Where’er you walk from and imaginative folklore. His interpretations are Semele; Waft her angels through the skies from touched by a corresponding spirit of openness to Wednesday 6 May 6.00 pm Jephtha the moment. The Finnish pianist’s latest Wigmore Boyce Softly rise, o southern breeze from Solomon Hall recital opens with a Beethoven rarity before Artists in Conversation JC Smith Hark how the hounds and horn from moving to Schumann’s evocative childhood The Fairies reminiscences in Kinderszenen and the engrossing Classical Opera’s conductor and artistic director Arne From the dawn of early morning from Alfred; complexities of Prokofiev’s Sixth Piano Sonata. Ian Page introduces the life and career of the tenor Thou like the glorious sun from Artaxerxes £35 £30 £25 £18 John Beard, and discusses some of the music Allan Clayton, former Classical Opera Associate Artist, featured in the evening concert. London Pianoforte Series joins the company to celebrate the 300th birthday £4 of John Beard (1715–1791), the tenor who created Wigmore Hall Learning Event more Handel roles than any other singer and caused a high society scandal by marrying into the English aristocracy. Classical Opera’s compelling concert explores Beard’s eventful life and career with a programme including rarities by Boyce, JC Smith and Arne, and a selection of Handel’s most celebrated airs.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Early Music and Baroque Series

Ian Page Allan Clayton Jack Liebeck Olli Mustonen Outi Montosen

22 May

Friday 8 May 7.00 pm Friday 8 May 10.00 pm Saturday 9 May

The Chamber Music Society of Alison Balsom trumpet Jonathan Harvey Study Day Lincoln Center Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ See page 26 for full details Arnaud Sussmann violin The English Concert Matthew Lipman viola soprano David Finckel cello Lucy Crowe Saturday 9 May 7.30 pm Wu Han piano Tim Mead countertenor Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38 ‘SOUND THE TRUMPET’ Belcea Quartet Helen Grime String Trio* (world première) viola Handel Eternal source of light divine; Overture from Nicolas Bone Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) Atalanta Purcell Chacony in G minor; The Plaint cello Schumann Piano Quartet in E Op. 47 Antonio Meneses b Purcell From King Arthur: Chaconne; Symphony; Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 * Co-commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Come if you dare Handel Chaconne in G HWV435 Brahms String Quartet in B Op. 67 Lincoln Center and by Wigmore Hall with the support of Purcell Sound the trumpet; Overture from the Duke b Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, of Gloucester’s Birthday Ode Purcell From The Fairy a Swiss grant-making foundation. Queen: If Love’s a sweet passion; Prelude from Act V; Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht arose under the Wigmore Hall’s collaboration with the Chamber Hark! The echoing air; Chaconne in C; They shall be influence of Wagner’s richly chromatic music and Music Society of Lincoln Center continues to bear as happy as they are fair absorbed ideas about the human psyche and sexuality current in the Vienna of Sigmund Freud fruit with the co-commission of a string trio from Alison Balsom’s partnership with Trevor Pinnock and and Arthur Schnitzler. The sextet’s surging Helen Grime. The Scottish composer’s new work The English Concert began in the recording studio Romanticism is prefaced with Beethoven’s visionary is prefaced by Brahms’s impassioned First Cello and blossomed with their acclaimed performances C minor String Trio, truly a musical treasure of old Sonata. David Finckel and Wu Han are joined by together in Samuel Adamson’s Gabriel at the Globe Vienna, and Brahms’s String Quartet in B flat Op. 67, two distinguished colleagues to close the concert Theatre in 2013. They return to the music of Purcell a work suggestive of summer days, folk music and with Schumann’s sublime Piano Quartet in E flat. and Handel in this late-night concert, which opens the contemplation of nature. £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open with the haunting aria ‘Eternal source of light divine’ and digs deep into the instrumental music of £35 £30 £25 £18 Chamber Music Season/ Purcell’s spectacular works for the London stage. Contemporary Music Series Chamber Music Season All seats £20 Wigmore Lates / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Helen Grime Alison Balsom Jason Bell/EMI Antonio Meneses Studio fotografico Gielle

23 Wigmore Lates

Wigmore Lates is a vibrant and eclectic series which runs on Friday evenings throughout the summer. We welcome artists such as Alison Balsom, Florian Boesch, Christiane Karg, Svante Henryson Quartet and Anthony Marwood for hour-long concerts in the auditorium at 10.00 pm. Later in the bar we have live jazz at 11.15 pm from the best established and emerging acts on the UK scene, including Dave O’Higgins Quartet, Callum Au Quintet and Tom Green Septet. Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details

24 Full details of the concerts are Friday 5 June 10.00 pm Friday 3 July 10.00 pm provided throughout the brochure Florian Boesch baritone Svante Henryson Quartet in chronological order Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Svante Henryson cello, composer Bremen Anders Jormin Friday 8 May 10.00 pm Audun Kleive drums Romantic imagery and evocations of life-changing Jon Balke piano journeys echo through Florian Boesch’s late-night trumpet Alison Balsom programme with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ Bremen, featuring Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer. A reinvention of Monteverdi in the spirit of Jazz. The English Concert Florian Boesch Residency O/MODӘӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint Lucy Crowe soprano countertenor Friday 12 June 10.00 pm Tim Mead Friday 10 July 10.00 pm SOUND THE TRUMPET Arcangelo Anthony Marwood violin Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert are Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord joined by Alison Balsom and a stellar duo James Crabb of singers to explore the music of Purcell Christiane Karg soprano Graham Mitchell double bass and Handel. HANDEL: NINE GERMAN ARIAS Henry Purcell: A Retrospective Anthony Marwood is joined by accordionist Christiane Karg and Arcangelo make a much James Crabb and double bass player Graham anticipated appearance with Handel’s Nine Mitchell for an evening of tango music, which Friday 15 May 10.00 pm German Arias and one of Dietrich Buxtehude’s promises some jaw-dropping arrangements most soulful sonatas. of existing compositions. Trish Clowes saxophone Anthony Marwood and Friends Gwilym Simcock piano Friday 19 June 10.00 pm Heath Quartet Fantasticus Friday 24 July 10.00 pm Saxophonist Trish Clowes is joined for a Rie Kimura baroque violin late-night selection of original works new Trio Mediæval Robert Smith viola da gamba and old by fellow former BBC Radio 3 Guillermo Brachetta harpsichord AQUILONIS New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock, A musical journey from and the ever-adventurous Heath Quartet. SONNERIE AND OTHER PORTRAITS Iceland to the Mediterranean via Musical paintings from the French Baroque the coasts of Scandinavia and England Friday 29 May 10.00 pm Fantasticus stands for intense expression and Trio Mediæval makes a welcome return to emotional extravagance. Each work in the Wigmore Hall to cast shadows of forgotten Simón Bolívar String Quartet Netherlands-based baroque ensemble’s ancestors and evoke the mystical traditions programme defies the boundaries of convention! of medieval worship. The Simón Bolívar String Quartet brings a colourful programme, featuring music by Alberto Ginastera, tinged with the Argentine Wigmore Lates composer’s ‘imagined folklore’, and Ravel’s lyrical and striking String Quartet in F. Wigmore Hall images by Benjamin Ealovega

25 Jonathan Harvey Study Day

Saturday 9 May Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Clark Rundell conductor

Following the commemoration of his 75th birthday, the RNCM brings the sound of one of the UK’s most extraordinary composers to Wigmore Hall. Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012) possessed the ability to transform the transcendental and beyond into sound. The day culminates in his epic work Bhakti – a mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape.

10.00 am Jonathan Harvey ff for solo piano; Nataraja for flute and piano; The Riot for flute, and piano; Three Sketches for solo cello; Tombeau de Messiaen for solo piano; Death of Light, Light of Death for five players

11.45 am In conversation: a glimpse into the life and works of Jonathan Harvey with his daughter Anna Harvey.

2.00 pm Jonathan Harvey Bhakti for ensemble and electronics

All tickets £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day Ticket £10 concs £7

In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ Contemporary Music Series

Photo by Maurice Foxall

26 May

Sunday 10 May 11.30 am Sunday 10 May 3.00 pm Sunday 10 May 7.30 pm

Schumann Quartett Claire Booth soprano Werner Güra tenor Verdi String Quartet in E minor Christopher Glynn piano Christoph Berner piano Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Schubert Die Blumensprache; Die Sterne; Schubert An die Musik; Trost im Liede; ‘Razumovsky’ Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Versunken Des Sängers Habe; Liedesend; Die gefangenen Formed in 2007 by the three Schumann brothers, Grieg (The Mountain Maid) Op. 67 Sänger; Der Liedler; Die Sterne; Vor meiner Wiege; Erik, Ken and Mark, and the violist Liisa Randalu, Grainger Willow, Willow; Died for Love; Bold William Drang in die Ferne; Das Weinen; Des Fischers the Schumann Quartett has scored notable success Taylor; The Power of Love; The Sprig of Thyme Liebesglück; Der Fischer; Die Forelle; Widerschein; in international competitions and with the critics. Fischerweise; Der Schiffer (D536) Australian-born was among the The ensemble’s Coffee Concert programme includes most original and free-thinking of twentieth-century Schubert has been at the core of Werner Güra’s a work of inexhaustible invention, the Third composers, a multi-talented musician with art for more than two decades. The German tenor ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which Beethoven reflects outstanding gifts as creator, performer, writer and owns the tonal variety, technique and poetic on feelings and emotions triggered by his deafness. ethnographer. Claire Booth’s programme sets his imagination required to do justice to the composer’s £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice evocative works in the context of the song cycle often deceptively difficult Lieder. He is joined for Haugtussa by his friend and a group this recital by regular duo partner Christoph Berner Sunday Morning Coffee Concert of exquisite Lieder by Schubert. for a programme generously filled with evergreen songs such as ‘An die Musik’, ‘Die Forelle’ and £15 concs £12.50 ‘Der Schiffer’. Song Recital Series £35 £30 £25 £18 Song Recital Series

Schumann Quartett Kaupo Kikkas Claire Booth Sven Arnstein Werner Güra Marco Borggreve

27 May

Monday 11 May 1.00 pm Monday 11 May 7.30 pm

Sara Mingardo Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano WIGMORE Ivano Zanenghi theorbo Julius Drake piano STUDY GROUP Giorgio Dal Monte harpsichord Strauss Ständchen; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Freundliche Vision; Cäcilie Monteverdi Quel sguardo sdegnosetto; Il lamento Korngold Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31 di Arianna; Voglio di vita uscir Strauss Schlechtes Wetter; Nachtgang; Befreit; Falconieri Vezzosette e care pupillette; Non più Zueignung d’amore Eisler From Hollywood Liederbook: Erinnerung an Piccinini Toccata XX; Aria di Sarabanda in Varie Eichendorff und Schumann; Über den Selbstmord; Partite (for solo theorbo) An der kleinen Radioapparat; Hotelzimmer 1942; Carissimi Deh memoria e che più chiedi? Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt; Vom Sprengen des Frescobaldi Work for solo harpsichord Gartens; Der Kirschdieb Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso; La, sol, fa, mi, re, do Weill O captain! My captain!; Beat! Beat! Drums!; Hailed as ‘one of a kind’ by The Independent Dirge for two veterans; Come up from the fields, following her most recent Wigmore Hall concert, the father Venetian contralto Sara Mingardo is in great demand Nazi oppression in Austria and forced at the world’s leading opera houses and recital halls. Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill into She is joined by Ivano Zanenghi and Giorgio Dal overseas exile in the 1930s and delivered them to Monte for a programme that illustrates the vivacity, work for Hollywood’s soundstages. Christianne colour and dash of the early Italian baroque. Stotijn and Julius Drake evoke the musical energy Nelahozeves, in the Czech Republic (Dvorˇák’s place of birth) £13 concs £11 generated by these three émigré composers, from the austere beauty of Korngold’s Four Shakespeare Tuesday 12 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Songs to the powerful imagery of Weill’s Walt Friday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Whitman settings. Wednesday 20 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert £35 £30 £25 £18 CZECH CHAMBER MUSIC Song Recital Series Delve into the chamber music of Smetana, Dvorˇák, Suk and Janácˇek in three afternoon study sessions. We journey from the mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth, as a preoccupation with the notion of Czech musical identity develops from the simple adoption of dance rhythms to a profound engagement with the indigenous music of the region. Often these compositions are deeply personal, even autobiographical, and they show both the development of a national style and the emergence of some wonderful and highly individual musical voices within it. The Study Group is hosted by composer Julian Philips with pianist Laura Roberts and visiting musicologists, and includes music performed by students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert by Joshua Bell, Lawrence Power, Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk on 20 May.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event / Czech Chamber Music Sara Mingardo Carlo Coppitz Christianne Stotijn Joost van den Broek

28 Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Wigmore Hall’s wide-ranging Henry Wednesday 13 May 7.30 pm Purcell: A Retrospective, generously spread over two seasons, continues Gabrieli Consort & Players this summer with unmissable Paul McCreesh director performances of his music for the London stage, royal court and PURCELL ODES: II private chamber. Highlights include Purcell Love’s goddess sure was blind the composer’s birthday odes for (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary, Queen Mary, a selection of works 1692); Celebrate this festival (Ode for for instrumental consort, Alison the birthday of Queen Mary, 1693); Balsom’s survey of trumpet tunes Come, ye sons of art away (Ode for the with Trevor Pinnock and The English birthday of Queen Mary, 1694) Concert, and a thrilling community Purcell set benchmark standards in his opera based on King Arthur. works for royal occasions. Paul McCreesh continues his survey of the composer’s Henry Purcell: A Retrospective is made birthday odes for Queen Mary with three possible thanks to all our contributors exceptional compositions. The programme to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, is capped by Come, ye sons of art away, whose purpose is to help fund an ideally blended mix of solo airs, important artistic projects. ensemble songs and instrumental pieces.

£50 £40 £30 £20 Tuesday 12 May 7.30 pm Other Events in this Series Gabrieli Consort & Players Friday 8 May 10.00 pm Paul McCreesh director PURCELL ODES: I Alison Balsom trumpet Purcell Now does the glorious day Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ appear (Ode for the birthday of Queen The English Concert Mary, 1689); Arise, my muse (Ode for Lucy Crowe soprano the birthday of Queen Mary, 1690); Welcome, welcome glorious morn (Ode Tim Mead countertenor for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1691) ‘SOUND THE TRUMPET’ Paul McCreesh directs his Gabrieli Consort & Players in a programme of Tuesday 9 June 7.30 pm Purcell’s odes, part of a series of works written following the Restoration of Phantasm consort Charles II to mark royal birthdays and Elizabeth Kenny theorbo other important occasions at court. The three pieces in this programme reflect FANTASIAS the strength of public affection for Queen Mary and the sheer quality of Purcell’s Thursday 16 July 2.00 pm & 6.30 pm musical invention.

£50 £40 £30 £20 Community Chamber Opera

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall REIMAGINING KING ARTHUR

Further concerts to be announced for the 2015 /16 Season

Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman

29 May

Thursday 14 May 7.30 pm Friday 15 May 10.00 pm

ROGER VIGNOLES Kirill Gerstein piano Trish Clowes saxophone Bartók Excerpts from Mikrokosmos Gwilym Simcock piano MASTERCLASS Bach 15 Sinfonias (3 Part Inventions) BWV787–801 Liszt Études d’exécution transcendante S139 Heath Quartet Weill It never was you (arr. by Richard Rodney Winner of the prestigious Gilmore Award, Kirill Bennett) Trish Clowes The Master and Margarita Gerstein’s musical curiosity, technical prowess and (dedicated to Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The cultivated musicianship have led him to fathom the Master and Margarita); Under Your Wing depths and explore the breadth of the piano repertoire. Gwilym Simcock New work (world première) His latest Wigmore Hall programme presents a Trish Clowes A cat called Behemoth fascinating juxtaposition of works conceived by (for the cat in The Master and Margarita) Bartók and Bach as student exercises, together with Gershwin Lullaby Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, a dozen fiendishly /Norma Winstone Enjoy this Day difficult elaborations of earlier keyboard studies. Mikhail Bulgakov’s mesmerising The Master and £35 £30 £25 £18 Margarita, among the last century’s greatest novels, London Pianoforte Series has inspired young British saxophonist Trish Clowes to write some of her best music, thrilling and haunting by turns. She is joined for a late-night line up of original works new and old by fellow former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock and the ever-adventurous Heath Quartet.

All seats £15 Wigmore Lates

Roger Vignoles Benjamin Ealovega Kirill Gerstein Marco Borggreve

Thursday 14 May 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Roger Vignoles Masterclass Roger Vignoles has developed a unique personal insight into the relationship between pianist and singer. His work was directly inspired by two legends of the recital world, Gerald Moore and , and has evolved to the highest refinement in collaboration with such world-class artists as Elisabeth Söderström, Dame , Sir , Brigitte Fassbaender, , Dame and Mark Padmore. In this masterclass he focuses on German Lieder with postgraduate students from UK music colleges.

£7 concs £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event Gwilym Simcock Eric Richmond Trish Clowes

30 May

Sunday 17 May 11.30 am Sunday 17 May 7.30 pm

IAN BOSTRIDGE London Winds Jack Liebeck violin Philippa Davies flute Katya Apekisheva piano SCHUBERT LIEDER Gareth Hulse Messiaen Theme and Variations Richard Watkins horn Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 Robin O'Neill Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13 Michael Collins clarinet, director Stravinsky Divertimento Michael McHale piano Jack Liebeck’s fine artistry flows naturally from his Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes innate gifts as a communicator. His Wigmore Hall Op. 79 debut in 2002 attracted a capacity audience and he has since become established among the most Mozart Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452 dynamic and intense performers of his generation. Thuille Sextet in Bb for piano and winds Op. 6 This programme offers two contrasting violin sonatas Technological advances during the early 1900s together with Messiaen’s haunting Theme and delivered new versions of wind instruments that Variations and Stravinsky’s romantic Divertimento. soon attracted interest from composers. The transformation was prompted by works such as £35 £30 £25 £18 Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds, which Chamber Music Season demonstrated the enormous musical potential of instruments usually associated with outdoor performance. Michael Collins and his ensemble London Winds also explore the vibrant colours and energy of Saint-Saëns’s Caprice, first performed in St Petersburg in 1887, and the heroic Sextet by Ian Bostridge Sim Canetty-Clarke Austrian composer Ludwig Thuille.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Saturday 16 May 7.30 pm Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Ian Bostridge tenor Julius Drake piano Schubert Wehmut; Der Zwerg; Nacht und Träume; Der Musensohn; An die Entfernte; Am Flusse; Willkommen und Abschied; Wandrers Nachtlied II; An die Leier; Am See; Im Haine; Erlkönig; An den Mond (D259); Nähe des Geliebten; Nachtgesang; Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Meeres Stille; Auf dem See; An Mignon; Erster Verlust; Ganymed; An den Mond (D296) Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake launched their critically acclaimed Schubert Lieder series at Wigmore Hall during the 2013/14 Season. Their ambitious journey through some of the greatest songs ever written concludes with works infinitely rich in poetic nuance, musical expression and dramatic power.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Song Recital Series / Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder London Winds Eric Richmond Jack Liebeck David Corfield

31 May

Monday 18 May 1.00 pm Wednesday 20 May 7.30 pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor Joshua Bell violin Daniel Heide piano Lawrence Power viola Schubert An den Mond (D259); Schäfers Klagelied; Steven Isserlis cello Erster Verlust; Rastlose Liebe; Wandrers Nachtlied II; piano Willkommen und Abschied Jeremy Denk Schumann Dichterliebe Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1 Thursday 21 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm Janácˇek Violin Sonata At its best, music holds the power to enhance poetic Martinu° Cello Sonata No. 2 imagery and focus the listener’s contemplation of YCAT Public Final Dvorˇák Piano Quartet in E Op. 87 things that lie beyond easy understanding. The b Auditions 2015 works in Christoph Prégardien’s BBC Lunchtime Steven Isserlis is joined by three close friends and recital, crowned by Schumann’s famous song cycle, colleagues for this programme of Czech music, Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT): transcend words and music to create imaginary complete with Martinu˚’s radiant Second Cello Identifying, nurturing, promoting and worlds in which the human spirit can set aside Sonata. Growing awareness of national identity, supporting exceptional young artists everyday concerns to experience a heightened underpinned by the rediscovery of Bohemian and sense of reality. Moravian folk music, found its way into the fabric YCAT artists are identified through a rigorous of works such as Dvorˇák’s Piano Quartet in E flat annual audition process. In this third and £13 concs £11 and the Piano Quartet in A minor by his pupil final round, outstanding young soloists and future son-in-law, Josef Suk. Janácˇek’s and ensembles, selected from over 100 Violin Sonata, meanwhile, was influenced by the applicants in the preliminary and semi-final song-like qualities of the Czech language. rounds, audition before a distinguished BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert panel of judges. At a critical time in their £40 £35 £30 £20 development YCAT offers guidance and Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle advice alongside a full artist management service to selected artists for 3–5 years. Chamber Music Season/Czech Chamber Music Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Susan Gritton, , Alison Balsom, Joanna MacGregor, Llyˆr Williams and the Belcea, Heath and Doric string quartets.

£10 concs £8 per session (or £16 for both sessions)

Christoph Prégardien Marco Borggreve Joshua Bell Lisa Marie Mazzucco Lawrence Power Jack Liebeck

32 May

Friday 22 May 7.30 pm Saturday 23 May 7.30 pm Sunday 24 May 11.30 am

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Joshua Bell violin Aviv String Quartet Anthony Spiri piano Pamela Frank violin Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68 Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1 Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90 Lawrence Power viola Songs by Schumann, Guastavino, López Buchardo Formed in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet cello and Ginastera Steven Isserlis received early coaching from some of the greatest piano names in chamber music-making, members of the Few artists today can hold an audience more Jeremy Denk Amadeus, Emerson and Juilliard string quartets spellbound than Bernarda Fink. The Buenos Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 (arr. for 2 among them. The ensemble’s Coffee Concert Aires-born mezzo’s personal warmth and openness and viola) explores the ironic nature of Shostakovich’s Second nourish interpretations that convey the emotional Janácˇek Pohádka String Quartet, a wartime work rich in allusion to life force of the songs in her extensive repertoire. Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15 Jewish folk themes, and the tragic tone of Brahms’s She begins this recital with a survey of Schumann’s Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 First String Quartet. later songs before turning to music by three great Songs and dances marked every occasion of life in Argentine composers. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice the Czech lands, from births, marriages and funerals £35 £30 £25 £18 to evenings in the local wine cellar and visits to Sunday Morning Coffee Concert country fairs. Steven Isserlis and friends gather Song Recital Series once more to revive the spirit of works created by composers raised on free-flowing melody. Their recital includes Pohádka for cello and piano, rooted in its composer’s passion for Slavic culture, and Dvorˇák’s majestic Second Piano Quintet.

£40 £35 £30 £20 Chamber Music Season/Czech Chamber Music

Bernarda Fink Stefan Reichmann Aviv String Quartet Tashko Tasheff

Steven Isserlis Satoshi Aoyagi Pamela Frank Nicolas Lieber Jeremy Denk Michael Wilson

33 May

Sunday 24 May 7.30 pm Monday 25 May 1.00 pm Monday 25 May 7.30 pm

Inon Barnatan piano Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Quatuor Ebène Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78 Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1 Emperor’ Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit Sebastian Currier Glow* (world première) Ohana From 12 Études d’interprétation: No. 2 Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Mouvements parallèles; No. 5 Quintes; No. 4 Main Quatuor Ebène launches its latest Wigmore Hall gauche seule *Co-commissioned by Aspen Music Festival, Het programme with Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ Quartet, so called Debussy From Études Book I: No. 2 Pour les tierces; Concertgebouw , and by Wigmore Hall with for its use of the Austrian emperor’s hymn, and No. 4 Pour les sixtes; No. 5 Pour les octaves the support of André Hoffmann, president of Fondation explores the borderlands of sound and silence that Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Stylish pianism and profound musicianship are among course through Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit of 1976. the hallmarks of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s artistry. Inon Barnatan was named as the New York £35 £30 £25 £18 Philharmonic’s first Artist in Association in January The French pianist here presents Beethoven’s 2014, a position that reflects his growing international two-movement Piano Sonata No. 24 in company Chamber Music Season reputation. He has been a regular performer at with three Gallic masterworks, including Boulez’s Wigmore Hall over several seasons and returns to gritty Piano Sonata No. 1 and a selection of Maurice give an imaginatively conceived programme. His Ohana’s Debussy-inspired Études d’interprétation. Tuesday 26 May 7.30pm repertoire choice includes Schubert’s serene G major £13 concs £11 Piano Sonata and the world première of Glow by James Ehnes violin American composer Sebastian Currier, recipient of piano the 2007 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Andrew Armstrong Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 London Pianoforte Series/ Canadian violinist James Ehnes’s trademark Contemporary Music Series eloquence arises from his jaw-dropping technical command, serene lyricism and unfaltering musicality. His programme includes works that resonate fully with his artistic soul, from the yearning lyricism of Debussy’s late Violin Sonata to the impassioned melancholy of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Chamber Music Season Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Benjamin Ealovega

Inon Barnatan Marco Borggreve Quatuor Ebène Julien Mignot James Ehnes Benjamin Ealovega

34 May

Thursday 28 May 7.30 pm Friday 29 May 7.00 pm Friday 29 May 10.00 pm

Philippe Cassard piano Henk Neven baritone Simón Bolívar String Quartet David Grimal violin Imogen Cooper piano Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20 Ravel String Quartet in F Anne Gastinel cello Mendelssohn Gruß; Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Jagdlied; Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ programme of music Baptiste Trotignon Trio* (world première) Venetianisches Gondellied; Der Mond; Nachtlied education has, among many fine things, helped Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 create the Simón Bolívar String Quartet. The Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in E D929 b Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: ensemble’s late-night programme opens with the *Co-commissioned by SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Der Tamboursg’sell; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz; colourful music of Alberto Ginastera’s First String Compositeurs et Editeurs de musique), and by Wigmore Nicht wiedersehen!; Trost im Unglück; Wo die Quartet, tinged with the Argentine composer’s Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the schönen Trompeten blasen; Revelge; Urlicht ‘imagined folklore’, and continues with Ravel’s Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation lyrical String Quartet in F. Henk Neven’s charisma and distinctive timbre Philippe Cassard and his long-time chamber music belong to a package of artistic attributes that have All seats £15 partners, David Grimal and Anne Gastinel, begin placed him among the most exciting young singers this recital with the world première of a new work Wigmore Lates to emerge over the past decade. He continues his by French composer Baptiste Trotignon, known collaboration with Imogen Cooper with a programme to many for his work as jazz pianist. They devote tailored to inspire their shared empathy for Romantic the concert’s second half to one of the greatest music, including a second half devoted to songs of all chamber music compositions, Schubert’s from Mahler’s evocative Des Knaben Wunderhorn. all-encompassing Piano Trio in E flat. £35 £30 £25 £18 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series

Philippe Cassard Vincent-Catala Henk Neven Marco Borggreve Simón Bolívar String Quartet Harald Hoffmann/DG

35 May/June

Saturday 30 May 6.00 pm Sunday 31 May 11.30 am

Pre-Concert Talk Jean-Marc Luisada piano 10TH ANNIVERSARY Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris introduces Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6 OF THE TRASIMENO the evening concert. Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Humoreske in B Op. 20 £4 b MUSIC FESTIVAL Jean-Marc Luisada sets the scene in this recital Wigmore Hall Learning Event for two Romantic masterworks by Schumann with the intense brilliance of Haydn’s Variations in F minor, among the composer’s most original and Saturday 30 May 7.30 pm forward-looking keyboard pieces. Llyˆr Williams piano £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1; Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 18 in Eb Op. 31 No. 3; Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101 Monday 1 June 1.00 pm Llyˆr Williams presented Beethoven’s complete piano violin sonatas in chronological order in 2010 and explored Tasmin Little them within the space of a fortnight at the Edinburgh Martin Roscoe piano A Trasimeno Music Festival concert International Festival the following year. His first Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz) London cycle continues at Wigmore Hall with a Sunday 31 May 7.30 pm Dvorˇák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 programme carefully constructed to reveal the Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano composer’s revolutionary keyboard invention in Angela Hewitt piano the Op. 31 sonatas of the early 1800s and the Tasmin Little’s artistry speaks directly to the heart Cremona Quartet psychological and formal complexities of his Piano and beguiles the ear. She is joined by regular duo Sonata No. 28 in A. partner Martin Roscoe for a lunchtime recital of late Kerson Leong violin Romantic masterworks, crowned by César Franck’s The next concert in Llyˆr Williams’s Beethoven piano Gerald Finley bass-baritone majestic Sonata in A for violin and piano. sonata cycle is on 3 October 2015. £13 concs £11 Liszt From Années de pèlerinage, deuxième £35 £30 £25 £18 année S161: Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47; London Pianoforte Series Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104; Sonetto del Petrarca No. 123 Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert (à Georges Enescu) Three Cabaret Songs (on poems by Ian McEwan) (UK première) Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

Ten years have passed since Angela Hewitt founded the Trasimeno Festival, a jewel in the cultural crown of the Umbrian town of Magione. She introduces the annual event’s special atmosphere to Wigmore Hall, partnering fellow Canadian Gerald Finley in Michael Berkeley’s Three Cabaret Songs, piquant settings of words by Ian McEwan, and joining the Cremona Quartet for Franck’s intensely expressive Piano Quintet in F minor.

£50 £40 £30 £20 Chamber Music Season /Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series Llyˆr Williams Benjamin Ealovega Tasmin Little Melanie Winning

36 Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe

Tuesday 2 June 7.30 pm Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe director O DOLCE MIO TESORO Gesualdo Madrigali libro sesto Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent became pioneers of the Early Music Movement in the 1970s and remain leaders in the interpretation of works written long before the Industrial Revolution. In this concert they explore the extreme emotions and chromatic twists and turns of the mature madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo, the Italian nobleman who turned to composition soon after he took part in the murder of his wife and her lover. £50 £40 £30 £20 Supported by Dunard Fund Philippe Herreweghe Early Music and Baroque Series

Photos by Michiel Hendryckx

37 June

Wednesday 3 June 7.30 pm Thursday 4 June 7.30 pm

ELLYAMELING Richard Goode piano Mauro Peter tenor Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 James Baillieu piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F Op. 78 MASTERCLASSES # Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98 Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76 Schumann From Myrthen: Widmung; Freisinn; Debussy Children’s Corner Der Nussbaum; Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch Schumann Humoreske in B Op. 20 b im Divan; Zwei Venetianische Lieder; Known for the intelligence and warm humanity of Du bist wie eine Blume his music-making, Richard Goode belongs to the Brahms Meerfahrt; Nachtigall; Versunken; pantheon of today’s great . His programme Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Feldeinsamkeit; comprises works by composers central to his art, Geheimnis embracing everything from Mozart’s fantasy-like Wolf eines Verliebten; Der Knabe und das Adagio in B minor to the uplifting lyricism and dash Immlein; An die Geliebte; Nimmersatte Liebe; of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 24. Der Tambour; Abschied £35 £30 £25 £18 Lessons from Helmut Deutsch at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater supplied London Pianoforte Series secure foundations for Mauro Peter’s artistic development. The young Swiss tenor, who made his international breakthrough at the 2012 Hohenems Schubertiade, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform a delectable banquet of Lieder, complete with such evergreen works as Brahms’s ‘Feldeinsamkeit’ and Beethoven’s impassioned song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Song Recital Series

Elly Ameling

Wednesday 3 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm Thursday 4 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm Elly Ameling Masterclasses A true legend of song, Elly Ameling has received critical acclaim worldwide for the interpretative insights and captivating power of her performances. The Dutch soprano shares the fruits of a lifetime’s experience with postgraduate students in two masterclass sessions that focus on repertoire from the heart of German and French art song, exploring works in depth and cultivating strong ideas about their musical and poetic meaning. Her wisdom, based on a fruitful career spanning sixty years, is sure to enlighten anyone interested in the song recitalist’s art.

£7 concs £4 each session Wigmore Hall Learning Event Richard Goode Michael Wilson Mauro Peter Franziska Schroedinger

38 June

Friday 5 June 5.30 pm Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm Artists in Conversation FLORIAN BOESCH Aurora Orchestra Christian McBride in conversation before his Nicholas Collon conductor evening concert. RESIDENCY Alice Coote mezzo-soprano £4 JUDITH WEIR: Wigmore Hall Learning Event MASTER OF THE QUEEN’S MUSIC See page overleaf for full details Friday 5 June 7.00 pm Christian McBride Trio Sunday 7 June 11.30 am Christian McBride double bass ATOS Trio Christian Sands piano Ulysses Owens Jr. drums Debussy Piano Trio in G Chaminade Piano Trio No. 2 in A minor Op. 34 Christian McBride, Christian Sands and Ulysses Boulanger D’un matin de printemps Owens Jr. have been honing their trio to a fine point of expressive depth and nuance with high -based ATOS Trio turns to the chamber music profile performances around the world. ‘The real of fin-de-siècle , exploring the youthful core foundation is hardcore swingin’, blues and sentiment of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G and linking the American songbook’ says McBride. ‘Part of that Florian Boesch Lukas Beck it to magnificent works by Cécile Chaminade and is because Christian [Sands] is so well-rounded Lili Boulanger, the latter completed shortly before its and willing to go to so many places, that I can’t Friday 5 June 10.00 pm composer’s premature death in 1918. help but want to swing hard with him and Ulysses.’ Florian Boesch baritone £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £30 £25 £20 £15 Deutsche Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Programme to include: Mahler/Schoenberg Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Romantic imagery and life-changing journeys echo through Florian Boesch’s late-night programme, an essential strand in his Wigmore Hall Residency. The German baritone and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen embark on an exploration of Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, offered in ’s exquisite arrangement for chamber orchestra.

All seats £20

Wigmore Lates/ Florian Boesch Residency

Also in this Series

Sunday 7 June 7.30 pm Florian Boesch baritone Malcolm Martineau piano

Sunday 7 June 9.45 pm Post-Concert Talk Christian McBride ATOS Trio Frank Jerke

39 Judith Weir Master of the Queen’s Music

Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon conductor Alice Coote mezzo-soprano

Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20 Judith Weir Good Morning, Midnight* (world première) Copland Appalachian Spring *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Judith Weir recently made headline news following her appointment as Master of the Queen’s Music, the first woman to hold this ancient royal position. The world première of her work, written for Alice Coote and Aurora Orchestra, is presented in company with Mendelssohn’s Octet and Copland’s Appalachian Spring, performed in its original version for thirteen instruments – two pulsating compositions marked by bold ideas, intense energy and joy.

£40 £35 £25 £15 Booking open Song Recital Series/Chamber Music Series / Contemporary Music Series

Photo of Judith Weir by Chris Christodoulou

Nicholas Collon & Aurora Orchestra Simon Weir Alice Coote Benjamin Ealovega

40 June

Sunday 7 June 7.30 pm Monday 8 June 1.00 pm Tuesday 9 June 7.30pm

Florian Boesch baritone Škampa Quartet Phantasm Malcolm Martineau piano Krzysztof Chorzelski viola Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol Emilia Benjamin treble viol Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ein Ständchen Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale Jonathan Manson tenor viol euch zu bringen; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’ (St Wenceslas) Op. 35a Mikko Perkola tenor viol erhoben; Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Geselle, woll’n Pavel Fischer String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mad Piper’ Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Heut’ Nacht erhob ich Dvorˇák String Quintet in Eb Op. 97 mich; Benedeit die sel’ge Mutter; Was für ein Lied Folk music’s direct simplicity and deep resonance Elizabeth Kenny theorbo soll dir gesungen werden?; Wenn du mich mit den in the collective unconscious inspired Pavel Fischer, PURCELL: FANTASIAS Augen streifst und lachst former first violin of the Škampa Quartet, to write Brahms Four Serious Songs his ‘Mad Piper’ Quartet. The work’s multi-hued Gibbons Fantasies a 3, Nos. 3 & 4 Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 emotional palette complements the national pride Purcell Fantasias a 3, Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Florian Boesch is blessed with a rare gift for and yearning hope of Suk’s Meditation on an old Locke Little Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’ conveying the subtle alchemy of words and music, Bohemian Chorale, written following the outbreak Purcell Fantasias a 4, Nos. 4, 5 & 12 matching a felt sense of their meaning to the of the First World War. Lawes Royall Consort No. 5 in D Ward Fancies a 5, Nos. 1 & 5 appropriate colours and shades of his richly £13 concs £11 endowed voice. His Wigmore Hall Residency Locke Consort of 4 Parts in D minor concludes with a programme shot through with Purcell Fantasias a 4, Nos. 9, 10 & 11 striking images and profound emotions, crowned Contemplation and cultivation of the imagination by Schumann’s sublime settings of poetry by BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert appear to have been central to the English fantasia. Joseph Eichendorff. Purcell’s contribution to the genre, as so often with £35 £30 £25 £18 his work, reached heights rarely scaled by others, although he was clearly inspired by the legacy of Song Recital Series /Florian Boesch Residency compositions by Orlando Gibbons, William Lawes, Matthew Locke and John Ward. Phantasm’s programme digs deep into the seventeenth-century Sunday 7 June 9. 45 pm viol consort tradition to reveal its greatest treasures. Post-Concert Talk £35 £30 £25 £18 Early Music and Baroque Series/ Following the concert, Florian Boesch discusses Henry Purcell: A Retrospective his life and career with Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly. £4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Krzysztof Chorzelski

Florian Boesch Lukas Beck Škampa Quartet Ivan Pinkava Phantasm Marco Borggreve

41 June

Wednesday 10 June 7.30 pm Friday 12 June 7.00 pm Christiane Iven soprano PAUL LEWIS: Isabelle Faust violin Igor Levit* piano Alexander Melnikov piano Wagner Wesendonck Lieder A CELEBRATION Dietrich/Schumann/Brahms F.A.E. Sonata Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Wolf From Mörike Lieder: Um Mitternacht; Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 Elfenlied; Das verlassene Mägdlein; In der Frühe; in D minor Op. 108 Begegnung; Er ist’s The artistic partnership between Isabelle Faust Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Um schlimme and Alexander Melnikov has grown over time, Kinder artig zu machen; Scheiden und Meiden; shaped by award-winning encounters in the Ich ging mit Lust; Nicht wiedersehen! recording studio and refined in the white heat of Schoenberg From Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs): concert performance. Their latest Wigmore Hall Galathea; Gigerlette; Der genügsame Liebhaber; recital opens with the complete F.A.E. Sonata, Mahnung; Seit ich soviele Weiber sah (Arie aus the collaborative work of Robert Schumann, dem Spiegel von Arkadien) his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Johannes Igor Levit’s breathtaking artistry has been endorsed Brahms, before turning to the flowing lyricism by critical consensus, audience acclaim and and telling expressive economy of Brahms’s carefully considered comparisons with legendary mature violin sonatas. performers from the past. The German-Russian £35 £30 £25 £18 pianist’s gifts as duo partner will be on display when he is joined by Christiane Iven, a celebrated Chamber Music Season member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart and a Paul Lewis Molina Visuals transcendent interpreter of late Romantic song. £35 £30 £25 £18 Thursday 11 June 6.00 pm * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Repeated Thursday 11 June 9.00 pm Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Paul Lewis piano Song Recital Series/Introducing Igor Levit Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109; Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110 Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas belong to the category of inexhaustible artworks, compositions that offer their performers and listeners a bridge into an infinite world of creativity and imagination. Paul Lewis crowns his Wigmore Hall Celebration series with two performances of Opp. 109 –111 in one evening, a marathon feat of mental and physical endurance, and an unmissable opportunity to share the pianist’s total immersion in Beethoven’s music. £35 £30 £25 £18 London Pianoforte Series / Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Also in this Series Wednesday 29 April 7.30 pm Allan Clayton tenor Paul Lewis piano Christiane Iven Christine Schneider Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov Molina Visuals

42 June

Friday 12 June 10.00 pm Saturday 13 June 7.30 pm Sunday 14 June 11.30 am

Arcangelo François-Frédéric Guy piano Lana Trotovsek violin Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano Simon Lane piano Christiane Karg soprano Bartók Two Pictures Op. 10 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108 Debussy Jeux (arr. Bavouzet) Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher HANDEL: NINE GERMAN ARIAS Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Op. 42 Die ihr aus dunklen Grüften; Künft’ger Arvo Pärt Fratres for violin and piano Handel Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s arrangement for two Zeiten eitler Kummer; Das zitternde Glänzen der Frolov Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s of Debussy’s Jeux trains the spotlight on the ballet Porgy and Bess Op. 19 spielenden Wellen; Süsse Stille, sanfter Quelle score’s intricate interplay of ideas and intimacy of Buxtehude Sonata in A minor for violin, viola da expression. He joins forces with François-Frédéric Guy, While Brahms and Arvo Pärt applied telling gamba and basso continuo BuxWV254 acclaimed for his interpretations of the Viennese expressive economy to the works in this programme, Handel Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden; classics and affinity for the works of Bartók. Their extrovert display hallmarks the Frolov work, as it Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise; In den angenehmen recital closes with Stravinsky’s barnstorming delves into themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Büschen; Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken; transcription of The Rite of Spring for piano duo. London-based, Slovenian-born violinist Lana Trotovsek Meine Seele hört im Sehen also explores Tchaikovsky’s haunting reflections on £35 £30 £25 £18 Handel’s Nine German Arias, the composer’s final ‘a dear place’, the country estate of the composer’s musical settings of his mother tongue, were inspired London Pianoforte Series patroness, Nadezhda von Meck. by the popular success of a collection of verse by £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice the poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Christiane Karg and Arcangelo perform the complete Sunday Morning Coffee Concert set together with one of Dietrich Buxtehude’s most soulful sonatas, probably written in the 1690s for performance at St Mary’s Church in Lübeck.

All seats £15 Wigmore Lates

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Benjamin Ealovega

Christiane Karg Gisela Schenker François-Frédéric Guy Guy Vivien Lana Trotovsek

43 Bracing Change New British String Commissions

Sunday 14 June 7.30 pm Carducci String Quartet Guy Johnston cello

Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’ Anthony Gilbert Haven of Mysteries for string quintet* (world première) Schubert String Quintet in C D956 *Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Wigmore Hall’s wholehearted commitment to building the chamber music repertoire continues with the first performance of a new work for string quintet. Anthony Gilbert’s composition, Haven of Mysteries, belongs to the Hall’s Bracing Change programme, a series of new British string commissions. The Carducci String Quartet is joined by Guy Johnston for this performance, which also includes Schubert’s divine String Quintet, among the great masterworks dating from the composer’s final months. The programme begins with Haydn’s dazzling String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2, the popular nickname of which reflects the stop-start ending of its rondo.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series/ Bracing Change: New British String Commissions

Anthony Gilbert Morris Adam Carducci String Quartet Tom Barnes Guy Johnston Jack Liebeck

44 June

Monday 15 June 1.00 pm Monday 15 June 7.30 pm Tuesday 16 June 7.30pm

Gould Piano Trio Christoph Prégardien tenor Till Fellner piano Bowen Rhapsody Trio for violin, cello and piano Michael Gees piano Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II Nos. 5–8 Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B D898 BWV874–77 b Schubert Winterreise Mozart Piano Sonata in E K282; Rondo in York Bowen, youngest son of the owner of a b The conflicts between striving and acceptance, A minor K511 whisky distillery, made the transition from literal and poetic truth, and life and death itself Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 prodigiously talented student to a major figure are played out in Winterreise, Schubert’s peerless on the British music scene in the first half of Till Fellner’s broad repertoire spans three centuries setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller. the twentieth century. The Gould Piano Trio of music, from the keyboard works of JS Bach to Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees bring their received rave reviews for its recent recording of pieces specially written for him. The Viennese vast collective experience to its interpretation, his Romantic Rhapsody Trio, a work underpinned pianist opens his recital with an illustration of the probing its spine-chilling melancholy and aiming by emotional uplift and optimism. inventive genius of Bach’s The Well-tempered to uncover insights into the human condition. Clavier Book II and journeys towards the fantasy of £13 concs £11 This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in Schumann’s Kreisleriana by way of two works in duration, without an interval which Mozart experiments with bold new ideas.

£35 £30 £25 £18 £35 £30 £25 £18 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall London Pianoforte Series Song Recital Series

Gould Piano Trio Chris Stock Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees H & C Baus Till Fellner Benjamin Ealovega

45 June

Wednesday 17 June 7.30 pm Thursday 18 June 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor The Endellion String Quartet ALBAN GERHARDT Roger Vignoles piano Mozart String Quartet in Eb K428 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor FOCUS Schubert Atys; Ganymed; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Op. 13 Griechenlands’; Am Strome; Des Fischers Ravel String Quartet in F Liebesglück; Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Der Schiffer (D536) ‘Maybe thirty-five years of playing together has Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente brought … a uniformity of thought and instinct Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne that allows them to play as a single entity,’ Schubert Die Mutter Erde; Im Abendrot; observed Gramophone about The Endellion String Die Taubenpost (D965a) Quartet. The group’s seasoned blend of art and craft here finds expression in Mozart’s genial It is tempting to imagine the spirits of Britten and String Quartet in E flat K428 and Mendelssohn’s Schubert tuning in to and approving of Mark Beethoven-inspired String Quartet No. 2. Ravel’s Padmore’s artistry. The tenor’s affinity for both youthful String Quartet in F proved a succès de composers, not to mention that of Roger Vignoles, scandale following its rejection by the Prix de has deepened over many years. This recital places Rome jury in 1904. Britten’s only song cycle in German and his equally penetrating settings of John Donne in company £30 £25 £20 £15 with some of Schubert’s greatest Lieder. Chamber Music Season £35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season Song Recital Series Alban Gerhardt Sim Canetty-Clarke

Friday 19 June 7.00 pm Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola Alban Gerhardt cello

Mozart String Quintet in Eb K614 Brett Dean Epitaphs Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 The final concert in Wigmore Hall’s Alban Gerhardt Focus reflects the German cellist’s wide and open repertoire outlook and lifelong love for making chamber music. Brett Dean performs one of the viola parts in his Epitaphs (2010), a personal tribute to five friends and colleagues who died within the space of little more than a year. The programme closes with another work for two violins, two and cello, Brahms’s sonorous String Quintet in G.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking Open Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Alban Gerhardt Focus Mark Padmore Marco Borggreve The Endellion String Quartet Eric Richmond

46 June

Friday 19 June 10.00 pm Fantasticus THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK Rie Kimura baroque violin Robert Smith viola da gamba Guillermo Brachetta harpsichord FAYRFAX CELEBRATION SONNERIE AND OTHER PORTRAITS Musical paintings from the French Baroque Marais Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du-Mont de Paris Rameau Cinquième pièce de clavecin en concert: Fugue, La Forqueray – La Cupis – La Marais Marais Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully Francœur Adagio and Rondeau from Sonata VI (Deuxième Livre) Leclair Sonata in D Op. 2 No. 8 Fantasticus stands for intense expression and emotional extravagance. The Netherlands-based baroque ensemble’s playing is directly informed by the stylus fantasticus, a concept coined in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher, the German Jesuit scholar, alchemist and polymath, to describe ‘the most free and unrestrained method of composing’. Each of the works in its programme defies the boundaries of convention, none more so than Marin Marais’s elegiac Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully.

All seats £15 Wigmore Lates

The Cardinall’s Musick Dmitri Gutjahr

Saturday 20 June 7.30 pm The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew Carwood director THE PASSION OF CHRIST – Sub-plot: Cardinal Wolsey Taverner Sospitati dedit aegros; Mater Christi sanctissima Cornysh Woefully arrayed Fayrfax Maria plena virtute Merbecke Domine Jesu Christe Davy Ah blessed Jesu how fortuned this Fayrfax Alas for lak of her presens Taverner O Wilhelme pastor bone Fayrfax Agnus Dei from Tecum principium The Passion of Christ has brought forth much powerful music chief amongst which is the extended devotion Maria plena virtute by Fayrfax. Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick conclude their Fayrfax Celebration with a selection of mellifluous choral works from early Tudor times, complete with Taverner’s Mater Christi sanctissima and the exquisite ‘Agnus Dei’ from Fayrfax’s Mass Tecum principium. The sub-text of this concert focuses on Cardinal Wolsey – Henry VIII’s principal advisor until his fall from power – and is reflected in the music of John Taverner who was appointed Informator (choirmaster) at Cardinal College (now Christ Church), Oxford.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Early Music and Baroque Series / The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration Fantasticus Rudi Wells

47 June

Sunday 21 June 11.30 am Monday 22 June 1.00 pm Wednesday 24 June 10.00 am – 4.30 pm

Szymanowski Quartet Ailish Tynan soprano RNIB Study Day: Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421 James Baillieu piano Success through Sponsorship Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4 Hahn Fêtes galantes; En sourdine; A Chloris Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY Poulenc La courte paille; Trois poèmes de Louise (arr. for string quartet) FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED de Vilmorin MUSICIANS Since its foundation in Warsaw a decade ago, the Hahn Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénitien Szymanowski Quartet has attracted an international This practical study day is an opportunity for blind Reynaldo Hahn’s music always rewards its listeners, following. The ensemble’s sophisticated musicianship and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways offering glimpses of the composer’s soul through its and collective feeling for tonal nuance can be heard into the industry and career refined surface. Ailish Tynan and her duo partner in a programme complete with Mozart’s String development, including how to make the most out James Baillieu present four of the Frenchman’s Quartet in D minor, a work of heart-breaking pathos, of opportunities for sponsorship. The day involves finest mélodies in company with Poulenc’s final and the exotic soundscapes of Szymanowski’s discussion, talks and the chance to perform on the song collection, La courte paille (‘The short straw’), Nocturne and Tarantella. Wigmore Hall stage. inspired by recollections of childhood, and the £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, written soon For more information and to book, please contact after the young composer’s return to Catholicism in James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on Sunday Morning Coffee Concert the mid-1930s. 020 7391 2273 or [email protected]

£13 concs £11 Free (application required)

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Szymanowski Quartet Marco Borggreve Ailish Tynan Benjamin Ealovega Benjamin Ealovega

48 June

Wednesday 24 June 7.30 pm Thursday 25 June 7.30 pm Saturday 27 June 7.30 pm

Matthew Polenzani tenor Le Concert Spirituel Leipzig String Quartet Julius Drake piano Hervé Niquet director Beethoven Grosse Fuge in Bb Op. 133 Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 Beethoven Adelaide VENETIAN SPLENDOURS Hanna Kulenty New work* (UK première) Liszt Wie singt die Lerche schön; Der Glückliche; See page overleaf for full details Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1 Die stille Wasserrose; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Es rauschen die Winde; S’il est un charmant gazon; *Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam and by Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils; Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, Friday 26 June 7.30 pm Oh! Quand je dors president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques Satie Trois Mélodies Borodin Quartet Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge has been described as Barber Hermit Songs ‘a poetic discourse of enormous size’, a mighty Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’ combination of counterpoint and fantasy that In recent seasons Matthew Polenzani and Julius Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101 transcends the conventional lines of fugal argument Drake have developed a partnership of the highest Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 to confront the vastness of the universe. This great calibre. Their work together continues with a The legendary Borodin Quartet performs works masterwork prefaces the Leipzig String Quartet’s compelling recital that reflects Liszt’s debt to deeply ingrained in the group’s collective DNA. account of Haydn’s ‘swansong’, the fragmentary Beethoven and explores Samuel Barber’s love for Generations of Wigmore Hall audiences have String Quartet Op.103, before the ensemble then European culture. The programme also contains followed the Borodins since their earliest visits in gives the UK première of a new quartet by the Satie’s wonderfully quirky, deeply touching Trois the 1960s. Richness of sound, attention to detail Polish composer Hanna Kulenty. Mélodies, written in 1916 at a time of bloody and an abiding respect for the music remain the stalemate on the Western Front. core values of one of the world’s greatest chamber £30 £25 £20 £15 £35 £30 £25 £18 music ensembles. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall £35 £30 £25 £18 Song Recital Series Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle

Matthew Polenzani Dario Acosta Borodin Quartet Andy Staples Leipzig String Quartet Michael Bader

49 Le Concert Spirituel

Thursday 25 June 7.30 pm Routine is a word beyond the ken of Hervé Niquet and the musicians of Le Concert Spirituel. Their Le Concert Spirituel vibrant, full-blooded interpretations of baroque Hervé Niquet director masterworks arise from a deep understanding of the music’s expressive gestures and affects, VENETIAN SPLENDOURS so much so that they restore a sense of the Campra Mass ‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’ excitement that must have gripped audiences at Vivaldi Laetatus sum RV607; In exitu Israel RV604; Magnificat RV610; the time of their first performances. This programme Lauda Jerusalem RV609; Gloria RV589 opens with André Campra’s Mass 'Ad majorem Dei gloriam' and moves on to a series of radiant sacred £35 £30 £25 £18 works by , capped by the so-called Early Music and Baroque Series Red Priest’s famous Gloria.

Le Concert Spirituel Pascal Brunet

Photo: detail of the basilica San Marco, Venice

50 June

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

Jack Liebeck violin Borodin Quartet Ilya Gringolts violin Katya Apekisheva piano Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73 Ashley Wass piano Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1 Korngold Violin Sonata in G Op. 6 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Lekeu Violin Sonata in G Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Razumovsky’ Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II: Dance of the Two exceptional artists known for the adventure Blessed Spirits ‘Melody’ (arr. Kreisler) To mark its 70th anniversary year, the Borodin and vitality of their music-making share the Falla Danse espagñole from La Vida breve Quartet offers its vision of a work written soon after Wigmore Hall stage for this recital. They open (arr. Kreisler) the group’s formation. Shostakovich’s enigmatic with the Violin Sonata in G Op. 6, a seductively String Quartet No. 3 reflects on the insanity of In 1802 Beethoven accepted medical advice and Romantic composition completed in 1912 by the war and the legacy of fear fuelled by Stalin’s terror moved to the village of Heiligenstadt. The change of fifteen-year-old prodigy Erich Wolfgang Korngold, campaign against ordinary citizens. The Borodins scene sparked a period of extraordinary creativity who later found fame in Hollywood. Debussy’s turn to Beethoven after the interval and the ‘Serioso’ during which he wrote his spellbinding Violin Sonata Violin Sonata in G minor, his final composition, Quartet, originally intended for ‘a small circle of No. 6 in A. Jack Liebeck’s recital pairs Beethoven’s explores the creative tension between contrasting connoisseurs’, and the deeply personal expression work with the ill-fated Guillaume Lekeu’s impassioned musical moods. of the composer’s third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet. Violin Sonata in G, a composition of dramatic contrasts £13 concs £11 and compelling energy. £35 £30 £25 £18

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle Sunday Morning Coffee Concert BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Jack Liebeck Ashley Wass Patrick Allen Ilya Gringolts Tomasz Trzebiatowski

51 June/July

Tuesday 30 June 6.00pm Monday 29 June 7.30 pm Pre-Concert Event CELEBRATING JEAN-SÉLIM RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY CAROLYN SAMPSON ABDELMOULA piano YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in GUILDHALL which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate WIGMORE closely with some of the world’s finest artists and RECITAL PRIZE teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear potential future stars at an early stage in their careers. Bach Prelude and £6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required) Fugue in Eb minor BWV853 from The Well-tempered Clavier Tuesday 30 June 7.30pm Book I Debussy Images, Razumovsky Ensemble Series 2 Kolja Blacher violin Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Variations fantômes Andriy Viytovych viola Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Oleg Kogan cello Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Alexander Chaushian cello Beethoven String Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1 The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Carolyn Sampson Marco Borggreve annually awards an exceptional Guildhall Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36 School musician with a Wigmore Hall Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm recital. Swiss pianist Jean-Sélim Chosen from a select pool of world-class players, Abdelmoula is the recipient of this year’s the Razumovsky Ensemble brings great insight and Carolyn Sampson soprano award, and his recital promises to be a subtlety to the interpretation of an astonishingly wide Heath Quartet special occasion. range of chamber music. This concert includes Ravel’s elegant Sonata for violin and cello, dedicated to the Bach Chorale Preludes: Liebster Jesu, wir £13 concs £11 memory of Debussy, and Brahms’s sublime Sextet sind hier BWV731; Allein Gott in der Höh in G, among his finest chamber compositions. sei Ehr BWV662; In dulci jubilo BWV608 £35 £30 £25 £15 John Musto New work for soprano and string quartet* (world première) Chamber Music Season Webern Langsamer Satz Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F# minor Op. 10 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Wigmore Hall’s Celebrating Carolyn Sampson series concludes in festive fashion with the world première of Brooklyn-born composer John Musto’s latest score for soprano and string quartet. Carolyn Sampson also joins the Heath Quartet in the haunting final movements of Schoenberg’s String Quartet No. 2, a work marked by a period of emotional turmoil in its composer’s personal life.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music Series/Celebrating Carolyn Sampson Kolja Blacher Priska Ketterer Oleg Kogan Robert Cassen

52 Matthias Goerne & Menahem Pressler

Thursday 2 July 7.30 pm In constant demand at the world’s leading concert halls and opera houses, Matthias Goerne made headline news in March 2014 Matthias Goerne baritone when he stepped into the title-role of Berg’s Menahem Pressler piano at the Metropolitan Opera at short notice, and went on to receive rave reviews Songs by Schumann for his account of Schubert’s Winterreise at Schumann Variations on an original theme last summer’s Aix-en-Provence Festival. The in Eb WoO. 24 ‘Geister Variations’ German baritone’s ability to express emotional states and conjure up tone colours that bring £40 £35 £30 £20 poetic texts to life are among the rare gifts in his artistic locker, comparable to those of the Song Recital Series greatest Lieder singers of all time. We also look forward to a welcome return from legendary pianist Menahem Pressler, described by The New York Times as ‘a poet, time and again revealing unexpected depths in works that Photos by Marco Borggreve have been endlessly plumbed and surveyed’.

53 O/MOD RNT Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

Celebrating reflections of the musical past in the present, Hugo Ticciati’s pioneering O/MODӘRNT festival at Ulriksdal’s Palace Theatre Confidencen in Sweden explores the relationships between the work of old composers and the artistic and intellectual creations of modern culture. O/MODӘRNT, Swedish for ‘un/modern’, comes to Wigmore Hall to present Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint.

For Leo Schrade, a leading scholar on , the great Italian composer was nothing less than the ‘creator of modern music’. Monteverdi’s revolutionary expressive style certainly changed the course of music four centuries ago. His radical and provocative spirit is celebrated at Wigmore Hall in five imaginative concerts and a round-table discussion.

Monteverdi’s sensuous arabesques merge with the vibrant physicality of Argentinian tango; 400-year-old bass lines inspire extemporized jazz; Orfeo, the original modern opera, is reinterpreted with a postmodern twist; Schoenberg’s tonal-atonal revolution is twinned with the Old Master’s modal-tonal paradigm shift; finally, Monteverdi’s aesthetic credo ‘music is the servant of the words’ resonates in contemplative works by Arvo Pärt, and Pe¯teris Vasks.

Monteverdi image by Simone Kotva

54 Friday 3 July 7.30 pm Saturday 4 July 1.00 pm Sunday 5 July 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Julia Zenko voice Renata Pokupic´ mezzo-soprano Study Afternoon Hugo Ticciati violin Hugo Ticciati violin CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI: Tango for 3 tango quartet Meghan Cassidy viola A THEOLOGIAN, MUSICOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER MEET! Sverre Indris Joner piano Guy Johnston cello Per Arne Glorvigen bandoneon At the beginning of the seventeenth Odd Hannisdal violin Henrik Måwe piano century, the cusp of what historians have Steinar Haugerud double bass Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet since called ‘the modern era’, Monteverdi posed the perennial question of every saxophone quartet Amstel Quartet Ederson Rodrigues Xavier dancer artist: how do my creations relate to those MONTEVERDI TO TANGO ORPHEUS GOES POSTMODERN of past masters? How does innovation relate to imitation? Such questions will Monteverdi Movements from masses Wijnand van Klaveren Orpheus Revisited spark the imagination of our highly (in a tango style) distinguished panel of speakers, including Short opera/ballet based on the myth of Sverre Indris Joner Toque de Tango Professor John Milbank, Professor Emma Orpheus with music from Monteverdi, Philip Monteverdi (arr. Sverre Indris Joner) Dillon, Dr Simone Kotva and Hugo Ticciati. Lasciatemi morire Glass, Gluck and Wijnand van Klaveren £12 concs £8 Grever Alma mia All seats £15 Piazzolla Renacere Wigmore Hall Learning Event Blázquez Sin piel Monteverdi (arr. Sverre Indris Joner) Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace; Sí dolce è’l Saturday 4 July 7.30 pm tormento; Lamento della ninfa; Pur ti miro from Sunday 5 July 7.30 pm L’incoronazione di Poppea Hugo Ticciati violin This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, Hugo Ticciati violin without an interval Jennifer Stumm viola Christian Poltéra cello £30 £25 £20 £15 Bartholomew LaFollette cello Voces8 and Friends The Wigmore Hall Restaurant will serve dinner after the Doric String Quartet concert. Please contact the Box Office to make your table reservations. Alasdair Beatson piano VOICES FROM AFAR Alexander Oliver reciter Monteverdi Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata Friday 3 July 10.00 pm ON THE LIMITS OF TONALITY: Arvo Pärt Magnificat MONTEVERDI MEETS SCHOENBERG Pe¯ teris Vasks Plainscapes Improvisations for solo violin Svante Henryson Quartet Monteverdi Madrigals arranged for string Arvo Pärt Dopo la Vittoria Svante Henryson cello, composer quintet Tavener Svyati Anders Jormin double bass Schoenberg Phantasy Op. 47; Ode to Audun Kleive drums Napoleon Op. 41; Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 £30 £25 £20 £15 Jon Balke piano £30 £25 £20 £15 MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ A reinvention of Monteverdi in the spirit of Jazz

All seats £15 Wigmore Lates

Chamber Music Season /O/MODӘӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint

55 July

Sunday 5 July 11.30 am Monday 6 July 1.00 pm Monday 6 July 7.30 pm

John O’Conor piano Jean-Guihen Queyras cello The Brook Street Band Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33 Britten Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72 Rachel Harris baroque violin Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 Farran Scott baroque violin Nichola Blakey baroque viola John O’Conor, Artistic Director of the Dublin First performed fifty years ago by Mstislav International Piano Competition, has been hailed Rostropovich at the , the nine Tatty Theo baroque cello for the boundless sensitivity, flawless touch and continuous sections of Britten’s First Cello Suite Carina Cosgrave baroque bass musical insights of his pianism. Studies with Wilhelm make massive technical and emotional demands Alexandra Bellamy baroque oboe Kempff and first prize at the 1973 International on the soloist. Jean-Guihen Queyras journeys Carolyn Gibley harpsichord, chamber organ Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna prepared through the work before turning to the last of bass-baritone the way for the Irish musician’s distinguished Bach’s Cello Suites, which Rostropovich aptly Matthew Brook international career. described as ‘a symphony for cello’. HEAVEN AND EARTH £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice £13 concs £11 Handel Concerto for oboe and strings in G minor HWV287 Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1039 Handel Cantata: Dalla guerra amorosa HWV102a BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1038 Sunday 5 July 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm Handel Trio Sonata in G minor HWV404 ӘӘ Bach Cantata BWV82 ‘Ich habe genug’ O/MOD RNT Bach’s sacred cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ is central MONTEVERDI IN HISTORICAL COUNTERPOINT to this programme encompassing love and destiny, both earthbound and celestial. Bach and Handel’s See pages 54–55 for full details sublime music explores this theme, through both composers’ understanding of the pains and delights of the human condition, expressed through the power and beauty of their music.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

John O’Conor Jean-Guihen Queyras François Séchet The Brook Street Band Kate Mount

56 July

Thursday 9 July 7.30 pm

Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano JULIAN ANDERSON Helmut Deutsch piano Tchaikovsky We sat together; To forget so soon; The fires in the room were already out; Do not ask; COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE If only I had known; It was in the early spring; Night; Does the day reign? Musorgsky What are words of love to you?; Tuesday 7 July 6.00 pm Forgotten; Night; Gopak; The magpie; Hebrew song; Artists in Conversation Eremushka’s lullaby; A society tale: The goat Rachmaninov In the silence of the secret night; Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence She is as lovely as the noon; On the death of a Julian Anderson in conversation with linnet; Christ is risen; Sing not to me, beautiful Augusta Read Thomas. maiden; Here it’s so fine; Spring waters

£4 Booking open Russian composers created a remarkable legacy of romances, art songs influenced by the spirit of Wigmore Hall Learning Event nostalgia and passion of the Slavic soul. Ekaterina Semenchuk, one of today’s leading mezzo-sopranos, presents an inspired selection of works from her Tuesday 7 July 7.30 pm homeland, complete with Tchaikovsky’s ‘Night’, a Aurora Orchestra series of Musorgsky’s spirited songs, and Rachmaninov’s heart-breaking ‘Christ is risen’. Nicholas Collon conductor £35 £30 £25 £18 Claire Booth soprano Song Recital Series Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet Stravinsky Three Japanese Lyrics Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence Augusta Read Thomas New work for voice and ensemble* (world première) Sir Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia * Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Julian Anderson John Batten Julian Anderson has programmed a concert Julian Anderson’s dazzling new opera of compelling reflections on the music of Thebans inspired rave reviews following poetry and the poetry of music. Aurora its world première at English National Orchestra opens with the rhythmic intensity Opera in May 2014, reinforcing his status of Stravinsky’s Concertino for string quartet among today’s foremost composers. He and includes Anderson’s own Poetry Nearing Silence, an eight-movement suite inspired has curated this concert as Wigmore Hall’s by the drawings and poems of Tom Phillips. Composer in Residence, locating the Claire Booth is soloist in the world première striking aural imagery of his Poetry Nearing of Augusta Read Thomas’s new work. Silence at the heart of a programme £30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open complete with the world première of a new work by Augusta Read Thomas and Chamber Music Season/ a 50th-anniversary performance of Julian Anderson Composer in Residence/ Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Tragoedia. Contemporary Music Series

Ekaterina Semenchuk Sheila Rock

57 July

Friday 10 July 7.00 pm Friday 10 July 10.00 pm Saturday 11 July 7.00 pm

Gabriela Montero piano Anthony Marwood violin Roger Vignoles Schubert 4 Impromptus D899 James Crabb accordion 70th Birthday Concert Schumann Carnaval Op. 9 double bass See page opposite for full details Gabriela Montero Improvisations Graham Mitchell Traditional (Scottish) Mary Scott, the Flower of Gabriela Montero’s heartfelt performances arise, Yarrow/Struan Robertson’s Rant (arr. James Crabb) above all, from a powerful desire to communicate Sunday 12 July 11.30 am Piazzolla S.V.P. (S’il vous plait); Tzigane Tango; directly with her audience. She is heir to the great Preparense tradition of keyboard improvisation, an art once Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques Modigliani Quartet common but now exceptionally rare among classical Gardel/Williams Por una Cabeza performers. Her programme’s second half will be Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49 Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016 created in the moment in the styles of various Dvorˇák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’ Piazzolla Libertango; Oblivion; Escualo (arr. James composers, with shades of Schubert and Schumann Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for the Crabb) no doubt appearing in her improvisations. ‘balance, transparency, symphonic comprehension For this late-night concert, Anthony Marwood is £35 £30 £25 £18 [and] confident style’ of its music-making, the joined by accordionist James Crabb and double bass Modigliani Quartet is in demand at the world’s London Pianoforte Series player Graham Mitchell for an evening of tango leading concert venues. Award-winning recordings music. One of the world’s leading exponents of Astor of everything from Haydn and Arriaga to Brahms Piazzolla’s music, James Crabb has helped revitalise and Debussy bear witness to the French ensemble’s the accordion repertoire by commissioning new works exceptional unity and collective brilliance. and creating jaw-dropping arrangements of existing compositions. The three musicians highlight £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Piazzolla’s debt to Bach and embrace the mysterious Sunday Morning Coffee Concert beauty of Ravel’s Deux mélodies hébraïques.

All seats £15 Wigmore Lates/Anthony Marwood and Friends

Gabriela Montero Colin Bell/EMI Classic

James Crabb Christoffer Askman Anthony Marwood Felix van Dijk Modigliani Quartet Colin Bell/EMI Classics

58 July

Sunday 12 July 7.30 pm

Levon Chilingirian violin ROGER VIGNOLES Sergey Khachatryan violin Kim Kashkashian viola 70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT Alexander Chaushian cello Steven Isserlis cello Saturday 11 July 7.00 pm Sergei Babayan piano

Roger Vignoles piano Lusine Khachatryan piano soprano Vahan Mardirossian piano Miah Persson soprano Yevgeny Sudbin piano Joan Rodgers soprano IN MEMORIAM 1915 Elizabeth Watts soprano Komitas Miniatures for string quartet Arutiunian Pieces for solo piano Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano Babadjanian Piano Trio; Poem Angelika Kirchschlager Komitas Songs (arranged for solo piano) mezzo-soprano Babadjanian 6 Pictures Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 Renata Pokupic´ mezzo-soprano To mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, countertenor the deliberate campaign of mass murder John Mark Ainsley tenor perpetrated by Ottoman forces during the First World War, a group of world-renowned artists Mark Padmore tenor offer a programme of works chiefly by Armenian Florian Boesch baritone composers. Devised by Alexander Chaushian, this concert celebrates the fact that, despite the baritone genocide of 1915, Armenians and their musical culture survived and continue to flourish today. AN MEIN KLAVIER £35 £30 £25 £18 At John Gilhooly’s request, Roger Chamber Music Season Vignoles, an aristocrat among piano accompanists, marks the eve of his 70th birthday with a kaleidoscopic programme built around the theme of music and musicians, and woven together with songs for a summer night. He is joined by a stellar cast of singers, close colleagues and friends with whom he has collaborated over many years. Their recital includes works by, among others, Schubert, Purcell, Loewe, Brahms, Wolf, Joaquín Nin, Rangstrøm, Tomášek, Rossini, Britten and John Dankworth.

This concert will be approximately 3 hours in duration, including two intervals

£50 £40 £30 £20

Song Recital Series Roger Vignoles Benjamin Ealovega Alexander Chaushian

59 July

Monday 13 July 1.00 pm Monday 13 July 7.30 pm Tuesday 14 July 7.30pm

Stephen Kovacevich piano Janina Fialkowska piano Arcangelo Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Grieg Six Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord, organ Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Liszt Gretchen – 2nd movement from A Faust tenor Symphony S513 Samuel Boden The prospect of lessons with Dame Ravel Jeux d’eau tenor attracted Stephen Kovacevich to London from his Thomas Walker Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26 native Los Angeles in the late 1950s. He made Stéphane Degout baritone his European debut in 1961 with a sensational Janina Fialkowska made her professional debut See page opposite for full details recital at Wigmore Hall, complete with Alban Berg’s more than half a century ago. The Canadian Piano Sonata Op. 1. The acclaimed pianist’s BBC pianist’s mature artistry still draws from the Lunchtime programme includes another work spontaneity and virtuosity of her youth, combined Wednesday 15 July 7.30 pm close to his heart, the lyrical late Piano Sonata in now with the insight and wisdom of experience. A D959 by Schubert. Her latest Wigmore Hall programme includes Gretchen, Liszt’s moving reflections on the tragic The Schubert Ensemble £13 concs £11 figure from Goethe’s Faust, and the vibrant virtuosity Schumann Canonic Study in Ab (arr. for piano of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Schumann’s quintet by Orlando Jopling) entrancing evocation of the Vienna Carnival. Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert £35 £30 £25 £18 Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44 London Pianoforte Series Bach’s influence is ever present in Schumann’s Canonic Study in A flat, originally created in 1846 for the pedal piano and performed in Orlando Jopling’s sumptuous arrangement for piano quartet. The Schubert Ensemble also explores the enigmatic world of Fauré’s rarely performed Piano Quintet No. 1 before turning to Schumann’s pioneering Piano Quintet in E flat, among the first works to pair string quartet with piano.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Chamber Music Season

Stephen Kovacevich David Thompson/EMI Classics Janina Fialkowska Peter Schaaf Schubert Ensemble Jack Liebeck

60 Arcangelo

Tuesday 14 July 7.30 pm Arcangelo, inspired by Jonathan Cohen’s visionary artistic leadership, has injected fresh energy and panache into the performance of Arcangelo* Baroque music. The ensemble’s approach is informed by a deep understanding of the emotional language and expressive rhetoric of Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord, organ works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focused here Samuel Boden tenor on Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s intense settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The programme draws on the jaw-dropping virtuosity of Thomas Walker tenor the players and their ability to work in consort as chamber musicians. Stéphane Degout baritone Arcangelo is joined by the internationally acclaimed French baritone Stéphane Degout, among the most versatile artists of his Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully generation, Samuel Boden, a seasoned performer of Blow An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell lyric works of the French Baroque, and fine Charpentier Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint British tenor Thomas Walker.

£50 £40 £30 £20

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

Early Music and Baroque Series

Photo by Adam Swann

61 July

Thursday 16 July Saturday 18 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm Saturday 18 July 7.30 pm

2.00 pm – Schools & Community Groups Matinée 6.30 pm – Evening Performance Come and Sing: Quatuor Mosaïques English Music Mozart String Quartet in C K157 Reimagining King Arthur Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2 Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 A COMMUNITY CHAMBER OPERA exploring a range of English music and song. Get Composer Alasdair Nicolson, Early Opera Company to know the music from the inside, develop your Mozart’s early String Quartet in C, written while the and Ignite – Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident singing skills and finish the day with a performance teenaged composer was working on his opera Lucio ensemble – explore the myths and legends of on the Wigmore Hall stage. Silla for Milan, and mature Haydn form the first half King Arthur alongside a community cast of all ages of this recital. The period instruments, long experience £24 concs £16 from across Westminster. Together, they perform and revelatory musicianship of the Quatuor Mosaïques this unique reworking of Purcell’s opera. Wigmore Hall Learning Event are sure to offer fresh perspectives on both works and reconnect with the radical nature of Brahms’s 2.00 pm – Free performance for schools & community groups (Please book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240) String Quartet in A minor, a composition of striking 6.30 pm – £5 concs £3 contrasts and remarkable coherence.

Supported by The Monument Trust, City Bridge Trust, £35 £30 £25 £18 John Lyon’s Charity, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, Chamber Music Season Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust

Sunday 19 July 11.30 am Sitkovetsky Trio Beethoven Piano Trio in E Op. 70 No. 2 Wigmore Hall Learning Event/ b Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Henry Purcell: A Retrospective Since making its debut appearance at Wigmore Hall in 2008, the Sitkovetsky Trio has forged ahead with Friday 17 July 7.30 pm performances driven by a powerful blend of virtuosity, sophisticated musicianship and total commitment. Camilla Tilling soprano The recital features Beethoven’s Op. 70 No. 2, a work of profound humanity, capable of carrying the Paul Rivinius piano listener into new realms of the imagination.

Linde Äppelträd och päronträd; Den ängen där du £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice kysste mig Stenhammar Vandraren; Nattyxne; Jungfru Blond och jungfru Brunett; Det far ett skepp Camilla Tilling Mats Widén Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sibelius Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; Soluppgång; Var det en dröm?; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote; En slända Mahler Ich ging mit Lust; Frühlingsmorgen; Hans und Grethe; Ablösung im Sommer; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Schlagende Herzen; Nachtgang; Ruhe, meine Seele; Cäcilie; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling received critical acclaim for her recent performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with and the Berliner Philharmoniker. She makes a welcome return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme inspired by imaginary landscapes, natural beauty, young love and romantic adventures, including works by her countryman Wilhelm Stenhammar and the expansive emotions of Strauss’s Op. 27 songs.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series Sitkovetsky Trio Benjamin Ealovega

62 July

Sunday 19 July 7.30 pm Tuesday 21 July 7.30pm INTRODUCING IGOR LEVIT Quatuor Mosaïques Roberta Invernizzi soprano Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 64 No. 2 La Risonanza Beethoven String Quartet in E Op. 127 b director, harpsichord Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ Fabio Bonizzoni Vivaldi From Griselda: Agitata da due venti; Ombre Three Viennese classics occupy Quatuor Mosaïques vane, ingiusti orrori in this programme. The period-instrument ensemble Vivaldi Sinfonia from Dorilla in Tempe launches its programme with Haydn’s Op. 64 No. 2, Vivaldi Se mai senti spirarti sul volto from Catone in an enticing blend of ‘Storm and Stress’ outbursts and Utica; Rete, lacci e strali adopra from Dorilla in Tempe genial good humour, before exploring Beethoven’s Handel From : Da tempeste; Se pietà Op. 127, completed in 1825, and Mozart’s di me non senti ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, which offers yet another Handel Overture from Rodrigo penetrating examination of the human condition. Handel Scherza in mar la navicella from Lotario £35 £30 £25 £18 Most of Vivaldi’s 50 or so proved a success Igor Levit Felix Broede Chamber Music Season during the composer’s lifetime. They soon faded from view following his death in 1741. Fabio Monday 20 July 7.30 pm Bonizzoni and La Risonanza, in company with Igor Levit piano Roberta Invernizzi, have played an important role in the recent revival of interest in Vivaldi’s stage Cardew Thälmann Variations works. They have also been acclaimed worldwide Frederic Rzewski Dreams II* (UK première); for their enchanting performances and recordings The People United will never be Defeated of Handel’s music.

*Co-commissioned by Heidelberger Frühling and by £50 £40 £30 £20 Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss Early Music and Baroque Series grant-making foundation American composer and piano virtuoso Frederic Rzewski absorbed fertile ideas from teachers such as Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt and Luigi Dallapiccola. Taking this inspiration he found his true voice with a series of works inspired by social and political concerns, famously so in his set of 36 variations on the Chilean song The People United will never be Defeated. Igor Levit prefaces the UK première of Rzewski’s Dreams II with Thälmann Variations by another politically motivated composer, Cornelius Cardew.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking Open Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014–15 Wigmore Series

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series/Introducing Igor Levit

Also in this series Wednesday 10 June 7.30 pm Christiane Iven soprano Igor Levit piano Quatuor Mosaïques Wolfgang Krautzer Roberta Invernizzi Ribaltaluce Studio

63 July

Wednesday 22 July 7.30 pm Thursday 23 July 7.30 pm Friday 24 July 7.00 pm

Matthew Rose bass Marc-André Hamelin piano Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano Helen Collyer piano Field Andante inédit Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664 piano Purcell/Britten Job’s Curse Helmut Deutsch Liszt Soirées de Vienne No. 6 from ‘Valses caprices Loewe Edward; Odins Meeresritt; Tom der Reimer; Brahms Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Wenn du nur d’après Schubert’ S427 Heinrich der Vogler zuweilen lächelst; Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer; Yehudi Wyner Toward the center Brahms Mit vierzig Jahren ist der Berg erstiegen; Ach, wende diesen Blick; Unbewegte laue Luft Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor Op. 35 Steig auf, geliebter Schatten; Mein Herz ist schwer; b Wolf Alte Wiesen: Sechs Gedichte von Keller ‘Funeral March’ Sapphische Ode; Kein Haus, keine Heimat Hahn Le souvenir d’avoir chanté; Seule; A Chloris; Brahms Four Serious Songs Few recitalists can match Marc-André Hamelin Quand je fus pris au pavillon; L’heure exquise from Loewe Archibald Douglas when it comes to imaginative programme building. Chansons grises; La chère blessure Purcell/Britten Let the dreadful engines The Canadian virtuoso’s latest Wigmore Hall recital Songs by Schumann combines the reflective soundworlds of Field’s Britten’s vivid versions of bold, dramatic songs by Acclaimed worldwide for her profound interpretations Andante inédit and Yehudi Wyner’s Toward the Purcell frame Matthew Rose’s survey of German of Lieder, and renowned for her inspired engagement center with two masterful approaches to sonata form Romantic ballads and narrative pieces. The power with words and music, Austrian mezzo-soprano and Liszt’s impassioned Soirées de Vienne No. 6. and warmth of his majestic bass voice contain the Angelika Kirchschlager has been a firm favourite with colours required to bring each song to life, and to £35 £30 £25 £18 Wigmore Hall audiences over many seasons. She is trawl deep beneath their often simple melodies to joined by regular duo partner Helmut Deutsch for a London Pianoforte Series/ catch the archetypal messages. rich programme of some of the most captivating Contemporary Music Series Romantic art song. £35 £30 £25 £18 £35 £30 £25 £18 In memory of Robert Easton Song Recital Series Song Recital Series

Matthew Rose Lena Kern Marc-André Hamelin Sim Canetty-Clarke Angelika Kirchschlager Nikolaus Karlinsky

64 July

Saturday 25 July 7.30 pm

Ailish Tynan soprano TRIO MEDIÆVAL Iain Burnside piano Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58 Dominic Muldowney In Paris with you Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire Early in the morning Dave Frishberg Another song about Paris Parry Good night!; Crabbed age and youth; Bright star; Where shall the lover rest Judith Bingham The shadow side of Joy Finzi: A mad song Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci Jake Heggie From Eve-Song: My name; Snake; The farm Ailish Tynan and Iain Burnside continue their fruitful artistic partnership with a programme filled Nelson Goerner Jean-Baptiste Millot with bold musical ideas and poetic reflections on life. Judith Bingham’s The Shadow Side of Joy Finzi: A Mad Song offers pathways into the nature of the unconscious mind, blending loud echoes of grief with fragments from Lorna Doone.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Song Recital Series

Trio Mediæval Oddleiv Apneseth

Friday 24 July 10.00 pm Trio Mediæval AQUILONIS A musical journey from Iceland to the Mediterranean via the coasts of Scandinavia and England

14th century Icelandic From Thorlakstidir: Dum Johannes; Adest festum; Aquilonis; Fans ex Basan Dominus; Docent digna; Sursum in altissima; O Pastor Islandia Anders Jormin Ama 15th century English carols Ave Rex Angelorum; Ecce quod natura; Alleluia a newe werk Andrew Smith Ave Maris Stella; Iosef fili David; Ave Regina Caelorum 12th century Italian Fammi cantar; Benedicti e llaudati (arr. A M Friman/L A Fuglseth) Traditional () Gud unde oss (arr. Berit Opheim); Ingen vinner frem til den evige ro (arr. A M Friman/L A Fuglseth); Fryd dig, du Kristi brud (arr. L A Fuglseth) William Brooks Vace, dulcis amice Trio Mediæval, founded in in 1997, has attracted a cult following to sacred and secular works from the distant past. The female vocal trio’s discography for ECM Records includes everything from polyphony and thirteenth-century Worcester and Scandinavian folksongs to contemporary compositions by William Brooks and Andrew Smith. This late-night programme casts shadows of forgotten ancestors and evokes the mystical traditions of medieval worship.

All seats £15 Wigmore Lates Ailish Tynan Benjamin Ealovega

65 July

Sunday 26 July 11.30 am Sunday 26 July 7.30 pm

Wigmore Series Debut Final concert of the 2014 /15 Season

Quatuor Voce Matan Porat piano Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Ligeti Musica Ricercata: 11 pieces for piano Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Rameau Suite in A minor: Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Fanfarinette, Gavotte et doubles from Praised by The Strad for its ‘refinement, beautiful Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin tone, excellent ensemble, precise chording, fine Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 rhythm and loads of character’, Quatuor Voce underlined its growing reputation when it was Pianist and composer Matan Porat’s artistic evolution selected for the ECHO Rising Stars scheme for the has been led by the breadth of his musical interests 2013/14 Season. The quartet makes its Wigmore and his mind’s intense curiosity, qualities vividly Series debut with two works of great substance, mirrored in this programme. His recital opens with Beethoven’s intensely focused ‘Serioso’ Quartet a modern masterwork, Ligeti’s carefully constructed and Schubert’s equally inventive String Quartet Musica Ricercata, presented in tandem with in G D887. movements from Rameau’s Suite in A minor. Porat also offers his thoughts on Piano Sonata in A D959, £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice among Schubert’s last and finest compositions. Sunday Morning Coffee Concert £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series Matan Porat Neda Nevaee

Quatuor Voce Sophie Pawlak

66 Contemporary Music Series

Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and Saturday 4 July 1.00 pm song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through Hugo Ticciati violin its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London Meghan Cassidy viola premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe Guy Johnston cello for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly. ‘We plan to present up to 20 commissions per season and make Wigmore Hall one of the Henrik Måwe piano world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’ Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet Renata Pokupic´ mezzo-soprano Full details of the April – July concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order. Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk / contemporary for further details on all forthcoming Ederson Rodrigues Xavier dancer concerts in the Contemporary Music Series. Wijnand van Klaveren

Sunday 5 July 7.30 pm Friday 8 May 7.00 pm Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm Hugo Ticciati violin The Chamber Music Society Aurora Orchestra Christian Poltéra cello of Lincoln Center Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Voces8 and friends Helen Grime* Judith Weir* Arvo Pärt, Pe¯ teris Vasks & John Tavener Saturday 9 May Sunday 14 June 7.30 pm Tuesday 7 July 7.30 pm Musicians from the Royal Carducci String Quartet Aurora Orchestra Northern College of Music Guy Johnston cello Claire Booth soprano Clark Rundell conductor Anthony Gilbert* Julian Anderson, Augusta Read Thomas* Jonathan Harvey & Sir Harrison Birtwistle Friday 19 June 7.00 pm (Programme devised by Composer in Residence Sunday 24 May 7.30 pm Julian Anderson) Baiba Skride violin

Inon Barnatan piano Gergana Gergova violin Monday 20 July 7.30 pm Sebastian Currier* Brett Dean viola Igor Levit piano Nils Mönkemeyer viola Thursday 28 May 7.30 pm Cornelius Cardew & Frederic Rzewski* Alban Gerhardt cello Philippe Cassard piano Brett Dean Thursday 23 July 7.30 pm David Grimal violin Saturday 27 June 7.30 pm Marc-André Hamelin piano Anne Gastinel cello Yehudi Wyner Baptiste Trotignon* Leipzig String Quartet Hanna Kulenty* Sunday 31 May 7.30 pm *Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, Angela Hewitt piano president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Cremona Quartet Carolyn Sampson soprano Kerson Leong violin Heath Quartet Gerald Finley bass-baritone John Musto* Michael Berkeley

67 EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS

All events listed on pages 68 –71 will open for booking on 3 February, with the exception of the Family Concert on 3 May, Reimagining King Arthur on 16 July and Come and Sing on 18 July, which go on sale to Friends on 13 January and to Mailing List Subscribers on 23 January.

We are grateful to Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust for their support of our Family Programme, and to The Monument Trust, John Lyon’s Charity and The Loveday Charitable Trust for their support of our Schools Programme.

April/May

Saturday 11 April 10.30 am – 3.30 pm Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Tuesday 26 May 5.30pm – 6.15 pm

Stories Sung Martin Fröst clarinet Voiceworks FAMILY FOLK DAY FAMILY CONCERT A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE For ages 5 plus For ages 5 plus Now in its ninth year, Voiceworks is a unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Join workshop leader Ruairi Glasheen and fellow Working alongside presenter Julian West and pianist Poetics research centre at Birkbeck, University of members of the vibrant young group, Tir Eolas, for Roland Pöntinen, the dynamic Swedish clarinettist London and composers, singers and instrumentalists a fun day exploring folk music. Join in with songs Martin Fröst features in a concert especially for from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought and tunes from across the British Isles, listen to families introducing the dramatic music of Brahms, together by Wigmore Hall Learning. traditional stories, and create some tall tales and including his thrilling Hungarian Dances. Details at www.voiceworks.org.uk magical music of your own to perform alongside Adults £9 Children £7 Tir Eolas on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end Free (ticket required) of the day.

Adults £15 Children £10

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Wednesday 24 June 10.00 am – 4.30 pm RNIB Study Day: Success through Sponsorship PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED MUSICIANS This practical study day is an opportunity for blind and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways into the classical music industry and career development, including how to make the most out of opportunities for sponsorship. The day involves discussion, talks and the chance to perform on the Wigmore Hall stage. For more information and to book, please contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on 020 7391 2273 or email [email protected] Free (application required)

Saturday 27 June 11.00 am – 4.00 pm RNIB Family Day: A Night at the Museum FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED CHILDREN AGED 6 –12 YEARS AND THEIR FAMILIES When the doors are locked and the visitors have gone home, what mischief do lords and ladies of the Wallace Collection get up to? Come and meet www.benjaminharte.co.uk the quirky characters in the paintings, make up some spooky stories and compose your own music to perform onstage at Wigmore Hall at the end of Wednesday 27 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm Tuesday 9 June 5.30pm – 6.15 pm the day. Musical Fairy Tales Ignite – Celebrating a Year For more information and to book, please contact James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY in the Community 020 7391 2273 or email [email protected] For ages 5 plus Following Ignite’s year of creative projects working Free (application required) in community settings including Chelsea and Experience famous fairy tales as you have never Westminster Hospital School and The Cardinal heard them before with presenter Julian West Hume Centre, we invite you to join us for a and the Magnard Ensemble. Hear celebration of this important and impactful work. the quintet play musical arrangements of some Ignite presents pieces inspired by material well-known stories, then work alongside the developed on projects alongside a preview of some musicians to create a brand new musical fairy tale of the music from the forthcoming community of your own to perform together onstage at the end chamber opera, Reimagining King Arthur. of the day. Free (ticket required) Adults £15 Children £10 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

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Thursday 16 July

2.00 pm – Schools & Community Groups Matinée 6.30 pm – Evening Performance Reimagining King Arthur A COMMUNITY CHAMBER OPERA Following Westminster 100 in 2014 and BASCA shortlisted Woodwose in 2013, the local Westminster community once again comes together, working with professional artists to present a staged performance at Wigmore Hall. We are thrilled to be working with composer Alasdair Nicolson, Early Opera Company and Ignite – Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident

ensemble – to develop a new work based on the www.benjaminharte.co.uk myths and legends around King Arthur. Inspired by Purcell’s opera of the same name, the performance Saturday 18 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm features some of the original music alongside newly commissioned work, developed in collaboration with the participants, exploring themes of national heroes Come and Sing: and identity within our diverse local community. English Music 2.00 pm – Free performance for schools & community groups Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults (Please book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240) exploring a range of English music and song. 6.30 pm – £5 concs £3 Get to know the music from the inside, develop Supported by The Monument Trust, City Bridge Trust, your singing skills and finish the day with John Lyon’s Charity, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage. Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust £24 concs £16 This event forms part of Wigmore Hall’s series Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

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Wednesday 8 July 11.00 am – 12 noon Repeated 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm Sing a Story KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT All aboard the Sing a Story train for a journey through songs and stories with presenter John Webb, actor Charlotte Mapham and a cast of marvellous musicians who will bring both well-known and new stories to life. Learn the songs with our interactive resource pack and you’ll be ready to join in on the day!

£3.50

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Monday 27 – Thursday 30 July 11.00 am – 4.00 pm Musical Portraits FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, make your own works of art, create some brand new music with Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident ensemble Ignite, and finish by performing your own pieces onstage at the end of this four-day course. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email [email protected]

Free (application required)

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument Trust and BBC Children in Need

In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts

www.benjaminharte.co.uk Chamber Zone FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND SCHOOLS

Over the last seven years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme Chamber Zone has reached over 5,000 young people aged 8 –25 years.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity

CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust www.cavatina.net

For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone www.benjaminharte.co.uk www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning

71 May

Date Start Time Event Page

Fri 1 May 7.30 pm Martin Fröst/Miah Persson/Maxim Rysanov/Roland Pöntinen 18 Calendar Sat 2 May 7.30 pm Dorothea Röschmann/Mitsuko Uchida 19 Sun 3 May 11.30 am Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 18 3.00 pm Family Concert: Martin Fröst 20, 68 7.30 pm Heath Quartet 20 April Mon 4 May 1.00 pm Elias String Quartet/Simon Crawford-Phillips 20 7.30 pm Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/Sir John Eliot Gardiner 21 Date Start Time Event Page Tue 5 May 7.30 pm Dorothea Röschmann/Mitsuko Uchida 19 Wed 1 Apr 7.30 pm Khatia Buniatishvili 4 Wed 6 May 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 22 7.30 pm Classical Opera/Ian Page/Allan Clayton 22 Thu 2 Apr 7.30 pm The English Concert/Harry Bicket/Terry Wey 4 Thu 7 May 7.30 pm Olli Mustonen 22 Sat 4 Apr 7.30 pm Dunedin Consort/John Butt/Anna Dennis/Clare Wilkinson 5 Nicholas Mulroy/Matthew Brook Fri 8 May 7.00 pm The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 23 10.00 pm Alison Balsom/Trevor Pinnock/The English Concert 23 Sun 5 Apr 11.30 am London Bridge Ensemble 4 Lucy Crowe/Tim Mead Mon 6 Apr 1.00 pm Meta4 6 Sat 9 May 10.00 am RNCM Study Day: Jonathan Harvey 26 Tue 7 Apr 7.30 pm Andreas Scholl/Avi Avital/Marco Frezzato/Tiziano Bagnati 6 7.30 pm Belcea Quartet/Nicolas Bone/Antonio Meneses 23 Tamar Halperin Sun 10 May 11.30 am Schumann Quartett 27 Thu 9 Apr 7.30 pm Andreas Haefliger 6 3.00 pm Claire Booth/Christopher Glynn 27 7.30 pm Werner Güra/Christoph Berner 27 Fri 10 Apr 7.30 pm Heath Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer/Kari Kriikku/Tim Horton 7 Mon 11 May 1.00 pm Sara Mingardo/Giorgio Dal Monte/Ivano Zanenghi 28 Sat 11 Apr 10.30 am Family Day: Stories Sung 68 7.30 pm Christianne Stotijn/Julius Drake 28 7.30 pm 8 Kuss Quartet Tue 12 May 3.00 pm Wigmore Study Group commences 28 Sun 12 Apr 11.30 am Lukas Geniušas 8 7.30 pm Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh 29 3.00 pm Dominik Köninger/Volker Krafft 8 Wed 13 May 7.30 pm Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh 29 Mon 13 Apr 1.00 pm Kristian Bezuidenhout 9 Thu 14 May 1.00 pm Roger Vignoles Masterclass 30 Tue 14 Apr 7.30 pm London Handel Players/Sophie Bevan/Daniel Taylor 9 7.30 pm Kirill Gerstein 30 Fri 15 May 10.00 pm Trish Clowes/Gwilym Simcock/Heath Quartet 30 Wed 15 Apr 7.30 pm Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper 9 Sat 16 May 7.30 pm Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 31 Thu 16 Apr 5.00 pm Introduction to Music commences 10 Sun 17 May 11.30 am London Winds/Michael Collins/Michael McHale 31 Sat 18 Apr 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 11 7.30 pm Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva 31 Sun 19 Apr 11.30 am London Conchord Ensemble 10 Mon 18 May 1.00 pm Christoph Prégardien/Daniel Heide 32 3.00 pm Daniel Behle/Oliver Schnyder Trio 10 Wed 20 May 7.30 pm Joshua Bell/Lawrence Power/Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk 32 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 12 Thu 21 May 3.00 pm YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015 32 Mon 20 Apr 1.00 pm 12 Miah Persson/Malcolm Martineau/Birgit Kolar 7.00 pm YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015 32 7.30 pm Alice Coote/Julius Drake 12 Fri 22 May 7.30 pm Bernarda Fink/Anthony Spiri 33 Tue 21 Apr 7.30 pm Wihan Quartet 13 Sat 23 May 7.30 pm Joshua Bell/Pamela Frank/Lawrence Power/Steven Iserlis 33 Wed 22 Apr 1.30 pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 Semi-Final 13 Jeremy Denk 7.30 pm Kun Woo Paik 13 Sun 24 May 11.30 am Aviv String Quartet 33 Thu 23 Apr 7.30 pm Alice Sara Ott 14 7.30 pm Inon Barnatan 34 Fri 24 Apr 6.00 pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 Final 13 Mon 25 May 1.00 pm Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 34 7.30 pm Quatuor Ebène 34 Sat 25 Apr 2.00 pm Interactive Recital: Tana Quartet 14 Tue 26 May 5.30 pm Voiceworks 68 7.30 pm Arcanto Quartet 14 7.30 pm James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong 34 Sun 26 Apr 11.30 am Vienna Piano Trio 15 Wed 27 May 10.30 am Family Day: Musical Fairy Tales 69 7.30 pm Heath Quartet/Michael Collins 15 Thu 28 May 7.30 pm Philippe Cassard/David Grimal/Anne Gastinel 35 Mon 27 Apr 1.00 pm Antoine Tamestit 15 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 16 Fri 29 May 7.00 pm Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper 35 7.30 pm Garrick Ohlsson 16 10.00 pm Simón Bolívar String Quartet 35 Sat 30 May 6.00 pm Pre-Concert Talk 36 Tue 28 Apr 7.30 pm Vienna Piano Trio 17 7.30 pm Llyˆr Williams 36 Wed 29 Apr 7.30 pm Allan Clayton/Paul Lewis 17 Sun 31 May 11.30 am Jean-Marc Luisada 36 Thu 30 Apr 7.30 pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 17 7.30 pm Angela Hewitt/Cremona Quartet/Kerson Leong/Gerald Finley 36

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Date Start Time Event Page Date Start Time Event Page

Mon 1 Jun 1.00 pm Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe 36 Wed 1 Jul 7.30 pm Carolyn Sampson/Heath Quartet 52 Tue 2 Jun 7.30 pm Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe 37 Thu 2 Jul 7.30 pm Matthias Goerne/Menahem Pressler 53 Wed 3 Jun 10.30 am Elly Ameling Masterclass 38 Fri 3 Jul 7.30 pm Julia Zenko/Hugo Ticciati/Tango for 3/Amstel Quartet 55 7.30 pm Richard Goode 38 10.00 pm Svante Henryson Quartet 55 Thu 4 Jun 10.30 am Elly Ameling Masterclass 38 Sat 4 Jul 1.00 pm Hugo Ticciati/Meghan Cassidy/Guy Johnston/Henrik Måwe 55 7.30 pm Mauro Peter/James Baillieu 38 Amstel Quartet/Renata Pokupic´/Ederson Rodrigues Xavier 7.30 pm Hugo Ticciati/Jennifer Stumm/Bartholomew LaFollette 55 Fri 5 Jun 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 39 Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson/Alexander Oliver 7.00 pm Christian McBride Trio 39 10.00 pm Florian Boesch/Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen 39 Sun 5 Jul 11.30 am John O’Conor 56 3.00 pm Study Afternoon: O/MODӘӘRNT 55 Sat 6 Jun 7.30 pm Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon/Alice Coote 40 7.30 pm Hugo Ticciati/Christian Poltéra/Voces8 and friends 55 Sun 7 Jun 11.30 am ATOS Trio 39 Mon 6 Jul 1.00 pm Jean-Guihen Queyras 56 7.30 pm Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 41 7.30 pm The Brook Street Band/Matthew Brook 56 9.45 pm Post-Concert Talk 41 Tue 7 Jul 6.00 pm Artists in Conversation 57 Mon 8 Jun 1.00 pm Škampa Quartet/Krzysztof Chorzelski 41 7.30 pm Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon/Claire Booth 57 Tue 9 Jun 5.30 pm Ignite – Celebrating a Year in the Community 69 Wed 8 Jul 11.00 am Sing a Story 70 7.30 pm Phantasm 41 1.30 pm Sing a Story 70 Wed 10 Jun 7.30 pm Christiane Iven/Igor Levit 42 Thu 9 Jul 7.30 pm Ekaterina Semenchuk/Helmut Deutsch 57 Thu 11 Jun 6.00 pm Paul Lewis 42 Fri 10 Jul 7.00 pm Gabriela Montero 58 9.00 pm Paul Lewis 42 10.00 pm Anthony Marwood/James Crabb/Graham Mitchell 58 Fri 12 Jun 7.00 pm Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov 42 Sat 11 Jul 7.00 pm Roger Vignoles 70th Birthday Concert 59 10.00 pm Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen/Christiane Karg 43 Sun 12 Jul 11.30 am Modigliani Quartet 58 Sat 13 Jun 7.30 pm François-Frédéric Guy/Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 43 7.30 pm Alexander Chaushian & Friends 59 Sun 14 Jun 11.30 am Lana Trotovsek/Simon Lane 43 Mon 13 Jul 1.00 pm Stephen Kovacevich 60 7.30 pm Carducci String Quartet/Guy Johnston 44 7.30 pm Janina Fialkowska 60 Mon 15 Jun 1.00 pm Gould Piano Trio 45 Tue 14 Jul 7.30 pm Arcangelo/Samuel Boden/Thomas Walker/Stéphane Degout 61 7.30 pm Christoph Prégardien/Michael Gees 45 Wed 15 Jul 7.30 pm The Schubert Ensemble 60 Tue 16 Jun 7.30 pm Till Fellner 45 Thu 16 Jul 2.00 pm Reimagining King Arthur 62, 70 Wed 17 Jun 7.30 pm Mark Padmore/Roger Vignoles 46 6.30 pm Reimagining King Arthur 62, 70 Thu 18 Jun 7.30 pm The Endellion String Quartet 46 Fri 17 Jul 7.30 pm Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius 62 Fri 19 Jun 7.00 pm Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova/Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer 46 Alban Gerhardt Sat 18 Jul 10.00 am Come and Sing: English Music 62, 70 10.00 pm Fantasticus 47 7.30 pm Quatuor Mosaïques 62 Sat 20 Jun 7.30 pm The Cardinall’s Musick 47 Sun 19 Jul 11.30 am Sitkovetsky Trio 62 7.30 pm Quatuor Mosaïques 63 Sun 21 Jun 11.30 am Szymanowski Quartet 48 Mon 20 Jul 7.30 pm Igor Levit 63 Mon 22 Jun 1.00 pm Ailish Tynan/James Baillieu 48 Tue 21 Jul 7.30 pm Roberta Invernizzi/La Risonanza/Fabio Bonizzoni 63 Wed 24 Jun 10.00 am RNIB Study Day 48, 69 7.30 pm Matthew Polenzani/Julius Drake 49 Wed 22 Jul 7.30 pm Matthew Rose/Helen Collyer 64 Thu 25 Jun 7.30 pm Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet 50 Thu 23 Jul 7.30 pm Marc-André Hamelin 64 Fri 26 Jun 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 49 Fri 24 Jul 7.00 pm Angelika Kirchschlager/Helmut Deutsch 64 10.00 pm Trio Mediæval 65 Sat 27 Jun 11.00 am RNIB Family Day: A Night at the Museum 69 7.30 pm Leipzig String Quartet 49 Sat 25 Jul 7.30 pm Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside 65 Sun 28 Jun 11.30 am Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva 51 Sun 26 Jul 11.30 am Quatuor Voce 66 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet 51 7.30 pm Matan Porat 66 Mon 29 Jun 1.00 pm Ilya Gringolts/Ashley Wass 51 Mon 27 – Thu 30 Jul Musical Portraits 71 7.30 pm Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula 52 Tue 30 Jun 7.30 pm Razumovsky Ensemble 52

73 Wigmore Hall/ JURY 2015 John Gilhooly OBE Chair Kohn Foundation Iain Burnside International Graham Johnson OBE Sir Ralph Kohn non-voting Angelika Kirchschlager Song Christoph Prégardien Maxine Robertson Competition Asadour Santourian David Stern Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation since 1997 Ailish Tynan

This Competition recognises the song tradition Sunday 6 September 11.00 am and 2.00 pm as a whole and requires contestants to perform PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 1 in at least three languages. At the same time it All day £13 concs £11 honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean Monday 7 September 11.00 am and 2.00 pm stature of Schubert in the genre. PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 2 All day £13 concs £11 Audiences are invited to attend the Preliminary and Semi-Final rounds, as well as the grand finale Tuesday 8 September 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm and Prize-giving on Thursday 10 September. SEMI-FINAL STAGE All day £15 concs £12 Please note there will be an interval from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please contact the Box Office.

Book for the first three stages at the same time for £30 concs £25

Thursday 10 September 6.00 pm FINAL STAGE AND PRIZE-GIVING £30 £25 £20 £15 Please note there will be an interval from 8.20 pm to 9.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant, please contact the Box Office.

Song Recital Series

74 BOOKING INFORMATION

Booking Dates Box Office Hours Car Parking 7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm. There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm Booking Period 3 Days without an evening concert (Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas. 10.00am–5.00pm. No advance booking Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish Wednesday 1 April – Sunday 26 July 2015 during the half-hour prior to performance. Square, Harley Street and Lane, all of which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall. Friends – Priority booking form to reach the Telephone Bookings Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking Box Office by Tuesday 13 January 2015 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers Mailing List – Priority booking form to reach Days without an evening concert 50% discount on their parking. Please contact the the Box Office by Friday 23 January 2015 10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable Box Office for further details or visit our website. General Public – By telephone/online from £3.00 administration charge for each Tuesday 3 February 2015 transaction. This includes the return of your Facilities for Disabled People Full details from 020 7258 8210 We strongly recommend early booking for tickets by post if time permits. or [email protected] Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation Postal Bookings and Study Events. Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall with the amount left open but stating an upper Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze Wigmore Hall Box Office limit, and add an administration charge of Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP £3.00. Tickets will then be sent by post. Tel: 020 7935 2141 Online Bookings Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Online booking is available 24 hours a day, Email: (not for bookings) 7 days a week, and you can select your own [email protected] seat. There is a non-refundable £2.00 Tickets administration charge. Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided Tickets for Concessions into four price ranges Where a concession (concs) ticket price is Stalls C – M: Highest price listed these are available to students, senior Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price citizens and the unemployed. Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd price Group Bookings Stalls AA, T – X: Lowest price Discounts of 10% are available for groups of OXFORD CIRCUS 12 or more, subject to availability. BOND STREET A–D Restaurant/Bar BALCONY Full information on pre-concert and interval T–X This brochure is available in alternative formats. refreshments can be found at Please contact the Box Office if this would be of www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling Q–S assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141 020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made Email: [email protected] N–P by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141. Information in this brochure was correct at the time STALLS of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists C–M Transport and to vary programmes if necessary. A–B Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines), Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega CC CC Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines). BB BB Cover design by WLP Ltd. PLATFORM AAAA AAAA Buses: A number of bus routes pass along www.whitelabelproductions.co.uk Oxford Street. Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson

75 SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL

With £1.5 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email [email protected] for more information. The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert, Learning and community programmes:

Honorary Patrons Donors and Sponsors The Foyle Foundation Dr Clive Potter* S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 Nick and Claire Prettejohn* Aubrey Adams Mr Eric Abraham* Friends of Wigmore Hall The Radcliffe Trust André and Rosalie Hoffmann Neville and Nicola Abraham Jonathan Gaisman* Edith Randall Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn Elaine Adair The Garfield Weston Foundation The Rayne Foundation Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Tony and Marion Allen* The Garrick Charitable Trust Gifts to honour Rick Rogers from The Andor Charitable Trust J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Beryl McAlhone and friends Season Patrons David and Jacqueline Ansell* John Gilhooly Charles Rose* Arts Council England John and Lauren Goldsmith* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM* Aubrey Adams* Anthony Austin Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Rothschild American Friends of Wigmore Hall Ben Baglio and Richard Wilson Charles Green Ruth Rothbarth* Karl Otto Bonnier* BBC Children in Need Barbara and Michael Gwinnell The Rubinstein Circle Cockayne‡ David and Margaret Beaton Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* The Sampimon Trust Henry and Suzanne Davis Alan Bell-Berry Haringey Music Service The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust Dunard Fund† Mr Nicholas J Bez The Headley Trust Louise Scheuer The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Mrs Arline Blass The Henry C Hoare Charitable Trust Julia Schottlander* Graham and Amanda Hutton*† The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust Nicholas Hodgson Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Valerie O’Connor David and Mary Bowerman* André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ The Shoresh Charitable Trust David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma† Alan Bradley* Peter and Carol Honey* Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Ian Rosenblatt Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Hyde Park Place Estate Charity Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Victoria Sharp and Simon Robey* Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson Simone Hyman* Gill and Keith Stella* Cita and Irwin Stelzer* bureauexport Peter and Nikki Jeffcote Cita and Irwin Stelzer* Clive Butler Alisa and Joshua Swidler* John Lyon’s Charity The Stewarts Law Foundation CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust William and Alex de Winton* Marc Jourdren* Derek Sugden Charities Advisory Trust and an anonymous donor In memory of Donald Kahn Anne and Paul Swain* City Bridge Trust Su and Neil Kaplan* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Colin Clark Jerome Karet* The Tertis Foundation Chamber Music Circle Eric Clause* David and Louise Kaye* Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson* Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and Karl Otto Bonnier* Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn* Tower Hamlets Arts Music and The London Community Foundation‡ The Kohn Foundation Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Education Service Edwin C Cohen Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Professor Christopher Thompson The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Nicola Coldstream Maryly La Follette* John and Ann Tusa* Pauline and Ian Howat Sonia and Harvey Cole The Leverhulme Trust Robin Vousden* The Marchus Trust‡ The Ernest Cook Trust Tim Llewellyn Gerry Wakelin* Oliver and Helen Prenn John Crisp* Dame Felicity Lott Andrew and Hilary Walker* Jo and Barry Slavin Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* The Loveday Charitable Trust Professor Janet Walker CD and The Tertis Foundation Anthony Davis* Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Professor Doug Jones AO* Marina Vaizey Pauline Del Mar A bequest from the late John Lunn Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Kathleen Verelst* Diaphonique Julia MacRae* Settlement Tony Wingate The Dorset Foundation Simon Majaro MBE and David and Frances Waters* and several anonymous donors In memory of Robert Easton Pamela Majaro MBE David Evan Williams Douglas and Janette Eden Mayfield Valley Arts Trust The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Corporate Supporters Annette Ellis* George Meyer Philip and Emeline Winston* The Elton Family Milton Damerel Trust The Wolfson Foundation Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan Michael and Lynne McGowan* Simon Yates and Kevin Roon Clifford Chance LLP Caroline Erskine The Monument Trust and several anonymous donors Complete Coffee Ltd Mrs Susan Feakin Amyas and Louise Morse* Duncan Lawrie Private Banking The Fidelio Charitable Trust Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones * Rubinstein Circle members Lloyds Banking Group Peter and Sonia Field A C and F A Myer †Early Music & Baroque Series supporters Martin Randall Travel Ltd A bequest from the late Miss Valerie O’Connor and Jeanette McIntosh ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters Rosenblatt Solicitors Margaret Flatman Hamish Parker Rothschild John and Amy Ford The Piano Fund Details correct as of October 2014

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