January – February 2018 Concert Diary
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JAN/ FEB 2017/18 SEASON www.wigmore-hall.org.uk How to Book Wigmore Hall Box Office TICKETS 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five prices ranges: In Person Stalls C – M Highest price 7 days a week: 10am – 8.30pm. Stalls A – B, N – P 2nd highest price Days without an evening concert 10am – 5pm. Balcony A – D 2nd highest price No advance booking in the half hour prior to Stalls BB, CC, Q – S 3rd highest price a concert. Stalls AA, T – V 4th highest price Stalls W – X Lowest price By Telephone: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm. AA AA Days without an evening concert: AA STAGE AA AA AA 10.00am–5.00pm. BB BB There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration CC CC A A charge for each transaction. B B C C D D Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk E E F FRONT FRONT F STALLS STALLS 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. G G There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration H H I I charge. J J K K L L Standby Tickets M M N N Standby tickets for students, senior citizens and O O P P the unemployed are available from one hour Q Q before the performance (subject to availability) R R S S with best available seats sold at the lowest price. REAR REAR T STALLS STALLS T U U NB standby tickets are not available for V V Lunchtime and Coffee Concerts. W W X X Group Discounts A A Discounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 B B C BALCONY C or more, subject to availability. D D Latecomers The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary. Latecomers will only be admitted during a Wigmore Hall • HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Royal Patron suitable pause in the performance. The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No. 1024838 Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk January February Tue 2 Jan 7.30pm Miklós Perényi 4 Thu 1 Feb 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Roderick Williams/ 17 Wed 3 Jan 7.30pm Schumann Quartet 4 Julius Drake/Rory Kinnear Thu 4 Jan 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 4 Fri 2 Feb 10.15am Chamber Tots 18 7.30pm Jörg Widmann/ 4 11.45am Chamber Tots 18 Tabea Zimmermann/Dénes Várjon 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 18 Fri 5 Jan 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 5 Sat 3 Feb 11.00am CAVATINA Family Concert 18 7.30pm Ensemble 360 18 Sat 6 Jan 7.30pm Helsinki Baroque Orchestra/ 5 Carolyn Sampson Sun 4 Feb 11.30am Ensemble 360 18 7.30pm Daniel Behle/Armonia Atenea 19 Sun 7 Jan 11.30am Szymanowski Quartet 5 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 5 Mon 5 Feb 1.00pm Golda Schultz/Jonathan Ware 19 7.30pm Eunsley Park/Maria Tarasewicz/Joy Lisney 19 Mon 8 Jan 1.00pm Isabelle van Keulen/Ronald Brautigam 5 7.30pm Piers Lane 6 Tue 6 Feb 1.00pm Sean Shibe 19 7.30pm Henning Kraggerud/Natalie Clein/ 20 Tue 9 Jan 7.30pm Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 6 Christian Ihle Hadland Wed 10 Jan 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Anne Katharina Schreiber/ 6 Wed 7 Feb 1.00pm Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass 20 Yoshiko Morita/Emmanuel Balssa/ 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Christopher Glynn 20 Lorenzo Coppola Thu 8 Feb 7.30pm The English Concert 21 Thu 11 Jan 7.30pm Sonia Prina/ 6 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Fri 9 Feb 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 21 Fri 12 Jan 12.30pm Chamber Tots 7 Sat 10 Feb 6.00pm Nash Ensemble 21 2.00pm Chamber Tots 7 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Sophie Bevan/ 21 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 7 Leslie Caron Sat 13 Jan 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Stéphanie d’Oustrac 7 Sun 11 Feb 11.30am Pavel Haas Quartet 23 7.30pm Christian Tetzlaff/Florian Donderer/ 22 Sun 14 Jan 11.30am Benjamin Beilman/Boris Giltburg 7 Rachel Roberts/Tanja Tetzlaff/ 3.00pm Alessandro Fisher/Ashok Gupta 8 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/ 7.30pm Modigliani Quartet 8 Martin Helmchen/Julian Prégardien Mon 15 Jan 1.00pm Fatma Said/James Vaughan 8 Mon 12 Feb 11.00am Musical Portraits Band commences 25 Tue 16 Jan 7.30pm Midori/Antoine Lederlin/Jonathan Biss 8 1.00pm SCO Winds 23 Wed 17 Jan 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 9 7.30pm Jerusalem Quartet 23 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov 9 Tue 13 Feb 5.45pm Bechstein Sessions: Fabled 23 Thu 18 Jan 7.30pm Quatuor Diotima 9 7.30pm Jamal Aliyev/Daniel Evans 23 Fri 19 Jan 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 9 Wed 14 Feb 10.30am Family Day: Musical Portraits 26 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 9 7.30pm Artemis Quartet 26 7.30pm Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 9 Thu 15 Feb 6.00pm Discussion Panel 26 Alexandre Tharaud 7.30pm Ruby Hughes/Joseph Middleton 26 Sat 20 Jan 1.00pm Anna Huntley/Ben Johnson/ 10 Fri 16 Feb 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Heath Quartet 27 Nick Pritchard/Stephan Loges/ 7.30pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 27 Graham Johnson/Singers from GMSD Polina Leschenko 7.30pm Louise Alder/James Baillieu 10 Sat 17 Feb 10.00am Family Sounds 27 Sun 21 Jan 11.30am Navarra String Quartet 10 1.00pm Family Sounds 27 3.00pm Royal Academy of Music 11 7.30pm Bartosz Woroch/Enno Senft/Philippe 28 Richard Lewis Song Circle Tondre/Makoto Yoshida/Teunis van der 7.30pm Simon Trpčeski & Friends 11 Zwart/Rie Koyama/Masanori Oishi/ Mon 22 Jan 1.00pm Inon Barnatan 11 Honjo Hidejiro/Mei Yi Foo/Yu Kosuge 7.30pm The Sixteen 12 Sun 18 Feb 11.30am Quatuor Zaïde 28 Tue 23 Jan 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 12 7.30pm Škampa Quartet/Melvyn Tan 28 7.30pm The Mozartists/Classical Opera 12 Mon 19 Feb 1.00pm Ashley Riches/Joseph Middleton 29 Wed 24 Jan 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 12 7.30pm Behn Quartet/Neill–Kim Duo 29 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 13 Tue 20 Feb 10.30am Come and Sing 29 7.30pm Julia Fischer Quartet 13 7.30pm Phantasm 30 Thu 25 Jan 7.30pm Anna Bonitatibus & Friends 13 Wed 21 Feb 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 30 Fri 26 Jan 1.00pm ECMA: Amatis Piano Trio 14 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 30 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 15 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group commences 30 7.30pm Steven Isserlis/Alexander Melnikov 31 Sat 27 Jan 11.00am ECMA: Masterclass 14 1.00pm ECMA: Adorno Quartet/Simply Quartet 14 Thu 22 Feb 11.00am Schools Concert: The Empty Chair 31 7.30pm Anna Bonitatibus/Adele D’Aronzo 15 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 31 Sun 28 Jan 11.30am Lara Melda 15 Fri 23 Feb 7.30pm Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert: 31 3.00pm ECMA: Trio Vitruvi 14 All the World’s a Stage 7.30pm Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 15 Sat 24 Feb 10.00am Big Sing! 32 Mon 29 Jan 1.00pm Apollon Musagète Quartet 15 7.30pm Wihan Quartet 32 7.30pm Escher String Quartet 16 Sun 25 Feb 11.30am Joseph Moog 32 Tue 30 Jan 7.30pm Hagen Quartet/Jörg Widmann 16 3.00pm Johannes Kammler/Roger Vignoles 32 7.30pm Pieter Wispelwey/Alasdair Beatson 32 Wed 31 Jan 1.00pm Gemma Summerfield/Ferdinand Keller/ 16 Harrison Hintzsche/Graham Johnson Mon 26 Feb 1.00pm Aleksandar Madžar 33 7.30pm Angelika Kirchschlager/Julius Drake 17 7.30pm Les Talens Lyriques 33 Tue 27 Feb 7.30pm Louis Lortie 33 Wed 28 Feb 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 33 4 • JANUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Monday 1 January No performances Jörg Widmann as Box Office closed Composer-Performer Tuesday 2 January 7.30pm Thursday 4 January 6.00pm Artists in Conversation Miklós Perényi cello Jörg Widmann gives an insight into his Reger Suite No. 1 in G from 3 Suites life as a composer and performer, and for solo cello Op. 131c discusses his new work to be performed Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 in the evening concert. Ligeti Sonata for solo cello György Kurtág A selection from £5 Signs, Games and Messages Thursday 4 January 7.30pm Britten Cello Suite No. 2 in D Op. 80 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Jörg Widmann clarinet Tabea Zimmermann viola Wednesday 3 January Dénes Várjon piano 7.30pm Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 Schumann Quartet Jörg Widmann Es war einmal (Fünf Stücke Haydn String Quartet Series im Märchenton)* (UK première); Fantasie for solo clarinet Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5; Mozart Clarinet Trio in E flat K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ String Quartet in D minor Op. 42; String *Co-commissioned by Tonhalle Zürich; Bozar Music; Quartet in E flat Op. 17 No. 3; String Quartet Musée du Louvre; and by Wigmore Hall with the support in F Op. 77 No. 2 of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Free tickets for schools and 8–25 Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Chamber Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Office Community Foundation, with additional support and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve Miklós Perényi Schumann Quartet © Szilvia Csibi © Kaupo Kikkas www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 5 Friday 5 January Sunday 7 January 7.30pm 11.30am Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall Szymanowski Quartet Sir András Schiff piano Schubert String Quartet in G minor/B flat D18 Schumann Variations on an original Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’ theme in E flat WoO.