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January – March 2018 2017/18 Season 2 • January – March 2018 2017/18 Season 2 • For over 20 years, Wigmore Hall’s Learning programme has been giving people of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to take part in creative music making, engaging a broad and diverse range of people through innovative projects and events. We are very pleased to present our first ever Learning Festival. Seven Ages is an exploration of the stories of our lives, and the different journeys we all take, reflecting on life experience in its many and varied forms. Taking our Learning programme as inspiration, we invite you to explore with us the path from birth to older age, and everything in between. A high point of the celebrations will be reflected in the evening Director’s concert programme. I have invited Graham Johnson to devise a special song recital based around the Seven Ages of Life, to include a new work by Joseph Introduction Phibbs, entitled All the World’s a Stage, taking its lead from Shakespeare’s As You Like It. We continue our study of JS Bach’s keyboard works with Angela Hewitt on piano and Mahan Esfahani on the harpsichord. Bach is also central to many other concerts this year. On 27 March, Paul Agnew directs singers and players from Les Arts Florissants in six of Bach’s surviving motets, alongside works by his cousin JC Bach and Kuhnau, his successor in Leipzig. The following evening Les Folies françoises makes its Wigmore Hall debut with a stunning programme. The Dunedin Consort, using period instruments and just one voice per part, will propel us into the spiritual contemplation of the St Matthew Passion, bringing the big ideas of Bach’s masterpiece to the small Wigmore Hall stage. Do also join us to hear more of Haydn’s wit and inventive genius as our compelling Haydn String Quartet Series continues with performances from outstanding young ensembles and established interpreters alike. In his final decade, Brahms enjoyed an Indian summer of exquisite creativity. Sir András Schiff turns to Brahms’s late masterworks, set in company with Schumann’s last piano composition and intensely meditative pieces by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. Perhaps we will look back on these times as a golden age of singing. If you haven’t already heard them, our spring series is full of younger song interpreters who continue to earn and reinforce their credentials on our stage: Allan Clayton, Louise Alder, Ilker Arcayürek, Golda Schultz, Robin Tritschler, Florian Boesch and Sylvia Schwarz to name a few. The baton is clearly now passing to a new generation of singers and how lucky we are to have them, and all of the magnificent song pianists with whom they collaborate. Watch out too for concerts by established Italian stars Anna Bonitatibus and Sonia Prina as well as the astonishing jazz vocalist Diane Reeves, who performs a selection from her 5 GRAMMY award winning albums when she visits in March. I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall over the coming months. • 3 Contents At a Glance 4 Calendar 6 January 8 February 33 March 52 Contemporary Music Series 76 Booking Information 80 January – March 2018 At a Glance See pages 8 – 74 for full details of these concerts and page 80 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for… BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Sun 11 Feb Christian Tetzlaff/ 39 Florian Donderer/ Miklós Perényi 8 Mon 8 Jan Isabelle van Keulen/ 13 Rachel Roberts/Tanja Tetzlaff/ Ronald Brautigam Haydn String Quartet Series 10, 11, 18, 42, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/ 48, 52, 61, 62 Mon 15 Jan Fatma Said/James Vaughan 18 Martin Helmchen/Julian Jörg Widmann as 12, 32, 61 Mon 22 Jan Inon Barnatan 23 Prégardien Composer-Performer Mon 29 Jan Apollon Musagète Quartet 31 Mon 12 Feb Jerusalem Quartet 42 Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall 9, 13 Mon 5 Feb Golda Schultz/ 36 Wed 14 Feb Artemis Quartet 43 Carolyn Sampson, Helsinki Baroque 9 Jonathan Ware Fri 16 Feb Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 44 Orchestra & Aapo Häkkinen Mon 12 Feb SCO Winds 42 Polina Leschenko Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration 14 Mon 19 Feb Ashley Riches/ 45 Sun 18 Feb Škampa Quartet/ 45 Sonia Prina: A Celebration 15 Joseph Middleton Melvyn Tan Nash Ensemble: 16, 38, 58, 66 Mon 26 Feb Aleksandar Madžar 51 Wed 21 Feb Steven Isserlis/ 48 The French Connection Mon 5 Mar Leon McCawley 56 Alexander Melnikov Midori, Antoine Lederlin 20 Mon 12 Mar Calidore String Quartet 59 Thu 22 Feb Doric String Quartet 48 & Jonathan Biss Mon 19 Mar Stile Antico 63 Sat 24 Feb Wihan Quartet 50 Alexander Melnikov 19 Mon 26 Mar Danny Driver 71 Sun 25 Feb Pieter Wispelwey/ 51 Jean-Guihen Queyras & 21 Alasdair Beatson Alexandre Tharaud Wed 28 Feb Doric String Quartet 52 Schubert: The Complete Songs 22, 32, 33 Chamber Music Season Thu 1 Mar Michelangelo Quartet/ 53 Simon Trpčeski Series 23 Tue 2 Jan Miklós Perényi 8 Emma Johnson Anna Bonitatibus: Lirica Italiana 27, 30 Wed 3 Jan Schumann Quartet 11 Sun 4 Mar Joshua Bell/Sam Haywood 55 European Chamber Music 28, 29 Thu 4 Jan Jörg Widmann/Tabea 12 Wed 7 Mar Vienna Piano Trio 56 Academy Showcase Zimmermann/Dénes Várjon Sat 10 Mar Nash Ensemble 58 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 30 Wed 10 Jan Isabelle Faust/ 14 Sun 11 Mar Arditti Quartet/ 58 Mark Padmore, Roderick Williams, 33 Anne Katharina Schreiber/ Jake Arditti Julius Drake & Rory Kinnear Yoshiko Morita/ Wed 14 Mar Heath Quartet/ 61 Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass 36 Emmanuel Balssa/ Nils Mönkemeyer Lorenzo Coppola Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works 37 Thu 15 Mar Danish String Quartet 61 Fri 12 Jan Elias String Quartet 17 Seven Ages 40, 41, 42, 44, 49 Fri 16 Mar Kuss Quartet 62 Sat 13 Jan Nash Ensemble/ 16 Christian Tetzlaff Focus 39 Sun 18 Mar Gautier Capuçon/ 64 Stéphanie d’Oustrac The World of William Byrd: Consorts, 46 Jérôme Ducros Sun 14 Jan Modigliani Quartet 18 Hymns, Divisions and Dances Mon 19 Mar Soloists of the Ensemble 65 Tue 16 Jan Midori/Antoine Lederlin/ 20 Love and Death in Venice 51 intercontemporain Jonathan Biss Joshua Bell & Sam Haywood 44 Tue 20 Mar Nash Ensemble/ 66 Thu 18 Jan Quatuor Diotima 20 Christine Rice Leon McCawley 56 Fri 19 Jan Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 21 Wed 21 Mar The Schubert Ensemble 66 Michael Collins Masterclass 62 Alexandre Tharaud Sat 24 Mar Cuarteto Casals 67 Oriana, Fairest Queen 63 Sun 21 Jan Simon Trpčeski & Friends 23 Ensemble intercontemporain 65 Wed 24 Jan Britten Sinfonia 26 Dianne Reeves 68 Wed 24 Jan Julia Fischer Quartet 26 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle 67 Fri 26 Jan ECMA: Amatis Piano Trio 28 Sun 7 Jan Szymanowski Quartet 13 Dunedin Consort: Big Ideas for a 69 Sat 27 Jan ECMA: Masterclass with 28 Sun 14 Jan Benjamin Beilman/ 17 Small Stage Professor Johannes Meissl Boris Giltburg Danny Driver 71 & Professor Hatto Beyerle Sun 21 Jan Navarra String Quartet 21 Paul O’Dette 70 Sat 27 Jan ECMA: Adorno Quartet/ 29 Sun 28 Jan Lara Melda 30 Simply Quartet Les Arts Florissants 72 Sun 4 Feb Ensemble 360 35 Sun 28 Jan ECMA: Trio Vitruvi 29 Roderick Williams: 73 Sun 11 Feb Pavel Haas Quartet 38 Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles Mon 29 Jan Escher String Quartet 31 Sun 18 Feb Quatuor Zaïde 45 Contemporary Music Series 76, 77 Tue 30 Jan Hagen Quartet/ 32 Sun 25 Feb Joseph Moog 50 Jörg Widmann Sun 4 Mar Ronan O’Hora 54 Fri 2 Feb The Endellion String Quartet 34 Sun 11 Mar Bennewitz Quartet 58 Sat 3 Feb Ensemble 360 35 Sun 18 Mar Gould Piano Trio 64 Tue 6 Feb Henning Kraggerud/ 36 Natalie Clein/ Sun 25 Mar Andreas Ottensamer 71 Christian Ihle Hadland Sat 10 Feb Nash Ensemble 38 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5 Early Music and Baroque Series Wed 31 Jan Angelika Kirchschlager/ 33 Tue 27 Feb Louis Lortie 52 Julius Drake Sat 6 Jan Helsinki Baroque Orchestra/ 9 Sun 11 Mar Arditti Quartet/Jake Arditti 58 Carolyn Sampson Thu 1 Feb Mark Padmore/ 33 Mon 12 Mar Calidore String Quartet 59 Roderick Williams/ Thu 11 Jan Sonia Prina/ 15 Wed 14 Mar Heath Quartet/ 61 Julius Drake/ Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Nils Mönkemeyer Rory Kinnear Mon 22 Jan The Sixteen 25 Sat 17 Mar Imogen Cooper 62 Wed 7 Feb Robin Tritschler/ 37 Tue 23 Jan Classical Opera 25 Christopher Glynn Mon 19 Mar Soloists of Ensemble 65 intercontemporain Sun 4 Feb Daniel Behle/Armonia Atenea 35 Sun 11 Feb Christian Tetzlaff/Florian 39 Thu 8 Feb The English Concert 37 Donderer/Rachel Roberts/ Mon 26 Mar Danny Driver 71 Fri 9 Feb Mahan Esfahani 37 Tanja Tetzlaff/Marie-Elisabeth The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Hecker/Martin Helmchen/ Tue 20 Feb Phantasm 46 Julian Prégardien Mon 26 Feb Les Talens Lyriques 51 Thu 15 Feb Ruby Hughes/ 43 Thu 8 Mar Florilegium 57 Joseph Middleton Wigmore Hall Learning Thu 22 Mar London Handel Orchestra 68 Fri 23 Feb Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert: 49 Thu 4 Jan Artists in Conversation 12 Sun 25 Mar Dunedin Consort 69 All the World’s a Stage Fri 12 Jan Chamber Tots 17 Mon 26 Mar Paul O’Dette 70 Sun 25 Feb Johannes Kammler/ 50 Wed 17 Jan Artists in Conversation 19 Tue 27 Mar Les Arts Florissants 72 Roger Vignoles Fri 19 Jan For Crying Out Loud! 20 Wed 28 Mar Les Folies françoises 72 Sun 4 Mar Martin Mitterrutzner/ 54 Gerold Huber Fri 2 Feb Chamber Tots 34 Fri 9 Mar Florian Boesch/ 57 Sat 3 Feb CAVATINA Family Concert 34 London Pianoforte Series Malcolm Martineau Wed 7 Feb Thomas Quasthoff 36 Fri 5 Jan Sir András Schiff 9 Tue 13 Mar John Chest/Marcelo Amaral 59 Masterclass Sun 18 Mar 64 Sun 7 Jan Sir András Schiff 13 Soraya Mafi/ Seven Ages Graham Johnson Mon 8 Jan Piers Lane 14 Thu 29 Mar Roderick Williams/ 73 Mon 12 Feb Music Portraits Band 41 Wed 17 Jan Alexander Melnikov 19 Iain Burnside commences Fri 26 Jan Angela Hewitt 30 Sat 31 Mar Sylvia Schwartz/ 74 Tue 13 Feb Bechstein Sessions: Fabled 42
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