January – March 2018 2017/18 Season 2 •

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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 At a Glance January – March 2018

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 Tue 27 Feb Louis Lortie 52 Malcolm Martineau Wed 14 Feb Family Day: 43 Sat 3 Mar Steven Osborne 54 Musical Portraits Mon 5 Mar Denis Kozhukhin 56 Thu 15 Feb Discussion Panel 43 Mon 12 Mar Nelson Goerner 59 Jazz Series Fri 16 Feb Relaxed Concert: 44 Sat 17 Mar Imogen Cooper 62 Fri 23 Mar Dianne Reeves 68 Heath Quartet Sat 17 Feb Family Sounds 44 Tue 20 Feb Come and Sing 46 Contemporary Music Series Wed 21 Feb For Crying Out Loud! 46 Tue 2 Jan Miklós Perényi 8 Song Recital Series Wed 21 Feb Wigmore Study Group 48 Tue 9 Jan Allan Clayton/ 14 Thu 4 Jan Jörg Widmann/ 12 commences Tabea Zimmermann/ James Baillieu Thu 22 Feb Schools Concert: 49 Dénes Várjon Sun 14 Jan Alessandro Fisher/ 18 The Empty Chair Mon 15 Jan Fatma Said/James Vaughan 18 Ashok Gupta Sat 24 Feb Big Sing! 49 Sat 20 Jan Anna Huntley/ 22 Thu 18 Jan Quatuor Diotima 20 Ben Johnson/ Sun 21 Jan Simon Trpčeski & Friends 23 Thu 1 Mar Chamber Tots 52 Nick Pritchard/Stephan Loges/ Wed 24 Jan Britten Sinfonia 26 Graham Johnson/ Thu 1 Mar Introduction to Music 53 Singers from GMSD Tue 30 Jan Hagen Quartet/ 32 commences Jörg Widmann Sat 20 Jan Louise Alder/James Baillieu 21 Sat 3 Mar Family Concert: 53 Tue 6 Feb Henning Kraggerud/ 36 The Empty Chair Sun 21 Jan Royal Academy of Music 23 Natalie Clein/ Richard Lewis Song Circle Fri 9 Mar Chamber Tots 57 Christian Ihle Hadland Thu 25 Jan Anna Bonitatibus & Friends 27 Wed 14 Mar Chamber Tots 61 Thu 15 Feb Ruby Hughes/ 43 Sat 17 Mar Michael Collins Masterclass 62 Sat 27 Jan Anna Bonitatibus/ 30 Joseph Middleton Adele D’Aronzo Sat 24 Mar Family Day: 71 Fri 16 Feb Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 44 Chamber Challenge Sun 28 Jan Ilker Arcayürek/ 31 Polina Leschenko Simon Lepper Wed 21 Feb Steven Isserlis/ 48 Wed 31 Jan Gemma Summerfield/ 32 Alexander Melnikov Ferdinand Keller/Harrison Fri 23 Feb Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert: 49 Hintzsche/Graham Johnson All the World’s a Stage Calendar

January – March 2018

January Sun 28 Jan 11.30am Lara Melda 30 3.00pm ECMA: Trio Vitruvi 29 Tue 2 Jan 7.30pm Miklós Perényi 8 7.30pm Ilker Arcayürek/Simon Lepper 31 Wed 3 Jan 7.30pm Schumann Quartet 11 Mon 29 Jan 1.00pm Apollon Musagète Quartet 31 Thu 4 Jan 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 12 7.30pm Escher String Quartet 31 7.30pm Jörg Widmann/ Tue 30 Jan 7.30pm Hagen Quartet/Jörg Widmann 32 Tabea Zimmermann/Dénes Várjon Wed 31 Jan 1.00pm Gemma Summerfield/Ferdinand Keller/ 32 Fri 5 Jan 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 9 Harrison Hintzsche/Graham Johnson Sat 6 Jan 7.30pm Helsinki Baroque Orchestra/ 9 7.30pm Angelika Kirchschlager/Julius Drake 33 Carolyn Sampson Sun 7 Jan 11.30am Szymanowski Quartet 13 February 7.30pm Sir András Schiff 13 Thu 1 Feb 7.30pm Mark Padmore/Roderick Williams/ 33 Mon 8 Jan 1.00pm Isabelle van Keulen/Ronald Brautigam 13 Julius Drake/Rory Kinnear 7.30pm Piers Lane 14 Fri 2 Feb 10.15am Chamber Tots 34 Tue 9 Jan 7.30pm Allan Clayton/James Baillieu 14 11.45am Chamber Tots 34 Wed 10 Jan 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Anne Katharina Schreiber/ 14 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 34 Yoshiko Morita/Emmanuel Balssa/ Sat 3 Feb 11.00am CAVATINA Family Concert 34 Lorenzo Coppola 7.30pm Ensemble 360 35 Thu 11 Jan 7.30pm Sonia Prina/ 15 Sun 4 Feb 11.30am Ensemble 360 35 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 7.30pm Daniel Behle/Armonia Atenea 35 Fri 12 Jan 12.30pm Chamber Tots 17 Mon 5 Feb 1.00pm Golda Schultz/Jonathan Ware 36 2.00pm Chamber Tots 17 Tue 6 Feb 7.30pm Henning Kraggerud/Natalie Clein/ 36 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 17 Christian Ihle Hadland Sat 13 Jan 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Stéphanie d’Oustrac 16 Wed 7 Feb 1.00pm Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass 36 Sun 14 Jan 11.30am Benjamin Beilman/Boris Giltburg 17 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Christopher Glynn 37 3.00pm Alessandro Fisher/Ashok Gupta 18 Thu 8 Feb 7.30pm The English Concert 37 7.30pm Modigliani Quartet 18 Fri 9 Feb 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 37 Mon 15 Jan 1.00pm Fatma Said/James Vaughan 18 Sat 10 Feb 6.00pm Nash Ensemble 38 Tue 16 Jan 7.30pm Midori/Antoine Lederlin/Jonathan Biss 20 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Sophie Bevan/ 38 Wed 17 Jan 6.00pm Artists in Conversation 19 Leslie Caron 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov 19 Sun 11 Feb 11.30am Pavel Haas Quartet 38 Thu 18 Jan 7.30pm Quatuor Diotima 20 7.30pm Christian Tetzlaff/Florian Donderer/ 39 Fri 19 Jan 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 20 Rachel Roberts/Tanja Tetzlaff/ 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 20 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker 7.30pm Jean-Guihen Queyras/ 21 Martin Helmchen/Julian Prégardien Alexandre Tharaud Mon 12 Feb 11.00am Musical Portraits Band commences 41 Sat 20 Jan 1.00pm Anna Huntley/Ben Johnson/ 22 1.00pm SCO Winds 42 Nick Pritchard/Stephan Loges/ 7.30pm Jerusalem Quartet 42 Graham Johnson/Singers from GMSD Tue 13 Feb 5.45pm Bechstein Sessions: Fabled 42 7.30pm Louise Alder/James Baillieu 21 Wed 14 Feb 10.30am Family Day: Musical Portraits 43 Sun 21 Jan 11.30am Navarra String Quartet 21 7.30pm Artemis Quartet 43 3.00pm Royal Academy of Music 23 Thu 15 Feb 6.00pm Discussion Panel 43 Richard Lewis Song Circle 7.30pm Ruby Hughes/Joseph Middleton 43 7.30pm Simon Trpčeski & Friends 23 Fri 16 Feb 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Heath Quartet 44 Mon 22 Jan 1.00pm Inon Barnatan 23 7.30pm Patricia Kopatchinskaja/ 44 7.30pm The Sixteen 25 Polina Leschenko Tue 23 Jan 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 25 Sat 17 Feb 10.00am Family Sounds 44 7.30pm The Mozartists/Classical Opera 25 1.00pm Family Sounds 44 Wed 24 Jan 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 26 Sun 18 Feb 11.30am Quatuor Zaïde 45 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 26 7.30pm Škampa Quartet/Melvyn Tan 45 7.30pm Julia Fischer Quartet 26 Mon 19 Feb 1.00pm Ashley Riches/Joseph Middleton 45 Thu 25 Jan 7.30pm Anna Bonitatibus & Friends 27 Tue 20 Feb 10.30am Come and Sing 46 Fri 26 Jan 1.00pm ECMA: Amatis Piano Trio 28 7.30pm Phantasm 46 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 30 Wed 21 Feb 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 46 Sat 27 Jan 11.00am ECMA: Masterclass 28 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 46 1.00pm ECMA: Adorno Quartet/Simply Quartet 29 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group commences 48 7.30pm Anna Bonitatibus/Adele D’Aronzo 30 7.30pm Steven Isserlis/Alexander Melnikov 48 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 7

Thu 22 Feb 11.00am Schools Concert: The Empty Chair 49 Sat 24 Mar 10.30am Family Day: Chamber Challenge 71 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 48 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 67 Fri 23 Feb 7.30pm Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert: 49 Sun 25 Mar 11.30am Andreas Ottensamer 71 All the World’s a Stage 5.00pm Dunedin Consort 69 Sat 24 Feb 10.00am Big Sing! 49 Mon 26 Mar 1.00pm Danny Driver 71 7.30pm Wihan Quartet 50 7.30pm Paul O’Dette 70 Sun 25 Feb 11.30am Joseph Moog 50 Tue 27 Mar 7.30pm Les Arts Florissants 72 3.00pm Johannes Kammler/Roger Vignoles 50 Wed 28 Mar 7.30pm Les Folies françoises 72 7.30pm Pieter Wispelwey/Alasdair Beatson 51 Thu 29 Mar 7.30pm Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 73 Mon 26 Feb 1.00pm Aleksandar Madžar 51 7.30pm Les Talens Lyriques 51 Sat 31 Mar 7.30pm Sylvia Schwartz/Malcolm Martineau 74 Tue 27 Feb 7.30pm Louis Lortie 52 Wed 28 Feb 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 52

March Thu 1 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots 52 11.45am Chamber Tots 52 4.45pm Introduction to Music commences 53 Wigmore Hall 7.30pm Michelangelo Quartet/Emma Johnson 53 Sat 3 Mar 11.00am Family Concert: The Empty Chair 53 7.30pm Steven Osborne 54 Restaurant & Bar Sun 4 Mar 11.30am Ronan O’Hora 54 3.00pm Martin Mitterrutzner/Gerold Huber 54 Join us for dinner before your evening 7.30pm Joshua Bell/Sam Haywood 55 recital. Enjoy a modern menu balanced Mon 5 Mar 1.00pm Leon McCawley 56 7.30pm Denis Kozhukhin 56 with a nod to classic favourites, all in the Wed 7 Mar 7.30pm Vienna Piano Trio 56 comfort of Wigmore Hall, and be ready Thu 8 Mar 7.30pm Florilegium 57 Fri 9 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots 57 in time for the start of the concert. 11.45am Chamber Tots 57 7.30pm Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau 57 Sat 10 Mar 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Eleanor Bron 58 Table reservations: 020 7935 2141 Sun 11 Mar 11.30am Bennewitz Quartet 58 7.30pm Arditti Quartet/Jake Arditti 58 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant Mon 12 Mar 1.00pm Calidore String Quartet 59 7.30pm Nelson Goerner 59 Tue 13 Mar 7.30pm John Chest/Marcelo Amaral 59 Wed 14 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots 61 11.45am Chamber Tots 61 7.30pm Heath Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer 61 Thu 15 Mar 7.30pm Danish String Quartet 61 Fri 16 Mar 7.30pm Kuss Quartet 62 Sat 17 Mar 2.00pm Michael Collins Masterclass 62 7.30pm Imogen Cooper 62 Sun 18 Mar 11.30am Gould Piano Trio 64 3.00pm Soraya Mafi/Graham Johnson 64 7.30pm Gautier Capuçon/Jérôme Ducros 64 Mon 19 Mar 1.00pm Stile Antico 63 7.30pm Soloists of the 65 Ensemble intercontemporain Tue 20 Mar 5.30pm Nash Ensemble/Royal Academy of Music 66 7.30pm Nash Ensemble/Christine Rice 66 Wed 21 Mar 7.30pm The Schubert Ensemble 66 Thu 22 Mar 7.30pm London Handel Orchestra 68 Fri 23 Mar 7.30pm Dianne Reeves 68 8 • JANUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Tuesday 2 January 7.30pm Miklós Perényi cello

Reger Suite No. 1 in G from 3 Suites for solo cello Op. 131c Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012 Ligeti Sonata for solo cello György Kurtág A selection from Signs, Games and Messages Britten Cello Suite No. 2 in D Op. 80

From the unrestrained passion of his music-making to the subtle beauty of his sound, Miklós Perényi holds the power to move listeners to the heart of every work he plays. He leads a voyage into the exquisite soundworlds of fellow Hungarians Ligeti and György Kurtág, unlocks the expressive wealth of Reger and Bach, and finishes with Britten’s awe-inspiring Second Cello Suite.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Miklós Perényi © Szilvia Csibi www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 9

Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall Saturday 6 January Few artists have enjoyed a deeper relationship with Wigmore Hall 7.30pm than Sir András Schiff. His recitals and chamber concerts this season promise music-making of the highest spiritual insight and eloquence. Helsinki Baroque Friday 5 January Orchestra 7.30pm Aapo Häkkinen director, harpsichord Sir András Schiffpiano Carolyn Sampson soprano Schumann Variations on an original theme in E flat WoO. 24 Telemann Ouverture burlesque in B ‘Geister Variations’ flat TWV55:B8; Trauer-Music eines Brahms 3 Intermezzi Op. 117 kunsterfahrenen Canarienvogels Mozart Rondo in A minor K511 (Canary Cantata) Brahms 6 Klavierstücke Op. 118 Bach Concerto in D for harpsichord Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV869 from The Well- BWV1054 (from Violin Concerto in tempered Clavier Book I E BWV1042); Cantata: Jauchzet Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Gott in allen Landen BWV51 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’ Joys and sorrows, tragedy and In his final decade, Brahms enjoyed an Indian summer of exquisite comedy pulse through Helsinki creativity. Sir András Schiff turns his profound compassion to Baroque Orchestra’s programme. Brahms’s late masterworks, set in company with Schumann’s last The orchestra opens with piano composition and intensely meditative pieces by Bach, Mozart Telemann’s Overture burlesque, and Beethoven. with its miniature portraits of stock pantomime characters, and £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 is joined by Gramophone Award- Supported by an anonymous donor winning soprano Carolyn Sampson in Telemann’s mock-serious Forthcoming Concerts in this Series funeral music for a dead canary Sunday 7 January 7.30pm and Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in allen Saturday 12 May 7.30pm with Jörg Widmann clarinet Landen, among the most joyful of his cantatas.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Sir András Schiff Helsinki Baroque Orchestra © Nadia F. Romanini / ECM Records © Heikki Tuuli 10 • JANUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Haydn String Quartet Series Hear more of Haydn’s wit and inventive genius as Wigmore Hall’s compelling Haydn String Quartet Series continues with performances from outstanding young ensembles and inspirational interpreters. This series is made possible with additional support from the Haydn String Quartet Circle and the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 11

Wednesday 3 January 7.30pm

Schumann Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5; String Quartet in D minor Op. 42; String Quartet in E flat Op. 17 No. 3; String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2

Brothers Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann, raised in the Rhineland, have been making music together since childhood. They were joined in 2012 by violist Liisa Randalu to form the Schumann Quartet, acclaimed not least for impassioned, audacious Haydn performances.

Schumann Quartet £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 © Kaupo Kikkas

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Sunday 14 January 7.30pm Thursday 15 March 7.30pm Wednesday 30 May 7.30pm Modigliani Quartet Danish String Quartet Quatuor Mosaïques

Monday 12 February 7.30pm Friday 16 March 7.30pm Thursday 31 May 7.30pm Jerusalem Quartet Kuss Quartet Quatuor Mosaïques

Thursday 22 February 7.30pm Tuesday 17 April 7.30pm Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Doric String Quartet Castalian String Quartet Heath Quartet

Wednesday 28 February 7.30pm Wednesday 25 April 7.30pm Friday 13 July 7.00pm Doric String Quartet Vertavo String Quartet Bennewitz Quartet

Wednesday 14 March 7.30pm Saturday 26 May 7.30pm Wednesday 25 July 7.30pm Heath Quartet Doric String Quartet Castalian String Quartet 12 • JANUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Prepare to be inspired! Jörg Widmann, among today’s leading composers and an outstanding communicator, returns to Wigmore Hall to perform his own works and explore their creative dialogue with Romanticism. Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund

Thursday 4 January Forthcoming Concerts in this Series 6.00pm Tuesday 30 January 7.30pm Sunday 10 June 7.30pm Hagen Quartet Tetzlaff Quartet Artists in Conversation Jörg Widmann clarinet Jörg Widmann clarinet Jörg Widmann gives an insight into his life as a composer and performer, and Wednesday 14 March 7.30pm Saturday 16 June 7.30pm discusses his new work to be performed Heath Quartet Heath Quartet in the evening concert. Mary Bevan soprano Monday 16 April 7.30pm 10.00pm £5 Yefim Bronfman piano Friday 20 July Heath Quartet Thursday 4 January Saturday 12 May 7.30pm 7.30pm Jörg Widmann clarinet Sir András Schiff piano Jörg Widmann clarinet Tabea Zimmermann viola Dénes Várjon piano Schumann Märchenerzählungen Op. 132 Jörg Widmann Es war einmal (Fünf Stücke im Märchenton)* (UK première); Fantasie for solo clarinet Jörg Widmann Schumann Märchenbilder Op. 113 © Marco Borggreve Mozart Clarinet Trio in E flat K498 ‘Kegelstatt’ *Co-commissioned by Tonhalle Zürich; Bozar Music; Musée du Louvre; and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Fairy-tale visions and dream pictures colour Schumann’s Märchenbilder and transcendent Märchenerzählungen, works packed with surging emotional contrasts. Be sure to catch the fantasy worlds of Jörg Widmann’s ‘Fantasie’ and ‘Es war einmal’, sparkling highlights of his Wigmore Hall Residency.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 13

Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall Sunday 7 January Sunday 7 January Monday 8 January 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Szymanowski Quartet Sir András Schiffpiano Isabelle van Keulen violin Schubert String Quartet D18 Repeat of concert on 5 January Ronald Brautigam piano Mozart String Quartet in C K465 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 in ‘Dissonance’ £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 G Op. 30 No. 3 Schubert String Quartet in G Szymanowski The Fountain of minor D173 Arethusa from Myths Op. 30 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Since its foundation in Op. 13 Warsaw over a decade ago, the Szymanowski Quartet has Isabelle van Keulen and Ronald attracted a strong international Brautigam, duo partners for following. Join the ensemble for more than two decades, open this charming programme, which their lunchtime celebration of offers penetrating visions of melody with Beethoven’s free- Mozart and Schubert. flowing Violin Sonata in G before presenting two of the most £15 concs £13 incl. programme beautiful works in the violin and and coffee/sherry/juice piano repertoire.

All seats £15

Szymanowski Quartet Sir András Schiff Isabelle van Keulen © Florian Graser © Nadia F. Romanini / ECM Records © Marco Borggreve 14 • JANUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration Monday 8 January Tuesday 9 January Wednesday 10 January 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Piers Lane piano Allan Clayton tenor Isabelle Faust violin Scarlatti Sonata in B minor K87; James Baillieu piano Anne Katharina Sonata in G K14 Programme to include: Schreiber violin Bach From The Well-tempered Purcell/Britten A Morning Hymn; Yoshiko Morita viola Clavier Book I: Prelude and Fugue In the black dismal dungeon of in C sharp BWV848 & Prelude and despair; Evening Hymn Emmanuel Balssa cello Fugue in B flat minor BWV867 Vaughan Williams Silent Noon Lorenzo Coppola clarinet Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 Songs by Gurney Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Chopin 2 Nocturnes Op. 27 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Rachmaninov Variations on a minor Op. 115 Allan Clayton scored a massive Theme of Chopin Op. 22 critical hit as Hamlet in Isabelle Faust and her fellow Brett Dean’s new opera for artists, specially chosen for this Piers Lane’s programme creates Glyndebourne last summer. The programme, promise surprises and an evening of changing emotions, tenor’s impassioned artistry and insights during their exploration of vibrant colours and expressive total commitment in performance two masterworks for clarinet and contrasts. His recital moves can be heard here in songs strings. ‘This very special project’, from the meditative stillness of packed with powerful images and explains Isabelle, ‘was born through Scarlatti’s B minor Sonata to romantic rapture. the white heat of Beethoven’s my affection and admiration for ‘Appassionata’ and dazzling Lorenzo Coppola, one of the best £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 brilliance of Rachmaninov’s historical clarinet players and ‘Chopin Variations’. musicians of our times’.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Forthcoming Concert in this Series Monday 9 April 7.30pm with Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord

Piers Lane Allan Clayton Isabelle Faust © Eric Richmond © Laura Harling © Felix Broede www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 15

Sonia Prina: A Celebration

Thursday 11 January 7.30pm

Sonia Prina contralto Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Handel Concerto Grosso in F Op. 6 No. 2 Ferrandini Cantata: Il pianto di Maria Bach Cantata: Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV54 Locatelli Concerto Grosso in E flat ‘Il Pianto d’Arianna’ Op. 7 No. 6 Vivaldi Longe mala, umbrae, terrores RV629

Individuality and spontaneity belong to the irresistible qualities shared by Sonia Prina and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. They are directed here to music deeply etched with bold emotions and striking contrasts, including Vivaldi’s turbulent Longe mala, umbrae, terrores.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 With grateful thanks to the Early Music and Baroque Circle

Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Tuesday 1 May 2018 7.30pm Sonia Prina contralto Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen director

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Nash Ensemble: The French Connection

Saturday 13 January 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Lawrence Power viola Ian Brown piano Stéphanie d’Oustrac mezzo-soprano Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (arr. Benno Sachs) Vierne Deux pièces Op. 5 Debussy Beau soir (arr. viola and piano) Honnoré Morceau de concert Op. 23 Duparc L’invitation au voyage; Phidylé Debussy Trois poèmes de Mallarmé (arr. for voice and ensemble by Colin Matthews) Ravel Chansons madécasses; String Quartet in F

Debussy’s epoch-making Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune prefaces a group of French viola pieces by Vierne, Debussy and the little-known Honnoré. French mezzo- soprano Stéphanie d’Oustrac sings two exquisite songs by Duparc alongside an arrangement of Debussy’s elusive Mallarmé cycle, before the concert ends with magnificent works by Ravel.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Saturday 10 February 6.00pm

Saturday 10 February 7.30pm with Sophie Bevan soprano and Leslie Caron reciter

Saturday 10 March 7.30pm with Eleanor Bron narrator

Tuesday 20 March 5.30pm

Tuesday 20 March 7.30pm with Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Under the Patronage of H.E. Madame Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to the United Kingdom www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 17

Friday 12 January Friday 12 January Sunday 14 January 12.30pm and 2.00pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Chamber Tots Elias String Quartet Benjamin Beilman*violin On the Farm After Beethoven: Melodists Boris Giltburg piano Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G We invite children aged 1 to 5 and D703 Op. 78 their parents/carers to join us as Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F we go to the farm. This interactive flat Op. 105 minor Op. 80 music-making workshop features Schubert String Quartet in D songs, percussion and the chance minor D810 ‘Death and the There’s tremendous freedom and to meet some exciting instruments Maiden’ flow about the way Benjamin up close, led by our experienced Beilman and Boris Giltburg make Chamber Tots music leaders The Elias String Quartet music. The pair contrast the alongside emerging ensembles. celebrates the genius of two summer radiance of Brahms’s composers blessed with the First Violin Sonata with the dark 12.30pm (1–2 year olds) & ability to create great melodies at introspection of Prokofiev’s Sonata 2.00pm (3–5 year-olds) will. Their programme includes in F minor, composed during Approximately 1 hour in duration the work Dvořák began before troubled times. returning to Prague from the Children £6 Adults £4 United States, and Schubert’s £15 concs £13 incl. programme haunting ‘Death and the Maiden’. and coffee/sherry/juice * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

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Haydn String Quartet Series Sunday 14 January Sunday 14 January Monday 15 January 3.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Alessandro Fisher tenor Modigliani Quartet Fatma Said soprano Ashok Gupta piano Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 54 James Vaughan piano Head On the wings of the wind; No. 1; String Quartet in G minor Schumann Sechs Gesänge Op. 89; Over the rim of the moon; Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’ Singet nicht in Trauertönen Op. Money, O! Brahms String Quartet in C minor 98a No. 7; Liebeslied Op. 51 No. 5; Mendelssohn Der Tag; Reiterlied; Op. 51 No. 1 Requiem Op. 90 No. 7 Abschied; Der Bettler Mendelssohn Die Liebende Schubert Der Schiffer The Modigliani Quartet’s Haydn schreibt; Ach, um deine feuchten Chausson Sérénade italienne interpretations, in concert and on Schwinge; Hexenlied Brahms Meerfahrt Op. 96 No. 4 record, revel in the composer’s Poulenc Les chemins de l’amour; Meyerbeer Mina (Chanson d’un wit, ingenuity and invention. This Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon gondolier venétien) charming programme includes the Sherif Mohie El Din Three Poems: Hahn Venezia - Chansons en ‘Rider’ Quartet, which plays with Rain; Could The River Flow For dialecte vénitien the colours of minor and major Ever?; Against Whom? keys, and Brahms’s remarkable Young tenor Alessandro Fisher, Op. 51 No. 1. Fatma Said’s lunchtime programme a natural story-teller with a projects an eternal desire to flair for languages, seized joint £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 connect different peoples through first prize at the 2016 Kathleen love. The Egyptian soprano, a Ferrier Awards with gripping BBC Radio 3 New Generation performances. He makes his Artist, moves from Mendelssohn’s Wigmore Series debut with Ashok seductive ‘Die Liebende schreibt’ Gupta, performing songs that to Schumann’s sublime ‘Requiem’ evoke vivid images. and songs by Sherif Mohie El Din.

All seats £15 £15 concs £13 Fatma Said is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme

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Alexander Melnikov Many Pianos

Wednesday 17 January 6.00pm

Pre-Concert Talk Alexander Melnikov discusses his evening programme and the choice of three different pianos – a Steinway, a Graf and an Erard – each carefully matched to the repertoire.

£5

Wednesday 17 January 7.30pm

Alexander Melnikov piano Many Pianos Schubert Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’ Chopin 12 Etudes Op. 10 Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan S418 Stravinsky 3 Scenes from Petrushka

Experience the sounds that the composers had in mind in Alexander Melnikov’s riveting recital. The Russian pianist will perform Schubert on a Viennese instrument by Conrad Graf, Chopin and Liszt on a Parisian Erard and Stravinsky’s dazzling Petrushka scenes on a Steinway.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Tuesday 16 January Thursday 18 January Friday 19 January 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.00am and 12.30pm

Midori violin Quatuor Diotima For Crying Out Loud! Antoine Lederlin cello Szymanowski String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56 Hear outstanding performances Jonathan Biss piano Rebecca Saunders New by musicians from the Royal Beethoven Piano Trio in G Op. 1 commission* (world première) Academy of Music, in these No. 2 Schubert String Quartet in G D887 concerts presented especially Schumann Phantasiestücke Op. 88 for parents or carers and babies *Co-commissioned by the Dina Koston Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 and Roger Shapiro Fund in the Library under 1 to enjoy together in a of Congress; ECLAT Festival Stuttgart; relaxed and accommodating Midori’s artistry has held Wigmore Festival Musica Strasbourg; Philharmonie environment. Hall audiences spellbound since Luxembourg; and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of Approximately 45 minutes in duration the 1980s. Antoine Lederlin and the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant- Jonathan Biss, two like-minded, making foundation Adults £8.50 (babies come free) peerless musicians, join the In partnership with the Royal Japanese-American violinist in Berlin-based British composer Academy of Music a delicious selection of piano Rebecca Saunders’s multi-hued trios. Schumann’s folk-inspired commission for the exhilarating Phantasiestücke and Beethoven’s young players of Quatuor Diotima Op. 1 No. 2, with its profoundly sparkles with originality. Its rich moving slow movement preface textures and tonal contrasts stand Dvořák’s tempestuous Piano Trio in company with Szymanowski’s in F minor. exquisite Second String Quartet and Schubert’s mighty String £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Quartet in G.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Friday 19 January Saturday 20 January Sunday 21 January 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Jean-Guihen Queyras Louise Alder soprano Navarra String Quartet cello James Baillieu piano Artsybushev Serenade in A from Les vendredis Alexandre Tharaud piano Chants d’amour Lyadov Mazurka in D from Les Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. Mozart An Chloe; vendredis 2 in D BWV1028 Abendempfindung; Der Zauberer Blumenfeld Sarabande in G minor Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D Bizet Chant d’amour; Ouvre ton from Les vendredis minor Op. 40 Cœur; Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe Schubert String Quartet in G D887 Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and Strauss Ruhe, meine Seele; Cäcilie; piano Op. 5 (arr. for cello and Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen Friday evenings at the mansion of piano) Mendelssohn Gruß Op. 19a No. 5; a St Petersburg millionaire were Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Neue flooded with beautiful miniatures minor Op. 38 Liebe for string quartet. The Navarra Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ String Quartet offers a selection of ‘Playing safe’ holds no interest Op. 58 Friday pieces, Les vendredis, before for Jean-Guihen Queryas and Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca S270/1: unleashing the intense energy of Alexandre Tharaud, musicians who Pace non trovo; Benedetto sia’l Schubert’s final string quartet. practice what they preach about giorno; I’ vidi in terra angelici taking risks in performance. They costume £15 concs £13 incl. programme are certain to push the boundaries and coffee/sherry/juice of expression in this diverse English lyric soprano Louise programme, which includes two of Alder returns to Wigmore the greatest cello sonatas in the Hall – following her captivating book, together with a rare outing performances at BBC Cardiff for the cello and piano version of Singer of the World Competition Berg’s 4 Pieces. – to explore a vast continent of emotions, from the simple charm £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 of Mozart to the supercharged ecstasy of Richard Strauss.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Schubert: The Complete Songs

Saturday 20 January 1.00pm

Nick Pritchard tenor Stephan Loges bass-baritone Graham Johnson piano with Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Ben Johnson tenor Singers from Guildhall School of Music Schubert Trinklied vor der Schlacht; Schwertlied; Punschlied; Das Grab (D330); Trinklied (D356); Das Grab (D377); Beitrag zur fünfzig jährigen Jubelfeier des Herrn von Salieri; Schlachtlied; Das Grab (D569); Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (D656); Gesang der Geister; Bootgesang; Widerspruch; Nachthelle; Ständchen (D920); Zur guten Nacht

Songs of drinking and battle form an appetising slice of the menu for this lunchtime date with Schubert. Six male voices from Guildhall School of Music join Nick Pritchard, Stephan Loges, Anna Huntley and Ben Johnson for a programme that includes rousing part songs and choruses. Approximately two hours in duration (with interval)

£15 concs £13

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Wednesday 31 January 1.00pm Gemma Summerfield soprano Ferdinand Keller tenor Harrison Hintzsche baritone Graham Johnson piano

Wednesday 31 January 7.30pm Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano

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Simon Trpčeski Series Sunday 21 January Sunday 21 January Monday 22 January 3.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm

Royal Academy of Music Simon Trpčeski piano Inon Barnatan piano Richard Lewis Song Aleksandar Krapovski violin Bach Toccata in E minor BWV914 Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Circle Alexander Somov cello Barber Piano Sonata in E flat Meinir Wyn Roberts soprano Hidan Mamudov clarinet, minor Op. 26 Patrick Terry countertenor saxophone, kaval Hiroshi Amako tenor Vlatko Nushev percussion Deep musical insight, flawless Richard Walshe bass-baritone technique and potent imagination Zuzanna Basinska piano Makedonissimo lie behind Inon Barnatan’s Keval Shah piano Pande Shahov Transcriptions of exhilarating interpretations. The Programme to include: Macedonian traditional music Israeli pianist takes a fresh look at Schubert Gondelfahrer Schumann (UK première) the spellbinding art of fugue and Zwei Venetianische Lieder the endless range of keyboard Mendelssohn Venetianisches Simon Trpčeski traces his virtuosity. Gondellied Head Three songs of Macedonian musical roots in Venice Massenet Souvenir de Makedonissimo, a programme of £15 concs £13 Venise Gounod Venise Glinka folk melodies specially arranged for Venetian night Taneyev Venice at piano and a band comprising violin, Night Rossini La regata veneziana cello, woodwind and percussion. Tosti Venetian Song A close collaboration with Pande Shahov, this concert will be the A celebration of Venice in songs, project’s UK première. Listen out duets and quartets, singers and for the strong jazz flavours of the pianists from the Royal Academy traditional Pajdushka dance. of Music present a programme of melodic beauty, vivid emotions and £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 expressive contrasts. Forthcoming Concert in this Series

All seats £15 Wednesday 2 May 7.30pm WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

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TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION…

Supporting and developing the next generation of Our Trainee Music Leader 2016/17, Georgia Duncan, musicians is a key part of our work, and we provide said of the scheme: training opportunities across all of the Wigmore Hall Learning programme. At the heart of this work sit our ‘Being the Trainee Music Leader … has Apprentice Composer, Open Academy/Wigmore Hall been an experience rich in opportunity and Learning Fellowship Ensemble and Trainee Music Leader schemes. surprisingly rare in its flexibility, bespoke nature and financial support. Encouraged and supported by an inspiring team at Wigmore Hall, I have been able to assist on a variety of projects in schools, care homes and community centres, learning from highly skilled music leaders and ultimately being able to carve out my own path of development throughout the year.’

Monday 22 January Tuesday 23 January Tuesday 23 January TRAINING THE 7.30pm 6.00pm 7.30pm The Sixteen Pre-Concert Talk The Mozartists/ NEXT GENERATION… PURCELL – Royal Welcome Classical Opera Songs for King Charles II Leading Mozart scholar Richard Wigmore provides an overview Ian Page conductor Purcell Rejoice in the Lord of the year 1768 and introduces Katy Bircher flute always; Chaconne (Two in some of the music being Chiara Skerath soprano One Across the Ground) from performed in the concert. Dioclesian; Close thine eyes Haydn Symphony No. 26 in D and sleep secure (Upon a Quiet £5 minor ‘Lamentatione’ Conscience) Z184; Blow, Boreas, Jommelli Ombre che tacite qui blow; O all ye people, clap your sede from Fetonte hands; Come, my hearts, play JC Bach Flute Concerto in D WC79 your parts; What shall be done in Haydn From Lo speziale: Amore behalf of the man?; Overture in D nel mio petto & Salamelica, minor Z771; Thy genius, lo! from Semprugna cara The Massacre of Paris; O praise Mozart From La finta semplice: the Lord, all ye heathen; Retir’d Overture & Amoretti, che ascosi from any mortal’s sight; From qui siete those serene and rapturous joys Hasse Perderò l’amato bene from Piramo e Tisbe Londoner Henry Purcell, bright Vanhal Symphony in D minor star of the Chapel Royal, boosted the monarchy with pieces written Ian Page returns with The for Charles II and his family. The Mozartists for a diverse and Sixteen and Harry Christophers illuminating overview of the musical are world leaders in performing year 1768. Dramatically charged Purcell’s welcome songs and symphonies frame a charming flute other pieces for the king. concerto by ‘the London Bach’ and fascinating arias sung by the exciting £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 young soprano Chiara Skerath.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

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Wednesday 24 January Wednesday 24 January Wednesday 24 January 12.15pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia Julia Fischer Quartet Leo Chadburn discusses his new Jacqueline Shave violin Beethoven String Quartet in E flat work with Dr Kate Kennedy. Caroline Dearnley cello Op. 74 ‘Harp’ Huw Watkins piano Janáček String Quartet No. 1 Free to concert ticket holders Biber Mystery Sonata No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (separate ticket required) ‘The Annunciation’ Schubert String Quartet in A Philip Glass Orbit minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Leo Chadburn New work* (London première) Following her sensational Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel performance of Ysaÿe’s virtuoso Mozart Piano Trio in B flat K502 solo sonatas last season, German violinist Julia Fischer returns to *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of donors to the Musically Wigmore Hall with her Quartet for Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with a programme of three scintillating the support of André Hoffmann, president chamber music masterworks, of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant- each of which sculpts big, bold making foundation ideas in sound.

Leo Chadburn’s new work for piano £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 trio and electronics is set amongst chamber repertoire new and old. The programme showcases each instrument, from the softly-evolving cello melody in Philip Glass’s Orbit to the interaction of violin and piano in Arvo Pärt’s poignant Spiegel im Spiegel.

£15 concs £13

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Anna Bonitatibus: Lirica Italiana

Thursday 25 January 7.30pm

Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Serena Farnocchia soprano Jeremy Ovenden tenor Riccardo Novaro baritone Vincenzo Scalera piano Crescentini Il primo amore Perucchini Vieni, t’appressa all’urna; Col labbro, o Nice; Se i sospiri degli amanti; Odi d’un uom che muore Gordigiani Il Trovatore; La notte; La lacrima; Elisa Mazzucato Il lago; Il bacio; Il pensiero della sera; Il canto d’amore Verdi Guarda che bianca luna Mercadante Virginia: Cantata for soprano and piano Verdi Cupo è il sepolcro e mutolo Gabussi La luna Donizetti Il giuramento Rossini L’ultimo ricordo Costa Ecco quel fiero istante Malibran Nel cor più non mi sento Rossini I Gondolieri

Anna Bonitatibus presents a special series, Lirica Italiana, exploring the arc of Italian vocal chamber music, as we delve into repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries over the course of two evenings. The music of Italy’s fathers of bel canto, or ‘beautiful song’, was in worldwide demand in the 1800s. Anna is joined by close friends for a recital of musical surprises and delights, complete with Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi rarities.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Saturday 27 January 7.30pm

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European Chamber

Amatis Piano Trio Simply Quartet © Marco Borggreve © Gerard Spee

Friday 26 January Saturday 27 January 1.00pm 11.00am

Amatis Piano Trio Masterclass with Professor Johannes Schumann Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor Op. 110 Meissl & Professor Hatto Beyerle Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 Simply Quartet

Wigmore Hall’s annual European Chamber Music Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and Academy Showcase spotlights the next generation of the Maiden’ top-flight chamber musicians. Its young performers have been chosen by ECMA’s founder Hatto Beyerle Professors Hatto Beyerle and Johannes Meissl, joint in collaboration with Europe’s leading universities, artistic directors of the European Chamber Music conservatoires and festivals. Academy, draw from their vast experience as quartet players and teachers in a masterclass session with All seats £5 the Chinese and Norwegian musicians of the Vienna- based Simply Quartet.

Free admission (ticket required) www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 29

Music Academy Showcase

Adorno Quartet Trio Vitruvi © Studio Fotografico GC © Tom McKenzie

Saturday 27 January Sunday 28 January 1.00pm 3.00pm

Adorno Quartet Trio Vitruvi Simply Quartet Schubert Notturno in E flat D897; Piano Trio No. 2 in Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 E flat D929 Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Words such as energy, generosity and brilliance surface in reviews of Trio Vitruvi, members of ECMA since Two of today’s finest young string quartets are 2015. The Danish ensemble’s programme includes one set to display their refined musicianship and of Schubert’s most moving compositions, the Notturno compelling artistry in works that call for absolute in E flat, and his complex Second Piano Trio. ensemble precision, perfect balance and blend, as well as unconditional feeling for musical dialogue, All seats £5 conversation and exchange.

All seats £5

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Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey Anna Bonitatibus: Lirica Italiana Friday 26 January Saturday 27 January Sunday 28 January 7.30pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Angela Hewitt piano Anna Bonitatibus mezzo Lara Melda piano Bach The Well-tempered Clavier soprano Mozart Fantasia in C minor K475 Book I BWV846–869 Adele D’Aronzo piano Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116 Liszt Après une lecture du Dante: Rossini Or che di fiori adorno; Angela Hewitt’s legendary Bach Fantasia quasi sonata from Farò come colui che piange e dice; interpretations highlight the Années de pèlerinage S161 Ave Maria su due sole note; A composer’s limitless melodic ma belle mère; Arietta all’antica; imagination and the physicality of Une caresse à ma femme Lara Melda’s prodigious artistry his dance rhythms. She continues Sgambati Visione; Care luci; Tu propelled her to victory in the her Wigmore Hall Bach Odyssey with sei proprio come un fiore & Prière 2010 BBC Young Musician of the the first book of 24 Preludes and Martucci Scherzo in E Op. 53 Year final, and has inspired rave Fugues, an event not to be missed. No. 2 from Tre Scherzi; Pagine reviews since. She returns to sparse Op. 68 Bossi La serenata; Wigmore Hall with a programme £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Sul prato; Aprile & Che spera of fantasy pieces and Liszt’s epic ‘Dante Sonata’. Forthcoming Concert in this Series Mancinelli Le Ondine Respighi Tempestoso; Quanta invidia mi Thursday 26 July 7.30pm fai bel gelsomino; Cantata Pilati £15 concs £13 incl. programme 2 Madrigali del Guarini Mix Due and coffee/sherry/juice Preludi; Omaggio a Stravinsky Berio 4 Canzoni populari Carpi Il Filo Strappato; Portami un fiore

Anna Bonitatibus has charmed and dazzled audiences worldwide with her artistry. She unlocks Italy’s lyrical treasury in this recital of popular tunes, sultry songs and heart-melting melodies, as she concludes her exploration of Italian vocal chamber music.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Angela Hewitt Anna Bonitatibus Lara Melda © Keith Saunders © Frank Bonitatibus © Benjamin Harte www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JANUARY • 31

Sunday 28 January Monday 29 January Monday 29 January 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Ilker Arcayürek tenor Apollon Musagète Escher String Quartet Simon Lepper piano Quartet Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D Schubert Frühlingsglaube; Lied Sibelius Andante Festivo Shostakovich String Quartet No. eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Puccini Crisantemi 9 in E flat Op. 117 Rastlose Liebe; Abendstern; Grieg String Quartet in G minor Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Am Op. 27 in D Op. 11 Flusse; Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel; Der Schiffer (D536); The composers in this recital may Melodies from Borodin’s Der Doppelgänger; An den be best known for works in other Second String Quartet found a Mond (D193); Über Wildemann; genres, but Apollon Musagète second home in the Broadway Nachtstück; Der Einsame; An Quartet’s programme choice offers musical Kismet, tribute to their die Laute; Der Musensohn; the chance to experience three timelessness. The Escher String Sehnsucht (D879); Schäfers compelling creations for string Quartet places the work alongside Klagelied; Die Liebe hat gelogen; quartet, Puccini’s elegy for a dead Shostakovich’s Ninth String Romanze zum Drama Rosamunde; duke among them! Quartet, itself influenced by the Schwanengesang (D744) famous gallop from Rossini’s William Tell Overture. Schubert Gesänge des Harfners: £15 concs £13 Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt; Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß & £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 An die Türen will ich schleichen

Schubert’s fascination with Goethe’s poetry powers through Ilker Arcayürek’s spellbinding recital, present in the composer’s three settings of the Harper’s Song, and in such exquisite songs as ‘Der Musensohn’ and ‘Rastlose Liebe’.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by an anonymous donor

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Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Schubert: The Complete Songs Tuesday 30 January Wednesday 31 January 7.30pm 1.00pm

Hagen Quartet Gemma Summerfieldsoprano Jörg Widmann clarinet Ferdinand Keller tenor Webern String Quartet (1905) Harrison Hintzsche baritone Jörg Widmann Quintet for Graham Johnson piano clarinet and string quartet – lento assai* (UK première) Schubert Entra l’uomo allor che nasce; Serbate, o dei custodi; Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Misero pargoletto; Szene aus Goethes ‘Faust’; Die Mondnacht; An die Sonne (D272); Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt (D325); *Co-commissioned by the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid; Muziekgebouw Lodas Gespenst; Klage an den Mond; Die Gestirne; Wer nie Amsterdam; Strijikkwartet Biennale sein Brot mit Tränen aß (Gesänge des Harfners) D478/2 (first Amsterdam; Lugano Musica; Carnegie & second settings); Klage um Ali Bey (D496a); Klage um Ali Hall New York; Cité de la Musique Paris; Bey (D140); Zufriedenheit II (D501); Herbstlied; Sehnsucht Mozartwoche Salzburg; Philharmonie Essen; and by Wigmore Hall with the support of (D516); Memnon; Abend (fragment) (D645); An mein Herz; André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid); Mignon und der Harfner from Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation ‘Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister’; Wolke und Quelle (sketch) D896b; Sie in jedem Liede (sketch) D896a; Lebensmut Musical connections and influences (fragment) (D937); Glaube, Hoffnung und Liebe (D955); Die occupy Jörg Widmann’s programme Taubenpost D965a with the Hagen Quartet, who together gave the world première Three outstanding young singers join Graham Johnson, among the of his Clarinet Quintet in Madrid last all-time greats of Schubert interpretation, for a recital packed with April. Hear the repertoire’s latest flowing melodies and intense emotions. addition alongside the rich, warm tones of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. £15 concs £13 Approximately two hours in duration (with interval) £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series

Hagen Quartet Gemma Summerfield Graham Johnson © Harald Hoffmann © Arno Photography © Clive Barda www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 33

Schubert: The Complete Songs Wednesday 31 January Thursday 1 February 7.30pm 7.30pm

Angelika Kirchschlager Mark Padmore tenor mezzo-soprano Roderick Williams baritone Julius Drake piano Julius Drake piano Final concert in Schubert: Rory Kinnear actor (subject to availability) The Complete Songs series Songs of the Sea Schubert Namenstagslied; Ireland Sea Fever Haydn Sailor’s song Stanford Drake’s Drum Frühlingsglaube; Das Echo; Finzi Channel Firing Fauré Au cimetière Duparc La vie Augenlied; Bei dir allein!; antérieure Lambertine; Geheimes; Fauré Les berceaux Clarke The Seal Man Tippett Full fathom Wiegenlied (D498); An den five Elgar Sea Slumber Song from Sea Pictures Mendelssohn Mond (D193); In der Mitternacht; Wasserfahrt Schubert Der Schiffer (D536); Auf dem Wasser zu Erlkönig; Suleika I & II; Der singen; Meeres Stille (D216) Brahms Meerfahrt; Die Meere Wolf Unglückliche; Heimliches Lieben; Seemanns Abschied Elgar Where corals lie from Sea Pictures Rückweg; Gesang der Norna; Britten Tom Bowling; Sail on, sail on Hely Hutchinson The Owl Rosamunde; Der liebliche Stern; and the Pussycat Der Jüngling an der Quelle; Lied des Florio; Abschied von der Erde Songs about sea battles, journeys by ship and the lure of the ocean, set to music of mighty emotional power, form this For the conclusion of Wigmore celebration of maritime adventure and life before the mast. Mark Hall’s mammoth survey of Padmore, Roderick Williams and Julius Drake share the stage for Schubert’s complete songs, a programme interspersed with readings of poetry exploring the Angelika Kirchschlager and Julius theme of the seas. Drake mark the composer’s birthday with a programme filled with fine poetry, high musical £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 drama and vocal melodies that have never been bettered.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Friday 2 February Friday 2 February Saturday 3 February 10.15am & 11.45am 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon

Chamber Tots The Endellion CAVATINA Family Bear Hunt String Quartet Concert: Barbican Beethoven String Quartet in G Piano Trio We invite children aged 1 to 5 Op. 18 No. 2 For ages 5 plus and their parents/carers to join Mozart String Quartet in D minor us as we go on a Bear Hunt! K421 Join the award-winning Barbican This interactive music-making Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Piano Trio, regarded as one of the workshop features songs, Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 UK’s leading ensembles, for an percussion and the chance to in E flat minor Op. 30 meet some exciting instruments interactive family concert which up close, led by our experienced explores the wonderful world of Beethoven’s charming early chamber music. Chamber Tots music leaders quartet is followed by Mozart’s alongside emerging ensembles. intensely introspective K421. Children £10 Adults £12 Webern’s astonishingly expressive 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & Bagatelles take all of three and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) a half minutes, but Schoenberg renowned for bringing chamber Approximately 1 hour in duration describes Webern as being music to young people and young able to ‘express a novel in a people to chamber music, is Children £6 Adults £4 single gesture’. In contrast is delighted to present this concert in the luxurious expansiveness of association with Wigmore Hall. Tchaikovsky’s third quartet.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Chamber Tots The Endellion String Quartet Barbican Piano Trio © Benjamin Ealovega © Eric Richmond © Sam Pearce www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 35

Saturday 3 February Sunday 4 February Sunday 4 February 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm

Ensemble 360 Ensemble 360 Daniel Behle tenor Janáček Concertino Martinů Nonet for wind quintet, Armonia Atenea Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano string trio and double bass Markellos Chryssicos and winds K452 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor director, harpsichord Beethoven Septet in E flat Op. 20 Op. 34 Opera Arias Ensemble 360 has drawn an army Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor Gluck Qual ira... Oggi per me non of young followers to hear great began life as a string quintet sudi from La contesa de’ numi; chamber music at its Sheffield before morphing into one of Son lungi e non mi brami from home. The group travels from the composer’s finest chamber Le cinesi; Trio Sonata in G minor the Crucible to Wigmore Hall for works. Ensemble 360 prefaces the Wq. 53 No. 2; Bel piacer saria an evening of vibrant works for mighty four-movement score with d’un core from La Semiramide wind instruments, crowned by Martinů’s sparkling Nonet, among riconosciuta; Non hai cor per Beethoven’s majestic Septet. the Czech composer’s most un’impresa from Ipermestra; charming creations. Io veggo in lontananza from £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Semiramide riconosciuta; Quercia £15 concs £13 incl. programme annosa sull’erte pendici from and coffee/sherry/juice Antigono; Trio Sonata in F Wq. 53 No. 6; Cruelle, non, jamais from Iphigénie en Aulide; J’ai perdu mon Eurydice from Orphée et Eurydice

Many people know Gluck for his opera Orfeo ed Euridice, a revolutionary work of the early 1760s. Discover more of the composer’s inventive genius in Daniel Behle’s recital of arias with the thrilling period-instrument ensemble Armonia Atenea.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

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Monday 5 February Tuesday 6 February Wednesday 7 February 1.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm – 4.00pm

Golda Schultz soprano Henning Kraggerud violin Thomas Quasthoff Jonathan Ware piano Natalie Clein cello Masterclass Mozart An Chloe; Das Lied der Christian Ihle Hadland As one of the greatest bass- Trennung piano Schubert Heimliches Lieben; baritones of the past half century, Clarke Dumka (Duo Concertante) Romanze zum Drama Thomas Quasthoff has a unique Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Rosamunde; Suleika I & II fund of artistic insights and Op. 87 Beach Three Browning Songs practical experience to pass on Henning Kraggerud Victimae Op. 44 to the next generation of singers. Paschali for piano trio Carter Cantata Since he retired from the concert Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. hall in 2012, he has deepened his 90 ‘Dumky’ Music, according to one ancient huge knowledge of the voice with proverb, is an incitement to dates as an actor, cabaret artist White-hot passion and life- love. Golda Schultz tests the and masterclass leader. enhancing energy are set to claim in her Wigmore Hall debut be unleashed throughout this with songs of romance, passion £10 concessions £8 programme, which includes the and longing. The South African Piano Trio by Rebecca Clarke, soprano closes with John Carter’s among the first female musicians heart-melting cycle of spirituals. to join Henry Wood’s Queen’s Hall Orchestra, and an exciting new £15 concs £13 work by Henning Kraggerud.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Golda Schultz Henning Kraggerud Thomas Quasthoff © Gregor Rohrig © Robert Romik © Bernd Brundert www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 37

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Wednesday 7 February Thursday 8 February Friday 9 February 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Robin Tritschler tenor The English Concert Mahan Esfahani Christopher Glynn piano Harry Bicket director, organ harpsichord A Heine Songbook Nadja Zwiener violin Bach Sonata in A minor after Reinken BWV965; English Suite Meyerbeer Komm du schönes Jonathan Manson viola No. 3 in G minor BWV808; Fischermädchen Brahms da gamba English Suite No. 4 in F BWV809; Sommerabend C Schumann Sie soprano Toccata in D BWV912 liebten sich beide Loewe Der Asra Dorothee Mields Mendelssohn Reiterlied Brahms Buxtehude: Bach’s Hero Mahan Esfahani knows the secret Meerfahrt Jensen Lehn deine Buxtehude Sonata in C art of performance alchemy, that Wang an meine Wang Mendelssohn BuxWV266; Also hat Gott die rare ability to be fully present in Auf Flügeln des Gesanges Liszt Welt geliebet BuxWV5; Trio every note. The latest concert Anfangs wollt’ ich fast verzagen Sonata in D minor BuxWV257; in his Wigmore Hall Bach series Brahms Mondenschein; Es schauen Herr, auf Dich traue ich includes two English Suites, die Blumen Bruckner Frühlingslied BuxWV35; Gen Himmel zu pieces that unfold with terrific Mendelssohn Neue Liebe dem Vater Sein BuxWV32; Trio swagger and melodic beauty. Saint-Saëns Clair de lune Sonata in G minor BuxWV261; Rimsky-Korsakov The pine and Trio Sonata in D BuxWV267; O £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 the palm Grieg Eingehüllt in graue fröhliche Stunden BuxWV84 Wolken Rachmaninov Child! you are Forthcoming Concerts in this Series as fair as a flower Bridge All things While Bach made his famous Wednesday 9 May 7.30pm that we clasp Tchaikovsky Otchevo? 500-mile journey to hear his Tuesday 19 June 7.30pm Schumann Dichterliebe hero play the organ, Buxtehude was similarly revered by Handel ‘Where words leave off, music and Pachelbel. In one of its more begins’, wrote Heinrich Heine. These intimate configurations, The sublime settings of Heine’s poetry English Concert pays tribute to the tap the expressive power of rarely great master alongside soprano heard songs before Schumann’s Dorothee Mields. impassioned Dichterliebe. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

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Nash Ensemble: Nash Ensemble: The French Connection The French Connection Saturday 10 February Saturday 10 February Sunday 11 February 6.00pm 7.30pm 11.30am

Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble Pavel Haas Quartet Stephanie Gonley violin Sophie Bevan soprano Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 Lawrence Power viola Leslie Caron reciter ‘American’ Adrian Brendel cello Ravel Sonatine (arr. for flute, viola Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in Philippa Davies flute and harp by Salzedo/Kanga) E minor ‘From my life’ Ian Brown piano Stravinsky Three Japanese Duruflé Prélude, Récitatif et Lyrics; Two Poems by Konstantin A summer spent in Iowa’s Variations for flute, viola and Balmont backwoods helped ease Dvořák’s piano Op. 3 Debussy Chansons de Bilitis (arr. homesickness and inspire his Debussy Sonata for cello and Boulez) ‘American’ Quartet, written during piano Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane the Czech composer’s time in Ravel Sonata for violin and cello Mallarmé the United States. The Pavel Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Haas Quartet pairs the work with The only known chamber work by minor Op. 15 another profoundly personal score, the organist-composer Maurice Smetana’s autobiographical Duruflé, his Prélude, Récitatif et Sensuous works by Stravinsky ‘From my life’. Variations, is followed by Debussy’s and Ravel conjure up seductive moonlit Cello Sonata and Ravel’s soundworlds in this enchanting £15 concs £13 incl. programme experimental and engaging duo programme. Oscar-nominated and coffee/sherry/juice Sonata for violin and cello. actress Leslie Caron joins the Nash Ensemble to read the erotic All seats £3 poems of Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis, a dozen miniatures touched by the heat and passion of ancient Greece.

£37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Adrian Brendel Sophie Bevan Pavel Haas Quartet © Jack Liebeck © Sussie Ahlburg © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 39

Christian TetzlaffFocus Wigmore Hall celebrates the work of Christian Tetzlaff, bold and independent in his interpretations of music of all periods and pioneer of innovative chamber music projects.

Sunday 11 February 7.30pm

Christian Tetzlaffviolin Florian Donderer violin Rachel Roberts viola Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello Tanja Tetzlaffcello Martin Helmchen piano Julian Prégardien tenor Schubert Schwanengesang Schubert String Quintet in C D956

Schubert often touched the outer limits of human emotion, especially in these astonishing works from his final months. Julien Prégardien opens with the boundless songs of Schwanengesang before Christian Tetzlaff leads a performance of the composer’s revelatory String Quintet.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Sunday 10 June 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet

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Wigmore Hall Learning is thrilled to launch its first ever Festival. Seven Ages is an exploration of the stories and stages of our lives, and the different journeys we all take, reflecting on life and experience in its many and varied forms. Taking our Learning programme strands as inspiration, we invite you to explore with us the path from birth to older age, and everything in between.

Seven Ages Journeys through Life Tuesday 13 February Tuesday 20 February 5.45pm 10.30am – 1.30pm Bechstein Sessions Come and Sing

Wednesday 14 February Wednesday 21 February 10.30am – 3.30pm 11.00am – 11.45am and 12.30pm – 1.15pm Musical Portraits: Family Day For Crying Out Loud!

Thursday 15 February Thursday 22 February 6.00pm Panel Discussion: Parenthood 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm Helen Grime world première Schools Concert: The Empty Chair

Friday 16 February Friday 23 February 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm Relaxed Concert All the World’s a Stage concert

Saturday 17 February Saturday 24 February 10.00am – 12 noon and 1.00pm – 3.00pm 10.00am – 3.30pm Family Sounds Big Sing www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 41

Musical Portraits Band Musical Pathways For young people with Autism Spectrum Conditions Drop in to the Bechstein Room to explore your own Monday 12 February 11.00am – 3.30pm musical journey with Wired4Music, a community of Tuesday 13 February 11.00am – 3.30pm young creatives. We invite young people with Autism Spectrum Monday 12 February Conditions to be inspired by paintings in the National Between 2.00pm and 4.00pm Portrait Gallery, and to create their own works of Wednesday 14 February art and music with inspiring visual artists alongside Between 4.00pm and 5.30pm Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite. Friday 16 February For more information, and to apply for a place, Between 10.00am and 1.00pm contact Charlotte Cunningham at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email Monday 19 February [email protected]. Between 2.00pm and 4.00pm

Free (application required) Free (no ticket required) In partnership with the National In partnership with Wired4Music, Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts led by Sound Connections 42 • FEBRUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Haydn String Quartet Series Monday 12 February Monday 12 February Tuesday 13 February 1.00pm 7.30pm 5.45pm – 6.45pm

SCO Winds Jerusalem Quartet Bechstein Sessions: Beethoven Wind Sextet in E flat Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 33 Fabled Op. 71 No. 3 ‘The Bird’; String Quartet in We’re delighted to launch Bechstein Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’; String Sessions, a new series of informal bassoon Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 performances in the Bechstein Bar. Beethoven Octet in E flat Op. 103 The Jerusalem Quartet has Sam Rapley saxophone & clarinet Young Beethoven’s soundworld been close to Haydn’s music for Alex Munk guitar included military bands and wind more than two decades. The Matt Robinson piano ensembles. His heroic Wind programme explores works from Conor Chaplin double bass Sextet dates from 1796, a time the composer’s middle years, each Will Glaser drums of revolutionary wars in Europe, containing echoes of birdsong, while the earlier Octet projects before closing with one of his Fabled formed in 2014 when Sam tremendous optimism. SCO Winds greatest achievements, the String Rapley brought together some also performs Poulenc’s sparkling Quartet in G from 1799. of Britain’s most exciting young Sonata, a product of the Jazz Age. musicians to play his original £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 music. The group explores a £15 concs £13 wealth of textures, harmonies and grooves, taking inspiration from Debussy, Tom Jobim, Sarah Vaughan and Bon Iver. Also influenced by film music and the relationship between music and storytelling, Fabled is always searching for new ways to tell classic, age-old stories.

£5

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Wednesday 14 February Wednesday 14 February Thursday 15 February 10.30am – 3.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Family Day: Artemis Quartet Ruby Hughes soprano Musical Portraits Mozart String Quartet in F K590 Joseph Middleton piano ‘Prussian’ Songs for New Life and Love The families of Musical Portraits Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 participants come together with Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Schumann Prelude from Ignite at Wigmore Hall to take part Op. 44 No. 1 Jugendlieder 1827; Frauenliebe in their own music making and und -leben Op. 42 Mahler explore the creative process of the Are there no limits to what can be Kindertotenlieder Ives Serenity; Musical Portraits Band. created with four instruments? The Housatonic at Stockbridge; The Artemis Quartet explores the Memories: a. Very Pleasant, b. Rather Sad; Songs my mother Children £12 Adults £16 point with the third of Mozart’s Haydn-inspired ‘Prussian’ taught me Helen Grime New work* In partnership with the National Quartets before entering Bartók’s (world première) Britten Ca the Portrait Gallery meditative Second Quartet and Yowes; At the mid hour of night; closing with Mendelssohn’s Come you not from Newcastle?; exuberant String Quartet in D. O Waly, Waly *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant- making foundation

Thursday 15 February Explore love, lullabies and the bond 6.00pm between parents and children in a programme crowned by the world Discussion Panel première of a song cycle by Helen Grime, setting poems from Fiona Helen Grime and Fiona Benson Benson’s Bright Travellers. discuss the topic of parenthood. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £5 Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust

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Friday 16 February Friday 16 February Saturday 17 February 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm 10.00am – 12 noon

Relaxed Concert Patricia Kopatchinskaja Family Sounds Heath Quartet violin Join us for this music-making Polina Leschenko piano This relaxed concert is open to workshop for children aged 0-5 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor everyone and provides a special and their parents or carers, which Poulenc Violin Sonata opportunity to explore music in offers the opportunity to co-create Mozart Violin Sonata in E flat K380 an informal environment. Join a new piece inspired by the music György Kurtág Tre pezzi Op. 14e of our Composer in Residence, the dynamic Heath Quartet for a Enescu Impressions d’enfance concert exploring the Seven Ages Helen Grime. Workshop leaders Op. 28 theme, and enjoy a cup of tea or Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever coffee afterwards. lead us in exploration of singing, Patricia Kopatchinskaja was play and poetry, and our new There is a relaxed attitude to noise recently described by the Guardian piece will be shared online! and movement, and house lights as ‘a violinist who makes music will remain up. Audience members seem a direct, almost unmediated Repeated 1.00pm – 3.00pm are able to move in and out of the communication of a state of mind’. auditorium as they need to, and She harnesses her spontaneous, £6 Children £8 Adults there is a designated quiet area. combustible artistry to a programme packed with contrasts, £5 emotions and vivid impressions.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Heath Quartet Patricia Kopatchinskaja Family Sounds © Simon Way © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 45

Sunday 18 February Sunday 18 February Monday 19 February 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm

Quatuor Zaïde Škampa Quartet Ashley Riches bass-baritone Beethoven String Quartet in D Melvyn Tan piano Joseph Middleton piano Op. 18 No. 3 Mozart String Quartet in C K465 A Musical Zoo Debussy String Quartet in G ‘Dissonance’ Schubert Die Forelle; Die Vögel; minor Op. 10 Janáček String Quartet No. 1 Der Alpenjäger ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Fauré Le papillon et la fleur Young, free-spirited and extremely Korngold Piano Quintet in E Op. 15 Saint-Saëns La coccinelle gifted, Quatour Zaïde has Massenet La mort de la cigale harvested rave reviews since its Regulars at Wigmore Hall for over Ravel Histoires naturelles formation in 2009. This Wigmore two decades, the Prague-based Vernon Duke Ogden Nash’s Hall programme celebrates youth’s Škampa Quartet taps into music’s Musical Zoo audacity by pairing an early power to rouse deep emotions. Beethoven String Quartet with The ensemble travels through the Animal life in all its glory takes Debussy’s only adventure into harmonic meanderings of Mozart’s centre stage in Ashley Riches’s the genre. ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, before lunchtime programme. The British joining forces with Melvyn Tan for bass-baritone highlights the £15 concs £13 incl. programme Korngold’s romantic, expansive humour of the natural world with and coffee/sherry/juice Piano Quintet. Ogden Nash’s Musical Zoo by Vernon Duke, composer of scores for £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Broadway and the Ballets Russes.

£15 concs £13 Ashley Riches is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme

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Tuesday 20 February Tuesday 20 February Wednesday 21 February 10.30am – 1.30pm 7.30pm 11.00am and 12.30pm

Come and Sing Phantasm For Crying Out Loud! For families living with dementia Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol Emilia Benjamin treble viol, tenor viol Hear outstanding performances If you are, or someone you know Jonathan Manson tenor viol by musicians from the Royal is, living with dementia, join Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol Academy of Music, in these concerts presented especially Isabelle Adams for a session of Emily Ashton tenor viol group singing, exploring a mixture Jonathan Rees bass viol for parents or carers and babies of music old and new, followed under 1 to enjoy together in a The world of Byrd: consorts, relaxed and accommodating by tea and coffee. No previous hymns, divisions & dances experience needed, just an environment. enthusiasm to sing! Byrd Five Fantasias a3 and a4; Approximately 45 minutes in duration Fantasia a5 (‘Two parts in one’); Two Fantasias a6 (‘to the vyolls’); Free (booking required) Adults £8.50 (babies come free) Kyrie, Sanctus & Agnus Dei from Book through the Wigmore Missa a4; Miserere; Sermone In partnership with the Hall Learning department on Blando; Christe redemptor Royal Academy of Music 020 7258 8246 or learning@ omnium; Browning (‘The Leaves wigmore-hall.org.uk. be green’); Queen’s Goodnight In partnership with Westminster Arts (Prelude and Ground); La Virginella; Though Amaryllis dance in green; In fields abroad; Susanna fair; My Mistress had a little dog; In Nomines: a4 and a5; Galliard a5, Pavan and Galliard a6

Hit tunes, and popular dances and songs supplied rich pickings for Tudor musicians in search of material for new works. Journey into this thrilling consort music for viols.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Come and Sing Phantasm © James Berry © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 47

SINGING WITH FRIENDS

We believe that dementia should not stop people from ‘It widens the horizons doing the things they love, or from trying new things. of my life. It gives me a We are committed to helping to build a dementia friendly society in which people can access high lot of happiness and it quality, life enriching musical experiences. keeps me going.’ Music for Life is a pioneering programme for people Choir member living with dementia and their family, friends and carers, encompassing a wide range of projects and ‘The audience’s events in care settings, community settings and at standing ovation Wigmore Hall itself. made me so happy to As part of the continued development of this work, we hear they enjoyed it!’ are delighted to have launched Singing with Friends, our community choir for families living with dementia. Choir member The choir meets on a weekly basis, sharing the joy of singing and exploring a range of repertoire. The choir gave its first performance on the Wigmore Hall stage last year and looks forward to celebrating many more musical moments together. In partnership with Westminster Arts

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Wigmore Study Group: Haydn String Quartet Series Wednesday 21 February Thursday 22 February Haydn String Quartets 7.30pm 7.30pm

Wednesday 21 February 3.00pm – 6.00pm Steven Isserlis cello Doric String Quartet piano Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 64 Monday 26 February Alexander Melnikov 3.00pm – 6.00pm Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D No. 1; String Quartet in B minor minor Op. 40 Op. 64 No. 2; String Quartet in B Wednesday 28 February flat Op. 64 No. 3 3.00pm – 6.00pm Mikhail Pletnev Sonata for cello and piano Evgeny Kissin Sonata-Ballade for After decades spent serving an To explore the string quartets of cello and piano aristocratic master, Haydn became Joseph Haydn is to witness the Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G a free agent in the early 1790s. He birth of the genre as we know it minor Op. 19 moved to Vienna and wrote a set and to trace its development to the of six string quartets, the first three height of invention. Haydn’s quartets Works by Mikhail Pletnev and of which form the Doric String from his time at the Esterházy Quartet’s captivating programme. estate are associated with the Evgeny Kissin, two of today’s finest pianists, stand shoulder to freedom he enjoyed in Vienna and £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 the friendships he formed there, shoulder with scores by two great most famously with Mozart. Delve composer-pianists from the past. into these works, which have never Steven Isserlis and Alexander been surpassed in their intimacy Melnikov explore their enchanting of interaction between four equal combination of virtuosity, yet independent instruments, with nostalgia, pathos and poetry. composer Julian Philips alongside pianist Laura Roberts, guest £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 speakers, and performers from the Supported by the members of Guildhall School of Music & Drama. The Rubinstein Circle

Series ticket price £66 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 28 February

Joseph Haydn Steven Isserlis Doric String Quartet © Thomas Hardy © Joanna Bergin © George Garnier www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 49

Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert Friday 23 February Thursday 22 February 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon

Ailish Tynan soprano Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Schools Concert Ilker Arcayürek tenor Stephan Loges bass-baritone TROUPE: The Empty Chair Graham Johnson piano Key Stage 2 All the World’s a Stage When the Two Persons find Joseph Phibbs New Commission* themselves visited by an empty Haydn Der Greis chair, they are at a loss as to what Schubert Der Knabe; Die Knabenzeit; An die Laute; to do. Luckily, the whirling ThisThat Greisengesang; Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk – and one very noisy BLACKHOLE Schumann Schlusslied des Narren; Die wandelnde Glocke; Er – are on hand to help. Featuring und Sie music by Debussy, Couperin, Berio, Brahms O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück; Ich sah als Knabe Moondog and TROUPE, get involved Blumen blühn with games and music making. Wolf Sie blasen zum Abmarsch; Ihr jungen Leute, die ihr zieht ins Feld; Der Soldat I Children £4 Adults Free Mahler Lob des hohen Verstandes from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (ticket required) Gilbert & Sullivan When I, Good Friends, Was Called to the Bar from Trial by Jury Duparc Au pays où se fait la guerre Saturday 24 February Poulenc Le sommeil; Le retour du sergent from Chansons 10.00am – 3.00pm villageoises Britten A Charm from A Charm of Lullabies; Black Day from Who are these Children? Big Sing! Coward Bronxville Darby and Joan Join Isabelle Adams for a Big *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the generous support of Nicholas and Judith Goodison Sing! celebration of our Seven Ages festival, with this special Shakespeare’s renowned ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech opens opportunity to develop your singing this special concert featuring songs which explore different stages skills and explore new music with of life, crowned with the world première of a new work by the Wigmore Hall Learning. outstanding British composer Joseph Phibbs. £25 Concessions £19 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Anna Huntley Big Sing! © Kaupo Kikkas © Benjamin Ealovega 50 • FEBRUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 24 February Sunday 25 February Sunday 25 February 7.30pm 11.30am 3.00pm

Wihan Quartet Joseph Moog piano Johannes Kammler Mozart String Quartet in B flat Haydn Fantasia in C HXVII:4 baritone K458 ‘Hunt’ Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Roger Vignoles piano Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 58 Schubert An Schwager Kronos; Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Debussy L’isle joyeuse Wonne der Wehmut; Schäfers Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 Klagelied; Wandrers Nachtlied I; flat Op. 105 in C sharp minor An die Entfernte; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus Wolf Peregrina I & II The Wihan Quartet, founded in Joseph Moog, born in 1987, has Schoeck Peregrina: Prague over thirty years ago, been described as ‘a treasure Aufgeschmückt ist der offers insights into Dvořák’s music, hunter with supernatural technical Freudensaal; Ein Irrsaal kam and opens perspectives available abilities’. Dazzling virtuosity and in die Mondscheingärten; Die to few others. The ensemble multi-hued colours are woven into Liebe, sagt man, steht am Pfahl explores the many layers of the the works in the German pianist’s gebunden Mendelssohn Der Czech composer’s last quartet, uplifting recital, delivering the ideal Mond; Venetianisches Gondellied; together with masterworks by antidote to late winter gloom. Pagenlied; Nachtlied Mozart and Beethoven. Wolf Der Gärtner; In der Frühe; £15 concs £13 incl. programme Der Tambour; Verborgenheit; £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 and coffee/sherry/juice Selbstgeständnis WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Johannes Kammler makes his Wigmore Hall debut when he is joined by Roger Vignoles to introduce a remarkable sequence of songs by Hugo Wolf and Othmar Schoeck to the Hall. The Peregrina cycle offers a poignant evocation of poet Eduard Mörike’s searing love affair with Maria Mayer in 1823.

All seats £15

Wihan Quartet Joseph Moog Johannes Kammler © Lukas Novotny © Thommy Mardo © Michael Haggenmüller www.wigmore-hall.org.uk FEBRUARY • 51

Sunday 25 February Monday 26 February Monday 26 February 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm

Pieter Wispelwey cello Aleksandar Madžar piano Les Talens Lyriques Alasdair Beatson piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 Christophe Rousset director Gilone Gaubert-Jacques violin Reger Suite No. 2 in D minor in B flat Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ Gabriel Grosbard violin Op. 131c Emmanuel Jacques cello Brahms Sonata Op. 78 (cello Serbian pianist Aleksandar Jodie Devos soprano transcription of Violin Sonata) Madžar, part of the UK music Judith Van Wanroij soprano Brahms arr. Wispelwey Clarinet scene since his prize-winning Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 performance at the 1996 Leeds Love and death in Venice International Piano Competition, (arr. for cello and piano); Clarinet Monteverdi Chiome d’oro; O come returns to Wigmore Hall to Sonata in E flat Op. 120 No. 2 sei gentile; Ahi sciocco mondo e perform one of the most (arr. for cello and piano) cieco Castello Seconda Sonata dramatic works in the keyboard from Sonata Concertante in Stil repertoire, Beethoven’s cosmic Max Reger followed Brahms to Moderno, Libro Primo Monteverdi ‘Hammerklavier’. become one of Germany’s greatest From L’incoronazione di Poppea: champions of absolute music Prologue & Sinfonia; Signor, deh as a composer of works that All seats £15 non partire; Signor oggi rinasco & explore the colours and contrasts Pur ti miro, pur ti godo; Sento un of sound. Pieter Wispelwey certo non so che Rossi A che tanto unites Brahms and Reger in this spavento; Che può far Citherea; fascinating programme. Vi renda Amor mercè; Lasciate, Averno Rosenmüller Sonata Sesta £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 a3 Cavalli Lamento di Cassandra & Lamento di Didone

Musicians of Les Talens Lyriques recall the impetuous virtuosity and expressive power that propelled Italy’s music to the height of fashion in the 1600s, through opera duets, madrigals and instrumental works.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15

Pieter Wispelwey Aleksandar Madžar Christophe Rousset © Caroline Sikkink © Keith Saunders © Ignacio Barrios Martinez 52 • FEBRUARY Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Haydn String Quartet Series Tuesday 27 February Wednesday 28 February Thursday 1 March 7.30pm 7.30pm 10.15am & 11.45am

Louis Lortie piano Doric String Quartet Chamber Tots Schubert Fantasy Sonata in G D894 Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 Minibeasts Thomas Adès Mazurka Op. 27 No. 1 No. 4; String Quartet in D Op. 64 Chopin Mazurka in F minor Op. 7 No. 5 ‘The Lark’; String Quartet We invite children aged 1 to 5 No. 3; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49 in E flat Op. 64 No. 6 and their parents/carers to join Thomas Adès Mazurka Op. 27 No. 2 us as we explore Minibeasts! Chopin Mazurka in F sharp minor The Doric String Quartet turns This interactive music-making Op. 59 No. 3; Polonaise in F to the second half of Haydn’s workshop features songs, sharp minor Op. 44 evergreen Op. 64 collection, percussion and the chance to opening with the radical invention meet some exciting instruments Louis Lortie’s Chopin of the String Quartet in G before up close, led by our experienced interpretations have gained releasing the birdsong-inspired Chamber Tots music leaders legendary status over the years, high spirits of the set’s most alongside emerging ensembles. promoted by the French-Canadian popular work, ‘The Lark’. pianist’s jaw-dropping technical 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & perfection and rare generosity of £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) spirit. His programme presents the Approximately 1 hour in duration composer’s early and late works in company with two of Thomas Children £6 Adults £4 Adès’s glittering Mazurkas.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Louis Lortie Doric String Quartet Chamber Tots © Elias © George Garnier © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 53

Wigmore Study Group: Thursday 1 March Saturday 3 March Introduction to 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon French Music Michelangelo Quartet Family Concert Thursday 1 March Emma Johnson clarinet TROUPE: 4.45pm – 6.00pm Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581 The Empty Chair Thursday 8 March Enescu String Quartet No. 2 in For ages 6 plus 4.45pm – 6.00pm G Op. 22 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B Thursday 15 March When the Two Persons find minor Op. 115 4.45pm – 6.00pm themselves visited by a Thursday 22 March mysterious empty chair, they are Reflections on life and time’s 4.45pm – 6.00pm at a loss as to what to do. Luckily, passing lie at the heart of the the whirling ThisThat – and one clarinet quintets by Mozart ‘Pleasure in sound’ could very noisy BLACKHOLE – are and Brahms. Emma Johnson, perhaps be the motto of French on hand to help them face their described by The Times as musicians; the extraordinary fears. Explore loss, change and ‘Britain’s favourite clarinettist’, cuisine, viniculture and romantic friendship with music by Debussy, joins the Michelangelo Quartet to inclinations of that unique country Couperin, Berio, Moondog explore the emotional depths of would lead to no other approach. and TROUPE, plus plenty of both works. opportunities to get involved with Join Roy Stratford to explore games and music making. the distinctive nature of French £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 music, from the Baroque with its emphasis on dance, through to Children £10 Adults £12 Berlioz and his incredibly forward- looking orchestral writing, on to Debussy, the ultimate musical colourist, and on to Boulez, the master of the avant-garde.

Series ticket price £33

The Water-Lily Pond Michelangelo Quartet Troupe © Claude Monet, 1899 © Marco Borggreve © Camilla Whitehall 54 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Saturday 3 March Sunday 4 March Sunday 4 March 7.30pm 11.30am 3.00pm

Steven Osborne piano Ronan O’Hora piano Martin Mitterrutzner Prokofiev Sarcasms Brahms Intermezzo in A Op. tenor Ravel Miroirs 118 No. 2 Gerold Huber piano Debussy Images, Series 2 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 8 in in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Wolf Liederstrauß B flat Op. 84 Brahms Intermezzo in E flat Liszt Anfangs wollt’ ich fast minor Op. 118 No. 6 verzagen; Die Loreley (S273); Prokofiev’s experimental Schubert Fantasy in C D760 Du bist wie eine Blume; Ein Sarcasms, the product of ‘Wanderer’ Fichtenbaum steht einsam; impetuous youth, makes an ideal Im Rhein, im schönen Strome companion to Ravel’s Miroirs, Ronan O’Hora’s programme (S272/1); Morgens steh’ ich auf dedicated to fellow members conjures up fleeting emotional und frage; Vergiftet sind meine of a group of avant-garde states and vast panoramas of Lieder musicians, artists and writers. the imagination. He contrasts Steven Osborne closes with the dream-like moods of two of Martin Mitterrutzner made his Prokofiev’s haunting final ‘War Brahms’s late Intermezzos with name with Frankfurt Opera. The Sonata’, written in late 1944. the fiendish, fiery virtuosity of Austrian tenor makes his Wigmore Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata Hall debut with a programme £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 and Schubert’s achingly beautiful based around the romantic ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy. imagery of Heinrich Heine’s sensuous poetry and propelled £15 concs £13 incl. programme by the intense charge of music by and coffee/sherry/juice Schumann, Wolf and Liszt.

All seats £15

Steven Osborne Ronan O’Hora Martin Mitterrutzner © Benjamin Ealovega © Emanuel Altenburger www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 55

Sunday 4 March 7.30pm Joshua Bell violin

Sam Haywood piano Programme to include: Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat K454 Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat Op. 18 Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Works to be announced from the stage

By turns graceful and elegant, elemental and impassioned, Joshua Bell’s majestic artistry rivals that of the greatest players of all time. He is joined by regular duo partner Sam Haywood for an evening of works by Schubert and Richard Strauss.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15

Joshua Bell © Richard Ashcroft 56 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Monday 5 March Monday 5 March Wednesday 7 March 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Leon McCawley piano Denis Kozhukhin piano Vienna Piano Trio Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor Handel Suite in D minor Haydn Piano Trio in B flat HXVI:20 HWV437 HXV:20 Gál Three Preludes Op. 65 Haydn Piano Sonata in E minor Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in Chopin 2 Nocturnes Op. 37 HXVI:34 F Op. 80 Beethoven 32 Variations on Brahms 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A an Original Theme in C minor Debussy Préludes Book I minor Op. 50 WoO. 80 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue There appears to be something Leon McCawley’s world Denis Kozhukhin took in the Austrian air that gives première recording of Hans concertgoers by storm last extra life to the Vienna Piano Gál’s piano works championed July when he made his debut Trio’s music-making. They turn the music of a composer who with the London Symphony to one of the greatest chamber fled the Nazis to find refuge in Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. compositions in the book with Britain. Gál’s Three Preludes The Russian pianist’s feeling Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A complement Haydn’s dramatic C for lyrical melodies, rich tone minor, a work of symphonic minor Sonata and the elegance and heart-on-sleeve playing are power and proportions. of Chopin’s Nocturnes. ideally matched to the music in his latest Wigmore Hall £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 All seats £15 programme.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Leon McCawley Denis Kozukhin Vienna Piano Trio © Sheila Rock © Marco Borggreve © Nancy Horowitz www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 57

Thursday 8 March Friday 9 March Friday 9 March 7.30pm 10.15am & 11.45am 7.30pm

Florilegium Chamber Tots Florian Boesch baritone Ashley Solomon director On the Farm Malcolm Martineau piano Robin Blaze countertenor Schubert From We invite children aged 1 to Schwanengesang: Handel Concerto Grosso in G 5 and their parents/carers to Op. 3 No. 3 Liebesbotschaft; Kriegers join us as we go to the farm! Ahnung; Frühlingssehnsucht; Pergolesi Salve Regina in F This interactive music-making minor Ständchen; Aufenthalt; In der workshop features songs, Ferne & Abschied Corrette Concerto comique in percussion and the chance to G Op. 25 ‘Les Sauvages et la Schubert Der Fischer; Meeres meet some exciting instruments Stille; Der Zwerg Furstemberg’ up close, led by our experienced Telemann Trio Sonata in C Schubert From Chamber Tots music leaders Schwanengesang: Der Atlas; minor TWV42:c2 alongside emerging ensembles. Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ Die Stadt; Am Meer & Der 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & Doppelgänger Bach Cantata: Vergnügte Ruh, 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) beliebte Seelenlust BWV170 Approximately 1 hour in duration Florian Boesch’s dramatic Robin Blaze and Florilegium expression of words and music Children £6 Adults £4 present chamber music allows him to communicate settings of two sensational an infinite range of emotional countertenor masterworks. colours and moods, connecting listeners to the heart of the Bach’s Vergnügte Ruh explores the connection between inner songs in this programme. The peace and spiritual fulfilment, German baritone and regular while Pergolesi’s exquisite Salve duo partner Malcolm Martineau Regina conveys the bittersweet explore the composer’s awe- emotions of an ancient prayer to inspiring Schwanengesang. the Virgin Mary. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Florilegium Chamber Tots Florian Boesch © John Yip Brandies © Benjamin Ealovega © Lukas Beck 58 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Nash Ensemble: The French Connection Saturday 10 March Sunday 11 March Sunday 11 March 7.30pm 11:30am 7.30pm

Nash Ensemble Bennewitz Quartet Arditti Quartet Martyn Brabbins Janáček String Quartet No. 2 Jake Arditti countertenor conductor ‘Intimate Letters’ Salvatore Sciarrino 6 quartetti Schubert String Quartet in D Ian Brown and Simon brevi minor D810 ‘Death and the Mark Andre iv 13 miniatures Crawford-Phillips Maiden’ for string quartet (2017) (UK piano duet première) Now in its twentieth year, the Eleanor Bron narrator* Philippe Hurel Entre les lignes Bennewitz Quartet continues (UK première) Soldier Malcolm Sinclair to refresh the great Czech Salvatore Sciarrino Cosa resta † and Devil string quartet tradition with (UK première) performances of exquisite Fairy Tales balance and tonal warmth. The Contemporary chamber Ravel Mother Goose Suite ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall Milhaud Caramel Mou compositions offer some of the programme turns to matters of most thrilling experiences in Poulenc The story of Babar the life, love and death. little Elephant for the narrator the world of music. Rising-star * countertenor Jake Arditti joins the and piano £15 concs £13 incl. programme Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale*† Arditti Quartet in Sciarrino’s Cosa and coffee/sherry/juice resta, to cap a programme filled with incendiary brilliance, endless Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, invention and creative sparks. inspired by classic French fairy tales, raises the curtain on an evening of compelling £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 story-telling. The programme is crowned by Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale, about a soldier who seeks revenge after being tricked by the Devil.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Martyn Brabbins Bennewitz Quartet Jake Arditti © Benjamin Ealovega © Kamil Ghais www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 59

Monday 12 March Monday 12 March Tuesday 13 March 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Calidore String Quartet Nelson Goerner piano John Chest baritone Mozart Divertimento in F K138 Schubert Piano Sonata in A D664 Marcelo Amaral piano Caroline Shaw First Essay: Brahms Variations on a Theme by A Winter Journey Nimrod Paganini (Books I & II) Op. 35 Shostakovich String Quartet Debussy Préludes Book II Finzi O mistress mine No. 9 in E flat Op. 117 Schubert An mein Herz Technical hurdles and extreme Wolf Verschwiegene Liebe Described by Gramophone as virtuosity characterise Brahms’s Duparc Extase representing ‘the epitome of Variations on a Theme by Brahms Verzagen confidence and finesse’, the Paganini. Nelson Goerner owns Roussel Le jardin mouillé Calidore String Quartet offers a the technique and musical Schubert Der Winterabend fascinating programme, moving personality necessary to Finzi Childhood among the Ferns from Mozart’s delightful early bring these rarely performed Duparc Chanson triste Divertimento to Shostakovich’s masterworks to life. His recital Schumann Wehmut Ninth Quartet by way of Caroline ends with the second book Wolf Verborgenheit Shaw’s First Essay, a celebration of Debussy’s impressionistic Britten Winter Words Op. 52 of chaos and creativity. Préludes. Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Strauss Winternacht £15 concs £13 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Wolf Im Frühling The Calidore String Quartet is a Gurney Sleep member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artist scheme John Chest, winner of the prestigious 2010 Stella Maris International Vocal Competition, joins forces with Marcelo Amaral to delve into a wealth of emotions and states of mind across this captivating programme.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Calidore String Quartet Nelson Goerner John Chest © Jean-Baptiste Millot © Andrey Stoycher 60 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

CARDINAL HUME CENTRE

We believe that everyone should have the opportunity ‘He is usually very shy, so it was really to make music, no matter their background or situation. good to see him smiling and playing along Cardinal Hume Centre, based in Westminster, enables people to gain the skills they need to overcome poverty – that was a big moment for him.’ and homelessness. They work with homeless young Cardinal Hume Centre staff member people, badly housed families and others in need. Wigmore Hall Learning has been working in partnership with the Centre since 2008, using music as a tool to help improve communication, explore creativity and reduce social isolation amongst its clients. We see first-hand the positive effect that music can have on people, not only individually, but as a group. Participants often come from all over the world, and it is a special thing to see everyone working together, praising each other’s musical ideas and talents, and exploring more about people’s musical heritage. Staff at the Centre comment that music helps to create a safe and positive environment, which encourages people to interact and socialise with each other.

Haydn String Quartet Series/ Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Wednesday 14 March Wednesday 14 March Thursday 15 March 10.15am & 11.45am 7.30pm 7.30pm

Chamber Tots Heath Quartet Danish String Quartet Minibeasts Nils Mönkemeyer viola Haydn String Quartet in B flat Haydn String Quartet in C Op. Op. 33 No. 4 We invite children aged 1 to 5 74 No. 1 Mozart String Quartet in B flat and their parents/carers to join Jörg Widmann String Quartet K458 ‘Hunt’ us as we explore Minibeasts! No. 4 Brahms String Quartet in B flat This interactive music-making Bruckner String Quintet in F Op. 67 No. 3 workshop features songs, percussion and the chance to Charismatic and dynamic, the Mozart, fully formed as a meet some exciting instruments Heath Quartet communicates composer by the time he up close, led by our experienced with an impassioned energy that wrote his ‘Hunt’ Quartet, Chamber Tots music leaders holds audiences spellbound. drew inspiration from Haydn’s alongside emerging ensembles. The award-winning British pioneering Op. 33 quartets. The ensemble contrasts Joseph Danish String Quartet closes its 10.15am (1–2 year-olds) & Haydn with Jörg Widmann, programme of Viennese classics 11.45am (3–5 year-olds) setting Op. 74 No. 1 alongside with Brahms’s tender-hearted Approximately 1 hour in duration the radical sounds of Widmann’s String Quartet in B flat. Fourth Quartet and Bruckner’s Children £6 Adults £4 transcendent String Quintet. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall This concert will be followed by the annual Patron Friends dinner – to book for the dinner please contact the Friends Office on020 7258 8230 (additional costs apply)

Chamber Tots Nils Mönkemeyer Danish String Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega © Irène Zandel © Caroline Bittencourt 62 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141

Haydn String Quartet Series Friday 16 March Saturday 17 March Saturday 17 March 7.30pm 2.00pm – 5.00pm 7.30pm

Kuss Quartet Michael Collins Imogen Cooper piano Haydn String Quartet in E flat Masterclass Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’; String Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat Quartet in B flat Op. 50 No. 1; Clarinettist and conductor HXVI:52; Variations in F minor String Quartet in F sharp minor Michael Collins, among the HXVII:6 Op. 50 No. 4; String Quartet in world’s leading soloists and Julian Anderson She Hears D Op. 50 No. 6 ‘The Frog’ chamber music players, has (mvt from Sensation) made giant strides in developing Liszt Bagatelle sans tonalité Haydn’s genius for melodic his instrument’s repertoire S216a invention, his master architect’s and public profile. Hailed by Beethoven 15 Variations and a feeling for musical form, BBC Music Magazine for his Fugue on an Original Theme in humour and wit run through ‘gorgeous-toned musicianship’, E flat ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35 the four works in the Kuss and for his ‘irresistible Quartet’s programme. The exuberance’ by Gramophone, he Strands of great nobility and wonderful Berlin-based group returns to Wigmore Hall to share compassion interweave in offers an ideal entry point for insights and artistic ideas with Imogen Cooper’s playing. The anyone wanting to discover the a group of outstanding young critically acclaimed British composer at his best. clarinettists. pianist connects with the spirit of improvisation in works by £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £10 concessions £8 Beethoven and Haydn, and with Julian Anderson’s richly textured ‘She Hears’, an invitation to deep listening.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Kuss Quartet Michael Collins Imogen Cooper © Molina Visuals © Benjamin Ealovega © Sim Canetty-Clarke www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 63

Monday 19 March 1.00pm Stile Antico Oriana, Fairest Queen: Music celebrating the life and times of Elizabeth I Byrd O Lord make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen; Attollite portas Tallis Absterge Domine Lassus Madonna, mia pietà Willaert Vecchie letrose Sandrin Doulce memoire Ferrabosco Exaudi Domine orationem meam; Ad Dominum cum tribularer Dowland Now, O now I needs must part; Can she excuse my wrongs Wilbye The Lady Oriana Weelkes As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending

Elizabeth I encouraged an unprecedented flowering of music while supporting the work of Byrd and Tallis. Stile Antico recalls the soundtrack to the Virgin Queen’s long reign, embracing everything from the Latin Church music of her childhood to the height of madrigal fashion.

All seats £15

Sunday 18 March Sunday 18 March Sunday 18 March 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm

Gould Piano Trio Soraya Mafi soprano Gautier Capuçon cello Beethoven Piano Trio in C Graham Johnson piano Jérôme Ducros piano minor Op. 1 No. 3 The Lure of the East Debussy Cello Sonata Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Massenet Méditation from Thaïs Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ Schumann Aus den hebräischen Gesängen Strauss Die heiligen Fauré Elégie Op. 24 Saint-Saëns Le Cygne from The The Gould Piano Trio continues drei Könige aus Morgenland Wolf Epiphanias Schubert Carnival of the animals its Beethoven series by travelling Piazzolla Le grand tango from the foothills to the summit Suleika I & II Schumann Lied der Suleika Wolf Als ich Ducros Encore of the composer’s piano trios, Dvořák Klid (Silent Woods) Op. moving from the third of the auf dem Euphrat schiffte; Hochbeglückt in deiner Liebe 68 No. 5 Op. 1 pieces to the inventive Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile brilliance of his final piano trio, Bizet Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe Fauré Les roses d’Ispahan from String Quartet No. 1 in D dedicated to Archduke Rudolph Op. 11 of Austria. Saint-Saëns Tournoiement Roussel Réponse d’une épouse Grieg Cello Sonata in A minor sage Gilbert & Sullivan The Sun Op. 36 £15 concs £13 incl. programme Whose Rays Coward Mad dogs and coffee/sherry/juice and Englishmen Gautier Capuçon’s warm tone and heart-on-sleeve artistry Soraya Mafi stole the show at make the perfect match for the London Coliseum as Mabel in a programme rich in lyrical ENO’s production of The Pirates melodies and enchanting cello of Penzance. The Lancashire- tunes. He is partnered by long- born soprano, praised by The time collaborator Jérôme Ducros Telegraph for her ‘charm and in a recital of intensely beautiful exuberance’, joins forces with miniatures and sparkling Graham Johnson for this showpieces. programme including Schumann, Strauss and Fauré. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15

All seats £15

Gould Piano Trio Soraya Mafi Gautier Capuçon © Jake Morley © Christina Haldane © Gregory Batardon www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 65

Monday 19 March 7.30pm Ensemble intercontemporain Sophie Cherrier flute Jérôme Comte clarinet Jens McManama horn Didier Pateau oboe Paul Riveaux bassoon Sir Harrison Birtwistle Five Distances for five Instruments Carter Retracing for bassoon; Retracing II for solo horn Heinz Holliger Sonata for oboe Carter Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux for flute and clarinet Cage Music for Wind Instruments Blaise Ubaldini New commission (world première)

French composer Blaise Ubaldini’s credits include performing jazz and rock and working closely with Ensemble intercontemporain. His fascination with ‘instrumental vocality’ is sure to register in his latest composition for the famed Paris-based contemporary music group, a score crafted for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, set here in company with compelling modern masterworks for solo and ensemble wind instruments.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Nash Ensemble: Nash Ensemble: The French Connection The French Connection Tuesday 20 March Tuesday 20 March Wednesday 21 March 5.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Introduction to the concerts by Nash Ensemble The Schubert Ensemble Gillian Moore MBE Ian Brown piano Farewell Concert Nash Ensemble Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Chausson Piano Quartet in A Musicians from the Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des Op. 30 Royal Academy of airs danois et russes Op. 79 Schubert Piano Quintet in A Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires D667 ‘The Trout’ Music grecques; Chants populaires Judith Weir Piano Quintet Stravinsky Three Pieces for (selection) (2018)* (world première) string quartet Debussy String Quartet in G *Commissioned by The Schubert Debussy Première rapsodie minor Op. 10 Ensemble Trust Poulenc Sonata for horn, Delage Quatre poèmes hindous trumpet and trombone Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Celebrating 35 years at the Milhaud La cheminée du roi minor Op. 45 forefront of British chamber René (suite for wind quintet) music, the Schubert Ensemble Op. 205 Christine Rice directs her gives its final public concert Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon powerfully expressive voice in London. Alongside and piano to a group of Ravel folksong Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet, the ensemble’s signature work, settings and the Four Hindu Nash Ensemble members and Poems of Maurice Delage, one are Chausson’s brilliant and RAM musicians combine Side by of Stravinsky’s closest French colourful Piano Quartet and a Side in a colourful programme composer friends. Saint-Saëns’s short quintet specially written of music by Stravinsky and three Caprice on Danish and Russian for this occasion by long-time of his friends among French tunes makes a joyous opening to collaborator and Master of the composers. a programme filled with colour Queen’s Music, Judith Weir. and vitality. All seats £3 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £37 £32 £26 £20 £15

Nash Ensemble Christine Rice The Schubert Ensemble © K Leighton © Patricia Taylor © Jack Liebeck www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 67

Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Cuarteto Casals, famed for its jaw-dropping virtuosity and beautiful sound, continues its Wigmore Hall Beethoven series with a daring mix of masterworks and new compositions. Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle is supported by Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement

Saturday 24 March Forthcoming Concerts in this Series 7.30pm Monday 4 June 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in F, Hess 34 (arr. of Piano Sonata Op. 14 No. 1) Aureliano Cattaneo String Quartet ‘Neben’ (UK première) Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’

Hear Beethoven afresh this season at Wigmore Hall as Cuarteto Casals offers the composer’s string quartets alongside new works. The Spanish ensemble’s latest programme places early and middle period Beethoven together with ‘Neben’ by 2016 Premio Abbiati winner Aureliano Cattaneo.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Thursday 22 March Friday 23 March 7.30pm 7.30pm

London Handel Dianne Reeves singer Orchestra Dianne Reeves, who recently received an Honorary Doctorate Adrian Butterfield director from the Juilliard School for her ‘breath-taking virtuosity, Erica EloffEsther improvisational prowess, and unique jazz and R&B style’, performs a selection from her five GRAMMY Award-winning Josep-Ramon Olivé Haman albums, together with new songs. An expert scat singer and William Wallace Ahasverus skilled interpreter of lyrics, Reeves, who is frequently compared Handel Esther HWV50 by critics to Dinah Washington and Carmen McRae, received the Best Jazz Vocal Performance for three consecutive recordings, Handel launched his career including her most recent release, Beautiful Life, a GRAMMY first as an oratorio composer in in any vocal category. England with this story of Her Wigmore Hall debut is sure to be a red-letter event for jazz extraordinary courage in the enthusiasts and singers alike. face of persecution. Esther tells Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval of the young Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia £40 £30 £25 £20 £15 and saves her people from extermination. The London Handel Orchestra, performing on period instruments, and a stellar line-up of soloists bring the glories of Handel’s rousing score to life.

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Big Ideas for a Small Stage Experience the drama, passion and shattering human emotions of Bach’s great choral works this season with the Dunedin Consort’s revelatory series at Wigmore Hall.

Sunday 25 March 5.00pm NB starting time

Dunedin Consort John Butt director Bach St Matthew Passion BWV244

Dunedin Consort, using period instruments and just one voice per part, promises to propel listeners into the intimate emotions, human drama and spiritual contemplation of the St Matthew Passion, bringing the big ideas of Bach’s masterpiece to Wigmore Hall’s small stage. This concert will be approximately three hours, including an interval

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Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Monday 26 March 7.30pm Paul O’Dette lute The 3 Orfeos dall’Aquila Ricercar No. 18; Saltarello ‘La Traditora’ No. 2; Ricercar No. 26; Nous bergiers (Janequin); La Battaglia (Janequin); Ricercar No. 6; Il est bel e bon (Passereau); Ricercar No. 19; Cara Cossa No. 10 Ripa da Mantova Fantasie II; O Passi Sparsi (Festa); Fantasie IX ‘Faulte d’argente’; Or vien ça vien mamie Perrette (Janequin); Fantasia XXII; L’eccho (Gentian); Fantasia VIII da Milano Fantasias: No. 28; No. 8; No. 3; No. 38; No. 64; No. 33; No. 34; Fantasia (App. 31) da Milano Vignon vignetta (Sermisy); O bone Jesu (Antonio de Ribera); Tu discois que je mourroye (Sermisy)

Paul O’Dette’s virtuoso programme travels back in time to the early 1500s, when three Italian lutenist composers created works popular on both sides of the Alps. Discover pieces by Marco dall’Aquila, Alberto Ripa da Mantova and Francesco Canova da Milano –three god-like Orfeos, blessed with the power to enchant– including da Milano’s complex Fantasias and Ripa da Mantova’s madrigal intabulations.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by American Friends of Wigmore Hall

Saturday 24 March Sunday 25 March Monday 26 March 10.30am – 3.30pm 11.30am 1.00pm

Family Day: Chamber Andreas Ottensamer Danny Driver piano Challenge clarinet Messiaen Prelude No. 5 ‘Les Programme to include works by sons impalpables du rêve’ Join music leader Hannah Weber, Gershwin and Debussy Kaija Saariaho Ballade Opstad and the Wigmore Ligeti Etude No. 6 ‘Automne à Hall Learning/Open Academy Austrian clarinettist Andreas Varsovie’ Fellowship Ensemble, Diphonon Ottensamer’s sumptuous tone Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16 Duo (viola and accordion), on and thrilling artistry have won a marvelous music-making admirers worldwide. He became Sound colours and evocative adventure. Take your seat the first clarinettist to sign an imagery belong to Danny Driver’s in your very own chamber exclusive recording contract with imaginative choice of repertoire. ensemble, create your own Deutsche Grammophon in 2013, He returns to Wigmore Hall brand new pieces of music and makes a welcome return to to explore the soundworlds of and perform together on the Wigmore Hall for an eclectic and Messiaen and Kaija Saariaho Wigmore Hall stage. charming programme. before delving into the kaleidoscopic expressive contrasts Children £12 Adults £16 £15 concs £13 incl. programme of Schumann’s Kreisleriana. and coffee/sherry/juice £15 concs £13

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Tuesday 27 March Wednesday 28 March 7.30pm 7.30pm

Les Arts Florissants Les Folies françoises Paul Agnew director, tenor Patrick Cohën-Akenine JS Bach Komm Jesu Komm BWV229; Ich lasse dich nicht director, violin BWV159a Bach the European JC Bach Fürchte dich nicht Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in JS Bach Jesu, meine Freude BWV227; Lobet den Herrn alle B minor BWV1067; Harpsichord Heiden BWV230 Concerto in D minor BWV1052; Kuhnau Tristis est anima mea The Musical Offering BWV1079 JL Bach Das ist meine Freude (excerpts); Brandenburg JS Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV225 Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 As so often during his career, Bach took an established Les Folies françoises makes musical genre – the motet – and raised it to perfection. Paul its Wigmore Hall debut with a Agnew directs singers and continuo players from Les Arts stunning programme, recalling Florissants in six of Bach’s surviving motets, setting them the virtuosity of Bach’s Leipzig alongside Fürchte dich nicht by his cousin Johann Christoph Collegium Musicum with his Bach and the deeply touching Tristis est anima mea by his Orchestral Suite No. 2, complete successor in Leipzig. with scintillating solo flute part, and breathtaking Harpsichord £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Concerto in D minor.

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Roderick Williams: Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles

Thursday 29 March 7.30pm

Roderick Williams baritone Iain Burnside piano Schubert Winterreise

Roderick Williams continues his season-long survey of Schubert’s song cycles with Winterreise. The British baritone’s personal journey of artistic discovery, prepared in creative dialogue with students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, is not to be missed. This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes without an interval

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Forthcoming Concert in this Series

Wednesday 16 May 7.30pm

Saturday 31 March 7.30pm Take a bit of Sylvia Schwartz soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Wigmore Hall Berg Sieben frühe Lieder

Wolf From Italienisches with you… Liederbuch: O wär dein Haus durchsichtig; Gesegnet sei das Grün; Heut’ Nacht erhob ich mich; Mein Liebster singt am Haus; Mein Liebster ist so klein; Nein, junger Herr; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen; Wie lange schon; Du denkst mit einem Fädchen mich zu fangen; Wer rief dich denn?; Schweig einmal still; Ich hab in Penna einen Liebsten Guridi Seis Canciones Castellanas Turina Tres Poemas Op. 81 Montsalvatge Cinco canciones negras

Spanish soprano Sylvia Schwartz won rave reviews for her debut album with Malcolm Martineau, not least for their performance of Guridi’s turbulent Seis Canciones Castellanas. She opens this recital with Berg’s Seven Early Songs and a dozen late romantic masterworks from Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch.

£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Sylvia Schwartz

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CHAMBER ZONE

Free concert tickets for young people and school groups Wigmore Hall and CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust have been offering free tickets to young people since 1999. This year we are delighted to offer over 2,000 free tickets to young people aged 8 – 25 and school groups, as well as free pre-concert workshops for schools. Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/chamberzone or check our Learning brochure for forthcoming concert dates. Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust

Wigmore Hall stands as a major Tuesday 2 January 7.30pm supporter of contemporary Miklós Perényi cello chamber music and song, György Kurtág and as a commissioner of new works and a champion of living composers. The Hall Thursday 4 January 7.30pm is determined to bring fresh Jörg Widmann clarinet creative energy to the repertoire, Tabea Zimmermann viola not least through its extensive Dénes Várjon piano commissioning programme and Jörg Widmann* promotion of world, UK and London premières. Monday 15 January 1.00pm ‘Our commissioning scheme Fatma Said soprano is already the most extensive James Vaughan piano Sherif Mohie El Din in Europe for chamber music’, comments Wigmore Hall Thursday 18 January 7.30pm Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and Quatuor Diotima in recent years Wigmore Rebecca Saunders* Hall has become one of the world’s foremost centres for Sunday 21 January 7.30pm contemporary chamber music.’ Simon Trpčeski piano Aleksandar Krapovski violin Alexander Somov cello Hidan Mamudov clarinet, saxophone, kaval Vlatko Nushev percussion Pande Shahov Music Series Contemporary Contemporary www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Contemporary music • 77

Wednesday 24 January 1.00pm Wednesday 21 February 7.30pm Wednesday 14 March 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia Steven Isserlis cello Heath Quartet Philip Glass, Leo Chadburn* & Alexander Melnikov piano Nils Mönkemeyer viola Arvo Pärt Mikhail Pletnev & Evgeny Kissin Jörg Widmann

Tuesday 30 January 7.30pm Friday 23 February 7.30pm Saturday 17 March 7.30pm Hagen Quartet Ailish Tynan soprano Imogen Cooper piano Jörg Widmann clarinet Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Julian Anderson Jörg Widmann* Ilker Arcayürek tenor Stephan Loges bass-baritone Graham Johnson piano Monday 19 March 7.30pm Tuesday 6 February 7.30pm Joseph Phibbs Soloists of Ensemble Henning Kraggerud violin intercontemporain Natalie Clein cello Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Christian Ihle Hadland piano Tuesday 27 February 7.30pm Carter, Heinz Holliger, Henning Kraggerud Louis Lortie piano Cage & Blaise Ubaldini Thomas Adès

Thursday 15 February 7.30pm Wednesday 21 March 7.30pm Ruby Hughes soprano Sunday 11 March 7.30pm The Schubert Ensemble Joseph Middleton piano Arditti Quartet Judith Weir Helen Grime* Jake Arditti countertenor Salvatore Sciarrino, Mark Andre & Philippe Hurel Monday 26 March 1.00pm Friday 16 February 7.30pm Danny Driver piano Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Kaija Saariaho Polina Leschenko piano Monday 12 March 1.00pm György Kurtág Calidore String Quartet *Commissioned or co-commissioned by Caroline Shaw Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Helen Grime, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, is supported by The Marchus Trust Jörg Widmann’s residency is made possible thanks to Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and Wigmore Hall The London Community Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund © Benjamin Ealovega WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT

Wigmore Hall has provided a platform to outstanding young musicians since its early years. Today the process of identifying and nurturing talent is central to the Hall’s long-term artistic strategy, with Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent allowing us to create essential performance opportunities for some of these artists as they gain experience and broaden their knowledge of the repertoire. Young artists supported by the Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme in 2017/18 are:

Trio Isimsiz Royal Academy of Music Sunday 26 November 2017 Richard Lewis Song Circle Sunday 21 January 2018 Formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, under Every year, a small group of the the guidance of Louise Hopkins, Royal Academy of Music’s most Carole Presland and Alasdair accomplished performers of Tait, the trio was selected for song repertoire are selected to representation by YCAT in 2013 form the Academy Song Circle. and won First Prize and the Since its inception in 2004, Audience Prize in the Trondheim the Song Circle has given International Chamber Music more than 50 concerts, and Competition in 2015. The Trio its annual Schubertiade, on or Support for this scheme has undertaken residencies at around the anniversary of the over the past three years has the Banff Centre, Canada and composer’s birth, has become a been extraordinary, enabling Mozarteum, Salzburg, with much-anticipated feature of the Wigmore Hall to forge unique concert highlights over the Academy’s calendar. relationships with the young last year including recitals at artists, and as such, offer Barbican, Purcell Room, Joseph Moog Piano them the guidance and Sage Gateshead and the Sunday 25 February 2018 performance opportunities Peasmarsh and Mecklenburg- they need to build a career. Vorpommern festivals. A champion of rare and Other artists supported forgotten repertoire, as well through this scheme since Violin Benjamin Beilman as composing his own works, the beginning of the 2015/16 Sunday 14 January 2018 Joseph was awarded the Season include: accolade of Gramophone Young Quatuor van Kuijk The outstanding young American Artist of the Year 2015 and was Jan Lisiecki piano violinist is recognised as one also GRAMMY nominated for his Arcangelo of the fastest rising stars of his most recent concerto recording. Tim Horton piano generation, winning praise for He has earned a reputation as a Behzod Abduraimov piano his passionate performances and formidable recitalist, with 2017 Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin deep rich tone. In the 2016/17 including recitals at De Doelen Escher String Quartet Season, he appeared as a soloist in Rotterdam, Societa Benjamin Appl baritone on the Chicago Symphony’s new Filarmonica Trento, and Paul Appleby tenor music series, and performed Palais des Beaux-Arts Viviane Hagner violin with the Symphony orchestras of de Bruxelles among others. Detroit, San Diego, Atlanta and Grand Rapids, as well as making WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALENT recital debuts in San Francisco Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and Vancouver. Join Friends of Wigmore Hall Membership from £5 a month* • Priority booking • Advance information • Exclusive events

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Weiss Youth Music L Harriet and Michael Maunsell A bequest from the late The Leverhulme Trust and several anonymous donors L Roy and Celia Palmer Peter Canter The Linbury Trust Louise Scheuer Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL Tim Llewellyn * Rubinstein Circle members Michael and Claudia Spies Lord Chadlington* The Loveday Charitable Trust ‡ Contemporary Music Series In Memory of Robert Streit Charities Advisory TrustL Marianne and Andy Lusher* supporters Marina Vaizey* Mary and Robert Childs David Lyons* L Learning Programme supporters Gerry Wakelin* Colin Clark Anne and Brian Mace Julia MacRae*L Piano Circle Sheila Clarke* Details correct as of July 2017 Cockayne - Grants for the Arts The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE The Wigmore Hall Trust Clive Butler and The London Community Simon Majaro MBE Registered Charity No. 1024838 Mr Martin and Dr Mina Edwards Foundation The Marchus Trust‡ Philip and Susan Feakin 2018 Wigmore Hall International StringQuartet Competition The 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is the fourteenth edition of this prestigious Competition, and a great opportunity for us all to discover some exceptional young talents – tomorrow’s stars. This is a landmark destination for emerging young ensembles from around the globe, and audiences are invited to watch the groups compete throughout the week. A wide range of lunchtime performances and captivating Learning events also take place as we immerse ourselves in the art of the string quartet.

Tuesday 10 April – Sunday 15 April 2018

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