December 2016

Philippe Jaroussky

INSIDE: Renée Fleming & Christian McBride Arcangelo & Alberto Portugheis Alison Balsom Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe Mahan Esfahani Igor Levit René Pape Anne Schwanewilms and many more

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2 Thursday 1 December 7.30 pm 1 Wigmore Hall Debut * Philippe Jaroussky Franck Juery

Le Concert de la Loge Olympique* Marc Ribes/Erato Julien Chauvin director, violin Telemann Ouverture burlesque in Bb TWV55:B8; Cantata: Die stille Nacht (Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus) TWV1:364; Overture from ‘St. Matthew Passion’ TWV5:53; Cantata: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen TWV1:983 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in Philippe Jaroussky Julien Chauvin B minor BWV1067; Cantata: Ich habe genug BWV82 Bach’s sublime solo cantata ‘Ich habe genug’, written in Leipzig in 1727, and Telemann’s so-called Passion Cantata, Die stille Nacht, create ideal conditions for reflection on matters spiritual. Philippe Jaroussky’s artistry flows from his studies as a violinist and subsequent rise to become one of the finest of our time. His refined feeling for melodic line and the emotions behind words have won critical plaudits worldwide, leading The New York Times to declare that ‘There are countertenors, and then there is Mr Jaroussky’. He is joined by Julien Chauvin’s recently founded Le Concert de la Loge Olympique for its Wigmore Hall debut.

Returns only Le Concert de la Loge Olympique Early Music and Series

Friday 2 December 6.00 pm 2 Pre-Concert Talk Join ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin and Director of the Aga Khan Music Initiative Fairouz Nishanova, alongside musicians from the evening concert, for a discussion with musical excerpts and a short film to introduce the concert.

£4 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Friday 2 December 7.30 pm

Wu Man pipa

Feng Li Sanubar Tursun vocals, dutar Rajoub’s Soriana Project

Basel Rajoub saxophones, duclar Sebastian Schutyser/AKTC Andrea Piccioni percussion Feras Charestan qanun Lynn Adib vocals Wu Man and Sanubar Tursun Basel Rajoub CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FROM THE ENDS OF THE SILK ROUTE In this rare musical encounter, the eastern and western ends of the Silk Route are musically joined as Chinese pipa maestra Wu Man, Uyghur singer-songwriter Sanubar Tursun, and Syrian composer-saxophonist Basel Rajoub perform, both separately and together, a repertoire of new compositions, improvisations and arrangements of contemporary music inspired by tradition.

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

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 £5 tickets for under 35s

These concerts are generously presented in collaboration with the Aga Khan Music Initiative, AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. www.akdn.org/music Music Initiative World Music Series

3 Saturday 3 December 10.00 am – 3.30 pm 3 Come and Sing: Hungarian Music Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults exploring a wealth of Hungarian music, from traditional folk song www.benjaminharte.co.uk to contemporary vocal music. Get to know the music from the inside, develop your singing skills and finish the day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.

£25 concs £19 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 3 December 7.30 pm

Richard Goode piano Bach Preludes and Fugues (a selection) Steve Riskind Bach Ouvertüre nach französischer Art BWV831 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Nocturne in E minor Op. 72 No. 1; Nocturne in B Op. 9 No. 3; 4 Mazurkas Op. 24; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52 Since making his debut in the early 1960s, Richard Goode has developed a rare depth of artistic wisdom. The American ’s visionary music-making, charged with emotional power and expressive insight, and supported by spellbinding technical prowess, is directed in this recital to works by two of the greatest keyboard composers of all time.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Richard Goode

Sunday 4 December 11.30 am 4 Atrium Quartet Prokofiev No. 1 in B minor Op. 50 Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the Atrium Quartet is known for the dynamic energy and panache of its interpretations. The Berlin-based ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall to perform two works of tremendous substance, opening with Prokofiev’s First String Quartet, commissioned by the Library of Congress in 1931, and embracing the intense lyricism of Brahms’s Op. 51 No. 2.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Maria Budtova

Atrium Quartet

4 Sunday 4 December 7.30 pm Collegium Vocale Gent Dorothee Mields soprano Hana Blažíková soprano Robert Getchell tenor Thomas Hobbs tenor

Michiel Hendryckx Peter Kooij bass Ageet Zweistra cello Miriam Shalinsky violone Maude Gratton organ Thomas Dunford lute Philippe Herreweghe director Schein Israelis Brünlein Collegium Vocale Gent Beauty of sound and uncanny tonal refinement belong to the many attributes cultivated by Collegium Vocale Gent ever since its foundation by Philippe Herreweghe in 1970. Their award-winning partnership stands among the most admired in the world of early music and beyond, hallmarked by the sensuous intensity and rhetorical sophistication of their music making. In this concert they explore the imaginative terrain Michiel Hendryckx of Israelis Brünlein, a collection of twenty-six sacred madrigals to Old Testament texts in five or six parts by Hermann Schein. Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent’s recent recording of the work was praised by Gramophone for its ‘concentrated brilliance’.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 This concert will be 1 hour 50 minutes in duration, including an interval

Early Music and Baroque Series Philippe Herreweghe

Monday 5 December 1.00 pm

5 Boris Giltburg piano Bach/Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565 Sasha Gusov Schumann Papillons Op. 2 Brahms Piano No. 1 in C Op. 1 With his vital blend of jaw-dropping virtuosity and musical gravitas, Boris Giltburg has emerged as one of the most poetic and insightful artists of his generation. The Israeli pianist’s latest Wigmore Hall recital opens with Busoni’s richly imagined transcription of one of the most familiar of all Baroque compositions, and includes Brahms’s symphonic First Piano Sonata.

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Boris Giltburg

Monday 5 December 7.30 pm

Anne Schwanewilms soprano Malcolm Martineau piano

Javier del Real Russell Duncan Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein; Ach Lieb, ich muß nun scheiden Wolf Das verlassene Mägdlein; Wo find ich Trost?; Der Genesene an die Hoffnung Strauss In goldener Fülle; Wer lieben will, muß leiden; Ach, was Kummer, Qual und Schmerzen; Blauer Sommer; Weisser Jasmin; Das Rosenband; Drei Lieder der Ophelia Wolf Im Frühling; Gesang Weylas; Verborgenheit Strauss Die Nacht; Geduld Anne Schwanewilms, hailed by Die Presse as ‘Vienna’s new Anne Schwanewilms Malcolm Martineau Marschallin’ following her performance in 2014 at the city’s Staatsoper in Der Rosenkavalier, ranks among today’s finest lyric sopranos, a supremely gifted Straussian and one of the foremost interpreters of late Romantic opera and song. The German artist’s regular duo partnership with Malcolm Martineau offers countless delights of detail, expressive shading and poetic timing, channelled from the emotional heart of every piece in their repertoire. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to the Supporter, Benefactor & Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall Song Recital Series

5 Tuesday 6 December 1.00pm 6 YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2016/17 Michael Petrov cello

Kaupo Kikkas Kaupo Kikkas Alexander Ullman piano Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119 Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 Over the last two years Michael Petrov has appeared as soloist with the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic and Bournemouth Symphony , as well as giving recitals at eighteen major European concert halls as ECHO Rising Star. Michael performs with Alexander Ullman, who this season appears in the Nottingham International Piano Series, and makes his debut with the Royal Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata. Michael Petrov Alexander Ullman ‘Michael Petrov plays with the bravura and calm assurance of a long-established maestro’ Daily Telegraph ‘Ullman followed in the best interpretative tradition, flaunting mastery and absolute assuredness’ Il Nuovo Pesaro

£13 concs £11

Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the International Music and Art Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series.

Tuesday 6 December 7.30pm

Igor Levit piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Piano Sonata No. 11 Gregor Hohenberg in Bb Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Op. 2 No. 3 Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata, created in almost one sitting, dates from the time of the Heiligenstadt Testament, the composer’s heart-breaking account of his hearing loss. Igor Levit pairs its quixotic moods with the ‘Grande Sonate pathétique’, among Beethoven’s best-loved works. His recital’s second half probes the grace and spirit of two virtuoso Classical . Supported by Simon Ludlam and William de Winton

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London Pianoforte Series/Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit Igor Levit

Wednesday 7 December 7.30 pm

7 Andreas Staier Schumann From Album für die Jugend Op. 68: Ein Choral; Kleine Studie;

Canonisches Liedchen; Erinnerung; Reiterstück; *** (Sehr langsam); Eric Larrayadieu Figurierter Choral Schumann Sieben Clavierstücke in Fughettenform Op. 126; Kinderszenen Op. 15 Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960 Deep study and reflection invariably inform Andreas Staier’s revelatory interpretations of the keyboard repertoire. The German musician, a pioneer among performers of the fortepiano, is driven by insatiable curiosity and a desire to penetrate the surface of the works in his extensive repertoire and unveil their musical substance.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Andreas Staier

6 Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

8 Stephan Loges bass-

Graham Johnson piano Clive Barda

Schubert Lebenstraum II (fragment); Das Leben; Dem Alexander Barnes Unendlichen; Nachtgesang; Die Einsiedelei; Die Gestirne; Der Alpenjäger; Am Strome; Philoktet; Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren; Der Schiffer (D536); Fischerlied II; Der Alpenjäger (D588); Die Vögel (D691); Lied des gefangenen Jägers; Wiedersehn; Widerspruch; Fischerweise; Sehnsucht (D879); Jägers Liebeslied; Der Hochzeitsbraten Stephan Loges and Graham Johnson survey the chronological

span and ceaseless invention of Schubert’s creative life. Stephan Loges Graham Johnson Their programme embraces everything from works such as ‘Das Leben and ‘Dem Unendlichen’, products of the young composer’s annus mirabilis of 1815, to the deliberately humorous ‘Der Hochzeitsbraten’, a convivial conclusion to a Schubertiade of tremendous expressive range and depth.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs

Friday 9 December 7.30 pm

9 Renée Fleming soprano Julian Joseph piano

Christian McBride double bass Andreas Neumann Decca/Andrew Eccles One of the most requested, most recorded, and most respected figures in the world of today, Christian McBride is a star bassist who continues to push the boundaries through his invention, virtuosity and relentless energy. He is joined for this, the last concert

in his series, by the celebrated and versatile Renée Fleming Julian Joseph Christian McBride four-times GRAMMY Award-winning soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Julian Joseph, a towering figure in contemporary jazz.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

Saturday 10 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm 10 Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

For children aged 3 – 5 and their parents/carers Benjamin Ealovega A young girl has told a very big lie and now, if she doesn’t spin all this straw into gold by the morning, The King will cut off her head! There is no way she can do it, until she meets a mysterious stranger who casts a magical spell and all the dry straw is transformed into sparkling gold. Surely when The King sees all of these riches, he will marry her and make her Queen! But the magical elf returns and wants payment for his troubles. Join us for this immersive adventure which reimagines the well-loved Rumpelstiltskin story.

Children £8 Adults £10 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

7 Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble K. Leighton

Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano Marco Borggreve Janácˇek Mládi for wind sextet Smetana Der Fischer (Rybár) for reciter, harmonium, harp and strings Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 (arr. for voice and strings by David Matthews); Piano Quintet in A Op. 81

Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn joins Nash Ensemble Christianne Stotijn the Nash Ensemble to explore music from the Czech lands, a strikingly creative region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This programme voyages from Janácˇ ek’s wind sextet, which reflects on his time as a choirboy, to Smetana’s evocative tone poem, before arriving at Dvorˇák’s passionate and colourful Love Songs and his Piano Quintet in A, among the best-loved of all chamber works.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Season/Nash Ensemble: Vienna and its Empire

Sunday 11 December 11.30 am

11 Adrian Brendel cello piano Aleksandar Madžar Jack Liebeck

Keith Saunders Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2 Regular duo partners Adrian Brendel and Aleksandar Madžar have cultivated a profound relationship of mutual understanding and artistic insight.Their music-making, directed in this recital to works of terrific imaginative scope, emerges from a shared belief in the importance of uncovering and communicating the composer’s intentions with total honesty.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Adrian Brendel Aleksandar Madžar Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 11 December 3.00 pm

Sir John Tomlinson bass Christopher Glynn piano Joanna Bergin SCHUBERT IN ENGLISH Robert Workman Schubert Swansong (Schwanengesang) (world première of new English translation) Schubert’s late settings of poems by Rellstab, Heine and Seidl, published posthumously as his ‘Swansong’, include the last of his 600-plus songs. The complete cycle is performed here in Jeremy Sams’s new English translation by Sir John Tomlinson, among the greatest singers of his generation. Sir John Tomlinson Christopher Glynn

This concert will be approximately 50 minutes in duration, without an interval

All seats £15 Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Song Recital Series/Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Schubert in English

8 Sunday 11 December 7.30 pm Belcea Quartet Schubert String Quartet in Eb D87 Krzysztof Penderecki String Quartet No. 4* (world première); Ronald Knapp String Quartet No. 2 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s large and influential output includes works infused with allusions to nineteenth-century music. His String Quartet No. 4, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, receives its world première in this compelling programme, placed by the Belcea Quartet together with early and late Schubert and the concentrated power of Penderecki’s own String Quartet No. 2.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Belcea Quartet

CAVATINA Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected Chamber Music Trust concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John www.cavatina.net Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Monday 12 December 1.00 pm

12 Takemitsu Voice CPE Bach in A minor Wq.132

Berio Sequenza I for solo flute Bach Partita in A minor for flute BWV1013 Josef Fischnaller Varèse Density 21.5 Debussy Syrinx Emmanuel Pahud celebrates two golden ages of flute playing, the first associated with the royal courts of eighteenth-century Germany, the latter inspired by the great twentieth-century French school of performers. The Swiss musician, principal flute with the Orchestra since 1992, explores his instrument’s solo repertoire in this lunchtime recital, embracing compositions ancient and modern.

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Emmanuel Pahud

Monday 12 December 7.30 pm

Martha Argerich & Alberto Portugheis 75th Birthday Concert

A Heitman María Diez Martha Argerich piano Alberto Portugheis piano Mozart Sonata in D for two pianos K448 Rachmaninov 6 Duets for piano 4 hands Op. 11 Ravel Ma mère l’oye Saint-Saëns Variations on a theme of Beethoven Op. 35 Widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of her generation, Martha Argerich joins forces with her great Martha Argerich Alberto Portugheis friend and fellow Argentine pianist and pedagogue Alberto Portugheis as they celebrate their 75th birthdays with a programme of works close to their hearts.

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Supported by Rothschild & Co

London Pianoforte Series

9 Tuesday 13 December 10.00am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm 13 Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE For Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups

Benjamin Ealovega A repeat of the events on 10 and 17 December, for Nursery, Reception and Special Educational Needs groups.

£3.50 Book through the Learning department on 020 7258 8240 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Tuesday 13 December 7.30pm St. Lawrence String Quartet

Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 20 No. 1 John Adams String Quartet No. 2* Eric Cheng (UK première) Janácˇek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 *Co-commissioned by Stanford Live, the Library of Congress, the Dina Koston and Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music, , the Juilliard School, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

John Adams wrote his Second String Quartet for the St. Lawrence String St. Lawrence String Quartet Quartet, which gave its world première at Stanford, California in January 2015. The ensemble introduces the Beethoven-inspired work to the UK in this recital, framed by two of Haydn’s ground-breaking Op. 20 quartets and Janácˇ ek’s tempestuous String Quartet No. 1, inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected Chamber Music Trust concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John www.cavatina.net Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Wednesday 14 December 12.15 pm 14 Pre-Concert Talk Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, discusses his new work with Dr Kate Kennedy.

Jon Barraclough Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series Sohrab Uduman

Wednesday 14 December 1.00 pm Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello

Aga Tomaszek Huw Watkins piano Sussie Ahlburg

Benjamin Ealovega Webern Four Pieces Op. 7 Sohrab Uduman “Dann klingt es auf…”* (London première) Schoenberg/Steuermann Verklärte Nacht for Piano Trio *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support from donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Thomas Gould Caroline Dearnley Huw Watkins Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, his first published work, led the composer to the borderlands between late Romanticism and atonality. Heard here in Eduard Steuermann’s arrangement for piano trio, this impassioned work is paired with a new piano trio written by Sohrab Uduman, winner of OPUS2016, Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s competition for unpublished composers. £13 concs £11 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

10 Wednesday 14 December 7.30 pm Arcangelo* director, harpsichord, organ Jonathan Cohen Adam Swann Lydia Teuscher soprano Marco Borggreve Alex Potter countertenor Andrew Tortise tenor Thomas Bauer baritone Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen Bach Cantata: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV4; Cantata: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus tragicus) BWV106; Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in Bb BWV1051 Telemann Cantata: Du aber Daniel, gehe hin TWV4:17

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Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo launch their Wigmore Hall series Annelies van der Vegt with two of JS Bach’s earliest church cantatas, including the touching Actus tragicus, perhaps written in 1707 for the funeral of the composer’s uncle, and Telemann’s equally moving funeral cantata, Du aber Daniel, gehe hin. The programme also offers a chance Lydia Teuscher Alex Potter for Arcangelo’s ace period-instrument players to shine in the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto, with its warm blend of parts for , da gamba, cello, violone and harpsichord.

Hayden Phoenix Marco Borggreve £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 * WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Early Music and Baroque Series Andrew Tortise Thomas Bauer

Thursday 15 December 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm 15 Music for the Moment A CONCERT FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CARERS

If you are, or you know someone who is, living with dementia, please join us www.benjaminharte.co.uk for this afternoon concert. This relaxed performance includes a captivating programme of music by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30 pm. Free (ticket required)

In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music and Westminster Arts Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Thursday 15 December 7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano Mozart Piano Sonata in G K283; Piano Sonata in F K332; Piano Sonata in E K282; Piano Sonata in F K533/494

b Benjamin Ealovega Francesco Piemontesi, hailed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a ‘stellar Mozartean’, launched his cycle of Mozart’s Piano Sonatas at Wigmore Hall in 2015. He continues his journey through the composer’s magnificent sonatas with a programme comprising two youthful works written during the early months of 1775, the dramatic Piano Sonata in F K332, and the mature K533/494, blessed with an Andante described by one critic as being among ‘the most daring and disturbing movements in all of Mozart’s music’.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series Francesco Piemontesi

11 Friday 16 December 7.30 pm 16 Trevor Pinnock 70th Birthday Concert harpsichord Trevor Pinnock Jonas Sacks

Peer Lindgreen Rachel Podger violin Bojan Cˇicˇic´ violin Jane Rogers viola

Jonathan Manson cello Trevor Pinnock Rachel Podger Bojan Cˇ icˇic´ Peter McCarthy violone Katie Bircher flute Paul Tucker

Lauryna Bendžiu¯ naite˙ soprano Marco Borggreve Marco Borggreve RAM Alumni Ensemble Bach Overture No. 2 in B minor BWV1067 Handel in A Op. 1 No. 3 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D BWV1050 Jane Rogers Jonathan Manson Peter McCarthy Mahler Symphony No. 4 (arr. Irwin Stein for soprano and chamber ensemble)

Music that reflects the power of the human spirit supplies the substance VC Oarchyvas of this programme, directed by Trevor Pinnock on his seventieth birthday. James Johnstone The British conductor and harpsichordist, a pioneer of period-instrument performance, is joined by a group of close friends and colleagues to celebrate his personal milestone with works of the highest quality.

£60 £50 £40 £30 £15 Katie Bircher Lauryna Bendžiu¯ naite˙ Early Music and Baroque Series/Chamber Music Season

Saturday 17 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am • 12 noon – 12.45 pm • 2.00 pm – 2.45 pm 17 Rumbled INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

For children aged 3 – 5 and their parents/carers Benjamin Ealovega Repeat of performance on 10 December

Children £8 Adults £10 Wigmore Hall Learning Event

Saturday 17 December 7.30 pm

René Pape bass Camillo Radicke piano Standbild Beethoven Sechs Lieder von Gellert Op. 48 Dvorˇák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Quilter Three Shakespeare Songs Op. 6 Musorgsky Songs and Dances of Death One of the world’s leading basses and a truly great Wagnerian, René Pape is among the most versatile singers of his generation. He has achieved equal distinction in the opera house and as concert soloist and recitalist. His Wigmore Hall debut recital spans spiritually uplifting song-cycles by Beethoven and Dvorˇák, and probes Musorgsky’s profound meditations on death. René Pape Camillo Radicke

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series

12 Sunday 18 December 11.30 am

18 violin cello Anne Gastinel Benoit Linero

Philippe Cassard piano Jean-Baptiste Millot

Stéphane Gallois/Naïve Beethoven Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898 According to Carl Czerny, the central Largo of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 evokes

Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the appearance David Grimal Anne Gastinel of Banquo’s ghost. Three outstanding soloists and empathic chamber musicians present the work in company with another landmark of the piano trio repertoire, Schubert’s D898, a strikingly exuberant and genial late composition.

£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 18 December 7.30 pm

Kirckman Concert Society Series Kowalczyk–Kim Duo Marta Kowalczyk violin Somi Kim piano Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23 Strauss Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18 Lutosławski Partita for violin and piano Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Formed in 2013, the Kowalczyk–Kim Duo is a partnership strong in both music-making and friendship. The duo’s programme showcases some

of the greatest gems of violin and piano repertoire, Marta Kowalczyk Somi Kim opening with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 4 for piano and violin and moving to the lyrical beauty of the Strauss Violin Sonata. The second half opens with Partita, a fascinating work by twentieth-century Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. Finally, one of the most complex and genius works written for this combination – Schubert’s Fantasy in C.

£20 £18 £14 £12 £10

Kirckman Concert Society Supported by The LankellyChase Foundation

Monday 19 December 1.00 pm

19 Miklós Perényi cello

Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8 Szilvia Csibi Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008 The expressive eloquence and extraordinary tonal refinement of Miklós Perényi’s playing have opened hearts and minds to the infinite spiritual dimensions of the works in his broad repertoire. The Hungarian musician, born in Budapest in 1948, completed his studies with lessons from and is recognised among today’s greatest cellists. He presents the second of Bach’s Cello Suites in tandem with a composition that matches it in intensity and invention, Kodály’s Sonata for solo cello.

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Miklós Perényi

13 Monday 19 December 7.30 pm The King’s Consort Robert King director Julia Doyle soprano (Angel)

Annelies van der Vecht Benjamin Hulett tenor (Evangelist) Raphaelle Photography/Baixa. David Wilson-Johnson bass (Herod) Julia Doyle Benjamin Hulett David Wilson-Johnson Julie Cooper soprano Matthew Venner countertenor Robin Tyson countertenor David de Winter tenor Tom Robson tenor Julie Cooper Matthew Venner Robin Tyson Edward Grint bass Andrew Rupp bass CHRISTMAS IN VENICE Giovanni Gabrieli Quem vidistis pastores Jan Rebuschat Andrea Gabrieli Intonatione Primo tono Guami Canzona XXIV a 8 Giovanni Gabrieli Audite principes Andrea Gabrieli Intonazione Settimo toni David de Winter Tom Robson Edward Grint Giovanni Gabrieli O Magnum Mysterium Gussago Canzona XIX a 8 ‘La Leona’ Giovanni Gabrieli Salvator noster Schütz Christmas Story Keith Saunders A grand first half of festive Venetian polychoral music prefaces Heinrich Schütz’s magical setting of the Christmas Story, Andrew Rupp The King’s Consort complete with a cast of Wise Men, Shepherds, High Priests, the Angel bearing glad tidings, the Heavenly Host, and the villainous Herod, all backed by a wonderfully colourful instrumental ensemble of violins, violettas, cornetti, sackbuts, recorders, dulcian and continuo.

£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Tuesday 20 December 7.30pm 20 Balsom Ensemble Maker Alison Balsom director, trumpet Reiche Fanfare Bendinelli The Procession, from a Venetian coronation (1595) Biber von Bibern Sonata a clarino (for trumpet, strings and continuo) Marais Les Voix humaines for solo lute (arr. Dunford) Fasch Trumpet Concerto Bach Sinfonia from Oratorio BWV248 ‘Weihnachts-Oratorium’ Corelli Christmas Concerto (arr. Balsom) Fantini Sonata for two trumpets Torelli Sonata a 5 in D Dowland Come again! Sweet love doth now invite; Time stands still; Behold a wonder here Löwe von Eisenach Capriccio Purcell Suite from The Fairy Queen Bach Chorale: Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben Alison Balsom BWV147 Biber Sonata No. 7 in C for 2 trumpets and strings from Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV351 (arr. Balsom) Alison Balsom opens her recital with a homage to Leipzig’s finest trumpeter, Gottfried Reiche, for whom Bach wrote so many high-flying clarino parts, and explores dazzling original compositions by Biber, Fantini, Löwe von Eisenach and Torelli. The trumpet’s lyrical voice is also present in her transcriptions and arrangements of songs by Dowland and Marin Marais’s contemplative ‘Les Voix humaines’.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Chamber Music Season /Alison Balsom ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

14 Wednesday 21 December 7.30 pm

21 Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988 Since making his London debut in 2009, Mahan Esfahani has made giant strides to bring the harpsichord into the mainstream of concert life. Over the next five seasons

at Wigmore Hall we explore Bach’s works Bernhard Musil/Deutsche Grammophon for harpsichord with Mahan, opening with the Goldberg Variations, a masterpiece of great virtuosity, beauty and vast inventive range written for two-manual harpsichord in 1741. This series continues on 12 September 2017.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series/ Bach Harpsichord Works Mahan Esfahani

Thursday 22 December 7.30 pm 22 Vox Luminis Lionel Meunier artistic director Scarlatti Dixit Dominus Handel Nisi Dominus HWV238 Vivaldi Magnificat RV610 Handel Dixit Dominis HWV232 Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier have secured a host of prestigious recording awards and five-star reviews, tribute to the quality and panache of their revelatory interpretations of early vocal works. Their most recent album, a recording of motets by members of the Bach family, was lauded by Gramophone as ‘a deeply felt and atmospheric compendium’. They return to Wigmore Hall with a programme of sacred masterworks, including Handel’s youthful setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, composed in Italy in 1707.

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Lionel Meunier (centre) and Vox Luminis

15 Friday 23 December 7.30 pm 23 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

A WINTERS NIGHT’S MUSIC Uwe Arens Serenade in C minor K388 ‘Night Music’ Leopold Mozart Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt: Divertimento in F (arr. Ernst Schlader) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ah vous dirai-je, maman (arr. Georg Druschetzky) Salieri Armonia per un tempio della notte Beethoven Octet in Eb Op. 103 A musical sleigh-ride by Mozart’s father, the music of freemasonry, nocturnal serenades and a dozen variations on a popular French nursery rhyme stand together in this programme of works for wind instruments. Mozart composed his ‘Night Music’ in Vienna in the early 1780s to satisfy the imperial city’s appetite for wind ensemble music, a demand also served by the former regimental musician Georg Druschetzky. Members of Berlin’s renowned Akademie für Alte Musik conclude with the young Beethoven’s vivacious Octet. Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season

Saturday 24 to Monday 26 December 24 No performances Box Office closed

Tuesday 27 December 7.30pm 27 Sitkovetsky Trio Turina Piano Trio No. 2 Op. 76 Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Schubert Notturno in Eb D897 Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 Hailed by the Independent for artistry ‘reminiscent of the in its heyday’, the Sitkovetsky Trio’s playing is distinguished by unconditional commitment and high-octane energy. The ensemble, founded in 2007, explores the colourful soundscapes of Turina and Ravel before fathoming the vast creative worlds of Schubert and Schumann.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

CAVATINA Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected Chamber Music Trust concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John www.cavatina.net Lyon’s Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’. Chamber Music Season

Sitkovetsky Trio

16 Wednesday 28 December 7.30 pm 28 Doric String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 George Garnier Mendelssohn String Quartet in Eb Op. 44 No. 3 The Doric String Quartet has forged ahead over the past decade to become one of Britain’s leading chamber groups, known for its sophisticated tonal blend and consummate artistry. This programme includes Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2, completed almost a century ago and swiftly absorbed into the international repertoire following its publication in 1920.

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Chamber Music Season Doric String Quartet

Thursday 29 December 7.30 pm 29 Please note change of programme Roberta Invernizzi soprano

Sonia Prina contralto Ribalta Luce Studio Ribalta Luce Studio Ensemble Claudiana Luca Pianca director, lute Marco Frezzato cello Margret Köll harp AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Ohimè dov’è il

mio ben? Kapsberger Toccata seconda Roberta Invernizzi Sonia Prina Monteverdi Interrotte speranze Frescobaldi Aria detta la Frescobalda Handel Sono liete, fortunate Lotti Poss’io morir Durante Son io, barbara donna Forqueray La Girouette; La Carillon de Passy; La Leclair Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi Sonia Prina and Roberta Invernizzi belong to a generation of singers blessed with remarkable technical skills, musical refinement and emotional freedom. Prina’s sensational agility and ability to mine the depths of the contralto range provide the ideal complement to the crystalline beauty of Invernizzi’s soprano voice. They return to Wigmore Hall with Luca Pianca’s ace Ensemble Claudiana to perform a programme of works associated with Venice, complete with Monteverdi’s yearning Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?, a heart-breaking set of variations for two voices and basso continuo, a chamber duet by Antonio Lotti, and Handel’s virtuoso Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi.

£50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Armin Linke

Werner Kmetitsch

Luca Pianca Marco Frezzato Margaret Köll

17 Friday 30 December 7.30 pm 30 Gringolts Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6

Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. 3 Tomasz Trzebiatowski ‘Jagdquartett’ Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67 Founded in 2008, the -based Gringolts Quartet has been acclaimed for the sensitive nuance of its sound and the responsive musicianship of its members. This programme pairs Beethoven’s forward-looking Op. 18

No. 6, written in the first year of the Gringolts Quartet nineteenth century, with the pulsating energy of Jörg Widmann’s ‘Jagdquartett’, completed soon after the beginning of the twenty-first century.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series

Saturday 31 December 7.00 pm NB starting time 31 The English Concert Harry Bicket director, harpsichord Alfonso Leal del Ojo viola NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT Purcell Suite from King Arthur Corelli Concerto Grosso in C Op. 6 No. 10 Telemann Viola Concerto in G TWV51:G9 Vivaldi Concerto in G minor for strings RV157 Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 While The English Concert and Harry Bicket have worked tirelessly in recent years to cast light upon neglected corners of the Baroque and Early Classical repertoire, they welcome in the New Year with a programme of works by the great Baroque masters on whom the ensemble built its reputation.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series

Harry Bicket with members of The English Concert and Alfonso Leal del Ojo (far right)

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