November 2016 Igor Levit INSIDE: Borodin Quartet Le Concert d’Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm Imogen Cooper Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford Emerson String Quartet Ensemble Modern Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses Kalichstein/Laredo/ Robinson Trio Dorothea Röschmann Sir András Schiff and many more Box Office 020 7935 2141 Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk How to Book Wigmore Hall Box Office 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP In Person 7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. No advance booking in the half hour prior to a concert. By Telephone: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10 am – 7 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration fee for each transaction, which includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits. Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge. 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Wigmore Hall • HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Royal Patron The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838 Cover: Igor Levit © Gregor Hohenberg Peter Dazeley 2 Tuesday 1 November 1.00pm 1 YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2016 /17 Daniel Lebhardt piano Kaupo Kikkas Bach Italian Concerto in F BWV971 Thomas Adès Darknesse Visible Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111 Hungarian-born pianist Daniel Lebhardt studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with István Gulyás and Gyöngyi Keveházi and, since 2010, at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton and Pascal Nemirovski. Engagements this season have included recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Usedomer Festival in Finland and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ‘He brought narrative sweep and youthful abandon to the piece, along with power, poetry and formidable technique’ Anthony Tomassini, The New York Times, March 2016 £13 concs £11 Daniel Lebhardt Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series. Tuesday 1 November 7.30pm Rosenblatt Recitals 2016/17 Simone Piazzola baritone Victor Santiago Giuseppe Vaccaro piano Tosti Non t’amo più!; 2 Chansons: Chanson de l’adieu; A vucchella Liszt Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto (piano solo) Tosti L’ultima canzone; La serenata Verdi L’esule Donizetti Vien, Leonora from La favorite; Cruda, funesta smania from Lucia di Lammermoor Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 S244 No. 2 Gounod Valentine’s Aria from Faust Verdi Il balen del suo sorriso from Il trovatore Awarded second prize in the 2013 Operalia competition, Simone Piazzola is an Italian baritone who displays ‘attractive warm colours and endless vocal lines’ (Bachtrack). With a burgeoning reputation built upon an affinity for the heavier Verdian roles, he makes his UK debut with a programme of predominantly Italian songs and opera. Simone Piazzola ‘Simone Piazzola’s baritone has a gorgeous sound, solid and full, depicting a young and impulsive Don Carlo. He wowed the audience with his tasteful phrasing, revealing a great adherence to the character and acting with authority.’ Bachtrack ‘The young baritone Simone Piazzola, the production’s Rodrigo, was a model of robust tone and sensitive phrasing.’ The New York Times £30 £26 £22 £18 £16 Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 26 September (Alek Shrader & Roger Vignoles) 10 October (Eleonora Buratto & Nazzareno Carusi) 10 January (Maria Katzarava, Stefano La Colla & Simon Lepper) Giuseppe Vaccaro 3 Wednesday 2 November 7.30 pm 2 40th Anniversary Season Kalichstein/Laredo/RobinsonTrio Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11 Christian Steiner Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67 Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8 (revised version) One of the world’s most distinguished piano trios, founded to perform at the inauguration of US President Carter in 1977, explores strikingly rich works in this programme, beginning with the creative struggles and expressive contrasts of Beethoven and Shostakovich. The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio closes with Brahms’s youthful Piano Trio Op. 8, heavily revised by the composer in later life. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio Thursday 3 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm 3 Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses One of Germany’s greatest singers, Brigitte Fassbaender received early encouragement from her actress mother and formative lessons from her father, the eminent baritone Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. She made her debut as a Page in Wagner’s Lohengrin in Munich in 1961. During a long and illustrious career, the mezzo-soprano performed at all of the world’s leading opera houses and cultivated exceptional qualities as a Lieder singer. She is also celebrated for masterclass sessions that delve deep into the nature of the expressive art of singing. Brigitte Fassbaender returns to Wigmore Hall to lead two days of masterclasses, working with a company of postgraduate students from UK conservatoires. £8 concs £6 Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Wigmore Hall Learning Event Brigitte Fassbaender Thursday 3 November 7.30 pm Alexei Volodin piano SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet Op. 75 Marco Borggreve Mendelssohn/Rachmaninov Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Medtner Tale in C# minor Op. 35 No. 4 Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28 Alexei Volodin’s recital encompasses the unrestrained expressive range of Late Romantic Russian piano music. His Shakespearean- themed first half embraces everything from the fourth of Medtner’s Op. 35 Skazki or ‘Tales’, based on a quote from King Lear, to the vitality and vibrant emotions of Prokofiev’s arrangements of ten pieces from his 1935 ballet Romeo and Juliet. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series Alexei Volodin 4 Friday 4 November 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm 4 Brigitte Fassbaender Masterclasses See 3 November for further details. £8 concs £6 Wigmore Hall Learning Event Friday 4 November 7.30 pm Borodin Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117 Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 59 No.1 ‘Razumovsky’ The Borodin Quartet’s odyssey through the string quartets of Shostakovich and Beethoven continues with a shrewd combination of works. Shostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet confronts anxiety and despair to discover a final sense of defiance; Beethoven’s first ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, offsets the sorrow of its slow movement with a joyful final hymn of praise. £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 Ny Che/Goyang Aram Nuri Arts Center Borodin Quartet Saturday 5 November 7.30 pm 5 Dorothea Röschmann soprano Malcolm Martineau piano Russell Duncan Schubert From Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister: Heiß WDR/Jim Rakete mich nicht reden; So laßt mich scheinen; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt Schubert Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nachtstück; Der König in Thule; Gretchen am Spinnrade; Gretchen im Zwinger (Gretchens Bitte) Songs by Schumann Mahler Rückert Lieder A regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses and Dorothea Röschmann Malcolm Martineau concert halls, Dorothea Röschmann is blessed with the rare receptivity and imagination required to captivate listeners with her profoundly personal interpretations of words and music. She joins Malcolm Martineau to explore the dramatic intensity and compassion of songs by Schubert, Schumann and Mahler. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs 5 Sunday 6 November 11.30 am 6 Endymion Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb K493 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115 Eamonn McCabe From new commissions to landmarks of the classical repertoire, Endymion has made its mark as one of Britain’s finest chamber ensembles. This programme pairs Mozart’s high-spirited Piano Quartet No. 2, a pioneering work in the genre created in Vienna in 1786, with the lyrical warmth and spaciousness of Brahms’s late Clarinet Quintet. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Endymion Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 6 November 3.00 pm Roderick Williams baritone Christopher Glynn piano Joanna Bergin SCHUBERT IN ENGLISH Benjamin Ealovega Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise) London première of new English translation The narrative arc of Winterreise, supplied by Wilhelm Müller’s collection of 24 poems, follows a journey deep into the mysterious territory between life and death.