July 2018 2017/18 Season 2 •
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April – July 2018 2017/18 Season 2 • We celebrate Purcell in a big way this April. ‘Genius’ may be an overworked term but it surely applies to the composer and his Dido and Aeneas. David Bates and La Nuova Musica offer a lunchtime date with the opera’s passions and high emotions, its earthy humour and profound tragedy. Music of lament and consolation occupy the latest imaginative programme from Hugo Ticciati’s O/Modernt. The ground-breaking ensemble explores Purcell from the Ground Up, a series of concerts not to be missed. During his student days Igor Levit, captivated by Frederic Rzewski’s music, asked the composer to Director’s write a new piece – which he did. Their deep artistic friendship is marked with the première of a special Wigmore Hall commission to celebrate Rzewski’s 80th Introduction birthday. Igor also joins us on 21 July in a programme of Brahms, Busoni, Schumann, Wagner and Liszt. Brahms wrote his violin sonatas chiefly during summertime stays in alpine resorts. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien reveal the warmth and lyricism, together with the stormy emotional outbursts and nostalgic yearning, of these late Romantic landmarks. Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov commemorates the centenary of Debussy’s death by offering fresh perspectives on his Children’s Corner. ‘My homage to Debussy aims to explore his diversity and, like his music, includes something that will touch every listener’, he notes. By a happy coincidence, both Pavel Kolesnikov and Cédric Tiberghien include the Schumann Fantasie in their April programmes, so it will make an interesting comparison. Cédric Tiberghien is hailed for his rich imagination and he brings three great Romantic compositions for his solo recital on 23 April. Wigmore Lates, firm fixtures in the Hall’s summer calendar, make the ideal start to the weekend. This season’s run kicks off with the genre- defying Erlkings, and includes a jazz date with Onyx Brass, praised by BBC Music Magazine as ‘the classiest brass ensemble in Britain’, an intimate concert of Scottish folk music, a celebration of ‘The Class of 1938’, and much more! A highlight of our late night series is the Chineke! Orchestra, which stormed last summer’s BBC Proms with a sensational debut, one of many opportunities it creates for young Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) classical musicians. Its Wigmore debut includes impassioned music by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to break through as a symphonic composer. Percussion pioneer Evelyn Glennie, one of the world’s most prominent percussion soloists, is a champion of communication. She is joined by celebrated pianist Philip Smith for an extraordinary event, in which conversations with Huw Edwards will be illustrated by performances of a range of works. I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall during the summer series. © Benjamin Ealovega • 3 Contents At a Glance 4 Calendar 8 April 10 May 39 June 62 July 83 Booking Information 100 April – July 2018 At a Glance See pages 10 – 97 for full details of these concerts and page 100 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for… BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Wed 11 Apr JACK Quartet 23 Theatre of the Ayre 11 Mon 2 Apr Laura van der Heijden/ 10 Thu 12 Apr Belcea Quartet 23 Llŷr Williams Beethoven Album Launch 12 Petr Limonov Sat 14 Apr International String Quartet 25 Competition Semi-Finals Le Conert d’Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm 13 Mon 9 Apr Javier Perianes 19 Sun 15 Apr International String Quartet 26 Elias String Quartet: After Beethoven 13, 76 Mon 16 Apr Christoph Prégardien/ 26 Julius Drake Competition Final and Purcell from the Ground Up 15, 16, 17, 18 Prize-Giving Mon 23 Apr Sophie Gent/ 33 Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration 19 Matthew Truscott/ Tue 17 Apr Castalian String Quartet 29 International String Quartet 20, 21, 22, Jonathan Manson/ Wed 18 Apr Britten Sinfonia 30 Competition 23, 25, 26 Trevor Pinnock Fri 20 Apr Alina Ibragimova/ 32 JACK Quartet 23 Mon 30 Apr Hille Perl/ 38 Cédric Tiberghien Lee Santana Igor Levit 24, 95 Sun 22 Apr Leonore Piano Trio 33 Mon 7 May Sabine Devieilhe/ 44 Jörg Widmann as 27, 45, Wed 25 Apr Vertavo String Quartet 35 Composer-Performer 69, 73, 93 Anne Le Bozec Sat 5 May In Focus: 42 Mon 14 May Schumann Quartet 49 Haydn String Quartet Series 29, 35, 57, Mark-Anthony Turnage 61, 73, 89, 96 Mon 21 May Sara Mingardo/ 54 Sat 5 May Borodin Quartet 43 Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien 32 Francesca Biliotti/ Giorgio dal Monte/ Tue 8 May Sacconi String Quartet 44 Matthias Goerne 34, 36 Giovanni Bellini Thu 10 May Pavel Haas Quartet 45 Pavel Kolesnikov 38 Mon 28 May Danish String Quartet 60 Sat 12 May Jörg Widmann/ 45 Sonia Prina: A Celebration 39 Mon 4 Jun Toby Spence/ 65 Sir András Schiff Simon Trpčeski Series 40 Christopher Glynn Sun 13 May The Endellion String Quartet 47 Mauro Peter 41 Mon 11 Jun Trio Wanderer/ 69 Sat 19 May Takács Quartet/ 53 In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage 42 Christophe Gaugué Louise Williams/Pál Banda Mon 18 Jun 74 Mahan Esfahani: 45, 75 Christine Rice/ Sun 20 May Tetzlaff Quartet 54 Julius Drake Bach Harpsichord Works Mon 21 May Takács Quartet/ 54 Mon 25 Jun 78 Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall 45 Elias String Quartet/ Louise Williams/Pál Banda Navarra String Quartet Leeds Piano Festival 50, 51, 55 Sat 26 May Doric String Quartet/ 57 Mon 2 Jul Adam Walker/ 84 Sir Thomas Allen Roderick Williams: 50 Cédric Tiberghien Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles Mon 28 May Trio Tre Voci 60 Mon 9 Jul Chloë Hanslip/ 87 Wed 30 May Quatuor Mosaïques 61 Thomas Dunford 51 Danny Driver Takács Quartet: Associate Artists 53, 54 Thu 31 May Quatuor Mosaïques 61 Wigmore Lates 58, 59, 62, 68, Mon 4 Jun Cuarteto Casals 64 76, 82, 86, 89, 93 Chamber Music Season Sun 10 Jun Tetzlaff Quartet/ 69 Simon Keenlyside 57 Mon 2 Apr Narek Hakhnazaryan/ 10 Jörg Widmann Chineke! Orchestra 62 Oxana Shevchenko Tue 12 Jun Belcea Quartet/ 70 Antoine Tamestit Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ 63 Fri 6 Apr Elias String Quartet/ 13 Joseph Middleton Richard Wigmore Fri 15 Jun Razumovsky Ensemble 73 Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle 64, 85 Sat 7 Apr O/Modernt Soloists/ 16 Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet/ 73 Hugo Ticciati/ Mary Bevan Christian Tetzlaff Focus 69 Christoph Sommer/ Wed 20 Jun Edgar Moreau/ 75 Collegium Vocale Gent 70 Natacha Kudritskaya/ David Kadouch Jakub Józef Orlinski 71 Luciana Mancini Fri 22 Jun Elias String Quartet 76 Sun 8 Apr 18 Dunedin Consort: Big Ideas 76 O/Modernt Chamber Sun 24 Jun Quatuor Ebène 78 for a Small Stage Orchestra/Hugo Ticciati/ Christoph Sommer/ Mon 25 Jun Quatuor Ebène/ 79 Dame Felicity Palmer 88 Henrik Måwe/ Martin Fröst Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/ 90 Luciana Mancini/ Wed 27 Jun Ming Xie 81 Huw Edwards The Cardinall’s Musick Wed 4 Jul Cuarteto Casals 85 Sergei Babayan 92 Mon 9 Apr Isabelle Faust/ 19 Kristian Bezuidenhout Thu 5 Jul Tana String Quartet 85 Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 97 Tue 10 Apr International String Quartet 22 Sun 8 Jul ATOS Trio 87 Contemporary Music Series 98, 99 Competition Preliminary Tue 10 Jul Veronika Eberle/ 88 Round commences Tatjana Masurenko/ Tue 10 Apr Chamber Music Society 22 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/ of Lincoln Center Martin Helmchen www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5 Wed 11 Jul Ensemble Variances/ 88 Sun 8 Apr O/Modernt Chamber 18 Song Recital Series Anssi Karttunen/Thierry Pécou Orchestra/Hugo Ticciati/ Sat 21 Apr Venera Gimadieva/ 31 Christoph Sommer/ Thu 12 Jul Carducci String Quartet 89 Pavel Nebolsin Henrik Måwe/Luciana Mancini/ Fri 13 Jul Bennewitz Quartet 89 The Cardinall’s Musick Tue 24 Apr Matthias Goerne/ 34 Seong-Jin Cho Sat 14 Jul Evelyn Glennie/ 90 Thu 19 Apr The English Concert 31 Philip Smith/Huw Edwards Thu 26 Apr Matthias Goerne/ 36 Tue 1 May Sonia Prina/ 39 Alexander Schmalcz Mon 23 Jul Alban Gerhardt/ 96 Vivica Genaux/ Thu 3 May Mauro Peter/ 41 Vikingur Olafsson Concerto Copenhagen Helmut Deutsch Tue 24 Jul Julia Fischer/ 96 Sun 6 May Royal Academy of Music 43 Fri 4 May Lucy Crowe/Anna Tilbrook 40 Aris Alexander Blettenberg Baroque Soloists/ Wed 25 Jul Castalian String Quartet 96 Rachel Podger Fri 11 May Andrè Schuen/Gerold Huber 46 Wed 9 May Mahan Esfahani 45 Sun 13 May Morgan Pearse/ 47 Simon Lepper Mon 14 May Phantasm 49 Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Wed 16 May Roderick Williams/ 50 Thu 17 May Thomas Dunford 51 Iain Burnside Sun 1 Apr Zemlinsky Quartet 10 Tue 22 May La Nuova Musica/ 55 Wed 23 May Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper 55 Sun 8 Apr Atrium Quartet 17 Tim Mead Sun 27 May Simon Keenlyside/ 57 Sun 15 Apr Arcadia Quartet/ 25 Sun 3 Jun Akademie für Alte Musik 65 Malcolm Martineau Stefan Fehlandt/Stephan Forck Berlin/Anna Prohaska Fri 1 Jun Birgid Steinberger/ 63 Sun 22 Apr Modigliani Quartet 33 Mon 11 Jun Collegium Vocale Gent 70 Julius Drake Sun 29 Apr Smetana Trio 37 Tue 19 Jun Mahan Esfahani 75 Sat 2 Jun Carolyn Sampson/ 63 Iestyn Davies/Joseph Middleton Sun 6 May Borodin Quartet 43 Thu 21 Jun Dunedin Consort 76 Tue 5 Jun Stéphane Degout/ 67 Sun 13 May Kopelman Quartet/ 47 Sat 23 Jun The Sixteen 77 Blythe Teh Engstroem Simon Lepper Thu 26 Jul Angela Hewitt 97 Sun 20 May Peter Hill 52 Wed 6 Jun The Prince Consort/ 67 Laura Mucha Sun 27 May István Várdai/ 57 Wed 13 Jun Jakub Józef Orliński/ 71 Vikingur Olafsson London Pianoforte Series Michał Biel Sun 3 Jun Kuss Quartet 63 Wed 4 Apr Llŷr Williams 12 Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet/ Mary Bevan 73 Sun 10 Jun 69 Christian Ihle Hadland Wed 4 Apr Bertrand Chamayou 13 Sun 17 Jun Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 74 Sun 17 Jun Apollon Musagète Quartet 74 Fri 13 Apr Igor Levit 24 Sun 24 Jun Samuel Hasselhorn/ 78 Sun 24 Jun Amaryllis Quartet 77 Mon 16 Apr Yefim Bronfman