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.
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Contents
At a Glance 4 Calendar 8 April 10 May 39 June 62 July 83 Booking Information 100 At a Glance April – July 2018
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 27 Renate Rohlfing Sun 1 Jul Veronika Eberle/ 83 Wed 18 Apr Yevgeny Sudbin 30 Thu 28 Jun Elizabeth Watts/ 82 Alban Gerhardt/ Roderick Williams/ Mon 23 Apr Cédric Tiberghien 35 Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo Roger Vignoles Sat 28 Apr Nikolai Lugansky 37 Sun 8 Jul Formosa Quartet/ 87 Sat 30 Jun Sophie Bevan/ 83 Richard Lester Sun 29 Apr Leslie Howard 37 Ryan Wigglesworth Sun 15 Jul Sitkovetsky Trio 91 Mon 30 Apr Pavel Kolesnikov 38 Mon 2 Jul Véronique Gens/ 84 Susan Manoff Sun 22 Jul Zorá String Quartet 95 Wed 2 May Simon Trpčeski 40 Tue 15 May Andreas Haefliger 49 Tue 3 Jul David Hansen/ 84 Academia Montis Regalis/ Wed 16 May Lars Vogt 50 Early Music and Baroque Series Alessandro De Marchi Thu 17 May Sunwook Kim 51 Fri 6 Jul Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff 85 Tue 3 Apr Theatre of the Ayre/ 11 Fri 18 May Alessio Bax 51 Elizabeth Kenny Mon 9 Jul Dame Felicity Palmer/ 88 Fri 18 May Richard Goode 52 Simon Lepper Thu 5 Apr Le Concert d’Astrée/ 13 Emmanuelle Haïm/ Fri 25 May Inon Barnatan 56 Sun 15 Jul Robin Tritschler/ 91 Sabine Devieilhe/ Thu 7 Jun Finghin Collins 68 Jonathan Ware Wed 18 Jul 92 Marianne Crebassa Mon 18 Jun Peter Donohoe 75 Maximilian Schmitt/ Gerold Huber Sat 7 Apr La Nuova Musica 16 Tue 26 Jun Imogen Cooper 79 Sat 21 Jul Principality Only Boys 94 Sat 7 Apr O/Modernt Soloists/ 16 Sat 7 Jul Steven Osborne 86 Aloud Academi 2017 Hugo Ticciati/ Tue 17 Jul 92 Christoph Sommer/ Sergei Babayan Sun 22 Jul Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz 95 Thu 19 Jul Gabriela Montero 93 Natacha Kudritskaya/ We are grateful to The Monument Trust for Luciana Mancini Sat 21 Jul Igor Levit 95 essential additional support for our expanded Sun 8 Apr O/Modernt Soloists/ 17 Thu 26 Jul Angela Hewitt 97 vocal series Priya Mitchell/ Karl Nyhlin/Christoph Sommer/ Cecilia Knudsen/ Nora Thiele/Luciana Mancini 6 • Summer 2018 Box Office: 020 7935 2141 At a Glance April – July 2018
See pages 10 – 97 for full details of these concerts and page 100 for booking information.
Jazz Series Wed 13 Jun Jakub Józef Orliński/ 71 Wed 13 Jun Wigmore Study Group 72 Michał Biel commences Sat 7 Apr Svante Henryson/ 16 Leandro Mancini-Olivos/ Sat 16 Jun Heath Quartet 73 Thu 14 Jun Chamber Tots 72 Henrik Måwe/ Mon 25 Jun Elias String Quartet 78 Sat 16 Jun RNIB Family Day 73 Baba Israel/ Fri 29 Jun Lucy Schaufer/ 82 Sat 23 Jun Relaxed Concert: 77 Samuel West Huw Watkins Diphonon Duo Fri 8 Jun Onyx Brass 68 Sat 30 Jun Sophie Bevan/ 83 Tue 26 Jun Jenny Q Chai: 79 Sat 9 Jun Django Bates Belovèd 68 Ryan Wigglesworth Lecture-Recital Fri 6 Jul David Orlowsky Trio 86 Wed 4 Jul Cuarteto Casals 85 Wed 27 Jun Schools Concert: 81 Fri 13 Jul The Prince Consort/ 89 Thu 5 Jul Tana String Quartet 85 Butterfly Brain Jason Rebello Fri 6 Jul Sandrine Piau/ 85 Thu 28 Jun Chamber Tots 81 Susan Manoff Thu 28 Jun Introduction to the 82 Wigmore Lates Fri 6 Jul David Orlowsky Trio 86 String Quartet commences Sat 30 Jun Family Concert: 83 Fri 25 May The Erlkings 58 Sun 8 Jul ATOS Trio 87 Butterfly Brain Fri 1 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 62 Wed 11 Jul Ensemble Variances/ 88 Anssi Karttunen/ Sat 7 Jul For Crying Out Loud! 86 Fri 8 Jun Onyx Brass 68 Thierry Pécou Sat 14 Jul Artists in Conversation 90 Fri 22 Jun Donald Grant 76 Tue 17 Jul Sergei Babayan 92 and Concert Fri 29 Jun Lucy Schaufer/ 82 Fri 20 Jul Members of Britten Sinfonia 93 Mon 16 Jul Music for the Moment 91 Huw Watkins Fri 20 Jul Heath Quartet 93 Wed 18 Jul Chamber Tots 92 Fri 6 Jul David Orlowsky Trio 86 Fri 13 Jul The Prince Consort/ 89 The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Jason Rebello Fri 20 Jul Heath Quartet/ 93 Ruth Gibson/ Marie Bitlloch Wigmore Hall Learning Fri 6 Apr Pre-Concert Talk 13 Contemporary Music Series Tue 10 Apr Opening Talk: 19 Castalian String Quartet Fri 6 Apr Elias String Quartet 13 Tue 10 Apr StringTing 22 Sat 7 Apr Svante Henryson/ 16 Wed 11 Apr Pre-Concert Talk 23 Leandro Mancini-Olivos/ Henrik Måwe/ Thu 12 Apr String Quartet Masterclass 23 Baba Israel/ Thu 12 Apr Pre-Concert Talk 23 Samuel West Fri 13 Apr String Quartet Masterclass 23 Tue 10 Apr Chamber Music Society 22 Sat 14 Apr 25 of Lincoln Center Film Screening: 4 Sun 15 Apr 26 Wed 11 Apr JACK Quartet 23 Family Workshop Fri 20 Apr 31 Fri 13 Apr Igor Levit 24 Music for the Moment Thu 26 Apr 36 Mon 16 Apr Yefim Bronfman 27 For Crying Out Loud! Sat 28 Apr 36 Wed 18 Apr Britten Sinfonia 30 Family Concert: Aglaia Trio Sat 5 May In Focus: 42 Front cover images Thu 3 May Chamber Tots 40 Mark-Anthony Turnage Top Left Tue 8 May 44 Wed 9 May Side by Side 44 Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega Sacconi String Quartet Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve Wed 16 May 50 Sat 12 May Jörg Widmann/ 45 Artists in Conversation Angela Hewitt © Bernd Eberle Sir András Schiff Sat 19 May Richard Goode Masterclass 52 Top Right Llŷr Williams © Benjamin Ealovega Fri 25 May Inon Barnatan 56 Wed 23 May Lang Lang Young Scholars 55 Alina Ibragimova © Eva Vermandel Thomas Dunford © Gerard Collett Mon 28 May Trio Tre Voci 60 Sat 26 May Come and Sing 56 Evelyn Glennie © Jim Callaghan
Fri 1 Jun Chineke! Orchestra 62 Wed 30 May Chamber Tots 60 Bottom Left Chi-Chi Nwanoku Mon 4 Jun Cuarteto Casals 64 Thu 31 May RNIB Study Day 61 Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil Wed 6 Jun The Prince Consort/ 67 Tue 5 Jun Come and Sing 66 Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve Laura Mucha Bottom Right Thu 7 Jun Voiceworks 67 Seong-Jin Cho © Harald Hoffmann Fri 8 Jun Onyx Brass 68 Tue 12 Jun Diphonon Duo 70 Carolyn Sampson© Marco Borggreve Simon Keenlyside © Uwe Arens Sun 10 Jun Jörg Widmann 69 Sonia Prina Join Friends of Wigmore Hall Membership from £5 a month* • Priority booking • Advance information • Exclusive events
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April – July 2018
April Tue 24 Apr 7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Seong-Jin Cho 34 Sun 1 Apr 11.30am Zemlinsky Quartet 10 Wed 25 Apr 1.30pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Semi-Final 35 7.30pm Vertavo String Quartet 35 Mon 2 Apr 1.00pm Laura van der Heijden/Petr Limonov 10 7.30pm Narek Hakhnazaryan/Oxana Shevchenko 10 Thu 26 Apr 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 36 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 36 Tue 3 Apr 7.30pm Theatre of the Ayre/Elizabeth Kenny 11 7.30pm Matthias Goerne/Alexander Schmalcz 36 Wed 4 Apr 1.00pm Llŷr Williams 12 Fri 27 Apr 6.00pm Kathleen Ferrier Awards Final 35 7.30pm Bertrand Chamayou 13 Sat 28 Apr 11.00am Family Concert: Aglaia Trio 36 Thu 5 Apr 7.30pm Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm/ 13 7.30pm 37 Sabine Devieilhe/Marianne Crebassa Nikolai Lugansky Sun 29 Apr 11.30am 37 Fri 6 Apr 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 13 Smetana Trio 4.00pm 37 7.30pm Elias String Quartet/Richard Wigmore 13 Leslie Howard Sat 7 Apr 1.00pm La Nuova Musica 16 Mon 30 Apr 1.00pm Hille Perl/Lee Santana 38 7.00pm O/Modernt Soloists/Hugo Ticciati/ 16 7.30pm Pavel Kolesnikov 38 Christoph Sommer/Natacha Kudritskaya/ Luciana Mancini May 10.00pm Svante Henryson/Leandro Mancini-Olivos/ 16 Tue 1 May 7.30pm Sonia Prina/Vivica Genaux/ 39 Henrik Måwe/Baba Israel/Samuel West Concerto Copenhagen Sun 8 Apr 11.30am Atrium Quartet 17 Wed 2 May 7.30pm Simon Trpčeski 40 3.00pm O/Modernt Soloists/Priya Mitchell/ 17 Karl Nyhlin/Christoph Sommer/Cecilia Knudsen/ Thu 3 May 10.15am Chamber Tots 40 Nora Thiele/Luciana Mancini 11.45am Chamber Tots 40 6.00pm Study Event 17 7.30pm Mauro Peter/Helmut Deutsch 41 7.30pm O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra/Hugo 18 Fri 4 May 7.30pm Lucy Crowe/Anna Tilbrook 40 Ticciati/Christoph Sommer/Henrik Måwe/ Luciana Mancini/The Cardinall’s Musick Sat 5 May 10.30am In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage 42 12 noon In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage Study Event 42 Mon 9 Apr 1.00pm Javier Perianes 19 2.00pm In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage 42 7.30pm Isabelle Faust/Kristian Bezuidenhout 19 7.30pm Borodin Quartet 43 Tue 10 Apr 10.00am Opening Talk: Castalian String Quartet 19 Sun 6 May 11.30am Borodin Quartet 43 11.00am International String Quartet Competition 22 7.30pm Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists/ 43 Preliminary Round commences Rachel Podger 6.00pm StringTing 22 7.30pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 22 Mon 7 May 1.00pm Sabine Devieilhe/Anne Le Bozec 44 Wed 11 Apr 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 23 Tue 8 May 7.30pm Sacconi String Quartet 44 7.30pm JACK Quartet 23 Wed 9 May 1.00pm Side by Side 44 Thu 12 Apr 10.00am String Quartet Masterclass 23 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 45 6.00pm Pre-Concert Talk 23 Thu 10 May 7.30pm Pavel Haas Quartet 45 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 23 Fri 11 May 7.30pm Andrè Schuen/Gerold Huber 46 Fri 13 Apr 10.00am String Quartet Masterclass 23 Sat 12 May 7.30pm 45 7.30pm Igor Levit 24 Jörg Widmann/Sir András Schiff Sat 14 Apr 2.00pm International String Quartet 25 Sun 13 May 11.30am Kopelman Quartet/Blythe Teh Engstroem 47 Competition Semi-Finals 3.00pm Morgan Pearse/Simon Lepper 47 5.00pm Film Screening: 4 25 7.30pm The Endellion String Quartet 47 7.30pm International String Quartet 25 Mon 14 May 1.00pm Schumann Quartet 49 Competition Semi-Finals 7.30pm Phantasm 49 Sun 15 Apr 11.30am Arcadia Quartet/Stefan Fehlandt/ 25 Tue 15 May 7.30pm Andreas Haefliger 49 Stephan Forck Wed 16 May 1.00pm Lars Vogt 50 2.00pm Family Workshop 26 7.30pm Roderick Williams/Iain Burnside 50 6.00pm 26 International String Quartet 8.45pm Artists in Conversation 50 Competition Final and Prize-Giving Thu 17 May 1.00pm Sunwook Kim 51 Mon 16 Apr 1.00pm 26 Christoph Prégardien/Julius Drake 7.30pm Thomas Dunford 51 7.30pm Yefim Bronfman 27 Fri 18 May 1.00pm Alessio Bax 51 Tue 17 Apr 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet 29 7.30pm Richard Goode 52 Wed 18 Apr 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 30 Sat 19 May 2.00pm Richard Goode Masterclass 52 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 30 7.30pm Takács Quartet/Louise Williams/Pál Banda 53 7.30pm Yevgeny Sudbin 30 Sun 20 May 11.30am Peter Hill 52 Thu 19 Apr 7.30pm The English Concert 31 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet 54 Fri 20 Apr 3.00pm Music for the Moment 31 Mon 21 May 1.00pm Sara Mingardo/Francesca Biliotti/ 54 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 32 Giorgio dal Monte/Giovanni Bellini Sat 21 Apr 7.30pm Venera Gimadieva/Pavel Nebolsin 31 7.30pm Takács Quartet/Louise Williams/Pál Banda 54 Sun 22 Apr 11.30am Modigliani Quartet 33 Tue 22 May 7.30pm La Nuova Musica/Tim Mead 55 7.30pm Leonore Piano Trio 33 Wed 23 May 1.00pm Lang Lang Young Scholars 55 Mon 23 Apr 1.00pm Sophie Gent/Matthew Truscott/ 33 7.30pm Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper 55 Jonathan Manson/Trevor Pinnock 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien 35 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 9
Thu 24 May 3.00pm YCAT Finals 2018 56 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène/Martin Fröst 79 Fri 25 May 7.00pm Inon Barnatan 56 Tue 26 Jun 4.00pm Jenny Q Chai: Lecture-Recital 79 10.00pm The Erlkings 58 7.30pm Imogen Cooper 79 Sat 26 May 10.00am Come and Sing 56 Wed 27 Jun 11.00am Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 81 7.30pm Doric String Quartet/Sir Thomas Allen 57 1.00pm Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 81 Sun 27 May 11.30am István Várdai/Vikingur Olafsson 57 7.30pm Ming Xie 81 7.30pm Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau 57 Thu 28 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots 81 Mon 28 May 1.00pm Danish String Quartet 60 11.45am Chamber Tots 81 7.30pm Trio Tre Voci 60 4.45pm Introduction to the String Quartet commences 82 7.30pm Elizabeth Watts/Roderick Williams/ 82 Wed 30 May 10.15am Chamber Tots 60 Roger Vignoles 11.45am Chamber Tots 60 7.30pm Quatuor Mosaïques 61 Fri 29 Jun 10.00pm Lucy Schaufer/Huw Watkins 82 Thu 31 May 10.00am RNIB Study Day 61 Sat 30 Jun 11.00am Family Concert: Butterfly Brain 83 7.30pm Quatuor Mosaïques 61 7.30pm Sophie Bevan/Ryan Wigglesworth 83
June July Fri 1 Jun 7.00pm Birgid Steinberger/Julius Drake 63 Sun 1 Jul 11.30am Veronika Eberle/Alban Gerhardt/ 83 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra 62 Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo Sat 2 Jun 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ 63 Mon 2 Jul 1.00pm Adam Walker/Cédric Tiberghien 84 Joseph Middleton 7.30pm Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 84 Sun 3 Jun 11.30am Kuss Quartet 63 Tue 3 Jul 7.30pm David Hansen/Academia Montis Regalis/ 84 7.30pm Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ 65 Alessandro De Marchi Anna Prohaska Wed 4 Jul 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 85 Mon 4 Jun 1.00pm Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn 65 Thu 5 Jul 7.30pm Tana String Quartet 85 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 64 Fri 6 Jul 7.00pm Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff 85 Tue 5 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing 66 10.00pm David Orlowsky Trio 86 7.30pm Stéphane Degout/Simon Lepper 67 Sat 7 Jul 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 86 Wed 6 Jun 7.30pm The Prince Consort/Laura Mucha 67 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 86 Thu 7 Jun 1.00pm Voiceworks 67 7.30pm Steven Osborne 86 7.30pm Finghin Collins 68 Sun 8 Jul 11.30am Formosa Quartet/Richard Lester 87 Fri 8 Jun 10.00pm Onyx Brass 68 7.30pm ATOS Trio 87 Sat 9 Jun 7.30pm Django Bates Belovèd 68 Mon 9 Jul 1.00pm Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 87 7.30pm Dame Felicity Palmer/Simon Lepper 88 Sun 10 Jun 11.30am Christian Ihle Hadland 69 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet/Jörg Widmann 69 Tue 10 Jul 7.30pm Veronika Eberle/Tatjana Masurenko/ 88 Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen Mon 11 Jun 1.00pm Trio Wanderer/Christophe Gaugué 69 7.30pm Collegium Vocale Gent 70 Wed 11 Jul 7.30pm Ensemble Variances/Anssi Karttunen/ 88 Thierry Pécou Tue 12 Jun 5.30pm Diphonon Duo 70 7.30pm Belcea Quartet/Antoine Tamestit 70 Thu 12 Jul 7.30pm Carducci String Quartet 89 Wed 13 Jun 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group commences 72 Fri 13 Jul 7.00pm Bennewitz Quartet 89 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński/Michał Biel 71 10.00pm The Prince Consort/Jason Rebello 89 Thu 14 Jun 12.30pm Chamber Tots 72 Sat 14 Jul 7.30pm Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/Huw Edwards 90 2.00pm Chamber Tots 72 Sun 15 Jul 11.30am Sitkovetsky Trio 91 Fri 15 Jun 6.00pm Razumovsky Ensemble Young Artists Recital 72 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Jonathan Ware 91 7.30pm Razumovsky Ensemble 73 Mon 16 Jul 3.00pm Music for the Moment 91 Sat 16 Jun 11.00am RNIB Family Day 73 Tue 17 Jul 7.30pm Sergei Babayan 92 7.30pm Heath Quartet/Mary Bevan 73 Wed 18 Jul 10.15am Chamber Tots 92 Sun 17 Jun 11.30am Apollon Musagète Quartet 74 11.45am Chamber Tots 92 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 74 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 92 Mon 18 Jun 1.00pm Christine Rice/Julius Drake 74 Thu 19 Jul 7.30pm Gabriela Montero 93 7.30pm Peter Donohoe 75 Fri 20 Jul 7.00pm Members of Britten Sinfonia 93 Tue 19 Jun 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 75 10.00pm Heath Quartet/Ruth Gibson/Marie Bitlloch 93 Wed 20 Jun 7.30pm Edgar Moreau/David Kadouch 75 Sat 21 Jul 1.00pm Principality Only Boys Aloud Academi 2017 94 Thu 21 Jun 7.30pm Dunedin Consort 76 Sat 21 Jul 7.30pm Igor Levit 95 Fri 22 Jun 7.00pm Elias String Quartet 76 Sun 22 Jul 11.30am Zorá String Quartet 95 10.00pm Donald Grant 76 7.30pm Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz 95 Sat 23 Jun 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Diphonon Duo 77 Mon 23 Jul 7.30pm Alban Gerhardt/Vikingur Olafsson 96 7.30pm The Sixteen 77 Tue 24 Jul 7.30pm Julia Fischer/Aris Alexander Blettenberg 96 Sun 24 Jun 11.30am Amaryllis Quartet 77 Wed 25 Jul 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet 96 3.00pm Samuel Hasselhorn/Renate Rohlfing 78 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène 78 Thu 26 Jul 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 97 Mon 25 Jun 1.00pm Elias String Quartet/Navarra String Quartet 78 10 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
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Zemlinsky Quartet Laura van der Heijden Narek Hakhnazaryan cello Mozart String Quartet in E flat cello Oxana Shevchenko piano K428 Petr Limonov piano Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Dvořák String Quartet No. 13 in G Britten Cello Sonata in C Op. 65 A flat Op. 70 Op. 106 Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F minor Op. 40 Op. 99 The Prague-based Zemlinsky Tsintsadze Five pieces on Folk Quartet, famed for the rich, Laura van der Heijden scored a Themes Romantic warmth of its playing, sensational hit as winner of BBC Massenet Méditation from Thaïs takes to the Wigmore stage Young Musician 2012. Her first Albéniz Asturias from Suite for a programme crowned by Wigmore Hall lunchtime recital, española the tender-hearted lyricism of given in company with regular duo Shchedrin In the style of Albéniz Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 13. partner Petr Limonov, presents Cassadó Requiebros two intensely haunting modern £15 concs £13 incl. programme masterworks for cello. Risk and spontaneity make and coffee/sherry/juice Narek Hakhnazaryan’s music- £15 concs £13 making utterly compelling. The former BBC New Generation Artist, described as ‘dazzlingly brilliant’ by The Strad, moves from the Romantic soundscapes of Schumann and Brahms to miniatures hallmarked by their impassioned melodies.
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Tuesday 3 April 7.30pm Theatre of the Ayre Elizabeth Kenny director, lute Rodolfo Richter violin Jane Gordon violin Robert Howarth harpsichord Joanne Lunn soprano Anna Starushkevych mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy tenor Nick Pritchard tenor Giles Underwood bass-baritone Inventing Bel Canto Monteverdi Chiome d’oro from Settimo libro de madrigali Merula Ciaconna Caccini O che felice giorno; Amarilli mia bella Fontana Trio Sonata No. 8 in D minor D’India Cruda Amarilli; Ancidetemi pur (Lamento di Giasone) Uccellini Sonata decima detta La Rinalda Monteverdi Chi vole aver felice e lieto il core Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 ‘La Follia’ D’India La mia Filli crudel; Voi bacciatrici; Langue al vostro languir Caccini Lasciatemi qui solo Uccellini Sonata ottava detta La Torella D’India Se tu, Silvio crudel
Monteverdi and his followers unleashed a musical revolution, ditching old rules to create compositions filled with spine-tingling expression and powerful human emotions. Elizabeth Kenny’s Theatre of the Ayre performs works that sound as fresh today as when they were written.
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Wednesday 4 April 1.00pm Llŷr Williams piano Beethoven Album Launch Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 6 in F Op. 10 No. 2; 7 Bagatelles Op. 33; Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat Op. 81a ‘Les Adieux’
Following his recent Beethoven sonata cycle at Wigmore Hall, Llŷr Williams launches his Beethoven CD with a concert offering a vivid snapshot of the composer’s relentless creative energy through more than two decades to reveal the power of art made in a revolutionary age. Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Llŷr Williams © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 13
Wednesday 4 April Thursday 5 April Friday 6 April 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.00pm and 7.30pm
Bertrand Chamayou piano Le Concert d’Astrée Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm Chopin/Liszt Six Polish Songs Emmanuelle Haïm director, Members of the Elias String Op. 74 S480 harpsichord, organ Quartet discuss their evening Schumann/Liszt Frühlingsnacht programme with writer and Sabine Devieilhe soprano S568; Widmung S566 broadcaster Richard Wigmore. Wagner/Liszt Feierlicher Marsch Marianne Crebassa zum heiligen Gral from Parsifal; mezzo-soprano £5 Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde Italian Cantatas Liszt Etudes d’exécution Handel Dietro l’orme fuggaci transcendante S139 Elias String Quartet 7.30pm (Armida abbandonata) HWV105; reader Trio Sonata in B minor Richard Wigmore Bertrand Chamayou’s artistry HWV386b; O numi eterni (La After Beethoven: Turning inward flows naturally from his feeling Lucrezia) HWV145; Arresta il for subtle yet striking contrasts of György Kurtág 6 Moments passo (Aminta e Fillide) HWV83 sound and emotions. He explores Musicaux Schumann String the art of piano transcription in his Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3 Handel, like many young recital’s first half before plunging Janáček String Quartet No. 2 musicians, refined his craft in Italy. into the boiling waters of Liszt’s ‘Intimate Letters’ Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert virtuosic Transcendental Études. d’Astrée bring the composer’s The Elias String Quartet contrasts Italian years to life with three £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 works as diverse as Schumann’s dramatic cantatas, including the tale sublime String Quartet in A and of abandoned sorceress Armida, Kurtág’s Janáček-inspired Moments and one of his finest trio sonatas. Musicaux. Richard Wigmore joins the ensemble to read extracts from £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Janáček’s letters to complement the performance of his String Quartet No. 2.
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Bertrand Chamayou Emmanuelle Haïm Elias String Quartet © Marco Borggreve © Marianne Rosenstiehl © Benjamin Ealovega
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Purcell from the Ground Up
The past is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for artists working in every creative field. O/Modernt (Swedish for ‘Un/Modern’) is the concept devised by violinist Hugo Ticciati that celebrates this ‘looking back’, using inventive programming to explore vital connections between old and new. Henry Purcell and his inimitable ground basses are the creative spark for this weekend’s imaginative programmes.
Saturday 7 April 1.00pm Saturday 7 April 10.00pm Sunday 8 April 6.00pm
La Nuova Musica Svante Henryson Study Event electric guitar, composer David Bates director Out of Silence: The Recovery Rachel Kelly Dido Henrik Måwe piano, of Ancient Babylonian Music Aeneas composer George Humphreys Out of the Ground: Overtones Anna Dennis Belinda Leandro Mancini-Olivos Sorceress See page 17 Emilie Renard percussion Helen Charlston First Witch Sunday 8 April 7.30pm Martha McLorinan Second Witch Baba Israel rapper Louise Kemény Second Woman Samuel West narrator O/Modernt Chamber Nick Pritchard Sailor William Rapped, Henry Sampled Richard Bannan Spirit Orchestra See page 16 director, violin Purcell Dido and Aeneas Hugo Ticciati Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano See page 16 Sunday 8 April 3.00pm Christoph Sommer theorbo Henrik Måwe piano Saturday 7 April 7.00pm O/Modernt Soloists The Cardinall’s Musick Priya Mitchell violin O/Modernt Soloists Fairest Isle Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Hugo Ticciati director, violin Karl Nyhlin theorbo See page 18 Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Christoph Sommer theorbo Natacha Kudritskaya piano Cecilia Knudsen viola da gamba Christoph Sommer theorbo Nora Thiele percussion Lament and Consolation: Transforming Spanish Sexuality: Fourths Down and Up The Chaconne See page 16 See page 17
‘The past must be invented The future must be revised’
Hugo Ticciati John Cage © Marco Borggreve 16 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Purcell from the Ground Up Purcell from the Ground Up Purcell from the Ground Up Saturday 7 April Saturday 7 April Saturday 7 April 1.00pm 7.00pm NB starting time 10.00pm
La Nuova Musica O/Modernt Soloists Svante Henryson electric David Bates director Hugo Ticciati director, violin guitar, composer Rachel Kelly Dido Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Henrik Måwe piano, George Humphreys Aeneas Natacha Kudritskaya piano composer Anna Dennis Belinda Christoph Sommer theorbo Leandro Mancini-Olivos Emilie Renard Sorceress Lament and Consolation: Fourths percussion Helen Charlston First Witch Down and Up Martha McLorinan Second Witch Baba Israel rapper Purcell When I am Laid in Earth Louise Kemény Second Woman Samuel West narrator Nick Pritchard Sailor from Dido and Aeneas William Rapped, Henry Sampled Richard Bannan Spirit Rameau L’Enharmonique from Pièces de clavecin Recompositions by Henrik Måwe Purcell Dido and Aeneas Purcell The Staircase Overture Z614 and Svante Henryson: Monteverdi Lamento d’Arianna Purcell If Music be the food of ‘Genius’ may be an overworked term from Arianna love Z379c but it surely applies to Purcell and Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Songs by Purcell Dido and Aeneas. David Bates and La Strauss Metamorphosen for Nuova Musica offer a lunchtime date string septet Shakespeare and Purcell saw with the opera’s full passions and the London stage as a place for high emotions, its earthy humour For the past four hundred experiment, where cutting-edge and profound tragedy. years the descending bass line music and drama brought theatre constructed from a perfect to life. Shakespeare’s Sonnets £30 £26 £22 £18 £15 fourth has provided the harmonic provide the inspiration for New structure for the ‘lament’. York City-raised rapper Baba Israel, Exploring this particular musical while Purcell’s ground basses interval, we question whether supply the harmonic groove for consolation can be found in the O/Modernt’s late-night set. rising fourths of Berg’s Op. 1 and Strauss’s Metamorphosen. £15 concs £13
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Rachel Kelly Hugo Ticciati Svante Henryson © Gerard Collett © Marco Borggreve © Mats Bäcker www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 17
Purcell from the Ground Up Purcell from the Ground Up Sunday 8 April Sunday 8 April Sunday 8 April 11.30am 3.00pm 6.00pm
Atrium Quartet O/Modernt Soloists Study Event Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 Priya Mitchell violin Hugo Ticciati, violinist and artistic in C Op. 49 Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano director of O/Modernt, hosts this Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A Karl Nyhlin theorbo study event followed by questions minor Op. 35 Christoph Sommer theorbo from the audience. Cecilia Knudsen viola da gamba Out of Silence: The Recovery of Tender and passionate emotions Nora Thiele percussion Ancient Babylonian Music pulse through Arensky’s second Transforming Spanish Sexuality: Dr Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper string quartet, which was written The Chaconne of Ancient Mesopotamian script, in memory of Tchaikovsky. The languages and cultures in the Programme to include: Russian-born, Berlin-based Department of the Middle East in Original Spanish chaconnes Atrium Quartet opens this coffee the British Museum, discusses Purcell Chacony in G minor Z730; concert with the optimism of Ancient Babylonian music. Shostakovich’s first string quartet Chaconne in C from from 1938. The Fairy Queen; Chaconne from Out of the Ground: Overtones King Arthur An introduction to Overtone Bach Chaconne in D minor Singing by the South African £15 concs £13 incl. programme BWV1004 viola player and overtone singer and coffee/sherry/juice Gareth Lubbe. 2018 Wigmore Hall International O/Modernt recognises that magical StringQuartet transformations can occur when Free (ticket required) Competition familiar things are approached from fresh angles. This enchanting programme traces the roots of well-known chaconnes by Purcell and Bach to their likely origins in the sultry, seductive sounds of the Spanish chaconne.
£15 concs £13 Approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
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Purcell from the Ground Up Sunday 8 April 7.30pm O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra Hugo Ticciati director, violin Luciana Mancini mezzo-soprano Christoph Sommer theorbo Henrik Måwe piano The Cardinall’s Musick Fairest Isle Purcell Overture in G minor Z772; Sweeter than Roses Britten I know a bank Elgar Serenade in E minor Op. 20 ‘Serenade for Strings’ Tavener Mother of God, Here I Stand Gibbons Drop, Drop, Slow Tears Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord Improvisation on Purcell A New Ground ZT682 Bridge Autumn; Music when soft voices die; The Bee Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
In the fifteenth century the richly harmonised polyphony that emerged from English composers quickly spread far and wide throughout Europe. The Cardinall’s Musick joins O/Modernt to explore the sense of place rooted in works by Purcell, Gibbons, Elgar and Britten, as we celebrate the music of the ‘Fairest Isle’.
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Hugo Ticciati © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 19
Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration Monday 9 April Monday 9 April Tuesday 10 April 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.00am
Javier Perianes piano Isabelle Faust violin Opening Talk Chopin Prelude in C Op. 28 No. 1 Kristian Bezuidenhout At Royal Academy of Music Debussy Danseuses de Delphes harpsichord The Castalian String Quartet Chopin Berceuse in D flat Op. 57 Bach Violin Sonata No. 4 in C discusses The Four Quarters by Debussy Clair de lune; Les sons minor BWV1017 Thomas Adès, the set work for all et les parfums tournent dans l’air Froberger Suite No. 12 in C for quartets in the Competition. du soir harpsichord Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Bach Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Free (no ticket required) Op. 52 minor BWV1018 2018 Wigmore Hall Debussy La sérénade Biber Violin Sonata No. 5 in E International interrompue; La puerta del vino minor C142; Passacaglia in G minor StringQuartet Competition Falla Fantasia baetica from Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Delicate impressions and BWV1015 fleeting dances flow through Javier Perianes’s programme. Wigmore Hall’s celebration The Spanish artist, hailed by of Isabelle Faust’s artistry the Telegraph as ‘a pianist of continues with a programme of impeccable and refined tastes’, virtuoso works by Bach, Biber traces the subtle connections and Froberger. She and Kristian between Chopin and Debussy Bezuidenhout explore captivating before closing with Falla’s scores by composer-performers flamboyant Fantasia baetica. who probed the technical and expressive limits of string and £15 concs £13 keyboard instruments.
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Javier Perianes Isabelle Faust Castalian String Quartet © Daniel García Bruno © Felix Broede © Kaupo Kikkas 20 • APRIL
The 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is the fourteenth edition of this prestigious Competition, and a celebration of the art of the string quartet.
Tuesday 10 April Saturday 14 April Sunday 15 April – Friday 13 April 2.00pm & 7.30pm 6.00pm
PRELIMINARY ROUND SEMI-FINALS FINAL AND PRIZE-GIVING At the Royal Academy of Music After performing two different The selected finalists will each recital programmes during the play their chosen work from Each of the twelve selected Preliminary Round, at least six the Romantic repertoire, which ensembles presents two contrasting quartets that have been selected could include works by Brahms, recital programmes, including by the International Jury will Debussy, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, cornerstones of the repertoire. each perform their choice of one Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and The first recital consists of Haydn of Beethoven’s quartets. At the Smetana. The concert will be alongside The Four Quarters by end of the evening, the Jury will followed by the Awards Ceremony Thomas Adès, and the second select at least three quartets for at about 9.00pm. recital includes a late Mozart work the Final. paired with any major quartet £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 written between 1918 and 1999. Each session: £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 For a full schedule of events, please check the Wigmore Hall website. Book for both semi-final sessions and receive a 20% discount Free (no ticket required) APRIL • 21
2018 Wigmore Hall International StringQuartet Competition
Sunday 15 April Related Learning Events Related Concerts 6.00pm
Tuesday 10 April 10.00am Thursday 12 and Friday 13 April Sunday 8 April 11.30am 10.00am and 2.30pm Opening Talk: Atrium Quartet Castalian String Quartet Masterclasses See page 17 At Royal Academy of Music See page 23 See page 19 Wednesday 11 April 7.30pm 6.00pm Thursday 12 April JACK Quartet
Tuesday 10 April Pre-Concert Talk: 6.00pm – 7.00pm See page 23 Evolution of the String Quartet StringTing See page 23 Thursday 12 April 7.30pm At Royal Academy of Music Belcea Quartet See page 20 Saturday 14 April 5.00pm See page 23 Film Screening: 4 Wednesday 11 April 6.00pm See page 23 Sunday 15 April 11.30am Pre-Concert Talk: Julian Anderson Arcadia Quartet
Sunday 15 April Stefan Fehlandt viola See page 23 2.00pm – 5.00pm Stephan Forck cello Family Workshop See page 25 See page 26 22 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Tuesday 10 April Tuesday 10 April Tuesday 10 April – Friday 13 April 6.00pm – 7.00pm 7.30pm
2018 Wigmore Hall StringTing Chamber Music Society International String At Royal Academy of Music of Lincoln Center Quartet Competition Alexander Sitkovetsky violin StringTing is a flagship ensemble Paul Huang violin PRELIMINARY ROUND from Tomorrow’s Warriors, the Richard O’Neill viola celebrated hothouse for young Paul Watkins cello At the Royal Academy of Music jazz talent in the UK. Blazing a Gilles Vonsattel piano Each of the twelve selected wide trail for women and strings Schubert String Trio in B flat D581 ensembles presents two in jazz, StringTing’s musicians Huw Watkins Piano Quintet* contrasting recital programmes, are core players in Tomorrow’s (world première) including cornerstones of the Warriors’ acclaimed Nu Civilisation Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor repertoire. The first recital Orchestra and are ones to watch Op. 34 consists of Haydn alongside as they begin to make an indelible The Four Quarters by Thomas mark on the London jazz scene. *Co-commissioned by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and by Wigmore Adès, and the second recital Approximately 1 hour in duration, Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, includes a late Mozart work paired without an interval president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a with any major quartet written Swiss grant-making foundation between 1918 and 1999. All seats £10 Schubert’s songful String Trio in B For a full schedule of events, please In partnership with flat and Brahms’s majestic Piano check the Wigmore Hall website Tomorrow’s Warriors Quintet in F minor frame the world 2018 Wigmore Hall première of a thrilling new Piano Free (no ticket required) International StringQuartet Quintet by Huw Watkins, a regular 2018 Wigmore Hall International Competition presence at Wigmore Hall both as StringQuartet pianist and composer. Competition All seats £15 With grateful thanks to the Patron, Benefactor & Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
StringTing Huw Watkins © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 23
Wednesday 11 April Thursday 12 and Friday 13 April Thursday 12 April 6.00pm and 7.30pm 10.00am and 2.30pm 6.00pm and 7.30pm
Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm Masterclasses Pre-Concert Talk 6.00pm discusses the Julian Anderson Evolution of the String Quartet creation of his new string quartet, to Miguel da Silva (ex-Ysaÿe Quartet) be premièred in the evening concert. and Christoph Richter (Faculty Explore the evolution of the genre’s Member, European Chamber Music form, its instruments and repertoire. £5 Academy) work with quartets from UK conservatoires. £5 JACK Quartet 7.30pm Each session is approximately 3 hours 15 minutes in duration, Belcea Quartet 7.30pm Amy Williams Richter Textures including an interval Marcos Balter Chambers Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 Julian Anderson String Quartet No. 4 Free (no ticket required) No. 3* (world première) Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 2018 Wigmore Hall ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Brian Ferneyhough Dum Transisset International Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with StringQuartet the support of André Hoffmann, president Competition ‘American’ of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Echoes of folksong sound in Ligeti’s ‘Métamorphoses Musical adventures belong to the nocturnes’, an early masterwork JACK Quartet’s artistic lifeblood. written before he left Hungary in The Boston Globe hailed the 1956. The Belcea Quartet explores ensemble as ‘superheroes of the the composer’s life-enhancing new music world’, a title reinforced score in company with Dvořák’s with Ferneyhough’s gritty Dum ‘American’ Quartet, a work of Transisset and the world première radiant warmth and lyrical charm. of Anderson’s Third String Quartet. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 All seats £15 2018 Wigmore Hall International 2018 Wigmore Hall International StringQuartet StringQuartet Competition Competition
JACK Quartet Belcea Quartet © Shervin Lainez © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve 24 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Friday 13 April 7.30pm Igor Levit piano Frederic Rzewski 80th Birthday Concert Frederic Rzewski New work* Mendelssohn Songs without Words (selection): in E Op. 19 No. 1; in A Op. 19 No. 3 ‘The Hunt’; in F sharp minor Op. 19 No. 5; in B minor Op. 30 No. 4; in E Op. 30 No. 3; in E flat Op. 38 No. 3; in A flat Op. 38 No. 6 ‘Duo’ Mahler Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (Ronald Stevenson transcription) *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the generous support of Annette Scawen Morreau
During his student days Igor Levit, captivated by Frederic Rzewski’s music, asked the composer to write a new piece – which he did. Their deep artistic friendship continues with the première of a special Wigmore Hall commission to celebrate Rzewski’s 80th birthday.
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Forthcoming Concert
Saturday 21 July 7.30pm
Igor Levit © Robbie Lawrence www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 25
Saturday 14 April Saturday 14 April Sunday 15 April 2.00pm & 7.30pm 5.00pm 11.30am
2018 Wigmore Hall Film Screening: 4 Arcadia Quartet International String Stefan Fehlandt viola 4, an award-winning independent Quartet Competition documentary on Quatuor Ebène, Stephan Forck cello SEMI-FINALS takes viewers on the string Brahms String Sextet in B flat quartet’s tour through Italy, Op. 18 After performing two different Austria and Germany, gradually Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 recital programmes during the drawing them into the ambivalent No. 2 Preliminary Round, at least six interactions that have come to quartets that have been selected characterise the connections Romania’s Arcadia Quartet has by the International Jury will between the musicians. This piece drawn worldwide critical acclaim each perform their choice of one delves into relationships, and the since winning the 2012 Wigmore of Beethoven’s quartets. At the antagonism between ambition and Hall London International String end of the evening, the Jury will reality. 4 is directed and produced Quartet Competition, inspiring select at least three quartets for by Daniel Kutschinski. critics and audiences with the Final. Approximately 1 hour 35 minutes in penetrating, edge-of-the-seat duration, without an interval performances. The ensemble Each session: £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 is joined by two members of the Vogler Quartet, in Brahms’s Book for both semi-final sessions Free (separate ticket required) sonorous First String Sextet. and receive a 20% discount 2018 Wigmore Hall International 2018 Wigmore Hall International StringQuartet £15 concs £13 incl. programme Competition StringQuartet and coffee/sherry/juice Competition 2018 Wigmore Hall International StringQuartet Competition
Quatuor Ebène Arcadia Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega © Julien Mignot 26 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Sunday 15 April Sunday 15 April Monday 16 April 2.00pm – 5.00pm 6.00pm 1.00pm
Family Workshop 2018 Wigmore Hall Christoph Prégardien International String tenor Join us for an afternoon of music Julius Drake piano making and exploration of the Quartet Competition Loewe Der Nöck; Erlkönig string quartet in this interactive FINAL AND PRIZE-GIVING workshop for all the family. Schumann Belsazar Liszt Die Loreley S273 The selected finalists will each Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39 Children £8 Adults £10 play their chosen work from Wigmore Hall the Romantic repertoire, which 2018 Musical intelligence and a poetic International could include works by Brahms, feeling for words belong to StringQuartet Debussy, Dvořák, Mendelssohn, Competition Christoph Prégardien’s artistic Ravel, Schumann, Schubert and attributes. The lyric tenor joins Smetana. The concert will be regular duo partner Julius Drake followed by the Awards Ceremony to explore mystical ballads and at about 9.00pm. the rapturous romanticism of Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39. £40 £35 £30 £25 £15
2018 Wigmore Hall International All seats £15 StringQuartet Competition
Family Workshop Christoph Prégardien © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 27
Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Creative evolution lies at the heart of Jörg Widmann’s work. The German artist draws key lessons from history to produce compelling new insights as composer and performer. 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
Monday 16 April 7.30pm
Yefim Bronfmanpiano Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Humoreske in B flat Op. 20 Jörg Widmann Eleven Humoresques Prokoviev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83
Immortalised as ‘a force of nature’ by Philip Roth in The Human Stain, Yefim Bronfman stands among today’s keyboard greats. Romantic fantasies and wild jokes erupt throughout Jörg Widmann’s Schumann-inspired Eleven Humoresques, which were written for Bronfman.
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Forthcoming Concerts in this Series
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm Jörg Widmann clarinet Sir András Schiff piano
Sunday 10 June 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet
Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Heath Quartet Mary Bevan soprano
Friday 20 July 10.00pm Heath Quartet Ruth Gibson viola Marie Bitlloch cello
Jörg Widmann © Marco Borggreve 28 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Haydn String Quartet Series This season’s Haydn String Quartet Series at Wigmore Hall, performed by leading groups from around the globe, continues with a programme saturated with musical eloquence, expressive contrasts and dazzling invention. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 29
Tuesday 17 April 7.30pm
Castalian String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1; String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’; String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’
The exciting young Castalian String Quartet, prize winners at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, presents the first in a pair of concerts devoted to Haydn’s Opus 76, extraordinarily diverse works by a composer at the height of his powers.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Castalian String Quartet Supported by an anonymous donor © Kaupo Kikkas
Forthcoming Concerts in this Series
Wednesday 25 April 7:30pm Saturday 16 June 7:30pm Vertavo String Quartet Heath Quartet Mary Bevan soprano Saturday 26 May 7:30pm 7:00pm Doric String Quartet Friday 13 July Sir Thomas Allen narrator Bennewitz Quartet
Wednesday 30 May 7:30pm Wednesday 25 July 7:30pm Quatuor Mosaïques Castalian String Quartet
Thursday 31 May 7:30pm Quatuor Mosaïques 30 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Wednesday 18 April Wednesday 18 April Wednesday 18 April 12.15pm 1.00pm 7.30pm
Pre-Concert Talk Britten Sinfonia Yevgeny Sudbin piano Caroline Shaw discusses her new Thomas Gould violin Haydn Piano Sonata in B minor work with Dr Kate Kennedy Clare Finnimore viola HXVI:32 Caroline Dearnley cello Beethoven Bagatelles Op. 126 Free to concert ticket holders Tom Poster piano Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor (separate ticket required) Caroline Shaw New work* (world Op. 52 première tour) Skryabin Nocturne for the left Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G hand Op. 9 No. 2; Piano Sonata minor Op. 25 No. 5 Op. 53; Mazurka in E minor Op. 25 No. 3 *Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre with the support of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore Hall (arr. Sudbin) with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, Yevgeny Sudbin’s pianism rests a Swiss grant-making foundation on interpretations that are never forced yet always deeply personal Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline and charged with meaning. Known Shaw’s beautiful music, with for his poetic way with Chopin and its rich sound and irresistible Skryabin, the Russian-born artist energy, has entranced pop and has also received critical acclaim classical audiences alike. Britten for his exquisite readings of Haydn Sinfonia unveils the young and Beethoven. American composer’s latest score in company with Brahms’s £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 magnificent First Piano Quartet.
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Caroline Shaw Britten Sinfonia Yevgeny Sudbin © Dashon Burton © Harry Rankin © Peter Rigaud www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 31
Thursday 19 April Friday 20 April Saturday 21 April 7.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm 7.30pm
The English Concert Music for the Moment Venera Gimadieva soprano Harry Bicket director, A concert for people living with Pavel Nebolsin piano dementia and their friends, family harpsichord Glière Wake up, child; Rusalka and carers Nadja Zwiener violin Rimsky-Korsakov The nymph; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Eastern A European Grand Tour If you are, or someone you know Song: Enslaved by the rose, the London: Arne Overture to is, living with dementia, please nightingale Tchaikovsky Dumka: The Judgement of Paris join us for this informal afternoon Russian rustic scene; Tell me, Versailles: Rameau Suite from concert with musicians from the what in the shadow of branches; Les fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour Royal Academy of Music. You are Lullaby; Serenade (O child, beneath Venice: Tartini Violin Concerto warmly invited to join us for tea thy window); Pimpinella Glière in B minor, D125 ‘Lascia ch’io and coffee from 2.30pm. Will live Rachmaninov Sing not to dica addio’ me, beautiful maiden; Prelude in Dresden: Zelenka Simphonie a8 Free (ticket required) C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2; The ZWV189 Dream; Daisies; They answered; In partnership with the In my garden at night; The Migrant Royal Academy of Music and Three centuries ago Britain’s Wind; The pied piper Skryabin Westminster Arts young aristocrats took the Étude in D sharp minor Op. 8 equivalent of today’s gap No. 12 Prokofiev True Tenderness; year, setting out on a Grand Greetings; Chatterbox Skryabin Tour of Europe. The English Étude in C sharp minor Op. 42 Concert travels to the great No. 5 Banevich Song of Gerda musical centres of London, Versailles, Dresden and Venice, Venera Gimadieva earned rave essential destinations on the reviews following her 2016 debut grand tourist trail. at the Royal Opera House as Verdi’s Violetta. She makes her Wigmore £37 £32 £26 £20 £15 Hall debut with an inspiring programme drawn from the Russian repertoire’s romantic heart.
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The English Concert Music for the Moment Venera Gimadieva © Richard Haughton © Benjamin Harte © Leonid Semenyuk 32 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Friday 20 April 7.30pm Alina Ibragimova violin Cédric Tiberghien piano Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
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.
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Ibragimova Tiberghien Duo © Sussie Ahlburg www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 33
Sunday 22 April Sunday 22 April Monday 23 April 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm
Modigliani Quartet Leonore Piano Trio Sophie Gent violin Mozart String Quartet in C K465 Haydn Piano Trio in E flat Matthew Truscott violin ‘Dissonance’ HXV:29 Jonathan Manson bass Saint-Saëns String Quartet No. 1 Parry Piano Trio No. 1 in E minor viol, cello in E minor Op. 112 Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat D898 Trevor Pinnock The Paris-based Modigliani harpsichord Quartet, formed by four close Audience ovations encouraged Hacquart Sonata No. 6 in D minor friends in 2003, is known for the three members of Sheffield-based from Harmonia Parnassia Op. 2 energy, passion and conviction Ensemble 360 to form the Leonore Buxtehude Trio Sonata in G of its interpretations. The group’s Piano Trio in 2012, a decision minor BuxWV261 Coffee Concert programme endorsed since by international Froberger Suite No. 12 in C for includes Saint-Saëns’s First String critical acclaim for their concerts harpsichord Quartet, a work of haunting beauty and recordings. Two charities Handel Trio Sonata in B flat and grace. will benefit from proceeds from HWV388 this concert. £15 concs £13 incl. programme Trevor Pinnock and three and coffee/sherry/juice £25 £23 £20 £18 £15 internationally renowned period- The London Philharmonic Orchestra instrument performers, musical Benevolent Fund gives financial friends for many years, evoke the support to LPO musicians unable noble spirit of works from the to work due to illness or injury. late 1600s and early 1700s. Registered Charity Number 238045 Their programme includes a rare London’s only Marie Curie hospice outing for the rousing Sonata in offers both residential and day-care D minor by Flemish composer for people living with any terminal Carolus Hacquart. illness and their families. Registered Charity Number 207994 All seats £15
Modigliani Quartet Leonore Piano Trio Sophie Gent © Sylvie Lancrenon © Eric Richmond © Marco Borggreve 34 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Tuesday 24 April 7.30pm Matthias Goerne baritone Seong-Jin Cho piano Wolf Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo Pfitzner Sehnsucht; Ist der Himmel dann so blau im Lenz; Es glänzt so schön die sinkende Sonne; Wasserfahrt; Abendrot; Stimme der Sehnsucht; Nachts; An die Mark Wagner Wesendonck Lieder Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung; Morgen; Ruhe, meine Seele; Freundliche Vision; Im Abendrot from Four Last Songs
Intuition and intellect fuel the irresistible force behind Matthias Goerne’s artistry. The German baritone, recently acclaimed for his performances Forthcoming Concert as Berg’s Wozzeck at the Salzburg Festival, stands among today’s finest interpreters of song and a master of the art of musical and poetic expression. Thursday 26 April 7.30pm Matthias Goerne baritone £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Alexander Schmalcz piano
Matthias Goerne © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 35
Kathleen Ferrier Haydn String Quartet Series Monday 23 April Awards 2018 Wednesday 25 April 7.30pm 7.30pm The annual auditions for the Cédric Tiberghien piano famous singing competition, Vertavo String Quartet founded in memory of one of Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Haydn String Quartet in B flat the UK’s best loved contraltos, Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18; Op. 71 No. 1; String Quartet in B attract capacity houses from both Fantasie in C Op. 17 flat Op. 55 No. 3; String Quartet devoted lovers of vocal art and in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished); students of singing. Hailed for his poetic artistry and String Quartet in F Op. 74 No. 2 rich imagination, Cédric Tiberghien Wednesday 25 April is in demand worldwide as Haydn wrote his six Opus 71 & 1.30pm chamber musician and soloist. His 74 quartets with London concert latest Wigmore Hall recital charts audiences in mind. The Vertavo the depth and variety of three Semi-Final String Quartet unleashes the great Romantic compositions, symphonic energy of two of including Chopin’s enthralling All seats £15 Students £10 them in company with Haydn’s Preludes Op. 28. unfinished ‘swansong’, the D Friday 27 April minor quartet Op. 103, and the £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 6.00pm reflective Op. 55 No.3. With grateful thanks to the Piano Circle Final £38 £33 £27 £20 £15
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Cédric Tiberghien Vertavo String Quartet © Jean-Baptiste Millot 36 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Thursday 26 April Thursday 26 April Saturday 28 April 11.00am and 12.30pm 7.30pm 11.00am – 12 noon
For Crying Out Loud! Matthias Goerne baritone Family Concert: Holly Cook flute Alexander Schmalcz Aglaia Trio Helen Nicholas piano piano For ages 5 plus Schubert Einsamkeit (D620); Der Hear outstanding performances Jessie Maryon Davies presenter Taucher (D111); Die Bürgschaft Gudrún Ólafsdóttir mezzo- by musicians from the Royal (D246) Academy of Music, in these soprano concerts presented especially for Elena Jáuregui violin Harmonia Mundi recently released Francisco Javier Jáuregui guitar parents or carers and babies under its Goerne-Schubert Edition, a 1 to enjoy together in a relaxed and dozen albums devoted to the accommodating environment. Join the Aglaia Trio on a musical German baritone’s revelatory journey through Spain’s rich Approximately 45 minutes in duration performances of Schubert songs. cultural, historical and natural For his latest Wigmore Hall recital, landscape. In this interactive Adults £8.50 (babies come free) he is joined by one of his partners family concert, the trio performs from the series, Alexander In partnership with the some of Spain’s most beloved Schmalcz, in three of Schubert’s Royal Academy of Music songs in a range of languages most dramatic lieder, each like a and styles, as presenter Jessie mini opera. Maryon Davies invites you to sing, dance, create your own bird-song £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 chorus and even have a go at Approximately 1 hour in duration, some conducting. without an interval Children £10 Adults £12
Matthias Goerne Family Concert © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk APRIL • 37
Saturday 28 April Sunday 29 April Sunday 29 April 7.30pm 11.30am 4.00pm
Nikolai Lugansky piano Smetana Trio Leslie Howard piano Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor 70th Birthday Concert Debussy Suite bergamasque Op. 90 ‘Dumky’ Liszt Sarabande und Chaconne Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 23: Smetana Piano Trio in G minor über Themen aus dem Singspiel No. 1 in F sharp minor, No. 3 in Op. 15 Almira von Händel S181; Aïda D minor, No. 4 in D, No. 5 in G di Verdi Danza sacra e duetto minor, No. 6 in E flat & No. 7 in The Smetana Trio, among the finale S436; Fantasie über C minor great institutions of Czech music, Themen aus Mozart’s Figaro und Rachmaninov Preludes Op. 32: began life in 1934. The ensemble’s Don Giovanni; Réminiscences No. 1 in C, No. 2 in B flat minor, current formation, winner of a des Huguenots de Meyerbeer No. 3 in E, No. 4 in E minor, No. 2017 BBC Music Magazine Award – Grande Fantaisie dramatique 5 in G, No. 12 in G sharp minor & for its recording of Martinů’s S412ii; Les adieux – Rêverie No. 13 in D flat complete piano trios, performs two sur un motif de l’opéra Roméo heart-melting masterworks of the et Juliette de Gounod S409; Nikolai Lugansky, whose most Czech repertoire. Réminiscences de Norma de recent recital album was praised Bellini – Grande Fantaisie S394 by the Guardian for its ‘insightful £15 concs £13 incl. programme and mature’ interpretations, and coffee/sherry/juice Leslie Howard made his Wigmore returns to Wigmore Hall to explore Hall debut forty-four seasons composers central to his repertoire ago, soon after moving to London with a programme spanning a vast from his native Australia. The emotional landscape. only person ever to have recorded Liszt’s complete solo piano works, £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 he returns to celebrate his 70th birthday with ‘Liszt at the opera’.
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Nikolai Lugansky Smetana Trio Leslie Howard © Marco Borggreve © Richard Sklar 38 • APRIL Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Monday 30 April Monday 30 April 1.00pm 7.30pm
Hille Perl viola da gamba Pavel Kolesnikov piano Lee Santana theorbo Lachenmann Schattentanz from Ein Kinderspiel Debussy Children’s Corner: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum; Dreams and Dances of the Sun King Jimbo’s Lullaby; Serenade for the Doll; The Snow is Dancing; The L Couperin Prelude in D minor Little Shepherd; Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk Sainte-Colombe Les Couplets Chopin Mazurka in C sharp minor Op. 30 No. 4; Étude in F Marais Suite from Troisième livre minor Op. 25 No. 2 de pièces de viole L Couperin Tombeau de Monsieur de Blancrocher Forqueray La Leclair Lachenmann Filter-Schaukel from Ein Kinderspiel Marais Le Badinage & Le Debussy Feux d’artifice from Préludes Book II Labyrinth from Quatrième livre Chopin Nocturne in F sharp minor Op. 48 No. 2 des pièces de viole Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 de Visée Prélude; Les Silvains de Couperin; Muzette Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov commemorates the centenary of Marais Les folies d’Espagne from Debussy’s death by offering fresh perspectives on his Children’s Deuxième livre de pièces de viole Corner. ‘My homage to Debussy aims to explore his diversity and, like his music, includes something that will touch every listener’, Chamber music offered Louis he notes. XIV respite from his relentless pursuit of power. Hille Perl, among £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 the early music world’s great communicators, connects with the composers who supplied the soundtrack to the Sun King’s court and to late 17th-century Paris.
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Hille Perl Pavel Kolesnikov © Foppe Schut © Eva Vermandel www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 39
Sonia Prina: A Celebration
Tuesday 1 May 7.30pm
Sonia Prina contralto Vivica Genaux mezzo-soprano Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen director TITANS Porpora Sinfonia from Festa d’Imeneo; Quel cor che mi donasti Vinci Sento due fiamme in petto Porpora Vanne e vivi con la speranza Bononcini Sinfonia & Dell’offesa vendicarti from Griselda Handel Rompo i lacci e frango i dardi Bononcini La costanza, il timore, l’affetto Gasparini Se non temi il mio furore Giacomelli Mi par sentir la bella Porpora Quel vast, quel fiero Giacomelli Placide a miglior vita Ariosti Sinfonia from Vespasiano Hasse Mi lusinga il dolce affetto Sellitto Scenda dal cielo irato Bononcini Mai non potrei goder
Celebrity castrati Farinelli and Senesino became bitter rivals while inspiring everyone from Handel to Hasse to write dazzling operatic arias for them. Sonia Prina and Vivica Genaux, stars of today’s opera stage, pay generous homage to these two vocal titans.
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Sonia Prina © Ribalta Luce Studio 40 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Simon Trpčeski Series Wednesday 2 May Thursday 3 May Friday 4 May 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm
Simon Trpčeski piano Chamber Tots Lucy Crowe soprano Grieg Holberg Suite Op. 40 Under the Sea Anna Tilbrook piano Mendelssohn Songs without Female Portraits Words (selection): in E Op. 19 No. We invite children aged 1 to 5 1; in A Op. 19 No. 3 ‘The Hunt’; and their parents/carers to join Purcell Bess of Bedlam in F sharp minor ‘Venetianisches us as we dive deep under the Schubert An Silvia; Gretchen am Gondellied’ Op. 30 No. 6; in C sea! This interactive music- Spinnrade; Marie; Suleika I minor Op. 38 No. 2; in E flat Op. making workshop features songs, Mendelssohn Suleika 53 No. 2; in G Op. 62 No. 1; in F percussion and the chance to Schumann Kennst du das Land?; sharp minor Op. 67 No. 2 meet some exciting instruments Lied der Suleika Wolf Philine Rimsky-Korsakov Sheherazade up close, led by our experienced Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia; Op. 35 Chamber Tots music leaders Cäcilie Hahn A Chloris alongside emerging ensembles. Fauré Lydia; Sylvie; Nell Debussy Jane Duparc Phidyle Vibrant harmonies and enchanting 10.15am (1–2 year olds) & melodies are common to the works Paladilhe Psyché 11.45am (3–5 year olds) Walton Daphne; Beatriz’s Song in Simon Trpčeski’s recital. The Approximately 1 hour in duration Macedonian pianist’s programme Britten Sweet Polly Oliver; offers the chance to hear his Sally in our Alley Children £6 Adults £4 stunning transcription of Rimsky- Hoagy Carmichael Georgia Korsakov’s tone-poem Sheherazade, Cole Porter Miss Otis Regrets a recent and utterly compelling addition to his broad repertoire. Betrayed women, eroticism and chastity are among the subjects of £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Lucy Crowe’s selection of songs. Her ‘Female Portraits’ contain sublime settings of poetry by, among others, Goethe, Novalis and Shakespeare, including Schubert’s exquisite ‘Marie’ and Wolf’s seductive ‘Philine’.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Simon Trpčeski Chamber Tots Lucy Crowe © Simon Fowler © Benjamin Ealovega © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 41
Thursday 3 May 7.30pm Mauro Peter tenor Helmut Deutsch piano Schubert An Silvia; Stimme der Liebe (D412); Dass sie hier gewesen; Über Wildemann; Die Liebe hat gelogen; Wandrers Nachtlied I; Im Frühling; Die Sterne (D939); Hoffnung (D637); Fischerweise; Auf der Brücke Liszt S’il est un charmant gazon; Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils; Oh! quand je dors; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (S272/1); Es war ein König in Thule; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh (S306/2); Vergiftet sind meine Lieder; Die stille Wasserrose; Ihr Glocken von Marling; Die drei Zigeuner
Swiss tenor Mauro Peter was one of the last to study with Helmut Deutsch during the latter’s long teaching career in Munich. Singer and pianist, close musical partners and friends, present a selection of great Schubert and Liszt Lieder.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Mauro Peter © Christian Felber 42 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage
Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music Saturday 5 May Clark Rundell conductor 10.30am Mark-Anthony Turnage Two The Royal Northern College of Music and Wigmore Hall present a day of Elegies Framing a Shout; Sleep On: music to celebrate the work of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, one of the Three Lullabies; True Life Stories best known and most prolific British composers. Turnage has a distinctive musical personality, with aggressive and energetic qualities contrasted with 12 noon lyricism and tenderness, projected across his large catalogue of orchestral, Study Event chamber, choral and vocal works, as well as two large-scale operas. He A discussion of Mark-Anthony is known for combining jazz, popular and classical elements in his music, Turnage’s music. often appealing to young audiences. This study day features chamber music and orchestral works performed by students from the RNCM. 2.00pm Mark-Anthony Turnage Release; Col; Two Baudelaire Songs for soprano and ensemble; Eulogy
All seats £5 concs £3 (each event) or Day ticket £10 concs £7 In partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music
Mark-Anthony Turnage © Philip Gatward www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 43
Saturday 5 May Sunday 6 May Sunday 6 May 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm
Borodin Quartet Borodin Quartet Royal Academy of Haydn String Quartet in B minor Mozart String Quartet in D minor Music Baroque Soloists Op. 33 No. 1; String Quartet in G K421 Rachel Podger violin Op. 33 No. 5 Schubert String Quartet in E flat Wolf Italian Serenade in G D87 L’Amour Triomphe Borodin String Quartet No. 1 in A Rameau Platée RCT53 (excerpts) Mozart’s passionate String Quartet Telemann Don Quichotte auf der Few chamber ensembles in D minor, born at the same time Hochzeit des Comacho (excerpts) achieve legendary status. The as the composer’s first child, sets Gluck Don Juan Wq. 52 (excerpts) Borodin Quartet, founded in the tone for a programme steeped Rameau Pigmalion RCT52 1945 and closely associated with in emotional contrasts. The Shostakovich, is truly legendary Borodin Quartet’s Wigmore Hall A banquet of amorous ballet music in the classical music world. Its weekend closes with Schubert’s from the High Baroque and early programme moves from Haydn to reflective String Quartet in E flat. Rococo, celebrating the loves of Borodin by way of Wolf’s delightful an ugly Nymph, a famous rake and Italian Serenade. £15 concs £13 incl. programme deluded dreamers, culminates in and coffee/sherry/juice the gloriously poignant Pigmalion, £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Rameau’s acte-de-ballet first performed in Paris in 1748.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Borodin Quartet Rachel Podger © Andy Staples © Theresa Pewal 44 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Haydn String Quartet Series Monday 7 May Tuesday 8 May Wednesday 9 May 1.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Sabine Devieilhe soprano Sacconi String Quartet Side by Side Anne Le Bozec piano Jonathan Dove Out of Time The Prince Consort Les Salons de Pauline Viardot Haydn String Quartet in E Op. 54 Musicians from Guildhall School No. 3; String Quartet in F minor of Music & Drama Berlioz Villanelle Op. 55 No. 2 ‘The Razor’ Viardot Hai luli! Programme to include: Janáček String Quartet No. 2 Schumann Spanisches Bizet Pastorale ‘Intimate Letters’ Fauré Au bord de l’eau Liederspiel Op. 74 Berlioz La mort d’Ophélie Jonathan Dove’s Out of Time plays Bizet Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe The Prince Consort is renowned with musical time to create a work for its imaginative programming, Clara Schumann Ich stand in of pulsating energy. It launches dunkeln Träumen world-class performances the Sacconi String Quartet’s and its original approach to Robert Schumann From Mythen: absorbing programme, which Widmung & Der Nussbaum commissioning new works. The includes Haydn’s ‘Razor’ Quartet, ensemble is also passionate about Mendelssohn Neue Liebe offered to a music publisher in Viardot Aime-moi supporting the development of the return for a pair of sharp-edged next generation of singers and Debussy Romance English razors. Hahn Le printemps pianists. For this project, members of the ensemble have worked with £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Sabine Devieilhe turned to musicians from Guildhall School singing after studying cello and of Music & Drama towards musicology. The French soprano, this performance, in which the who made her Royal Opera House students and ensemble perform debut earlier this season as side by side. Mozart’s Queen of the Night, trains the spotlight on contemplative 19th- £5 century French and German songs for her Wigmore Hall debut.
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Sabine Devieilhe Sacconi String Quartet The Prince Consort © Caroline Doutre © Emilie Bailey © Richard Eccleston www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 45
Mahan Esfahani: Jörg Widmann as Bach Harpsichord Works Composer-Performer Wednesday 9 May Thursday 10 May Saturday 12 May 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
Mahan Esfahani Pavel Haas Quartet Jörg Widmann clarinet harpsichord Shostakovich String Quartet Sir András Schiffpiano Bach 6 Little Preludes BWV933– No. 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108; Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat 938; Sonata in C BWV966; String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 120 No.2 Toccata in G minor BWV915; Op. 110; String Quartet No. 2 in Berg 4 Pieces for clarinet and Toccata in C minor BWV911; A Op. 68 piano Op. 5 English Suite No. 5 in E minor Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 BWV810 Pavel Haas Quartet’s spellbinding Jörg Widmann Intermezzi performances stem from its total Brahms Clarinet Sonata in F Mahan Esfahani’s Bach immersion in the music. The minor Op. 120 No. 1 interpretations reveal the ensemble pairs Shostakovich’s harpsichord’s lyrical soul. His shortest string quartet, the Jörg Widmann’s music creates a ongoing survey of the composer’s seventh, written in memory of his compelling contemporary dialogue works continues with two dashing first wife, with the hugely popular with the past. He performs works Toccatas and the Fifth English String Quartet No. 8, a work of by his favourite composers with Suite, described by Bach’s first heartfelt anguish. Sir András Schiff, while the pianist biographer as one of his ‘perfect offers Widmann’s Brahms-inspired masterpieces of original harmony £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Intermezzi, created for and first and melody’. performed by Sir András at the 2010 Salzburg Festival. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Forthcoming Concert in this Series £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Tuesday 19 June 7.30pm
Mahan Esfahani Pavel Haas Quartet Jörg Widmann © Bernhard Musil / DG © Marco Borggreve © Marco Borggreve 46 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Friday 11 May 7.30pm Andrè Schuen baritone Gerold Huber piano Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35; Fünf Lieder Op. 40 Dapoz Ben danter mile steres; A la net Frontull Nos salvans Verginer Salüć dal frostì Dapoz Alalt al ci Schumann Sechs Gedichte und Requiem Op. 90
The search for higher truths and mystical insights through music drove Schumann to probe the depths of his soul. Andrè Schuen, a native of the South Tyrol, combines seven of the composer’s most profound songs with pieces in Ladin, his mother tongue.
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Andrè Schuen © Guido Werner www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 47
Sunday 13 May Sunday 13 May Sunday 13 May 11.30am 3.00pm 7.30pm
Kopelman Quartet Morgan Pearse baritone The Endellion String Blythe Teh Engstroem Simon Lepper piano Quartet viola Brahms Wir wandelten; Meine Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. Prokofiev String Quartet No. 2 in Liebe ist grün; Von ewiger Liebe; 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ F Op. 92 An die Nachtigall; Wie rafft ich Tippett String Quartet No. 2 Shostakovich Two pieces for string mich auf; Die Mainacht Brahms String Quartet in C minor quartet (1931): Elegy and Polka Strauss Vier Lieder Op. 27 Op. 51 No. 1 Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 Barber Nocturne; Solitary Hotel; Rain has fallen; Sleep now; The Endellion String Quartet With of one of the most I hear an army opens with Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’, sophisticated string sounds among the composer’s greatest imaginable, the Kopelman Quartet Australian baritone Morgan Pearse works, before exploring the directs its compelling artistry has earned his reputation as one creative world of Tippett’s Second to Shostakovich’s Two pieces of the most debonair artists of his String Quartet, with its melancholy for string quartet. Blythe Teh generation with performances of slow movement inspired by the Engstroem joins the Kopelmans for poise and panache. He and Simon threat of war. The programme a late Brahms masterwork. Lepper explore impassioned Lieder concludes with the surging energy by Brahms and Strauss’s charming of Brahms’s First String Quartet. £15 concs £13 incl. programme Op. 27, alongside Barber’s and coffee/sherry/juice haunting James Joyce settings. £37 £32 £26 £20 £15
All seats £15
Kopelman Quartet Morgan Pearse The Endellion String Quartet © Eric Melear © Eric Richmond 48 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
MUSICAL PORTRAITS
Musical Portraits is a collaborative project led by Wigmore ‘When a child is socially excluded, Hall, National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts for as [he] has been at school, it is young people aged 10–14 with Autism Spectrum Conditions. Participants create their own works of art and music inspired critical that he can access other by paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, culminating in a opportunities with other people. performance onstage at Wigmore Hall alongside musicians This project allowed him interactions from Ignite, Wigmore Hall Learning’s Associate Artists. that steered him away from feelings Musical Portraits encourages young people to develop their of despair and loneliness.’ artistic and musical interests by providing opportunities to engage with art and music making, and to make social Parent connections with other young people.
Our next project runs from Monday 30 July to Thursday 2 August. For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Charlotte Cunningham at Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email [email protected].
© Brian Slater www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 49
Monday 14 May Monday 14 May Tuesday 15 May MUSICAL PORTRAITS 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Schumann Quartet Phantasm Andreas Haefligerpiano Shostakovich String Quartet No. Laurence Dreyfus treble viol, Mozart Fantasia in C minor K475 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108 director Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 28 Schubert String Quartet in A Emilia Benjamin treble viol in A Op. 101 minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Jonathan Manson tenor viol Mozart Adagio in B minor K540 Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 Resilience in the face of grief and Heidi Gröger tenor viol in B flat Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ the human spirit’s transcendent Emily Ashton bass viol power find expression in Leading Lights before the English Andreas Haefliger’s imaginative Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. Civil War programming complements 7, written soon after his first wife’s his lyrical, heartfelt pianism. sudden death. The Schumann Lawes Consort Setts: IV a5 in F, His latest Wigmore Hall recital Quartet places the work together I a5 in G minor, IX a6 in B flat & traces connections between the with the arching melodies of VIII a6 in F Jenkins Fantasies a5: introspection of Mozart’s Fantasia Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ Quartet. No. 15 in D, No. 3 in G minor, No. in C minor and Beethoven’s Piano 8 in C minor, No. 9 in C minor, Sonata No. 28, and the Romanticism No. 1 in G & No. 17 in C Jenkins £15 concs £13 of the Adagio in B minor and the Fantasies a6: No. 8 in A minor, ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata. No. 10 in E minor & No. 5 in D minor Jenkins Pavans a5: in F & £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 in G minor Jenkins In nomine in E minor; The Bell Pavan
John Jenkins and William Lawes lived in turbulent times. While the former survived the English Civil War, the latter died fighting for the Royalist cause. Phantasm explores the composers’ sublime compositions for viol consort.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Schumann Quartet Phantasm Andreas Haefliger © Kaupo Kikkas © Marco Borggreve © Marco Borggreve 50 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Roderick Williams: Exploring Leeds Piano Festival Schubert’s Song Cycles Wednesday 16 May Under the new leadership of co-Artistic Directors Paul Lewis 7.30pm and 8.45pm and Adam Gatehouse, the Leeds International Piano Competition comes to Wigmore Hall with a festival of concerts featuring 7.30pm recitals by previous winners and a showcase of three of the
emerging stars of tomorrow. Roderick Williams baritone Wednesday 16 May Iain Burnside piano 1.00pm Schubert Schwanengesang
Lars Vogt piano Whether performing, composing or talking about music, Roderick Janáček On an overgrown path (Book I) Williams is a great communicator, Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 ‘Appassionata’ open hearted and generous in reaching out to audiences. Lars Vogt brings the Leeds Piano Festival to Wigmore Hall for His season-long exploration of the first of a series of lunchtime concerts by alumni of the Leeds Schubert’s song cycles moves to International Piano Competition. He harnesses the yearning the emotionally intense, death- nostalgia of Janáček’s On an overgrown path to Beethoven’s defiant songs of Schwanengesang. revolutionary ‘Appassionata’ Sonata.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £15 concs £13 Approximately 1 hour in duration, Other Events in this Series without an interval Thursday 17 May 1.00pm Sunwook Kim piano 8.45pm Friday 18 May 1.00pm Artists in Conversation Alessio Bax piano Roderick Williams reflects on his Wednesday 23 May 1.00pm experience of performing the three Lang Lang Young Scholars major Schubert song cycles over the season.
Free with evening concert ticket
Lars Vogt Roderick Williams © Giorgia Bertazzi © Simon van Boxtel www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 51
Leeds Piano Festival Leeds Piano Festival Thursday 17 May Thursday 17 May Friday 18 May 1.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm
Sunwook Kim piano Thomas Dunford lute Alessio Bax piano Bach Toccata, adagio and fugue Bach Suite in G minor BWV995; Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor in C BWV564 (trans. Busoni) Suite in G BWV1007; Chaconne S D935 (arr. Bach BWV 974) Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in in D minor BWV1004 Rachmaninov Variations on a C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’ theme of Corelli Op. 42 Brahms Variations and Fugue on Arguments about the origins of Dallapiccola Quaderno musicale a Theme of Handel Op. 24 Bach’s lute suites fade to silence di Annalibera when Thomas Dunford brings Liszt Après une lecture du Dante: Sunwook Kim was eighteen the pieces to life with virtuosity, Fantasia quasi sonata from when he made his international versatility and jaw-dropping Années de pèlerinage S161 breakthrough as winner of the spontaneity. The sensational 2006 Leeds International Piano British lutenist’s programme also Wigmore Hall’s Leeds Piano Competition. He continues includes a thrilling transcription of Festival series includes this recital Wigmore Hall’s Leeds Piano Bach’s Chaconne. by Alessio Bax, winner of the Festival series with three keyboard Approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in 2000 Leeds International Piano masterworks, capped by the duration, without an interval Competition. The Italian pianist’s kaleidoscopic moods of Brahms’s spectacular programme includes Handel Variations. the spine-tingling sounds of £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Dallapiccola’s Quaderno musicale £15 concs £13 di Annalibera and Liszt’s diabolic Dante Sonata.
£15 concs £13
Sunwook Kim Thomas Dunford Alessio Bax © Marco Borggreve © Gerard Collett © Lisa-Marie Mazzucco 52 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Friday 18 May Saturday 19 May Sunday 20 May 7.30pm 2.00pm – 5.00pm 11.30am
Richard Goode piano Richard Goode Peter Hill piano Byrd 2 Pavians and Galliardes Masterclass Bach Goldberg Variations from My Ladye Nevells Booke BWV988 Bach English Suite No. 6 in D ‘Every time we hear him’, notes minor BWV811 Gramophone, ‘he impresses us Described by his teacher Nadia Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in as better than we remembered, Boulanger as ‘a born artist, a A flat Op. 110 surprising us, surpassing our beautiful natural talent’, Peter Debussy Préludes Book II expectations and communicating Hill has achieved distinction as perceptions that stay in the mind’. performer, scholar and author. His Keyboard connoisseurs flock to Richard Goode’s artistry rests sensitive artistry is sure to deliver Richard Goode’s recitals, drawn on studies with, among others, profound spiritual insights into by the profound introspection Elvira Szigeti and Rudolf Serkin. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. and emotional authenticity of his Outstanding postgraduate students music-making. The native New from the UK’s conservatoires £15 concs £13 incl. programme Yorker’s latest Wigmore Hall have the chance to gain from the and coffee/sherry/juice programme spans everything American pianist’s vast experience from hypnotic works by Byrd to with this landmark masterclass. the shimmering impressions of Debussy’s Préludes. £10 concs £8
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Richard Goode Peter Hill © Steve Riskind www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 53
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm Takács Quartet Louise Williams viola Pál Banda cello Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence Op. 70 Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36
Wigmore Hall Associate Artists, the Takács Quartet, and two close collaborators perform sextets rich in character and contrasts. Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence projects Italianate warmth and Russian passion, while Brahms’s Second String Sextet releases emotions aroused by a short-lived love affair.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Concert Repeated
Monday 21 May 7.30pm
Takács Quartet © Keith Saunders 54 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Christian Tetzlaff Residency Sunday 20 May Monday 21 May Monday 21 May 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm
Tetzlaff Quartet Sara Mingardo contralto Takács Quartet Beethoven String Quartet in B flat Francesca Biliotti contralto Louise Williams viola Op. 130 with Grosse Fugue Op. Pál Banda cello Giovanni Bellini theorbo 133; String Quartet in A minor Repeat of concert on 19 May Op. 132 Giorgio Dal Monte harpsichord £40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Beethoven’s String Quartet in B Monteverdi Romanesca; Con che flat Op. 130, first performed with soavità, labbra odorate its original Grosse Fuge finale Frescobaldi Toccata Nona in 1826, spans art’s capacity Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Voglio to reveal unique and universal di vita uscir emotions. The Tetzlaff Quartet Monteverdi From Settimo libro de concludes with the A minor String madrigali: Non è di gentil core & Quartet, in which Beethoven O come sei gentile confronts questions of existence. Kapsberger Canzone prima Monteverdi Zefiro torna £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Conservative ears were offended by Monteverdi’s rule-breaking, risk-taking madrigals four centuries ago. But the composer’s expressive freedom opened the door to a new music of passionate emotions, one explored by Sara Mingardo and Francesca Biliotti in an irresistible programme from Italy’s early Baroque.
£15 concs £13
Tetzlaff Quartet Sara Mingardo Takács Quartet © Georgia Bertazzi © Carlo Coppitz © Ellen Appel www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 55
Leeds Piano Festival Tuesday 22 May Wednesday 23 May Wednesday 23 May 7.30pm 1.00pm 7.30pm
La Nuova Musica Lang Lang International Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano David Bates director Music Foundation – Simon Lepper piano Tim Mead countertenor Young Scholars Hahn A Chloris; Le rossignol des Bach Cantata: Widerstehe doch lilas; L’énamourée; Infidélité; der Sünde BWV54; Concerto in This year the Leeds International Les fontaines C minor BWV1060 for oboe and Piano Competition has launched Debussy Trois chansons de Bilitis violin (reconst.); Concerto for a new partnership with the Chausson Le Charme; Sérénade 2 violins in D minor BWV1043; Lang Lang International Music italienne; Le colibri; Les papillons Cantata: Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Foundation Young Scholars Duparc L’invitation au voyage; Seelenlust BWV170 programme. The two organisations Chanson triste; Extase; Phidylé share an ambition to inspire a new Wagner Wesendonck Lieder La Nuova Musica celebrates generation of pianists through the sacred and secular Bach. a diverse range of significant Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Tim Mead’s recent recording of performance opportunities at Cargill sets the heady eroticism the composer’s solo cantatas venues in the UK from concert of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder with David Bates’s group, two halls to community settings. The in company with sensual songs of which frame this programme, Foundation offers mentoring, by Duparc, himself a confirmed harvested rave reviews and tutelage and unique performance Wagnerian. She also embraces caught the mellifluous beauty of opportunities to a small number the sophisticated soundworld of his countertenor voice. of exceptionally talented young French mélodies by Chausson, pianists from around the world Debussy and Hahn. selected for the programme by £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Lang Lang himself. Wigmore Hall is £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the Season Patrons delighted to welcome three Young who have made a major contribution Scholars for this lunchtime recital. to the 2017/18 Wigmore Series All seats £5 In partnership with Leeds International Piano Competition
Tim Mead Wigmore Hall Karen Cargill © Andy Staples © Benjamin Ealovega © K K Dundas 56 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Thursday 24 May Friday 25 May Saturday 26 May 3.00pm & 7.00pm 7.00pm NB starting time 10.00am – 3.30pm
YCAT Public Final Inon Barnatan piano Come and Sing Auditions 2018 Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Join us at Wigmore Hall for a day of group singing. Get to know the Young Classical Artists Trust: Avner Dorman 2 Moments music from the inside, develop the destination point for Musicaux your singing skills and finish the emerging talent Rachmaninov 6 Moments Musicaux Op. 16 day with a performance on the YCAT Artists are selected through a Wigmore Hall stage. rigorous annual auditions process. In Inon Barnatan, described by the this third and final round, outstanding £25 concs £19 young soloists and chamber Evening Standard as ‘a poet of the ensembles, selected from over keyboard’, explores the world of 100 applicants in the preliminary ‘Musical Moments’, a miniature rounds, audition before a panel of form invented by Schubert and distinguished judges. Join YCAT in enhanced by Rachmaninov. celebrating the very best emerging His programme includes Israeli talent in the UK at this unique event. composer Avner Dorman’s fresh take on the genre. Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Alison Balsom, Joanna £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 MacGregor and the Heath, Doric and Belcea Quartets.
£16 for both sessions, or £10/£8 (concs) for individual sessions YCAT is grateful for support from the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity, Help Musicians UK and the International Music and Art Foundation for this event. YCAT Registered Charity No. 326490
YCAT Inon Barnatan Come and Sing © Kaupo Kikkas © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 57
Haydn String Quartet Series Saturday 26 May Sunday 27 May Sunday 27 May 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm
Doric String Quartet István Várdai cello Simon Keenlyside Sir Thomas Allen narrator Vikingur Olafsson piano baritone Haydn Seven Last Words from Bartók Rhapsody No. 1 (arr. for Malcolm Martineau piano the Cross cello and piano) Schubert From Schwanengesang: Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Liebesbotschaft, Kriegers Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the minor Op. 38 Ahnung, Der Atlas, Am Meer, Der Cross, written for performance in Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. Doppelgänger, Ständchen, Die Cadíz in 1787, creates a sequence 102 No. 2 Stadt & Das Fischermädchen of meditations on the crucified Interspersed with Christ’s final words. Sir Thomas István Várdai won Munich’s Schubert An den Mond in einer Allen prefaces each movement prestigious ARD Competition in Herbstnacht; Dass sie hier with sacred readings, adding to 2014. He makes his Wigmore gewesen; Im Abendrot; Abschied the poignancy of the Doric String Hall debut with a programme (D475) Quartet’s interpretation. packed with rousing rhythms and Poulenc Tel jour, telle nuit; Approximately 1 hour, 10 minutes in lyrical melodies. The Hungarian Pavane from Suite française duration, without an interval cellist opens with music by (solo piano); Mazurka; Paganini; fellow countryman Bartók, before L’anguille; Carte postale; Avant exploring masterworks by Brahms £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 le cinema; 1904 Fauré Rêve and Beethoven. d’amour; Spleen; Poème d’un jour
£15 concs £13 incl. programme Whether in the opera house, and coffee/sherry/juice concert hall or recital room, Simon Keenlyside is in high demand worldwide. The London- born baritone, recently awarded the prestigious title of Austrian Kammersänger, returns to Wigmore Hall for an unmissable evening of song.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Doric String Quartet István Várdai Simon Keenlyside © George Garnier © Nagy Felbontású © Robert Workman 58 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Wigmore Lates 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! Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details. The Wigmore Lates series is made possible with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund and an anonymous donor
Friday 25 May 10.00pm The Erlkings Bryan Benner voice, guitar Ivan Turkalj cello Gabriel Hopfmüller tuba, trombone Thomas Toppler drums, vibraphone Schubert Der Musensohn; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Die Forelle; Der Jüngling am Bache (D192); Erlkönig; Der König in Thule; Drang in die Ferne; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Totengräbers Heimweh; Fischerweise Schubert From Die schöne Müllerin: Das Wandern, Halt!, Der Neugierige, Mein! & Trockne Blumen
Billed as ‘the only band that sets its audience dancing to Goethe and Schiller’, genre-defying The Erlkings apply the high-octane energy of folk/rock to brilliant arrangements of Schubert’s songs. The group’s Wigmore Hall debut offers a scintillating set of Erlking hits.
All seats £15
The Erlkings © Andrej Grilc www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 59
Forthcoming Concerts in this Series
Friday 1 June 10.00pm Friday 6 July 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra David Orlowsky Trio
Friday 8 June 10.00pm Friday 13 July 10.00pm Onyx Brass The Prince Consort Alisdair Hogarth artistic director, Friday 22 June 10.00pm piano Donald Grant violin Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano Nicholas Mulroy tenor Friday 29 June 10.00pm Jason Rebello piano Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano Friday 20 July 10.00pm Huw Watkins piano Heath Quartet Ruth Gibson viola Marie Bitlloch cello 60 • MAY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Monday 28 May Monday 28 May Wednesday 30 May 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am
Danish String Quartet Trio Tre Voci Chamber Tots Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. Marina Piccinini flute Bear Hunt 1 No. 1 ‘La chasse’ Kim Kashkashian viola Mendelssohn String Quartet No. Sivan Magen harp We invite children aged 1 to 5 and 2 in A minor Op. 13 Rameau Cinquième piece de their parents/carers to join us clavecin en concert: Fugue, La on a bear hunt! This interactive When the Danish String Quartet Forqueray; La Cupis; La Marais music-making workshop features makes music there’s always a Takemitsu And then I knew ’twas songs, percussion and the chance sense of magic in the air. The wind for flute, viola and harp to meet some exciting instruments ensemble’s natural artistry Debussy Sonata for flute, viola up close, led by our experienced conveys a feeling of infinite space and harp Chamber Tots music leaders beyond our everyday world, ideally Ravel Sonatine (arr. for flute, alongside emerging ensembles. matched here to exuberant early viola and harp by Salzedo) 10.15am (1–2 year olds) & works by Haydn and Mendelssohn. Toshio Hosokawa New work 11.45am (3–5 year olds) (world première)* Approximately 1 hour in duration £15 concs £13 Prokofiev Suite from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (arr. Cohen) Children £6 Adults £4 *Commissioned by Trio Tre Voci
Three artists, who have each been acknowledged for bringing a unique voice to their instruments, join forces on the Wigmore Hall stage. Trio Tre Voci explores the influence of Debussy’s Sonata on Takemitsu’s trio for flute, viola and harp. The ensemble’s Wigmore Hall debut includes the world première of Toshio Hosokawa’s latest work.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Danish String Quartet Marina Piccinini Chamber Tots © Caroline Bittencourt © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk MAY • 61
Haydn String Quartet Series Haydn String Quartet Series Wednesday 30 May Thursday 31 May Thursday 31 May 7.30pm 10.00am – 4.30pm 7.30pm
Quatuor Mosaïques RNIB Study Day Quatuor Mosaïques Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 33 Professional Development Day Haydn String Quartet in C minor No. 6; String Quartet in E flat Op. for Blind and Partially Sighted Op. 17 No. 4 71 No. 3 Musicians Wölfl String Quartet in G Op. 10 Mozart String Quartet in E flat No. 4 K428 This practical study day is an Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 74 opportunity for blind and partially No. 2 Period-instrument group Quatuor sighted musicians to focus on Mosaïques is famed for revelatory career development and explore Hailed by the Herald as ‘magicians performances of the Viennese pathways into the classical of unquantifiable skill and classics. The ensemble’s latest music industry. The day will experience’, Quatuor Mosaïques programme offers a flavour of include discussion, talks and the turns its collective wisdom to two Haydn’s inventive genius with opportunity to perform on the fabulous Haydn quartets – one two exceptionally fine works, Wigmore Hall stage. youthful, the other fully mature presented alongside Mozart’s For more information and to book – together with the genial String String Quartet K428, inspired by contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, Quartet by Mozart’s Salzburg and dedicated to Haydn. RNIB Music Adviser at protégé Joseph Wölfl. [email protected] £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 or on 020 7391 2273. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 With grateful thanks to The Haydn String Quartet Circle Free (application required) In partnership with RNIB
Quatuor Mosaïques RNIB Study Day Joseph Haydn © Wolfgang Krautzer © Benjamin Ealovega By Thomas Hardy 62 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Wigmore Lates Friday 1 June 10.00pm Chineke! Orchestra Beethoven Septet in E flat Op. 20 Florence Price String Quartet in G (European première) Strauss Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders (arr. Hasenöhrl)
Chineke! 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.
All seats £15
Chineke! Orchestra © Eric Richmond www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 63
Friday 1 June Saturday 2 June Sunday 3 June 7.00pm NB starting time 7.30pm 11.30am
Birgid Steinberger Carolyn Sampson soprano Kuss Quartet soprano Iestyn Davies countertenor Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1; String Quartet in E Julius Drake piano Joseph Middleton piano minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’ Schubert Suleika I; Das Mädchen Purcell Sound the trumpet; Lost is (D652); Lied der Anne Lyle; my quiet; Music for a while; If music Liane; Thekla: eine Geisterstimme Beethoven’s radical art rocked be the food of love; No, resistance is the foundations of music (D595); Die junge Nonne; Mignon but in vain (arr. Britten) (Kennst du das Land); Nur wer two centuries ago. The Kuss Mendelssohn Ich wollt’ meine Quartet, known for its revelatory die Liebe kennt (fragment); Heiß Lieb’ ergöße sich; Gruß; Volkslied; performances, probes the mich nicht reden (D726); So laßt Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein; individuality of his Shakespeare- mich scheinen (D727) Brahms Scheidend; Neue Liebe; inspired String Quartet in F Feinsliebchen; Dort in den Weiden; Sonntagsmorgen; Das Ährenfeld; and the wonderful second All mein Gedanken; Die Sonne Lied aus Ruy Blas ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, an avant- scheint nicht mehr; Da unten im Schumann Wenn ich ein Vöglein garde masterwork. Tale; Schwesterlein, Schwesterlein; wär; Herbstlied; Schön Blümelein; In stiller Nacht Wolf From Nachtlied; Stille Liebe; Der Spanisches Liederbuch: Klinge, Einsiedler; Aufträge; So wahr die £15 concs £13 incl. programme klinge, mein Pandero; In dem Sonne scheinet and coffee/sherry/juice Schatten meiner Locken; Dereinst, Quilter It was a lover and his lass; dereinst, Gedanke mein; Bedeckt Weep you no more; Music, when mich mit Blumen; Mögen alle bösen soft voices die; Drink to me only Zungen; Sagt ihm, dass er zu mir with thine eyes; Love’s philosophy; komme; Geh, Geliebter, geh jetzt Love calls through the summer night
Three giants of German song Three stellar artists bring to life a fall under the spotlight. Birgid seductive programme from their Steinberger, an audience favourite at album, Lost is my quiet. Vienna’s Staatsoper and Volksoper, is famed her for profound and £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 passionate Lieder interpretations. Supported by the members of The £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Rubinstein Circle
Birgid Steinberger Carolyn Sampson Kuss Quartet © Marco Borggreve © Molina Visuals 64 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Monday 4 June Cuarteto Casals: 7.30pm Beethoven Cycle Cuarteto Casals Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5 Barcelona-based Cuarteto Casals continues its Lucio Franco Amanti String Quartet ‘ReSolUtIO’ 20th anniversary celebrations with two compelling (UK première) concerts built from Beethoven’s soul-exposing, Beethoven String Quartet in E flat Op. 74 ‘Harp’; revolutionary string quartets and new works by String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 contemporary European composers. Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle is supported by Lucio Amanti’s ‘ReSolUtIO’, a bridge leading to Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet, weaves strands of jazz improvisation, street songs and folk tunes into the classical quartet genre. Cuarteto Casals sets the composition’s UK première in company with three boundary-pushing Beethoven masterworks.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Forthcoming Concerts in this Series
Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm
Cuarteto Casals © Molina Visuals www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 65
Sunday 3 June Monday 4 June 7.30pm 1.00pm
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Toby Spence tenor Georg Kallweit director Christopher Glynn piano Anna Prohaska soprano Schubert The Beautiful Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) Shakespeare and Music
Recitation Toby Spence gives life and Shakespeare Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist from meaning to every word he sings. Twelfth Night Purcell Fantasia upon one note in F Z745; Mark, His expressive artistry is sure to how readily each pliant string from Raise The Voice Z334 provide fresh insights into one of Locke Suite from The Tempest Purcell Largo from Sonata in the greatest of all song-cycles, Three Parts No. 6 in C Z795; Sing, sing ye Druids from Bonduca presented here in Jeremy Sams’s or the British Heroine Z574; Suite from King Arthur Recitation new English translation. Shakespeare Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again, from Romeo and Juliet Purcell The Plaint from The Fairy Queen Z629 All seats £15 Recitation with improvisation Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Dowland Come again, sweet love doth now invite Purcell Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty’d Z597; Oh, the sweet delights of love; Music for a while; Let each gallant heart Blow Suite from Venus and Adonis Purcell If Music be the food of love
Shakespeare used music to sound alarms, soothe savage breasts and produce magic. Anna Prohaska, praised by BBC Music Magazine for her ‘tremendous expressive vitality’, joins Berlin’s Akademie für Alte Musik in theatre songs and other pieces inspired by the Bard.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Toby Spence © Uwe Arens © Mitch Jenkins 66 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Tuesday 5 June MUSIC FOR LIFE: 10.30am – 1.30pm Come and Sing YOUNG ONSET For families living with dementia Join Isabelle Adams for a session of group singing exploring a mixture of music from across the ages, Music for Life is a pioneering ‘It was so touching to see followed by tea and coffee. We music programme for people living not only Ray*, but others welcome people living with dementia with dementia and their families, and their families, friends and carers. friends and carers, encompassing with dementia open up and No previous experience needed, just a wide range of projects and feel comfortable enough to an enthusiasm to sing! events in care settings, community just play what their hearts settings and at Wigmore Hall itself. felt. He could feel it and Free (booking required) We are delighted to have launched talked about it for a few Book through the Wigmore Hall a new project alongside families Learning department on living with young onset dementia days after each session, it 020 7258 8246. in partnership with was one of the few times Dementia In partnership with Westminster Arts Pathfinders. In each session, in his life now that he was professional musicians invite in control of something. It group members to connect and communicate through music, was magic for me too. Just creating improvisations together to feel the energy in the that reflect those involved. room. Very, very special, I know that we all felt it. Thank you.’ Family member
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Come and Sing © James Berry www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 67
Tuesday 5 June Wednesday 6 June Thursday 7 June 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Stéphane Degout baritone The Prince Consort Voiceworks Simon Lepper piano Alisdair Hogarth director, piano Verity Wingate soprano Join us for this lunchtime Fauré Aurore; Poème d’un jour; concert featuring brand new Automne Andrew Staples tenor Laura Mucha poet works for the voice, the result of Brahms O kühler Wald; Die a unique collaboration between Mainacht; Auf dem Kirchhofe; Vaughan Williams Silent Noon poets, composers, singers and Feldeinsamkeit; Alte Liebe; Nicht Britten As it is, plenty instrumentalists from Guildhall mehr zu dir zu gehen; Willst du, Michael Anderson Now sleeps the School of Music & Drama. dass ich geh? crimson petal Schumann Kerner Lieder Op. 35 Bart Where is Love from Oliver! Free (ticket required) Dunhill The Cloths of Heaven Renowned for his deep love for Vaughan Williams Is my team words and sensitive, profoundly ploughing expressive voice, Stéphane Degout Finzi The Sigh joins regular duo partner Simon Britten O Waly, Waly Lepper for a programme of French Cheryl Frances-Hoad Love of the melody and German Lieder rich in sort that I’m after contrasting emotions and turbulent Graham Ross New commission states of mind. (world première) Interspersed with poetry recitations £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Award-winning voice and piano With grateful thanks to the Voices at ensemble The Prince Consort, Wigmore Circle recently appointed Associate Artists of the Guildhall School of Music, chases the spirit of England through this programme, from the heart of the countryside to Lionel Bart’s London.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Stéphane Degout Alisdair Hogarth Voiceworks © Julien Benhamou © Benjamin Ealovega 68 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Wigmore Lates Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Thursday 7 June Friday 8 June Saturday 9 June 7.30pm 10.00pm 7.30pm
Finghin Collins piano Onyx Brass Django Bates Belovèd Janáček Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 Kenny Wheeler 1 for 5 Django Bates piano ‘From the Street’ Jason Rebello Inevitable Outcome Petter Eldh double bass Rachmaninov Preludes Nos. 1 – 7 Trish Clowes The Mighty Pencil Peter Bruun drums Op. 23 Mark Nightingale For Rosie Claire Huguenin voice Schubert Piano Sonata in B flat Laurence Cottle Holy Chalcedony Marius Neset saxophone D960 Guy Barker Onyx Noir Mike Walker Let her go Composer and multi-instrumentalist Dublin-born Finghin Collins, Gwilym Simcock Stomper Django Bates returns to Wigmore one of Ireland’s finest classical Hall as part of his trio, Django Bates performers, is known for Crossing genre boundaries comes Belovèd, praised by the Financial music-making shaped by great as standard with Onyx Brass. Times for its ‘strong emotions intelligence, limitless imagination The quintet, described by BBC and in-depth improvisation’. and profound emotional intuition, Music Magazine as ‘easily the The group unites with Claire qualities demanded by each of the classiest brass ensemble in Huguenin, celebrated for her poetic works in his latest Wigmore Britain’, performs pieces from its expressive and daring vocals, and Hall recital. brilliant Jazz Project, and tops the saxophonist Marius Neset, known evening with Gwilym Simcock’s for his unlimited imagination and aptly named Stomper. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 soulful spontaneity.
All seats £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 This concert will be approximately 1 hour 30 minutes in duration without an interval
Finghin Collins Onyx Brass Django Bates © Frances Marshall © Nick White www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 69
Christian Tetzlaff Focus/Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer Sunday 10 June Sunday 10 June Monday 11 June 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm
Christian Ihle Hadland Tetzlaff Quartet Trio Wanderer piano Jörg Widmann clarinet Christophe Gaugué viola Brahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 Sibelius String Quartet in D minor Haydn Piano Trio in A flat HXV:14 Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Op. 56 ‘Voces Intimae’ Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 58 Jörg Widmann Three Shadow minor Op. 45 Dances for solo clarinet Ever inventive and prodigiously Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat Haydn’s trademark charm and wit gifted, Norwegian pianist Christian Op. 34 are supplemented by grandeur Ihle Hadland’s artistry flows from in his A-flat Piano Trio. Trio the intensity of his interpretations. Tragedy and triumph colour Wanderer, among the world’s He makes a welcome return to the emotions of a compelling top piano trios, possesses the Wigmore Hall with a charming programme, amplified by Jörg sensitive artistry the piece programme of Brahms and Chopin. Widmann in his mind-blowing demands. Regular collaborator Three Shadow Dances. Christophe Gaugué joins the £15 concs £13 incl. programme Wanderers in Fauré’s passionate and coffee/sherry/juice £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Second Piano Quartet.
£15 concs £13
Christian Ihle Hadland Tetzlaff Quartet Trio Wanderer © Anders Bergersen © Georgia Bertazzi © Marco Borggreve 70 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Monday 11 June Tuesday 12 June Tuesday 12 June 7.30pm 5.30pm – 6.15pm 7.30pm
Collegium Vocale Gent Diphonon Duo Belcea Quartet O TEMPO, O CIEL! Michael Iskas viola Antoine Tamestit viola Lassus Madrigali novamente Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Mozart String Quintet in C K515 composti a 5 voci; Madrigali a Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 4-5-6 voci, novamente composti The Wigmore Hall/Royal Academy in C minor Op. 110 of Music Fellowship Ensemble, Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111 Collegium Vocale Gent has Diphonon Duo, performs a range pioneered period performance of repertoire including the world Three mature masterpieces form since the early 1970s. The group’s première of a new work by the this irresistible programme from soloists summon up the seamless 2017/18 RPS/Wigmore Hall the Belcea Quartet and Antoine sounds and melancholy echoes in Apprentice Composer. Tamestit. The ensemble opens with th-century composer Lassus’s the 16 Mozart’s String Quintet in C, a work exquisite Italian madrigals. Free (ticket required) of terrific poise and poignancy, before turning to the sombre £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 soundscapes of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Collegium Vocale Gent Diphonon Duo Belcea Quartet © Michiel Hendrickx © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 71
Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński countertenor Michał Biel piano Handel Inumano fratel... Stille amare from Tolomeo Purcell Music for a while; If Music be the food of love; What power art thou (Cold Genius aria); Strike the viol Schubert Auf der Donau; Die Stadt from Schwanengesang; Nachtstück Hahn A Chloris; Mai; Paysage; Fêtes galantes; L’heure exquise Szymanowski From Kurpie Songs: Lecioły zórazie; Wysła burzycka; Uwoz mamo; U jeziorecka Baird Four Love Sonnets Paweł Łukaszewski Jesien Handel Agitato da fiere tempeste from Riccardo Primo, Re d’Inghilterra
Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, praised for his tonal beauty, captured international attention as winner of the 2016 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He underlines his rising- star status with a Wigmore Hall debut recital of personal favourite songs and arias, including Paweł Łukaszewski’s beautiful setting of Maria Pawlikowska- Jasnorzewska’s poetry.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Jakub Józef Orliński © Anita Wasik 72 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Wigmore Study Group: Big Ideas for a Thursday 14 June Friday 15 June Small Stage 12.30pm and 2.00pm 6.00pm
Wednesday 13 June Chamber Tots Pre-Concert Event 3.00pm – 6.00pm Under the Sea RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY Tuesday 19 June YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL 3.00pm – 6.00pm We invite children aged 1 to 5 and their parents/carers to join The Razumovsky Academy Thursday 21 June us as we dive deep under the provides an environment in 3.00pm – 6.00pm sea! This interactive music- which exceptionally gifted young making workshop features songs, musicians collaborate closely with Within two years of Bach establishing percussion and the chance to some of the world’s finest artists himself in the illustrious post of meet some exciting instruments and teachers. This concert offers Kantor at the Thomasschule and up close, led by our experienced the chance to hear potential civic director of music in Leipzig he Chamber Tots music leaders future stars at an early stage of had composed two complete annual alongside emerging ensembles. their careers. cycles of cantatas, and presented the 12.30pm – 1.30pm (1–2 year olds) & Magnificat and the St John Passion. £5 In his sacred dramas, Bach showed 2.00pm – 3.00pm (3–5 year-olds) an innate sense of the theatrical, Approximately 1 hour in duration combining with extraordinary skill the dramatic narrative, religious Children £6 Adults £4 commentary and emotional response, whilst giving the congregation, through his chorale settings, an active role in the performance. Join us for this series hosted by Guildhall School of Music & Drama Head of Composition Julian Philips and Professor of Piano Laura Roberts, alongside invited guest speakers and musicians from the School.
Series ticket price £66 including 3 study sessions and a ticket for the evening concert on 21 June
Portrait of JS Bach Chamber Tots Razumovsky Academy Young Artists © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 73 Jörg Widmann as Composer-Performer/Haydn String Quartet Series Friday 15 June Saturday 16 June Saturday 16 June 7.30pm 11.00am – 4.00pm 7.30pm
Razumovsky Ensemble RNIB Family Day Heath Quartet For blind and partially sighted children Oleg Kogan artistic director, cello Mary Bevan soprano aged 6 – 12 years and their families Lukas Geniušas piano Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 71 Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Be inspired by art and music No. 2 E flat D929 at The Wallace Collection Jörg Widmann String Quartet No. Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in and Wigmore Hall, and create 5 ‘Versuch über die Fuge’ E minor Op. 67 your own masterpieces in Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 this interactive multi-sensory in D Op. 11 Chamber music’s finest traditions workshop for blind and partially and outstanding performers sighted children and their families. The Heath Quartet’s exploration combine in the form of Oleg of Jörg Widmann’s string quartets Kogan’s Razumovsky Ensemble, For more information and to book continues with ‘Versuch über die a meeting place for dynamic contact Sally-Anne Zimmerman, Fuge’, a spellbinding counterpoint musicians from around the world. RNIB Music Adviser at for strings and soprano ignited by Their latest Wigmore Hall outing [email protected] a Bible quotation: ‘That which is includes Schubert’s gorgeous or on 020 7391 2273. far off, and exceeding deep, who Second Piano Trio, among the can find it out?’ most moving pieces ever written. Free (application required) In partnership with RNIB and £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 The Wallace Collection
Oleg Kogan Family Day Mary Bevan © Robert Cassen © Benjamin Ealovega © Victoria Cadisch 74 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Sunday 17 June Sunday 17 June Monday 18 June 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm
Apollon Musagète Ian Bostridge tenor Christine Rice mezzo-soprano Quartet Julius Drake piano Julius Drake piano Bach Contrapunctus 1 from The Wolf Aus meinen grossen Poulenc La voix humaine Art of Fugue BWV1080 Schmerzen; Spätherbstnebel; Du Schubert String Quartet in G D887 bist wie eine Blume; Mädchen Modern technology meets an mit dem roten Mündchen; Mein age-old story in Poulenc’s La voix Tonal power and heft help propel Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen; humaine. The French composer’s the Apollon Musagète Quartet’s Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’; Mit opera in one act, based on Jean searing performances. The schwarzen Segeln; Cocteau’s play of the same name, charismatic Polish ensemble Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert; presents a woman’s heart- contrasts Contrapunctus 1 from Frech und Froh I & II; Der breaking, utterly absorbing final Bach’s masterful The Art of Fugue Rattenfänger; Gutmann und phone call to her lover. with the Romantic intensity of Gutweib; Ganymed; Grenzen der Schubert’s final quartet. Menschheit; Der Genesene an £15 concs £13 die Hoffnung; Der Knabe und das £15 concs £13 incl. programme Immlein; Jägerlied; Der Tambour; and coffee/sherry/juice Begegnung; Nimmersatte Liebe; Verborgenheit; Auf ein altes Bild; In der Frühe; Gebet; Peregrina I & II; Der Feuerreiter; Abschied
Hugo Wolf connected with the sense and sensibility of great poetry, translating the emotions of words into music that enhances verse. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake span the Austrian composer’s creative world, from his early songs to sublime late Lieder.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Apollon Musagète Quartet Ian Bostridge Christine Rice © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Patricia Taylor www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 75
Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works Monday 18 June Tuesday 19 June Wednesday 20 June 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
Peter Donohoe piano Mahan Esfahani Edgar Moreau cello 65th Birthday Concert harpsichord David Kadouch piano Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G Bach Toccata in E minor BWV914; Franck Sonata in A for cello and sharp minor Op. 19 3 Minuets BWV841–843; Toccata piano Ravel Miroirs in D minor BWV913; Capriccio in Poulenc Cello Sonata Mozart Piano Sonata in C K279 B flat BWV992 (Capriccio on the Strohl Sonate dramatique ‘Titus Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959 Departure of his Most Beloved et Bérénice’ Brother); 5 Preludes BWV939– 943; English Suite No. 6 in D Peter Donohoe secured his Edgar Moreau’s physical minor BWV811 place among world-class commitment contributes to pianists in the early 1980s the white-hot passion of his and has held it ever since. He Mahan Esfahani’s thrilling performances. The Parisian celebrates his 65th birthday with exploration of Bach’s harpsichord cellist, now in his early twenties, a programme tailored to show his works continues. The BBC recalls the creative energy of Belle extraordinary stylistic versatility, Music Magazine Award-winning Époque France with Rita Strohl’s superb technical command and artist opens with a piece that dramatic sonata, inspired by a tale captivating musicianship. sounds like an improvisation and of love and betrayal. includes the teenaged composer’s Capriccio, possibly written to bid £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 fond farewell to a friend.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Peter Donohoe Mahan Esfahani Edgar Moreau © Mark Allan © Bernhard Musil / DG © Julien Mignot 76 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Dunedin Consort: Big Ideas for a Small Stage Wigmore Lates Thursday 21 June Friday 22 June Friday 22 June 7.30pm 7.00pm NB starting time 10.00pm
Dunedin Consort Elias String Quartet Donald Grant violin John Butt director After Beethoven: National voices Traditional and Contemporary Bach Mass in B minor BWV232 Shostakovich String Quartet No. Scottish Folk Music 7 in F sharp minor Op. 108 Bach’s Mass in B minor stands Ravel String Quartet in F Born and bred in the Highlands of as one of the greatest works Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in Scotland, Donald Grant was raised of sacred art, solemn, joyful, E minor ‘From my life’ on Gaelic music. He has toured heart-breaking and consoling. worldwide as member of the John Butt and his Gramophone Following its deep immersion in Elias String Quartet and worked Award-winning Dunedin Consort, Beethoven’s quartets, the Elias on diverse musical projects. His using one voice per part, reveal String Quartet turns to musical late-night set mixes tunes from the music’s intimate emotions and reflections of national identity and childhood with his own music. passionate intensity. autobiography. Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet was written in All seats £15 £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 memory of his first wife, while ‘From my life’ captures the trauma of Smetana’s deafness.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Dunedin Consort Elias String Quartet Donald Grant © David Barbour © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 77
Saturday 23 June Saturday 23 June Sunday 24 June 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm 11.30am
Relaxed Concert: The Sixteen Amaryllis Quartet Diphonon Duo Handel Acis and Galatea Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 64 Michael Iskas viola No. 5 ‘The Lark’ Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion Superb solo singers and period Brahms String Quartet in B flat Lucy Drever presenter instrumentalists from The Sixteen Op. 67 recreate Handel’s ‘little opera’ This relaxed concert is open to Acis and Galatea – a tale complete With their light, refined string everyone and provides a special with a jealous giant and amorous playing and eloquent artistry, the opportunity to explore music in nymphs and shepherds – as it members of the Berlin-based an informal environment. Join the might have sounded when first Amaryllis Quartet are ideal performed in the summer of 1718! companions for a midsummer’s dynamic Diphonon Duo, alongside morning. Their programme moves presenter Lucy Drever, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee afterwards. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 from the classical invention of Haydn to the romantic lyricism of There is a relaxed attitude to noise Brahms. and movement, and house lights will remain up. Audience members £15 concs £13 incl. programme are able to move in and out of the and coffee/sherry/juice auditorium as they need to, and there is a designated quiet area.
All seats £5
Relaxed Concert The Sixteen Amaryllis Quartet © Benjamin Ealovega © Molina visuals 78 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Sunday 24 June Sunday 24 June Monday 25 June 3.00pm 7.30pm 1.00pm
Samuel Hasselhorn Quatuor Ebène Elias String Quartet baritone Beethoven String Quartet in D Navarra String Quartet Renate Rohlfingpiano Op. 18 No. 3 Sally Beamish String Quartet Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 No. 3 ‘Reed Stanzas’ Wolf Der Feuerreiter Beethoven String Quartet in C Mendelssohn Octet in E flat Op. 20 Schubert Litanei auf das Fest Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’ aller Seelen Two fantastic British-based Poulenc Le disparu; Priez pour Over the past two decades quartets, both formed at the paix; Le retour du sergent Quatuor Ebène has explored Royal Northern College of Music, Schubert Erlkönig; Wandrers everything from Beethoven and join forces in Mendelssohn’s Nachtlied II; Nachtstück; Der Bartók to Astor Piazzolla and Octet, the teenage prodigy’s blinde Knabe Wayne Shorter. The ensemble’s miraculous masterpiece. The Elias Brahms O Tod, o Tod, wie bitter telepathic understanding, artistic String Quartet opens with Sally bist du daring and musical individuality Beamish’s beautiful work for the make for edge-of-the-seat concert ensemble, inspired by Hebridean Wild passions and nerve-racking experiences, intensely focused and landscapes and poetic imagery. fears are among the emotions touched by visionary insights. stirred by the works in Samuel £15 concs £13 Hasselhorn’s recital. The German £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 baritone, born in 1990, returns to Wigmore Hall as winner of the prestigious 2017 Das Lied international song competition.
All seats £15
Samuel Hasselhorn Quatuor Ebène Elias String Quartet © Christian Steiner © Julien Mignot © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 79
Monday 25 June Tuesday 26 June Tuesday 26 June 7.30pm 4.00pm – 5.15pm 7.30pm
Quatuor Ebène Lecture-Recital: Imogen Cooper piano Martin Fröst clarinet Sonorous Brushes Haydn Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50 Beethoven String Quartet in G Beethoven 11 Bagatelles Op. 119 Op. 18 No. 2 Professional pianist and amateur Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Fauré String Quartet in E minor painter, Jenny Q Chai, has Op. 19 Op. 121 discovered a personal form of Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B synaesthesia – a melding of waltz by Diabelli Op. 120 minor Op. 115 senses – with regards to how she experiences music. In this A true poet of the piano, Imogen Quatuor Ebène’s recording of French inspired programme, Cooper allows her instrument to Fauré’s yearning String Quartet in featuring repertoire which lives express her innermost thoughts. E minor introduced the composer at the intersection of colour and This programme traces strands to new audiences, opening hearts sound, Jenny seeks to translate of classicism and romanticism, to his music’s transcendent her mental imagery into the real revealing both in Schoenberg’s beauty. Kindred spirit Martin Fröst, world, both through her musical aphoristic Little Piano Pieces before the boundary-pushing Swedish performance and on canvas. offering her vision of Beethoven’s clarinettist, joins the ensemble in monumental Diabelli Variations. Brahms’s elegiac Clarinet Quintet. All seats £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Martin Fröst Jenny Q Chai Imogen Cooper © Mats Backer © Sim Canetty-Clarke 80 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
PARTNER SCHOOLS PROGRAMME: RECHARGED
Inspired by the creative activity of our Partner Schools I would like to take this opportunity to say Programme, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in a GARGANTUAN thank you for allowing us Tower Hamlets wanted to create their own end of year show, rather than buy in a pre-written piece. to perform our Year 6 leaving performance Years 5 and 6 worked with music and theatre leaders, at such a well-known and beautiful venue, alongside their art and drama teachers, to create and Wigmore Hall… the fact that you have perform their very own opera, with pupils across the allowed 10–11 year olds to perform in this school creating every element, from the set, to the glorious hall is absolutely unbelievable.’ libretto and the music. Year 6 pupil, Lansbury Lawrence Primary School We gave pupils complete creative freedom on the opera’s topic, and their overwhelming response was that it should explore themes of racism, inequality and the will to power. Recharged centred on a society in which power, or ‘charge’, is unequally distributed across a kingdom of robots.
© Benjamin Ealovega
We are delighted that as a result of this school embracing the creative arts at the heart of their school, they have recently achieved Artsmark Gold status, an award from Arts Council England. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 81
Wednesday 27 June Wednesday 27 June Thursday 28 June PARTNER SCHOOLS 11.00am and 1.00pm 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am World Première: Ming Xie piano Chamber Tots: PROGRAMME: RECHARGED Butterfly Brain Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize In Space Key Stage 2 Schools Concert Granados From Goyescas: El Amor y la muerte & El fandango We invite children aged 1 to 5 and ‘STOP LEANING BACK ON YOUR del candil their parents/carers to join us on a CHAIR!’ are the same six words, Ravel Gaspard de la nuit rocket into space! This interactive in the same particular order, that Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 music-making workshop features Bruno is told every day from his songs, percussion and the chance teacher, his Dad and granny, but The Guildhall Wigmore Recital to meet some exciting instruments NEVER EVER hears. Until one Prize annually awards an up close, led by our experienced day, something rather exceptional Guildhall School Chamber Tots music leaders extraordinary happens... musician with a Wigmore Hall alongside emerging ensembles. In an exhilarating flight of fantasy recital. Described by the legendary 10.15am (1–2 year olds) & Martha Argerich as ‘phenomenal’, and magic written by Laura 11.45am (3–5 year olds) pianist Ming Xie, this year’s Approximately 1 hour in duration Dockrill with music composed by recipient, is fast establishing Kerry Andrew, this cautionary tale explores all the curiously obscure, himself as a rising star in Children £6 Adults £4 brilliant and bizarre dreams, classical music. A graduate of thoughts, ideas and fears inside a The Juilliard School, he enjoys brain and how one little boy takes a busy international concert those wonderful things for granted. diary and makes his Wigmore Butterfly Brain is wild explosion of Hall debut with a colourful colour, sound, and the imagination. and charming programme.
11.00am – 12 noon £15 concs £13 Repeated 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Children £4 Accompanying Adults Free (ticket required)
Kerry Andrew Ming Xie Chamber Tots © Urszula Sołtys © Benjamin Ealovega 82 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Introduction to the Wigmore Lates String Quartet Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June 7.30pm 10.00pm Thursday 28 June 4.45pm – 6.00pm Elizabeth Watts soprano Lucy Schaufer Thursday 5 July Roderick Williams mezzo-soprano 4.45pm – 6.00pm baritone Huw Watkins piano Thursday 12 July Roger Vignoles piano The Class of 1938 4.45pm – 6.00pm Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch William Bolcom MiniCab Nos. 1, Thursday 19 July 2, 5 & 12; Ghost Rags No. 1: The 4.45pm – 6.00pm Limitless journeys of the Graceful Ghost Joan Tower Up imagination spring from the High (UK première); Or like a... The string quartet, a combination of Italienisches Liederbuch, forty-six an Engine John Harbison Late Air two upper voices, one middle and settings of exquisite love songs. Charles Wuorinen Twang one lower, gives the composer the An irresistible trio of British artists Hedy West Five Hundred Miles minimum requirement for four- lead the voyage through Hugo (world première) John Corigliano part harmony. This idea of a bare Wolf’s sublime miniatures, little The Passionate Shepherd to His minimum has entranced composers snapshots of life that leave lasting Love* (world première) from Haydn – who started it all – impressions. Frederic Rzewski War Songs No. 1 right through to the present day, Gordon Lightfoot Black Day in July and the attention that so many great £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 (world première) Peter Yarrow composers have given the genre Sweet Survivor (world première) With grateful thanks to the Patron, has created an almost unrivalled John Corigliano Metamusic succession of masterful works; Benefactor & Supporter Friends of *Co-commissioned by Wild Plum Beethoven’s seventeen quartets Wigmore Hall Arts and Wigmore Hall acting almost as benchmarks, with Schubert, Brahms, Bartók and Shostakovich pitching in too. One link connects the composers in Lucy Schaufer’s show – they Join Roy Stratford to explore how the string quartet has adapted to were all born in 1938. The changing musical styles and become American mezzo celebrates their arguably the most significant and 80th birthdays and their music’s fertile chamber music combination. dazzling diversity, complete with a John Corigliano world première. Series ticket price £33 All seats £15
Elizabeth Watts Lucy Schaufer © Marco Borggreve www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 83
Saturday 30 June Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July 11.00am – 12 noon 7.30pm 11.30am
Family Concert: Sophie Bevan soprano Veronika Eberle violin Butterfly Brain Ryan Wigglesworth piano Alban Gerhardt cello For ages 5 plus Musorgsky The Nursery Edicson Ruiz double bass Ryan Wigglesworth New work* José Gallardo piano ‘STOP LEANING BACK ON YOUR (world première) CHAIR!’ are the same six words, Stravinsky Three Little Songs Romantic Grand Duos of the in the same particular order, that (Recollections of my Childhood) 19th Century Bruno is told every day from his Messiaen Poèmes pour Mi Bottesini Gran duo concertante teacher, his Dad and granny, but *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with for violin, double bass and piano NEVER EVER hears. Until one day, the support of André Hoffmann, president Servais Grand Duo de Concert something rather extraordinary of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss sur deux airs nationaux anglais grant-making foundation happens... for violin and cello Ernst Elegy (arr. for double bass) In an exhilarating flight of fantasy Composer-performer Ryan Bottesini Duetto Concertante for and magic written by Laura Wigglesworth’s new work double bass and cello on themes Dockrill with music composed by for Sophie Bevan adds to the of I Puritani by Bellini Kerry Andrew, this cautionary tale attraction of a programme explores all the curiously obscure, crowned by Messiaen’s Poèmes Grand duos don’t come much brilliant and bizarre dreams, pour Mi, an ecstatic celebration of grander than Bottesini’s for double thoughts, ideas and fears inside a the spiritual dimension of marriage bass and other instruments. brain and how one little boy takes that sounds as fresh today as it Venezuelan double bass player those wonderful things for granted. did eighty years ago. Butterfly Brain is wild explosion of Edicson Ruiz, the youngest colour, sound, and the imagination. musician to join the Berliner £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Philharmoniker since the 1800s, Children £10 Adults £12 and three close musical friends illuminate their dazzling virtuosity.
£15 concs £13 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Laura Dockrill Sophie Bevan Veronika Eberle © Sonny Malhotra © Sussie Ahlburg © Felix Broede 84 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Monday 2 July Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July 1.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
Adam Walker flute Véronique Gens soprano David Hansen countertenor Cédric Tiberghien piano Susan Manoffpiano Academia Montis Regalis Enescu Cantabile et presto Gounod Où voulez-vous aller?; Alessandro De Marchi Prokofiev 5 Melodies Op. 35bis; Départ; O ma belle rebelle; conductor, harpsichord Flute Sonata in D Op. 94 Sérénade; Mignon; Viens, les Handel From Giulio Cesare: gazons sont verts Overture & Se in fiorito prato Adam Walker, appointed principal de Polignac Lamento Hasse Overture to Cleofide flute of the London Symphony Massenet Nuit d’Espagne; Chant Handel From Alcina: Overture, Orchestra in 2009 at the age of 21, provençal; Elégie Bramo di trionfar, Verdi prati, Di joins Cédric Tiberghien to perform Duparc Chanson triste; La vie te mi rido, La bocca vaga & Mi works that reveal his instrument’s antérieure; Extase; Lamento lusinga il dolce affetto; virtuosity and strength of Hahn Mai; Les cygnes; Infidélité; Crude furie from Serse character, crowned by Prokofiev’s Rêverie Offenbach La laitière et le pot au light-hearted Flute Sonata. In today’s golden age of lait; Le rat de ville et le rat des countertenors, David Hansen champs; Le corbeau et le renard £15 concs £13 stands out as a gloriously individual, utterly compelling Following an acclaimed recital artist. The Australian’s high- of French mélodies last season, octane performances have Véronique Gens, an artist at the been acclaimed for their vocal height of her powers, and regular acrobatics and jaw-dropping duo partner Susan Manoff make a beauty. He makes his eagerly welcome return to Wigmore Hall awaited Wigmore Hall debut as he with an enchanting programme of explores spectacular arias from Duparc, Hahn, Massenet and more. Handel’s celebrated Giulio Cesare, Alcina and Serse. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Adam Walker Véronique Gens David Hansen © Kaupo Kikkas © Franck Juery © Tonje Thilesen www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 85
Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July Friday 6 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm NB starting time
Cuarteto Casals Tana String Quartet Sandrine Piau soprano Beethoven String Quartet in F Debussy String Quartet in G Susan Manoffpiano minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’ minor Op. 10 Chimère Benet Casablancas String Quartet Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 No. 4 ‘Widmung’* (UK première) ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ Loewe Ach neige, du Beethoven String Quartet in B Bartók String Quartet No. 4 BB95 Schmerzensreiche Schumann flat Op. 130 with Grosse Fuge Yann Robin String Quartet No. 3 Kennst du das Land?; Dein Op. 133 ‘Shadows’ (UK première)* Angesicht; Die Lotosblume Debussy Apparition; Fêtes galantes Book I *Commissioned by Centro Nacional de *Co-commissioned by Philharmonie de Difusión Musical Madrid Paris, Muziekgebouw Brugge, and by Wolf Verschwiegene Liebe; Nixe Wigmore Hall with the support of André Binsefuss; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Hoffmann, president of the Fondation A newly commissioned work by Lied vom Winde Berg From Sieben Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Benet Casablancas, Widmung, frühe Lieder: Nacht; Schilflied; Die crowns Cuarteto Casals’s Nachtigall Gurney Sleep Robert Yann Robin’s music conjures with season-long sequence of new Baksa Heart! We will forget him! extremes, drawing listeners into quartets, along with Beethoven Poulenc Banalités; C’est ainsi que strikingly original soundworlds. masterworks. The Spanish tu es Barber Solitary Hotel André The French composer wrote composer’s new work stands Previn As imperceptibly as grief; ‘Shadows’ for the Tana String between the symphonic intensity Will there really be a morning?; Quartet, who give its UK première, of Beethoven’s Op. 95 and the Good morning midnight in company with other innovative Everest-like Grosse Fuge. compositions. Sandrine Piau’s programme, built with terrific imagination to £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Supported by the members of reflect on different states of mind The Rubinstein Circle and responses to life, love and nature, opens with Gretchen’s heart-rending soliloquy from Goethe’s great drama Faust before journeying through a sequence of deeply moving songs.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Cuarteto Casals Tana String Quartet Sandrine Piau © Molina Visuals © Nicolas Draps © Sandrine Expilly / Naïve 86 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Wigmore Lates Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Saturday 7 July 10.00pm 11.00am and 12.30pm 7.30pm
David Orlowsky Trio For Crying Out Loud! Steven Osborne piano David Orlowsky clarinet Duo Pavoni Belli-Grasso Debussy La cathédrale engloutie Jens-Uwe Popp guitar violin and piano Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1 Florian Dohrmann double bass Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B David Orlowsky Lyra; Sababa; Hear outstanding performances by flat Op. 83 Bucovina musicians from the Royal Academy Debussy Les sons et les parfums Jens-Uwe Popp Satin of Music, in these concerts tournent dans l’air du soir Abe Schwartz Lebedig un presented especially for parents Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in Freylach / Odessa Bulgar or carers and babies under 1 to A Op. 82 Jens-Uwe Popp Night Train to enjoy together in a relaxed and Odessa accommodating environment. Steven Osborne turns to his Jens-Uwe Popp Jodaeiye Approximately 45 minutes in duration beloved French and Russian Velvl Zbarzher Kum aher Du repertoire, combining the shimmering sounds of Debussy’s Filozof Adults £8.50 (babies come free) Florian Dohrmann Ultimate ‘Sunken Cathedral’ and ‘Evening In partnership with the Bulgar; Taxi Bucuresti Harmonies’ and the rhythmic drive Royal Academy of Music and bitter-sweet emotions of two Clarinettist David Orlowsky and of Prokofiev’s ‘War Sonatas’. He his classical chart-topping Trio, also performs Berg’s haunting purveyors of ‘weightless music of Sonata Opus 1. the moment’, take the train from cosmopolitan Odessa to Paris with £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 compositions touched by echoes of lost ancestors, the kings of klezmer, contemporary jazz and world music, and sacred polyphony.
All seats £15
David Orlowsky Trio Steven Osborne © Christian Debus © Benjamin Ealovega © Benjamin Ealovega www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 87
Sunday 8 July Sunday 8 July Monday 9 July 11.30am 7.30pm 1.00pm
Formosa Quartet ATOS Trio Chloë Hanslip violin Richard Lester cello Korngold Piano Trio in D Op. 1 Danny Driver piano Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor Richard Baker New work (world Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in D703; String Quintet in C D956 première)* A minor Op. 23 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F D minor Op. 49 Schubert’s biography, uneventful minor Op. 80 and humble, contrasts with the *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall god-like power of his creative Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver genius. The Formosa Quartet Berlin-based ATOS Trio owns an never hold back in pursuit of the catches the composer on divine international reputation as one deepest expression in everything form in his fiery Quartettsatz of today’s finest piano trios. The they perform, revealing hidden and again in the sublime String ensemble returns to Wigmore Hall depths and meanings even in Quintet, performed in company with an enthralling programme, familiar repertoire. They let loose with cellist Richard Lester. including the lyrical late romanticism with two dark-toned violin sonatas of Korngold’s Piano Trio and a new of staggering intensity. £15 concs £13 incl. programme work by Richard Baker. and coffee/sherry/juice £15 concs £13 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15
Formosa Quartet ATOS Trio Chloë Hanslip © Sam Zauscher © Frank Jerke © Kaupo Kikkas 88 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Monday 9 July Tuesday 10 July Wednesday 11 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
Dame Felicity Palmer Veronika Eberle violin Ensemble Variances mezzo-soprano Tatjana Masurenko viola Anssi Karttunen cello Thierry Pécou composer Simon Lepper piano Marie-Elisabeth Hecker Programme to include: cello Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi Britten Mad Bess d’un faune (arr. Michael Webster) Martin Helmchen piano Schumann 5 Lieder der Maria François-Bernard Mâche Sopiana Stuart Tchaikovsky None but the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Szymanowski Myths Op. 30 lonely heart; Night; Why? Op. 26 Takemitsu Toward the Sea III Joseph Horovitz Lady Macbeth – a Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Thierry Pécou Méditation sur la Scena Poulenc Violon No. 5; Mon Op. 47 fin de l’espèce* (UK première) cadavre est doux comme un gant; *Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with La Souris; Berceuse Dring Song of Four charismatic musicians the support of André Hoffmann, president a nightclub proprietress Janis Ian join forces to perform two of of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss At seventeen Stephen Sondheim the greatest piano quartets in grant-making foundation From Follies: Losing my Mind & the book. Schumann famously Could I leave you? described young Brahms as ‘a ‘Every concert we embark on a chosen one’, the future of German new adventure with our audience: Dame Felicity Palmer made her music, a prophesy soon underlined welcome on board’, notes professional debut in 1971 and by works such as his Second Ensemble Variances. Processed has since achieved stellar status Piano Quartet. whale sounds, electric piano and as soprano and mezzo-soprano. a combination of strings and wind She and Simon Lepper build £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 instruments belong to Thierry their programme around Lady Pécou’s Méditation, a thrilling Macbeth – a scena by Joseph addition to his Paris-based Horovitz, a psychological portrait ensemble’s repertoire. of Shakespeare’s terrifying, tragic character. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15
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Dame Felicity Palmer Tatjana Masurenko Ensemble Variances © Christian Steiner © Carmen Jasmyn Hoffmann © Charlotte Abramow www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 89
Haydn String Quartet Series Haydn String Quartet Series Wigmore Lates Thursday 12 July Friday 13 July Friday 13 July 7.30pm 7.00pm NB starting time 10.00pm
Carducci String Bennewitz Quartet The Prince Consort Quartet Haydn String Quartet in E flat Alisdair Hogarth director, piano Haydn String Quartet in E Op. 17 Op. 1 No. 2; String Quartet in G Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano No. 1; String Quartet in C Op. 50 Op. 17 No. 5; String Quartet in F Nicholas Mulroy tenor No. 2 Op. 50 No. 5 ‘The Dream’; String Jason Rebello piano Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2 Bartók String Quartet No. 2 BB75 Brahms Von ewiger Liebe The great Czech string quartet Schubert Erlkönig Praised by Gramophone for its Fauré Clair de lune ‘clarity, focus and precision’ tradition still flourishes thanks to groups like the Bennewitz Quartet. Schubert An den Mond and for playing ‘full of life and Beethoven Adelaide vitality’ by the Washington Post, The ensemble directs its fiery characters and ardent collective Debussy Beau soir the Carducci String Quartet Strauss Morgen showcases Haydn’s invention voice to Haydn, opening with a genial early quartet and exploring Schubert Du bist die Ruh before turning to the deeply Britten O Waly, Waly meditative sounds of Bartók’s the rhapsodic mood of his ‘Dream’ Quartet. Interspersed with improvisations Second String Quartet. based on the above works £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Jason Rebello made his name in the late 1980s as a jazz pianist before joining Sting’s band and working with Jeff Beck. He joins The Prince Consort for a late- evening mix of favourite art songs with exciting jazz improvisations.
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Carducci String Quartet Bennewitz Quartet Jason Rebello © Tom Barnes © Kamil Ghais 90 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Saturday 14 July 7.30pm Evelyn Glennie percussion Philip Smith piano Huw Edwards presenter Artists in Conversation and Concert
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 – either in full or in part – each introduced from the stage. Evelyn invites all to listen in new ways, and to experience music as an embodied element of human life.
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Evelyn Glennie © Jim Callaghan www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 91
Sunday 15 July Sunday 15 July Monday 16 July 11.30am 7.30pm 3.00pm – 4.00pm
Sitkovetsky Trio Robin Tritschler tenor Music for the Moment Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Jonathan Ware piano A concert for people living with Op. 1 No. 3 dementia and their friends, family Family Ties Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D and carers minor Op. 63 Haydn She never told her love; Sailor’s song Michael Haydn If you are, or someone you know The fabulous Sitkovetsky Abendlied; Die Vergänglichkeit is, living with dementia, please aller Dinge Clara Schumann Ich Trio, rising stars of chamber join us for this informal afternoon stand in dunkeln Träumen; Lorelei music, opens with Beethoven’s concert with musicians from the Robert Schumann Der arme Peter breakthrough piece. Its confident Royal Academy of Music. You are Felix Mendelssohn Erntelied; swagger contrasts with the warmly invited to join us for tea Maienlied; Abendlied; Im Grünen turbulent emotions of Schumann’s and coffee from 2.30pm. Fanny Mendelssohn Italien; Das First Piano Trio, which surge Heimweh Lili Boulanger Les lilas throughout its first movement’s qui avaient fleuri; Deux ancolies Free (ticket required) yearning string melodies and Nadia Boulanger Roses de Juin In partnership with the stormy piano writing. Michael Berkeley Nettles Royal Academy of Music and Lennox Berkeley Five Housman Westminster Arts £15 concs £13 incl. programme Songs Britten Seven Sonnets of and coffee/sherry/juice Michelangelo
Songs by Clara Schumann and her husband Robert, Fanny Mendelssohn and her brother Felix, Michael Berkeley, his father Lennox and godfather Britten, forge the ‘Family Ties’ present in Robin Tritschler’s programme. The Irish tenor’s repertoire adventures close with Britten’s sensuous Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo.
£38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Sitkovetsky Trio Robin Tritschler Music for the Moment © Garreth Wong © www.benjaminharte.co.uk 92 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Tuesday 17 July Wednesday 18 July Wednesday 18 July 7.30pm 10.15am and 11.45am 7.30pm
Sergei Babayan piano Chamber Tots: Maximilian Schmitt tenor Vladimir Ryabov Fantasia in In Space Gerold Huber piano C minor Op. 21, in memory of Schumann From Myrthen: Freisinn; Maria Yudina We invite children aged 1 to 5 and Venetianisches Lieder I & II; Du bist Rameau From Nouvelles suites their parents/carers to join us on a wie eine Blume; Aus den östlichen de pièces de clavecin: Suite in rocket into space! This interactive Rosen; Was will die einsame E minor; Suite in G minor; Suite music-making workshop features Träne?; Zum Schluß Schumann in A minor (excerpts) songs, percussion and the chance Liederkreis Op. 39 Fauré Les Mozart Andante in F for to meet some exciting instruments berceaux; Mandoline; Adieu; Les mechanical organ K616; Piano up close, led by our experienced roses d’Ispahan; Clair de lune; Fleur Sonata in F K533/494; Piano Chamber Tots music leaders jetée Strauss Morgen; Die Nacht; Sonata in A minor K310 alongside emerging ensembles. Wer hat’s getan?; Wozu noch, 10.15am (1–2 year olds) & Mädchen, soll es Frommen; Ach With apparently boundless 11.45am (3–5 year olds) Lieb, ich muss nun scheiden; Breit expressive intensity and tonal Approximately 1 hour in duration über mein Haupt dein schwarzes nuance, Sergei Babayan penetrates Haar; Wie sollten wir geheim sie the heart of the works in his Children £6 Adults £4 halten; Ich trage meine Minne vast repertoire. The Armenian- American pianist performs German tenor Maximilian Schmitt Vladimir Ryabov’s fervent tribute returns to Wigmore Hall with one of to Soviet pianist Maria Yudina, the world’s leading song pianists for mesmerising Rameau and Mozart’s a recital of heart-melting melodies delightful Andante, originally for and passionate Lieder. Their barrel organ. programme includes compositions inspired by silence, sadness, and £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 the bliss of young love.
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Sergei Babayan Chamber Tots Maximilian Schmitt © Marco Borggreve © Benjamin Ealovega © Christian Kagl www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 93
Jörg Widmann as Composer- Performer/Wigmore Lates Thursday 19 July Friday 20 July Friday 20 July 7.30pm 7.00pm NB starting time 10.00pm
Gabriela Montero piano Members of Heath Quartet Mozart Piano Sonata in C K330 Britten Sinfonia Ruth Gibson viola Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in Nicholas Daniel oboe Marie Bitlloch cello C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Musorgsky Pictures from an Michael Berkeley Bach Wenn wir in höchsten Exhibition 70th Birthday Concert Nöten sein BWV641; Das alte Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C Jahr vergangen ist BWV614; O Venezuelan pianist Gabriela minor K546 Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross Montero’s artistry combines Beethoven Grosse Fuge in B flat BWV622 pulsing rhythmic energy, thrilling Op. 133 Jörg Widmann String Quartet spontaneity and true heart. She Michael Berkeley New work for No. 2 ‘Choralquartett’ performs three works of stunning solo oboe Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 invention, from the classical poise Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor of Mozart and technical demands D703 The Heath Quartet opens with of Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata Michael Berkeley Into the Ravine pieces from Bach’s Little Organ to Musorgsky’s vibrant Pictures Strauss Metamorphosen for Book, which flow into Jörg from an Exhibition. string septet Widmann’s ‘Choralquartett’, with its ghostly, disruptive mix of £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 Composer and broadcaster sound and silence. Schoenberg’s Michael Berkeley has delighted richly chromatic Verklärte Nacht, millions with his award-winning a symphonic poem for string Private Passions series on BBC sextet, completes this compelling Radio 3 and been an eloquent programme. champion of British music and musicians. Wigmore Hall All seats £15 celebrates his 70th birthday with an evening of his chamber works.
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Gabriela Montero Nicholas Daniel Heath Quartet © Shelley Mosman © Eric Richmond © Simon Way 94 • JULY Box Office: 020 7935 2141
Saturday 21 July 1.00pm Principality Only Boys Aloud Academi 2017 Tim Rhys-Evans conductor Following its Wigmore Hall debut in 2017, the Principality Only Boys Aloud Academi makes a welcome return. Only Boys Aloud, Jonathan Butterell director coordinated by The Aloud Charity, uses choral singing to effect Desprez Absalon, Fili Mi positive change amongst teenage boys across Wales, promoting Saint-Saëns Saltarelle self-belief and self-confidence, and developing a sense of community. Sibelius Hymn Op. 21 No. 2 The Academi comprises 32 of the older OBA boys who show Jaakko Mäntyjärvi Pseudo-Yoik particular musical promise: this performance is the result of Rosephanye Powell The Word Was God a residential summer school where the boys are challenged, Bob Chilcott Five Ways To Kill a Man encouraged, and supported to do more and better. Trad Ramkali (arr. E Sperry) Trad Loch Lomond (arr. J Quick) All seats £10 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JULY • 95
Saturday 21 July Sunday 22 July Sunday 22 July 7.30pm 11.30am 7.30pm
Igor Levit piano Zorá String Quartet Pavol Breslik tenor Brahms Chaconne by JS Bach for Haydn String Quartet in F minor Amir Katz piano piano left hand (arr. of Chaconne Op. 20 No. 5 Schubert Die schöne Müllerin in D minor for solo violin Mendelssohn String Quartet No. BWV1004) 2 in A minor Op. 13 Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in Busoni Fantasia after JS Bach duration, without an interval BV253 Graduate quartet in residence at Schumann Geistervariationen the prestigious Curtis Institute of Royal Opera House regular Pavol (Ghost Variations) WoO 24 Music, the Zorá String Quartet – Breslik has forged a glittering Wagner Parsifal ‘Solemn March to described by The Strad as ‘utterly career since he was named ‘Most the Holy Grail’ (arr. Liszt) fantastic’ – makes its Wigmore Promising Singer of the Year’ by Liszt Fantasy and Fugue on the Hall debut with youthful and Opernwelt in 2005. The Slovakian chorale ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem charming masterworks by Haydn tenor marks his Wigmore Hall undam’ (arr. Busoni) S259 and Mendelssohn. debut with Schubert’s tale of the fair miller-maid. Igor Levit’s recital combines £15 concs £13 incl. programme mighty transcriptions by Brahms and coffee/sherry/juice £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 and Liszt with an entrancing mix Supported by the Sir Jack Lyons of counterpoint and romantic Charitable Trust melody. It culminates with the bell-like sounds of Wagner’s ‘Solemn March’ and Busoni’s spectacular piano arrangement of Liszt’s organ Fantasy and Fugue.
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Haydn String Quartet Series Monday 23 July Tuesday 24 July Wednesday 25 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm
Alban Gerhardt cello Julia Fischer violin Castalian String Vikingur Olafsson piano Aris Alexander Quartet Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3 Blettenberg piano Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op. in G minor BWV1029 Mozart Violin Sonata in B flat K454 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’; String Quartet Anders Hillborg Duo for cello and Schubert Rondo in B minor D895 in D Op. 76 No. 5; String Quartet piano (UK première) Dvořák Romance in F minor Op. 11 in E flat Op. 76 No. 6 Debussy Cello Sonata Szymanowski Sonata in D minor Beethoven Cello Sonata in A Op. 69 for violin and piano Op. 9 Haydn achieved perfection in Stravinsky Suite italienne for cello his six Opus 76 string quartets. and piano One of today’s finest violinists, The magnificent young Castalian Julia Fischer, acclaimed for String Quartet, praised by The German cellist Alban Gerhardt, her virtuosity and soulful Strad for its ‘romantic energy and described by Tagesspiegel as ‘a musicianship, joins young pianist, passion’, completes its survey of magician of cantabile playing and conductor and composer Aris the composer’s set and brings a master of virtuosic panache’, Alexander Blettenberg to cross the Wigmore’s Haydn series to a turns his charismatic artistry continents of creative invention thrilling conclusion. to a strikingly rich programme, contained within four beautifully including Debussy’s hauntingly crafted works for violin and piano. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 beautiful Cello Sonata and Anders Hillborg’s new Duo. £38 £33 £27 £20 £15
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Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey
Thursday 26 July 7.30pm
Angela Hewitt piano 60th Birthday Concert Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988
The Guardian greeted Angela Hewitt’s most recent recording of the Goldberg Variations as ‘arguably the best … since Glenn Gould’s’, praising her ‘remarkable achievement’. The Canadian pianist celebrates her birthday by sharing her latest insights into Bach’s awe-inspiring variations.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15 Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in duration, without an interval
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Wigmore Hall stands as a major Tuesday 10 April 7.30pm supporter of contemporary Chamber Music Society of chamber music and song, Lincoln Center and as a commissioner of Alexander Sitkovetsky violin new works and a champion Paul Huang violin of living composers. The Hall Richard O’Neill viola Paul Watkins cello is determined to bring fresh Gilles Vonsattel piano creative energy to the repertoire, Huw Watkins* not least through its extensive commissioning programme and Wednesday 11 April 7.30pm promotion of world, UK and London premières. JACK Quartet Amy Williams, Marcos Balter, ‘Our commissioning scheme Julian Anderson* & Brian Ferneyhough is already the most extensive
in Europe for chamber music’, Friday 13 April 7.30pm comments Wigmore Hall Igor Levit piano Director, John Gilhooly, ‘and Frederic Rzewski in recent years Wigmore Monday 16 April 7.30pm Hall has become one of the Yefim Bronfman piano world’s foremost centres for Jörg Widmann contemporary chamber music.’ Wednesday 18 April 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello Tom Poster piano Caroline Shaw* Friday 6 April 7.30pm Elias String Quartet Saturday 5 May György Kurtág In Focus: Mark-Anthony Turnage Music Series Musicians from the Royal Saturday 7 April 10.00pm Northern College of Music Clark Rundell conductor
Contemporary Contemporary Svante Henryson electric guitar Leandro Mancini-Olivos percussion Mark-Anthony Turnage Henrik Måwe piano Baba Israel rapper Tuesday 8 May 7.30pm Samuel West narrator Sacconi String Quartet Henrik Måwe & Svante Henryson Jonathan Dove www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Contemporary music • 99
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm Sunday 10 June 7.30pm Friday 6 July 7.00pm Jörg Widmann clarinet Jörg Widmann clarinet Sandrine Piau soprano Sir András Schiff piano Jörg Widmann Susan Manoff piano Jörg Widmann Robert Baksa & André Previn Wednesday 13 June 7.30pm Friday 25 May 7.00pm Jakub Józef Orliński countertenor Friday 6 July 10.00pm Inon Barnatan piano Michał Biel piano David Orlowsky Trio Avner Dorman Paweł Łukaszewski David Orlowsky, Jens-Uwe Popp, Abe Schwartz, Velvl Zbarzher & Monday 28 May 7.30pm Saturday 16 June 7.30pm Florian Dohrmann Trio Tre Voci Heath Quartet Sunday 8 July 7.30pm Takemitsu & Toshio Hosokawa Jörg Widmann ATOS Trio Monday 25 June 1.00pm Richard Baker* Friday 1 June 10.00pm Elias String Quartet Chineke! Orchestra Wednesday 11 July 7.30pm Sally Beamish Florence Price Ensemble Variances Anssi Karttunen cello Friday 29 June 10.00pm Monday 4 June 7.30pm François-Bernard Mâche, Toru Lucy Schaufer mezzo-soprano Cuarteto Casals Takemitsu & Thierry Pécou* Huw Watkins piano Lucio Franco Amanti William Bolcom, Joan Tower, Tuesday 17 July 7.30pm John Harbison, Charles Wuorinen, Wednesday 6 June 7.30pm Hedy West, John Corigliano*, Sergei Babayan piano The Prince Consort Frederic Rzewski, Gordon Lightfoot Vladimir Ryabov Alisdair Hogarth director, piano & Peter Yarrow Verity Wingate soprano Friday 20 July 7.00pm Andrew Staples tenor Saturday 30 June 7.30pm Members of Britten Sinfonia Laura Mucha poet Sophie Bevan soprano Nicholas Daniel oboe Michael Anderson, Cheryl Ryan Wigglesworth piano Michael Berkeley Frances-Hoad & Graham Ross Ryan Wigglesworth* Friday 20 July 10.00pm Friday 8 June 10.00pm Wednesday 4 July 7.30pm Heath Quartet Onyx Brass Cuarteto Casals Jörg Widmann Kenny Wheeler, Jason Rebello, Benet Casablancas Trish Clowes, Mark Nightingale, Laurence Cottle, Guy Barker, Mike Walker & Gwilym Simcock Thursday 5 July 7.30pm *Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Tana String Quartet Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Yann Robin* 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 The London Wigmore Hall Community Foundation, with additional support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund © Benjamin Ealovega Booking information
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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
Chamber Zone © Benjamin Ealovega Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonRCM, HonFGS, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141
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