October 2015 Bertrand Chamayou INSIDE: Ian Bostridge | Sarah Connolly Ehnes Quartet | Thomas Hampson Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien Magdalena Kozˇená & Mitsuko Uchida Steven Isserlis | Robert Levin Sandrine Piau | Christoph Prégardien Stile Antico | Vox Luminis And many more Box Office 020 7935 2141 Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk How to Book Wigmore Hall Box Office 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP In Person 7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. No advance booking in the half hour prior to a concert. Please note that the Box Office with be closed for bookings in person from Monday 27 July to Friday 4 September. By Telephone: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10 am – 7 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm. There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration fee for each transaction, which includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits. Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. 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Wigmore Hall • John Gilhooly OBE Director The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838 Cover: Bertrand Chamayou © Marco Borggreve Benjamin Ealovega 2 Thursday 1 October 7.30 pm 1 IMS Prussia Cove Erich Höbarth violin Maia Cabeza violin Jonian Ilias Kadesha violin Yannick Andrea Wolfgang Krautzer Thomas Riebl viola Andrea Burger viola Chiara Enderle cello Vashti Hunter cello Susan Tomes piano Erich Höbarth Maia Cabeza Jonian Ilias Kadesha Mozart Piano Trio in Bb K502 Brahms String Quintet in F Op. 88 Schubert String Trio in Bb D471 Dvorˇák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81 Jannette Kneisel This year’s annual IMS Prussia Cove autumn tour brings together Susan Tomes and Erich Höbarth with young musicians who have progressed through the IMS seminars. Thomas Riebl Andrea Burger Chiara Enderle Founded over 40 years ago by the great Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh, IMS is now under the artistic Irene Zandel Gene Smirnov directorship of cellist Steven Isserlis and continues to nurture Robert Philip outstanding performers of chamber music. £30 £25 £20 £15 £10 Chamber Music Season Vashti Hunter Susan Tomes Friday 2 October 7.30 pm 2 Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Wolf Mörike Lieder: Begegnung; Neue Liebe; Nimmersatte Liebe; Das verlassene Mägdlein; Elfenlied; Verborgenheit; Wo find ich Trost?; Auf ein altes Bild; Nixe Binsefuss; Lebe wohl; Abschied Dvorˇák Love Songs Op. 83 Schoenberg Brettl-Lieder Central Europe and the cultural concerns of Romanticism served as the crucibles for the creation of the works in this unmissable recital. Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida launch their programme with Schumann’s compassionate response to poems attributed to Mary Queen of Scots before probing the psychological depths of Wolf’s Lieder. They also explore the lyrical delights of Dvorˇák’s Czech Love Songs and high-octane vitality of Schoenberg’s eight cabaret songs of 1901. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Song Recital Series/Celebrating Magdalena Kozˇená JustinPumfrey/Decca Harald Hoffmann/Deutsche Grammophon Magdalena Kozˇená Mitsuko Uchida 3 Saturday 3 October 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm 3 Stile Antico FAMILY CONCERT For ages 5 plus Marco Borggreve Join us for this interactive performance for families with vibrant vocal ensemble Stile Antico. Hear some magical music, most of which is over 400 years old, and join in together with some activities alongside presenter Isabelle Adams. Adults £10 Children £8 Wigmore Hall Learning Event Stile Antico Saturday 3 October 7.30 pm Llyˆr Williams piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 11 in Bb Op. 22; Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54; Benjamin Ealovega Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’; Andante favori WoO. 57 Llyˆ r Williams’s acclaimed Wigmore Hall Beethoven exploration resumes. The Guardian praised the Welsh pianist’s ‘commanding technique, cool grasp of the vast intellectual span of the music and sense of wisdom beyond his years’ during his first survey of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, a view reinforced since by the evolving insights of his interpretations. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 London Pianoforte Series/ Llyˆ r Williams Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle Llyˆ r Williams Sunday 4 October 11.30 am 4 Vertavo String Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 103 (unfinished) Dvorˇák Selection from Cypresses Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2 Brahms completed his Op. 51 string quartets during a productive summer stay in Tutzing, Bavaria in 1873, effectively breaking his duck as a string quartet composer with two works of extraordinary invention. The Vertavo String Quartet, founded in Norway in 1984, prefaces the A minor quartet’s performance with the two movements of Haydn’s last adventure in string quartet writing and pieces from Dvorˇák’s lyrical Cypresses. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice Supported by Oliver and Helen Prenn Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Pictured right: Vertavo String Quartet 4 Sunday 4 October 12.00 noon – 4.00pm Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with dementia and their family, friends or carers to join us for an afternoon in the beautiful spaces of The Wallace Collection and Wigmore © Silver Sunday 2014 Hall. We will first explore some of the Collection’s works of art and then use this as inspiration to create music together with workshop leader Julian West and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music. Free (ticket required) In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts and The Royal Academy of Music Wigmore Hall Learning Event Sunday 4 October 7.30 pm Belcea Quartet 20th Anniversary Concert Series Belcea Quartet Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 Bartók String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7 Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131 Wigmore Hall has played a central part in the Belcea Quartet’s artistic world since the group’s foundation two decades ago. Its twentieth anniversary concert series begins with an essential Belcea programme, comprising the uplifting ingenuity of Haydn’s late String Quartet in G Op. 77 and Bartók’s First String Quartet. The latter’s contrapuntal writing echoes aspects of Beethoven’s Op. 131, among the greatest of all chamber music works. The Belcea Quartet returns to the Hall on 11 October and 19 December with two further concerts in its twentieth anniversary series. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season Evy Ottermans Belcea Quartet 5 Monday 5 October 1.00 pm 5 Sandrine Piau soprano Susan Manoff piano Mendelssohn Neue Liebe; Nachtlied; Hexenlied Bouchot Galgenlieder Sandrine Expilly/Naïve Strauss Die Nacht; Morgen; Ständchen Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Britten The Salley Gardens; There’s none to soothe; I wonder as I wander Sandrine Piau’s crystalline tone, extraordinary attention to detail and ability to respond in an instant to the emotional demands of the music in her repertoire belong to her richly stocked portfolio of artistic attributes. Her programme explores everything from the nocturnal imagery of songs by Mendelssohn and Strauss to the highly charged eroticism of Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis. Sandrine Piau Susan Manoff All seats £15 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Monday 5 October 7.30 pm Magdalena Kožená mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Uchida piano Repeat of concert on 2 October JustinPumfrey/Decca See page 3 for full details £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Mathias Bothor/Deutsche Grammophon Song Recital Series/ Celebrating Magdalena Kožená Magdalena Kozˇená Mitsuko Uchida Tuesday 6 October 1.00pm 6 YCAT Lunchtime Concerts 2015 /16 Trio Isimsiz Kaupo Kikkas Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Brahms Piano Trio in C minor Op. 101 Formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, during 2015 Trio Isimsiz gives recitals at the Barbican, Peasmarsh Festival with Anthony Marwood, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. They have worked with Ferenc Rados at IMS Prussia Cove and with the Gould Piano Trio in Aldeburgh. £13 concs £11 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, the Goulding Murray Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series. Trio Isimsiz 6 Tuesday 6 October 7.30pm Vadim Repin violin Andrei Korobeinikov piano Irene Zandel Schnittke Violin Sonata No. 1 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis Bartók Rhapsody No.