JUN/ JUL 2017/18 SEASON www.wigmore-hall.org.uk 2 • SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER www.wigmore-hall.org.uk How to Book Wigmore Hall Box Office TICKETS 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided into five price ranges: In Person ■ Stalls C – M Highest price 7 days a week: 10.00am - 8.30pm. ■ Stalls A – B, N – P 2nd highest price Days without an evening concert: ■ Balcony A – D 2nd highest price 10.00am - 5.00pm. No advance booking in the ■ Stalls BB, CC, Q – S 3rd highest price half hour prior to a concert. ■ Stalls AA, T – V 4th highest price ■ Stalls W – X Lowest price By Telephone: 020 7935 2141 7 days a week: 10.00am - 7.00pm. AA AA Days without an evening concert: AA STAGE AA AA AA 10.00am - 5.00pm. BB BB There is a non-refundable £4.00 administration CC CC A A charge for each transaction. B B C C D D Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk E E F FRONT FRONT F STALLS STALLS 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. 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The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No. 1024838 Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk June 28 Jun 10.15am Chamber Tots 17 11.45am Chamber Tots 17 1 Jun 7.00pm 4 Birgid Steinberger/Julius Drake 4.45pm Introduction to the String Quartet commences 17 10.00pm 4 How to Book Chineke! Orchestra 7.30pm Elizabeth Watts/Roderick Williams/ 17 2 Jun 1.00pm Yuki Ito/Sofya Gulyak 4 Roger Vignoles 7.30pm 5 Carolyn Sampson/Iestyn Davies/ 29 Jun 7.00pm Pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School 18 Joseph Middleton 10.00pm Lucy Schaufer/Huw Watkins 18 3 Jun 11.30am 5 Kuss Quartet 30 Jun 11.00am Family Concert: Butterfly Brain 18 7.30pm 5 Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/ 7.30pm Sophie Bevan/Ryan Wigglesworth 18 Anna Prohaska 4 Jun 1.00pm Toby Spence/Christopher Glynn 6 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 6 July 1 Jul 11.30am Veronika Eberle/Alban Gerhardt/ 19 5 Jun 10.30am Come and Sing 6 Edicson Ruiz/José Gallardo 7.30pm Stéphane Degout/Simon Lepper 6 3.00pm RCM Junior Department 19 6 Jun 7.30pm The Prince Consort/Laura Mucha 6 7.30pm RCM String Showcase Concert 19 7 Jun 1.00pm Voiceworks 7 2 Jul 1.00pm Adam Walker/Cédric Tiberghien 19 7.30pm Finghin Collins 7 7.30pm Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 20 8 Jun 7.00pm Alim Beisembayev 7 3 Jul 7.30pm David Hansen/Academia Montis Regalis/ 20 10.00pm Onyx Brass 7 Alessandro De Marchi 9 Jun 11.30am Purcell School Chamber Concert 8 4 Jul 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 20 7.30pm 8 Django Bates Belovèd 5 Jul 1.00pm Ensemble of the European Union 20 10 Jun 11.30am Christian Ihle Hadland 8 Youth Orchestra/Kian Soltani 3.00pm The Children of Willesden Lane 8 7.30pm Tana String Quartet 21 7.30pm Tetzlaff Quartet/Jörg Widmann 9 6 Jul 7.00pm Sandrine Piau/Susan Manoff 21 11 Jun 1.00pm Trio Wanderer/Christophe Gaugué 9 10.00pm David Orlowsky Trio 21 7.30pm Collegium Vocale Gent 9 7 Jul 11.00am For Crying Out Loud! 21 12 Jun 5.30pm Diphonon Duo 9 12.30pm For Crying Out Loud! 21 7.30pm Belcea Quartet/Antoine Tamestit 9 7.30pm Steven Osborne 22 13 Jun 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group commences 11 8 Jul 11.30am Formosa Quartet/Richard Lester 22 7.30pm Jakub Józef Orliński/Michał Biel 10 7.30pm ATOS Trio 22 14 Jun 12.30pm Chamber Tots 11 9 Jul 1.00pm Chloë Hanslip/Danny Driver 22 2.00pm Chamber Tots 11 7.30pm Dame Felicity Palmer/Simon Lepper 22 7.30pm Hiroshi Amako/Yi-Shing Cheng/ 11 10 Jul 7.30pm Veronika Eberle/Tatjana Masurenko/ 22 Anna Geniushene Marie-Elisabeth Hecker/Martin Helmchen 15 Jun 6.00pm Razumovsky Academy 12 11 Jul 7.30pm Ensemble Variances/Anssi Karttunen/ 23 Young Artists Recital Thierry Pécou 7.30pm Razumovsky Ensemble 12 12 Jul 7.30pm Carducci String Quartet 23 16 Jun 11.00am RNIB Family Day 12 13 Jul 7.00pm 23 7.30pm Heath Quartet/Mary Bevan 12 Bennewitz Quartet 10.00pm The Prince Consort/Jason Rebello 23 17 Jun 11.30am Apollon Musagète Quartet 13 14 Jul 7.30pm 24 7.30pm Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake 13 Evelyn Glennie/Philip Smith/Huw Edwards 15 Jul 11.30am Sitkovetsky Trio 25 18 Jun 1.00pm Christine Rice/Julius Drake 13 7.30pm Robin Tritschler/Jonathan Ware 25 7.30pm Peter Donohoe 13 16 Jul 3.00pm Music for the Moment 25 19 Jun 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 13 7.30pm The Monday Platform 25 20 Jun 7.30pm Edgar Moreau/David Kadouch 14 17 Jul 7.30pm Sergei Babayan 26 21 Jun 7.30pm Dunedin Consort 14 18 Jul 10.15am Chamber Tots 26 22 Jun 7.00pm Elias String Quartet 14 11.45am Chamber Tots 26 10.00pm Donald Grant 14 7.30pm Maximilian Schmitt/Gerold Huber 26 23 Jun 11.00am Relaxed Concert: Diphonon Duo 14 19 Jul 7.30pm Gabriela Montero 26 7.30pm 15 The Sixteen 20 Jul 7.00pm Members of Britten Sinfonia 27 24 Jun 11.30am Amaryllis Quartet 15 10.00pm Heath Quartet/Ruth Gibson/Marie Bitlloch 27 3.00pm Samuel Hasselhorn/Renate Rohlfing 15 21 Jul 1.00pm Principality Only Boys Aloud 27 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène 15 Academi 2017 25 Jun 1.00pm Elias String Quartet/ 15 21 Jul 7.30pm Igor Levit 28 Navarra String Quartet 7.30pm Quatuor Ebène/Martin Fröst 15 22 Jul 11.30am Zorá String Quartet 28 7.30pm Pavol Breslik/Amir Katz 28 26 Jun 4.00pm Jenny Q Chai: Lecture-Recital 16 7.30pm Imogen Cooper 16 23 Jul 7.30pm Alban Gerhardt/Vikingur Olafsson 28 27 Jun 11.00am Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 16 24 Jul 7.30pm Julia Fischer/Aris Alexander Blettenberg 29 1.00pm Schools Concert: Butterfly Brain 16 25 Jul 7.30pm Castalian String Quartet 29 7.30pm Ming Xie 16 26 Jul 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 29 30 Jul 11.00am Musical Portraits 29 4 • JUNE Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Friday 1 June 10.00pm 7.00pm NB time Chineke! Orchestra Birgid Steinberger soprano Beethoven Septet in E flat Op. 20 Julius Drake piano Florence Price String Quartet in G (European première) Schubert Suleika I; Das Mädchen (D652); Strauss Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders Lied der Anne Lyle; Liane; Thekla: eine (arr. Hasenöhrl) Geisterstimme (D595); Die junge Nonne; Mignon (Kennst du das Land); Nur wer die All seats £15 Liebe kennt (fragment); Heiss mich nicht reden (D726); So lasst mich scheinen (D727) Brahms Saturday 2 June Feinsliebchen; Dort in den Weiden; All mein 1.00pm Gedanken; Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr; Da Avex Classics International Wigmore Series unten im Tale; Schwesterlein, Schwesterlein; In stiller Nacht Wolf From Spanisches Liederbuch: Yuki Ito cello Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero; In dem Schatten Sofya Gulyak piano meiner Locken; Dereinst, dereinst, Gedanke mein; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen; Mögen alle Rachmaninov Two Pieces Op. 2: Prélude & bösen Zungen; Sagt ihm, dass er zu mir Danse orientale; from Morceaux de fantaisie komme; Geh, Geliebter, geh jetzt Op. 3: Elégie, Mélodie & Sérénade; Prelude in G flat Op. 23 No. 10; Lied; Morning; In the £38 £33 £27 £20 £15 silent night; Lilacs; How fair this spot; Spring waters; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19 All seats £20 Promoted by Avex Classics International Sponsored by Tarisio Birgid Steinberger Chineke! Orchestra Yuki Ito © Eric Richmond www.wigmore-hall.org.uk JUNE • 5 7.30pm 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson soprano Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Iestyn Davies countertenor Georg Kallweit director Joseph Middleton piano Anna Prohaska soprano Purcell Sound the trumpet; Lost is my quiet; Shakespeare and Music Music for a while; If music be the food Shakespeare Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung of love; No, resistance is but in vain (arr. ist from Twelfth Night (recitation) Britten) Mendelssohn Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ Purcell Fantasia upon one note in F Z745; Mark, ergösse sich; Gruss; Volkslied; Maiglöckchen how readily each pliant string from Raise the und die Blümelein; Scheidend; Neue Liebe; voice Z334 Sonntagsmorgen; Das Ährenfeld; Lied aus Ruy Locke Suite from The Tempest Blas Schumann Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär; Purcell Largo from Sonata in Three Parts No. 6 Herbstlied; Schön Blümelein; Nachtlied; Stille in C Z795; Sing, sing ye Druids from Bonduca or Liebe; Der Einsiedler; Aufträge; So wahr die the British Heroine Z574; Suite from King Arthur Sonne scheinet Quilter It was a lover and his Shakespeare Farewell! God knows when we lass; Weep you no more; Music, when soft voices shall meet again, from Romeo and Juliet die; Drink to me only with thine eyes; Love’s Purcell The Plaint from The Fairy Queen Z629 philosophy; Love calls through the summer night Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to Returns Only a summer’s day? (recitation with improvisation) Dowland Come again, sweet love doth now invite Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle Purcell Suite from The Gordion Knot Unty’d Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8–25 year olds at selected concerts.