2017-2018 SEASON 2017-2018 SEPTEMBER 2017 - JULY 2018 SEPTEMBER 2017 - JULY Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM, HonFRIAM 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP www.wigmore-hall.org.uk Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity Number 1024838 2017/18 Season September 2017 - July 2018 Design and print www.graphicimpressions.co.uk 2 • Welcome to our new look Wigmore Hall Season Brochure. I hope that you find it informative, clear and easy to use. Our season will include residencies from, amongst others, Isabelle Faust, Christian Tetzlaff, Sir András Schiff, Jörg Widmann and Sonia Prina. The season will include a 17-concert survey of Haydn’s string quartets with all of Haydn’s quartets from the Op. 20s onwards, and Cuarteto Casals will present a complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets, alongside new works by living composers. Vocal highlights include a performance of Winterreise by Mark Padmore and Mitsuko Uchida, and Director’s Roderick Williams’s first performances of Die schöne Mullerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang, as well as recitals from Ian Bostridge, Sarah Connolly, Joyce Introduction DiDonato, Christian Gerhaher, Philippe Jaroussky and Simon Keenlyside. The Nash Ensemble will dedicate its 2017/18 Season to an exploration of French chamber music, performing repertoire by Debussy, Ravel, Faure and Poulenc. Other chamber concerts include appearances by Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer Quartet, Quatuor Ebène, the Takács Quartet, Alisa Weilerstein, Leila Josefowicz, and a performance by Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang. The London Pianoforte Series includes performances from Francesco Piemontesi, who will continue his Mozart piano sonata cycle; Nelson Freire, who will mark the 50th anniversary of his Wigmore Hall debut with a recital on the exact day on 17 February 2018; and Daniil Trifonov with Rachmaninov and Chopin, as well as recitals from Jonathan Biss, Imogen Cooper, Bertrand Chamayou, Ingrid Fliter, Kirill Gerstein, Ivana Gavrić, Richard Goode, Igor Levit and Steven Osborne. The 2017/18 Season will also include a focus on Bach, featuring Angela Hewitt, James Ehnes, Philip Higham, Mahan Esfahani, the Dunedin Consort (which will present Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St Matthew Passion and Mass in B minor across the course of the season) and Les Arts Florissants. The season will contain around 20 premières, with contemporary repertoire presented by artists including Arditti Quartet, Mary Bevan, Ensemble intercontemporain, JACK Quartet, Igor Levit, Nash Ensemble and Takács Quartet. For the first time, Wigmore Hall’s Learning programme has been planned around a theme: Seven Ages, Journeys through Life will reflect on life and experience in its many and various forms. This hall must be a place of diversity, discovery, open to new names and young artists, fresh interpretations and a constant exploration of all that the repertoire offers. It is also tremendously important that, through our Learning programme and innovative use of digital technology, we can share so much of what we have with the widest possible audience. • 3 Contents At a Glance 4 Calendar 6 September 8 October 31 November 51 December 73 Contemporary Music Series 92 Spring Preview 94 Summer Preview 98 Booking Information 104 September – December 2017 At a Glance See pages 8 – 90 for full details of these concerts and page 104 for booking information. Series and Events to look out for… BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts Mon 13 Nov Takács Quartet 58 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation 8, 9 Mon 11 Sep Sophie Bevan/ 13 Wed 15 Nov Joshua Bell/Academy of 62 International Song Competition Sebastian Wybrew St Martin in the Fields Gerald Finley & Julius Drake 10 Mon 18 Sep Fretwork 19 Fri 17 Nov Britten Sinfonia 61 Sonia Prina: A Celebration 12 Mon 25 Sep Amatis Piano Trio 27 Fri 17 Nov Joshua Bell/Academy of 63 St Martin in the Fields Cuarteto Casals: Beethoven Cycle 14, 34, 81 Mon 2 Oct Paul O’Dette 32 Sat 18 Nov James Ehnes 64 Mahan Esfahani: 11 Mon 9 Oct Lise de la Salle 36 Sun 19 Nov James Ehnes 64 Bach Harpsichord Works Mon 16 Oct Anne Queffélec 42 Thu 23 Nov Hagen Quartet 66 Haydn String Quartet Series 16, 17, 26, Mon 23 Oct Trio Jean Paul 46 55, 79, 83 Sat 25 Nov Vadim Gluzman/ 68 Mon 30 Oct Florilegium 50 The English Concert 18, 71 Johannes Moser/ Mon 6 Nov Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad/ 54 Yevgeny Sudbin Simon Trpčeski Series 13 David Meier Tue 28 Nov Soloists of the London 71 Vox Luminis 20 Mon 13 Nov Gabriela Montero 56 Philharmonic Orchestra Nash Ensemble: 24, 49, Mon 20 Nov Meccore Quartet 65 Thu 30 Nov Ning Feng/ 73 The French Connection 77, 79 Mon 27 Nov Andrei Ioniţă/Itamar Golan 71 Daniel Müller-Schott/ Sir András Schiff at Wigmore Hall 23, 27 Mon 4 Dec Céline Moinet/Florian Uhlig 75 Igor Levit Jörg Widmann as 26, 79 Mon 11 Dec Armida Quartet 81 Tue 5 Dec Christian Tetzlaff/Lars Vogt 78 Composer-Performer Mon 18 Dec Alina Ibragimova/ 85 Sat 9 Dec Nash Ensemble/ 79 Robert Holl & Sir András Schiff 27 Cédric Tiberghien Roderick Williams Sarah Connolly & Malcolm Martineau 28 Sun 10 Dec Gould Piano Trio 79 Leila Josefowicz & John Novacek 31 Tue 12 Dec Cuarteto Casals 81 Finland 100 33 Chamber Music Season Thu 14 Dec Jerusalem Chamber Music 83 Isabelle Faust Season-Long Celebration 35 Mon 11 Sep Cuarteto Casals 14 Festival Ensemble/ Armonia Atenea & Xavier Sabata 36 Wed 13 Sep Doric String Quartet 17 Elena Bashkirova Vijay Iyer Jazz Residency 38 Fri 15 Sep Daniel Müller-Schott/ 13 Fri 15 Dec Anthony Marwood/ 83 Isabelle van Keulen/ Polish Music Day with Jennifer Pike 39 Simon Trpčeski Lawrence Power/ & Friends Wed 20 Sep Nash Ensemble 21 Richard Lester/ Angela Hewitt: The Bach Odyssey 43 Fri 22 Sep Vienna Mozart Trio 22 Heath Quartet Philip Higham: Bach Cello Suites 44 Sun 24 Sep Heath Quartet/ 26 Tue 19 Dec Leonidas Kavakos/ 86 The Sixteen 47 Hannes Minnaar Yuja Wang Max Raabe 48 Sat 30 Sep Tasmin Little/Piers Lane 30 Fri 22 Dec Renaud Capuçon/David Fray 87 Jordi Savall 50 Sun 1 Oct Leila Josefowicz/ 31 Wed 27 Dec Arcadia Quartet 88 John Novacek Kirill Gerstein 57 Sat 30 Dec Liza Ferschtman/ 89 Tue 3 Oct Northern Lights Symphony 33 Takács Quartet: Associate Artists 58 Roman Rabinovich Orchestra/Nicky Spence/ Elīna Garanča 60 David Tollington Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin 62, 63 Wed 4 Oct Cuarteto Casals 34 in the Fields Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts Thu 5 Oct IMS Prussia Cove 34 Sun 10 Sep 11 James Ehnes: Bach Violin Works 64, 65 Castalian String Quartet Sat 7 Oct Isabelle Faust/ 35 Sun 17 Sep Yossif Ivanov/Philippe Ivanov 15 Christian Gerhaher 67 Alexander Melnikov Sun 24 Sep Nash Ensemble 24 Joyce DiDonato 69, 85, 87 Tue 10 Oct Pavel Haas Quartet/ 37 Sun 1 Oct Natasha Paremski 31 Philippe Jaroussky & Ensemble Artaserse 70 Pavel Nikl Sun 8 Oct Isabelle Faust/ 35 Roderick Williams: 72 Wed 11 Oct The Endellion String Quartet 38 Alexander Melnikov Exploring Schubert’s Song Cycles Thu 12 Oct Eggner Trio 40 Sun 15 Oct Scottish Ensemble 40 L’Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar 74 Sat 14 Oct Polish Music Day: 39 Sun 22 Oct Wihan Quartet 45 Christian Tetzlaff Focus 78 Jennifer Pike/Thomas Gould/ Sun 29 Oct 49 Daniil Trifonov 80 Guy Johnston/Elizabeth Kenny/ Steven Isserlis/Olli Mustonen Mahan Esfahani/Tom Poster Sun 5 Nov 53 Mark Padmore & Mitsuko Uchida 82 Leonore Piano Trio Sat 21 Oct Philip Higham 44 Sun 12 Nov 56 Dunedin Consort: 84 Tamsin Waley-Cohen Big Ideas for a Small Stage Sat 28 Oct Nash Ensemble 49 Huw Watkins Sun 19 Nov 63 Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang 86 Tue 31 Oct Elias String Quartet 51 Eric Le Sage Sun 26 Nov 68 Arcangelo 90 Wed 1 Nov Augustin Dumay/Louis Lortie 51 Trio Isimsiz Sun 3 Dec 73 Contemporary Music Series 92, 93 Sat 4 Nov Alisa Weilerstein/ 53 Cyprien Katsaris Inon Barnatan Sun 10 Dec Heath Quartet 79 Wed 8 Nov Doric String Quartet 55 Sun 17 Dec Novus String Quartet 83 Sun 12 Nov Takács Quartet 58 Sun 31 Dec Gary Hoffman/David Selig 89 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk • 5 Early Music and Baroque Series Song Recital Series Contemporary Music Series Tue 12 Sep Mahan Esfahani 11 Sat 9 Sep Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 10 Mon 11 Sep Cuarteto Casals 14 Thu 14 Sep The English Concert/ 18 Sun 10 Sep Sonia Prina/ 12 Wed 20 Sep Nash Ensemble 21 Kristian Bezuidenhout Paolo Spadaro Munitto Sun 24 Sep Heath Quartet 26 Mon 18 Sep Classical Opera 19 Sat 16 Sep Christiane Karg/ 15 Wed 4 Oct Cuarteto Casals 34 Gerold Huber Tue 19 Sep Vox Luminis 20 Sat 14 Oct Polish Music Day/ 39 Mon 9 Oct Xavier Sabata/ 36 Thu 28 Sep Robert Holl/ 27 Jennifer Pike Sir András Schiff Armonia Atenea/ Thu 2 Nov James Gilchrist/ 52 George Petrou Fri 29 Sep Sarah Connolly/ 28 Anna Tilbrook Malcolm Martineau Fri 20 Oct Roberta Invernizzi/ 42 Sun 12 Nov Takács Quartet 58 Accademia Hermans Mon 2 Oct Anne Schwanewilms/ 32 Tue 12 Dec Cuarteto Casals 81 Sun 22 Oct Phantasm 45 Charles Spencer The Contemporary Music Series is supported by Tue 24 Oct The Sixteen 47 Tue 3 Oct Nicky Spence/ 33 Northern Lights Symphony Wed 25 Oct Carolyn Sampson/ 46 Orchestra/David Tollington The King’s Consort Sun 8 Oct Ben Johnson/ 34 Sun 29 Oct Jordi Savall/Hespèrion XXI 50 Tyler Duncan/ Wigmore Hall Learning Tue 7 Nov Alina Ibragimova/ 54 Graham Johnson Il Pomo d’Oro Sat 2 Sep Come and Sing: 8 Thu 26 Oct Benjamin Appl/ 48 French Song Sun 26 Nov Philippe Jaroussky/ 70 Graham Johnson Ensemble Artaserse Sun 3 Sep François Le Roux 8 Fri 27 Oct Max Raabe/Christoph Israel 48 on French Song Wed 29 Nov The English Concert 71 Thu 2 Nov James Gilchrist/ 52 Mon 4 Sep Inside the Rehearsal Room 8 Fri 1 Dec L’Arpeggiata 74 Anna Tilbrook Wed 6 Sep Exploring Russian Song 9 Mon 4 Dec The Cardinall’s