MARCH 2018/19 Season wigmore-hall.org.uk 2 • SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 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: wigmore-hall.org.uk E E F FRONT FRONT F STALLS STALLS 7 days a week; 24 hours a day. There is a G G non-refundable £3.00 administration charge. H H I I J J K K Standby Tickets L L M M Standby tickets for students, senior citizens and N N the unemployed are available from one hour O O P P before the performance (subject to availability) Q Q with best available seats sold at the lowest price. R R S S REAR REAR NB standby tickets are not available for T STALLS STALLS T U U Lunchtime and Sunday Morning Concerts. V V W W Group Discounts X X Discounts of 10% are available for groups of A A 12 or more, subject to availability. B B C BALCONY C D D Latecomers Latecomers will only be admitted during a The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary. suitable pause in the performance. Wigmore Hall • HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Royal Patron The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No. 1024838 Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: wigmore-hall.org.uk Calendar March 1 Mar 12.30pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 4 16 Mar 11.00am Family Concert: Stan & Mabel 14 2.00pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles 4 and the Race for Space 7.30pm Sofia Mchedlishvili/ 4 7.30pm Heath Quartet 14 Andrey Zhilikhovsky/ 17 Mar 11.30am David Oistrakh String Quartet 14 Iain Burnside 7.30pm Renata Pokupić/La Serenissima/ 14 2 Mar 1.00pm Sara Kobayashi/Ayaka Niwano 4 Adrian Chandler 7.30pm 4 Stéphane Degout/Alain Planès 18 Mar 1.00pm Jeremy Denk 14 3 Mar 11.30am Kronberg Academy 5 7.30pm Sirius Chau/Michael Matthews/ 15 7.30pm Brad Mehldau/Ian Bostridge 5 Kumi Matsuo 4 Mar 1.00pm Mariam Batsashvili 5 19 Mar 5.30pm Nash Ensemble/ 15 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 5 Royal Academy of Music 7.30pm 15 5 Mar 1.00pm Jamal Aliyev/Jâms Coleman 7 Nash Ensemble/ 7.30pm Ensemble Modern/ 6 Maximilian Schmitt Sir George Benjamin/ 20 Mar 7.30pm Vox Luminis/Reinoud Van Mechelen 15 Anu Komsi/Helena Rasker 9.30pm Post-Concert Open Mic Q&A 16 6 Mar 7.30pm Florilegium 7 21 Mar 7.30pm Christoph Prégardien/Pentaèdre/ 16 7.30pm Wigmore at the Roundhouse: 6 Joseph Petric Ensemble Modern Orchestra/ 22 Mar 1.00pm Orchestra of St John’s 16 Sir George Benjamin 7.30pm Škampa Quartet 16 7 Mar 10.15am 7 Chamber Tots: Under the Sea 23 Mar 7.30pm Joshua Bell/Timothy Ridout/ 17 11.45am 7 Chamber Tots: Under the Sea Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk 4.45pm Introduction to Music: Schubert 8 7.30pm Denis Kozhukhin 7 24 Mar 11.30am Dover Quartet 17 7.30pm Nathan Gunn/Julie Gunn 17 8 Mar 7.30pm The English Concert/ 8 Nadja Zwiener/Tuomo Suni/ 25 Mar 1.00pm Novus String Quartet 18 Christian Curnyn 7.30pm Jun Lin Wu 18 9 Mar 11.00am Who is Hans Keller? 9 26 Mar 7.30pm Zlata Chochieva 18 2.30pm Music workshop of Mozart K421 9 27 Mar 12.15pm Pre-Concert Talk 18 6.00pm Film Screening: The Keller Instinct 9 1.00pm Britten Sinfonia 19 7.30pm Elias String Quartet 9 7.30pm Carolyn Sampson/The King’s Consort 19 10 Mar 11.30am Nash Ensemble 8 28 Mar 1.00pm Steven Isserlis Masterclass 19 7.30pm Marc-André Hamelin 10 7.30pm Waynne Kwon/Maksim Kinasov/ 19 11 Mar 1.00pm Belcea Quartet 9 Anna Denisova/Michael Brailey 7.30pm Nils Mönkemeyer/William Youn 10 29 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 19 12 Mar 7.30pm Janine Jansen/Alexander Gavrylyuk 10 11.45am Chamber Tots: On the Farm 19 7.30pm Kristóf Baráti/István Várdai/ 20 13 Mar 1.00pm 10 Side by Side Jean-Efflam Bavouzet 7.30pm Die Kölner Akademie/ 11 Mahan Esfahani 30 Mar 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 20 14 Mar 1.00pm Chetham’s School of Music 12 31 Mar 11.30am Horszowski Trio 20 7.30pm Simon Bode/Igor Levit 12 7.30pm Alexander Melnikov/Marcel Ponseele/ 20 Lorenzo Coppola/Javier Zafra/ 15 Mar 11.00am 12 Schools Concert: Stan & Mabel Teunis van der Zwart and the Race for Space 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/Julius Drake/ 13 Emily Berrington 4 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Friday 1 March Saturday 2 March 12.30pm and 2.00pm 1.00pm Chamber Tots: Rivers and Jungles Sara Kobayashi soprano Interactive music-making sessions for children Ayaka Niwano piano aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with Avex Recital Series 2019 songs, percussion and the chance to meet some exciting instruments up close. Presented by Schubert Heidenröslein Strauss From music leaders Esther Sheridan and Lucy Drever Mädchenblumen Op. 22: Kornblumen & alongside emerging chamber ensembles. Mohnblumen Quilter Love’s Philosophy; Now sleeps the crimson petal Purcell/ 12.30pm (1-2 year-olds) & Britten Sweeter than roses Britten The Last 2.00pm (3-5 year-olds) Rose of Summer Fauré Les roses d’Ispahan Approximately 1 hour in duration Debussy Green from Ariettes oubliées Tosti 4 Children £7 Adults £5 Canzoni d’Amaranta Dai Fujikura Kiite; Dawn Passacaglia Takemitsu Small Sky; All That Friday 1 March the Man Left Behind when he Died Yamada 4 Spring Wind Songs Hashimoto MAI 7.30pm £18 concs £12 Russian Song Series Sponsored by Tarisio Sofia Mchedlishvili soprano Saturday 2 March Andrey Zhilikhovsky baritone 7.30pm Iain Burnside piano A diverse programme of Russian songs and Stéphane Degout baritone operatic arias by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glière, Alain Planès piano Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov. Debussy 3 poèmes de Paul Verlaine; Fêtes £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 galantes Book II; 3 poèmes de Mallarmé; Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for schools Chansons de France; Le promenoir des deux and 8-25 year olds at selected concerts. To book, please amants Fauré Les berceaux; Au bord de l’eau; contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’ Clair de lune; Mandoline; Danseuse; Après un The Russian Song Series is made possible with additional rêve Chabrier L’île heureuse; Chanson pour support from the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund Jeanne Duparc La vie antérieure; Sérénade; Chanson triste; Elégie; Lamento; Le galop £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Chamber Tots Iain Burnside Sara Kobayashi Stéphane Degout © Benjamin Ealovega © Tall Wall Media © Nippon Columbia © Jean-Baptiste Millot wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 5 Sunday 3 March Monday 4 March 11.30am 1.00pm Young Soloists of the Mariam Batsashvili piano Kronberg Academy Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D minor JiYoung Lim violin BWV903 Santiago Cañón Valencia cello Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:37 Megumi Hashiba piano Ravel Sonatine Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole S254 Ginastera Pampeana No. 2 Op. 21 Jérôme Ducros Encore £16 concs £14 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor Tchaikovsky Valse-scherzo Op. 34 Halvorsen Passacaglia for violin and cello after Monday 4 March a Theme by G.F. Handel 7.30pm £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ Brahms Plus Series sherry/juice Jonathan Plowright piano Sunday 3 March Brahms plus Beethoven 7.30pm Brahms 7 Fantasien Op. 116; Rhapsodies Wigmore Hall Jazz Series Op. 79; Klavierstücke Op. 76 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109 Ian Bostridge tenor £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Brad Mehldau piano With grateful thanks to the Piano Circle Brad Mehldau New song cycle* (UK première) Schumann Dichterliebe Op. 48 Forthcoming Concerts in this Series *Co-commissioned by Elbphilharmonie Sunday 21 July 7.30pm Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Stanford Live at Stanford University, and Carnegie Hall £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 JiYoung Lim Ian Bostridge Mariam Batsashvili Jonathan Plowright © Kyutai Shim © Sim Canetty-Clarke © Attila Kleb © Diane Shaw 6 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Sir George Benjamin Focus At Wigmore Hall Wigmore at the Roundhouse Tuesday 5 March Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm 7.30pm Ensemble Modern Ensemble Modern Orchestra Sir George Benjamin conductor Sir George Benjamin conductor Anu Komsi soprano Ueli Wiget piano Helena Rasker contralto Boulez Initiale Christian Mason Layers of Love Messiaen 7 haïkaï for piano and orchestra Cathy Milliken New work* Ustvolskaya Composition No. 2 ‘Dies irae’ for Dallapiccola Piccola Musica Notturna 8 double basses, percussion and piano Sir George Benjamin Into the Little Hill Ligeti Ramifications for 12 solo strings Sir George Benjamin Palimpsests for orchestra *Commissioned by Ensemble Modern Tickets available from the Roundhouse at £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 roundhouse.org.uk or 0300 6789 222 These concerts are supported by The John S Cohen Foundation Sir George Benjamin © Matthew Lloyd Roundhouse © John Williams wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 7 Tuesday 5 March Thursday 7 March 1.00pm 10.15am and 11.45am Jamal Aliyev cello Chamber Tots: Under the Sea Jâms Coleman piano Interactive music-making sessions for children aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers, with YCAT Lunchtime Series 2018/19 songs, percussion and the chance to meet some Bloch From Jewish Life exciting instruments up close.