MARCH 2019/20 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 B B 12 or more, subject to availability. 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. Wigmore Hall • HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Royal Patron suitable pause in the performance. The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No. 1024838 Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Online Booking: wigmore-hall.org.uk Calendar March Tue 17 Mar 7.30pm Jonathan Plowright 13 Sun 1 Mar 11.30am Caroline Goulding/Danae Dörken 4 Wed 18 Mar 5.30pm Zuzana: Music is Life 13 3.00pm Anna Huntley/Graham Johnson 4 7.30pm Mahan Esfahani 14 7.30pm Julien Brocal 4 Thu 19 Mar 11.00am CAVATINA Schools Concert: Viola’s 14 Mon 2 Mar 1.00pm Lise Berthaud/David Saudubray 4 Time-Travelling Musical Adventures 3.00pm Wigmore Study Group: Beethoven 5 7.30pm Dame Sarah Connolly/ 15 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 5 Malcolm Martineau Tue 3 Mar 1.00pm Giuseppe Guarrera 5 Fri 20 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots: Jungles and Rivers 14 7.30pm Belcea Quartet 6 11.45am Chamber Tots: Jungles and Rivers 14 Wed 4 Mar 10.15am Chamber Tots: In Space 6 7.30pm Joseph Moog 14 11.45am Chamber Tots: In Space 6 Sat 21 Mar 7.30pm Brentano String Quartet 16 7.30pm Florilegium/Ashley Solomon/ 6 Sun 22 Mar 11.30am Cuarteto Casals 16 Alexandra Bellamy/Bojan Čičić/ 7.30pm Iestyn Davies/Thomas Dunford 16 Reiko Ichise Mon 23 Mar 1.00pm Brentano String Quartet 17 Thu 5 Mar 1.00pm Orchestra of St John’s 7 7.30pm Cuarteto Casals 17 7.30pm Inon Barnatan 7 Tue 24 Mar 5.00pm Nash Inventions: Mark-Anthony 17 Fri 6 Mar 1.00pm Nelly Miricioiu/David Gowland 7 Turnage 60th Birthday 7.30pm Sean Shibe 8 6.15pm Pre-Concert Talk: 17 Sat 7 Mar 7.30pm Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert 9 Mark-Anthony Turnage Sun 8 Mar 11.30am Nash Ensemble: Around Schubert 9 7.30pm Nash Inventions: Mark-Anthony 17 3.00pm Bethan Langford/Sholto Kynoch 9 Turnage 60th Birthday 7.30pm Stéphane Degout/Simon Lepper 9 Wed 25 Mar 1.00pm Side by Side 18 Mon 9 Mar 1.00pm Ruby Hughes/Natalie Clein/ 10 7.30pm Quatuor Danel 18 Julius Drake Thu 26 Mar 7.30pm Dianne Reeves 19 7.30pm Julia Hwang/James Drinkwater/ 10 Fri 27 Mar 7.30pm L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar/ 20 Ben Tarlton/Jâms Coleman Luciana Mancini/ Tue 10 Mar 7.30pm London Handel Orchestra/ 10 Vincenzo Capezzuto Adrian Butterfield/Katie Bray/ Sat 28 Mar 10.30am Family Day: Coastal Adventures 20 Keri Fuge/Charlotte Bowden/ 7.30pm Angela Hewitt 20 Eszter Balogh/Emily Sierra/ Sun 29 Mar 11.30am Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva 21 Annabel Kennedy/John Lee 3.00pm Antisemitism: What It Is. What It 21 Wed 11 Mar 7.00pm Daniel Sepec/Tabea Zimmermann/ 10 Isn’t. Why It Matters. Jean-Guihen Queyras 7.30pm Johannes Kammler/ 21 Thu 12 Mar 7.30pm Early Opera Company/ 11 Roger Vignoles Christian Curnyn/Anna Dennis/ Mon 30 Mar 1.00pm Anastasia Kobekina/ 21 Keri Fuge/Benjamin Appl Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Fri 13 Mar 1.00pm Nelly Miricioiu Masterclass 11 6.00pm Artist in Conversation: 21 7.30pm Martin Mitterrutzner/Gerold Huber 11 Peter Whelan 7.30pm Ensemble Marsyas/ 22 Sat 14 Mar 3.00pm CAVATINA Family Concert: Viola’s 12 Peter Whelan/Rachel Redmond/ Time-Travelling Musical Adventures Christopher Lowrey/ 7.30pm Doric String Quartet 12 Nicholas Mulroy/Edward Grint Sun 15 Mar 11.30am Armida Quartet 12 Tue 31 Mar 7.30pm Wye Valley Chamber Music 22 7.30pm Piers Lane 12 Festival 20th Anniversary Mon 16 Mar 1.00pm Alessandro Fisher/Roger Vignoles 13 7.30pm Škampa Quartet 13 4 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Sunday 1 March Sunday 1 March 11.30am 7.30pm Caroline Goulding violin Julien Brocal piano Danae Dörken piano Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat K333 Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13; Morceau Bach English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808 de lecture for violin and piano Chopin 24 Preludes Op. 28 Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82 £35 £30 £26 £22 £18 £16 concs £14 inc. programme and coffee/ sherry/juice Monday 2 March 1.00pm In Memory of Peter Flatter Lise Berthaud viola Sunday 1 March piano 3.00pm David Saudubray Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano (transc. Ulrich von Wrochem) Graham Johnson piano Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1 Confinement and Freedom: women abandoned £16 concs £14 and on the open road Part of the U25s scheme: Free tickets for schools and 8-25 year olds at selected Schubert Vedi quanto adoro concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Schumann Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart Music Trust. To book, please contact the Box Op. 135 Office and quote ‘UNDER 25s’ Berlioz Zaïde from Feuillets d’album Saint-Saëns L’attente Duparc Au pays où se fait la guerre Liszt Die drei Zigeuner Tchaikovsky Gypsy Song Dvořák Gypsy Songs Op. 55 £16 Caroline Goulding Anna Huntley Julien Brocal Lise Berthaud © Giorgia Bertazzi © Kaupo Kikkas © Billy Collins © Neda Navaee wigmore-hall.org.uk MARCH • 5 Monday 2 March Wigmore Study Group: 7.30pm Beethoven Beethoven Quartet Cycle Monday 24 February Belcea Quartet Thursday 27 February Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 Monday 2 March No. 4; String Quartet in E flat Op. 74 ‘Harp’; All dates 3.00pm – 6.00pm String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Come and immerse yourself in the string £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 quartets of Beethoven. To the 18th-century Our Beethoven Celebration has been listener, the four-voice texture of the string made possible thanks to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle quartet was closely associated with both Foundation, and additional support from the Beethoven Circle the contrapuntal learned style and the art of conversation. He had always been fascinated Forthcoming Concerts in the Series by the minutiae of the instruments he wrote Tuesday 3 March 7.30pm for, instructing himself in his Tagebuch to ‘share a meal with someone, where one can Friday 5 June 7.00pm NB time discuss this and that, instruments etc., violins, Sunday 7 June 7.30pm cellos...’. In this study series, we will look at works from all periods of the composer’s life, exploring his monumental contribution to the Tuesday 3 March genre. The series is presented by composer 1.00pm Julian Philips, with pianist Laura Roberts, guest speakers and student performers from Giuseppe Guarrera piano the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. YCAT Lunchtime Series 2019/20 Returns Only Chopin Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat Op. 61 Our Beethoven Celebration has been made possible thanks Ravel From Miroirs: Oiseaux tristes, Une to a lead gift from André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle Foundation, and additional support barque sur l’océan & Alborada del gracioso from the Beethoven Circle Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat Op. 83 £14 concs £12 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for the support from the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity and the International Music and Art Ludwig van Beethoven Foundation for this series © Joseph Karl Stieler Belcea Quartet Giuseppe Guarrera © Marco Borggreve © Kaupo Kikkas 6 • MARCH Box Office: 020 7935 2141 Tuesday 3 March Wednesday 4 March 7.30pm 7.30pm Beethoven Quartet Cycle Florilegium Belcea Quartet Ashley Solomon flute, recorder, director Beethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 Alexandra Bellamy oboe No. 5; String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 Bojan Čičić violin ‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in E flat Op. 127 Reiko Ichise viola da gamba £40 £35 £30 £25 £18 Our Beethoven Celebration has been L’Europe Galante made possible thanks to a lead gift from Handel Sonata a5 in B flat HWV288 André and Rosalie Hoffmann, the Foyle Foundation, and additional support from the Beethoven Circle Vivaldi Concerto in C RV87 Abel Pieces for solo viola da gamba in D Wednesday 4 March from the Drexel manuscript: Prelude WK194, 10.15am and 11.45am Andante WK187, Tempo di minuet WK188, Adagio WK189 & Vivace WK190 Chamber Tots: In Space Buffardin Concerto a5 in E minor for flute and strings Join us on a musical adventure in space in Telemann Concerto in A minor for recorder, these interactive music sessions for children viola da gamba and strings TWV52:a1 aged 1 to 5 and their parents or carers.