October 2016 Barbara Hannigan INSIDE: Alison Balsom Jamie Barton Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Christian Gerhaher Janine Jansen Igor Levit Pavel Haas Quartet Phantasm Christoph Prégardien Nathalie Stutzmann & Orfeo 55 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. 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. There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge. 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Wigmore Hall • HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Royal Patron The Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838 Cover: Barbara Hannigan © Elmer de Haas Peter Dazeley 2 Saturday 1 October 7.30 pm 1 Wigmore Hall Debut † † Barbara Hannigan soprano Calder Quartet Raphael Brand Peter Eötvös Korrespondenz (String Quartet No. 1) Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 Peter Eötvös The sirens cycle* (world première) * Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation; Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich; Barbara Hannigan Alte Oper Frankfurt; Centro Nacional de Difusion Musical, Madrid; Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Paris, ProQuartet-Centre européen de musique de chambre, Paris and by the Südwestrundfunk (Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks) Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan performs like a force of nature, Autumn de Wilde captivating audiences with her artistry’s presence and expressive vitality. She joins the Calder Quartet, winner of the 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, for the world première of The sirens cycle by Peter Eötvös. The Hungarian composer’s new score for Wigmore Hall explores the full range of Hannigan’s striking coloratura voice. The programme opens with Korrespondenz, a series of three vivid ‘scenes’ for string quartet completed in 1993. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series Calder Quartet Sunday 2 October 11.30 am 2 Van Kuijk Quartet Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’ Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10 The Van Kuijk Quartet, winner of the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, presents an ideal pairing of works. Haydn’s ‘Sunrise’ Quartet stands here as companion to Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, a work rooted in the great Classical tradition yet strikingly original in musical substance and complexity. £13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Van Kuijk Quartet Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Sunday 2 October 12.00 noon – 4.30 pm Silver Sunday: Musical Pictures As part of Silver Sunday, we invite people living with dementia and their family, friends and carers to join us in the beautiful spaces © Silver Sunday of The Wallace Collection and Wigmore Hall. Meet at The Wallace Collection at 12.00 noon for tea and sandwiches before exploring the gallery, then turn pictures into music at Wigmore Hall with Julian West and students from the Royal Academy of Music. Free (booking required) In partnership with The Wallace Collection, Westminster Arts and the Royal Academy of Music Wigmore Hall Learning Event 3 Sunday 2 October 7.30 pm Nathalie Stutzmann director, contralto Orfeo 55 Please note change of programme HANDEL: HEROES FROM THE SHADOWS Handel Overture from Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Poro; L’aure che spira from Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Serse; Larghetto from Concerto Grosso in E minor Op. 6 No. 3; Son qual stanco Pellegrino from Arianna in Creta; Allegro from Concerto Grosso in E minor Op. 6 No. 3; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Orlando; Pena tiranna from Amadigi di Gaula; Allegro from Sinfonia in Bb HWV338; Sinfonia (Act 3) from Partenope; Son contenta di morire from Radamisto; Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina; Concerto Grosso in D minor Op. 3 No. 5 (Mvts 3–5 Adagio, Allegro ma non troppo and Allegro only); Non so, se sia la speme from Serse; Allegro from Concerto Grosso in G minor Op. 6 No. 6; Saro qual vento from Alessandro One of the most charismatic musical personalities of our time, Nathalie Stutzmann’s work as contralto and conductor has won countless admirers in recent years, especially in partnership with her own versatile ensemble, Orfeo 55. This programme, entitled ‘Heroes from the Shadows’, makes stars of Handel’s unfairly overlooked roles as we explore glorious arias performed by Arsamene, Zenobia and Cornelia, among others. £50 £40 £30 £25 £15 Early Music and Baroque Series DR – VG Simon Fowler Nathalie Stutzmann Orfeo 55 Monday 3 October 1.00 pm 3 Steven Isserlis cello Olli Mustonen piano Outi Montosen Schumann 3 Romances Op. 94 Jean-Baptiste Millot Olli Mustonen Frei, aber einsam* (UK première) Shostakovich Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40 *Co-commissioned by Concertgebouw Brugge, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation Frei, aber einsam – ‘Free, but alone’ – connects with the abbreviated title of the collaborative F-A-E Sonata by Schumann, his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Brahms. Steven Isserlis Olli Mustonen Olli Mustonen’s work, a short Invention for solo cello written for Steven Isserlis, serves as a bridge between the flowing melodies of Schumann’s Three Romances and the turbulent emotions of Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata in D minor. All seats £15 BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert 4 Monday 3 October 7.30 pm Jan Lisiecki piano Bach Partita No. 2 in C minor BWV826 Schumann Klavierstücke Op. 32 Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20; 2 Nocturnes Op. 48 Mathias Bothor/DG Schubert 4 Impromptus D935 Born in Canada to Polish parents in 1995, Jan Lisiecki made his international breakthrough at the age of fifteen when Warsaw’s Fryderyk Chopin Institute released his debut recording of Chopin’s piano concertos. He returns to Wigmore Hall for a recital complete with Chopin’s virtuosic Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op. 20 and Schubert’s evergreen Four Impromptus D935. £36 £30 £25 £20 £15 WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA LE N T Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Jan Lisiecki London Pianoforte Series Tuesday 4 October 1.00pm 4 YCAT Wigmore Lunchtime Series 2016/17 Sean Shibe guitar Dowland Forlorn Hope Fancy; Fantasia No. 7 Benjamin Ealovega Walton Five Bagatelles Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland Op. 70 Born in Edinburgh in 1992, Sean Shibe studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and currently with Paolo Pegoraro in Italy. He is the first guitarist to be admitted to the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists scheme and the only solo guitarist to have received a Borletti–Buitoni Trust Fellowship. Sean Shibe ‘From the very first note he plays, Sean Shibe immediately draws in the attention of the audience … Sean Shibe created a magical atmosphere; he seems to intimately understand the meaning behind every note which he plays.’ Classical Guitar Magazine, Wigmore Hall, February 2014 £13 concs £11 Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490) YCAT is grateful for support from the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation, the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series. Tuesday 4 October 7.30pm Kirckman Concert Society Series Tim Lowe cello Andrew Brownell piano Beethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2 Fauré Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor Op. 117 Sibelius Malinconia Op. 20 Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano Outstanding young British cellist Tim Lowe returns to Wigmore Hall with an exciting programme celebrating the lyric voice of the cello, ranging from Beethoven’s Tim Lowe Andrew Brownell exploration to Fauré and Franck, both heirs to his discoveries. Juxtaposed with these masterpieces is Sibelius’s dark lamentation on the death of his child. £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 Kirckman Concert Society Supported by The LankellyChase Foundation 5 Wednesday 5 October 7.30 pm 5 Wigmore Hall Debut * Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Collegium 1704* Frank Bonitatibus Václav Luks conductor SEMIRAMIDE ‘LA SIGNORA REGALE’ Caldara Introduzione & Povera navicella from Semiramide in Ascalona Handel/Vinci Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from Semiramide riconosciuta Jommelli Barbaro, non dolerti ...Tradita, sprezzata from Semiramide riconosciuta Gluck Ballet Suite from Semiramis; Fuggi dagl’occhi miei from La Semiramide riconosciuta Bertoni Non so se più t’accendi from Semiramide riconosciuta Bianchi Sinfonia from La vendetta di Nino Paisiello Serbo in seno il cor piagato from La Semiramide in villa Anna Bonitatibus Nasolini Deh sospendi a’ pianti miei… Serbo ancora un’alma altera from La morte di Semiramide Catel Dances Nos.