december 2015 - wigmore hall

December 2015

Box Office 020 7935 2141Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

INSIDE:L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar& Núria RialBirmingham ContemporaryMusic GroupChristian BlackshawThe Cardinall’s MusickAndreas HaefligerBrad MehldauWaltraud MeierPatricia PetibonQuatuor Ebène & Mitsuko UchidaJordi Savall & Hespèrion XXIand many more

Elīna Garanca

How to BookWigmore Hall Box Office36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

In Person7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert10am – 5pm. No advance booking in the half hour prior to a concert.

By Telephone: 020 7935 21417 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.uk7 days a week; 24 hours a day.There is a non-refundable £2.00 administration charge.

Standby TicketsStandby tickets for students, senior citizens and the unemployed are availablefrom one hour before the performance (subject to availability) with bestavailable seats sold at the lowest price.NB standby tickets are not available for Lunchtime and Coffee Concerts.

Group DiscountsDiscounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability.

LatecomersLatecomers will only be admitted during a suitable pause in the performance.

Facilities for Disabled Peoplefull details available from 020 7935 2141or [email protected]

Wigmore Hall has been awarded the BronzeCharter Mark from Attitude is Everything

TICKETSUnless otherwise stated, tickets aredivided into five prices ranges:

Stalls C – MHighest price

Stalls A – B, N – P2nd highest price

Balcony A – D2nd highest price

Stalls BB, CC, Q – S3rd highest price

Stalls AA, T – V4th highest price

Stalls W – XLowest price

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The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary.

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Tuesday 1 December 1.00 pm

YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2015/16

Benjamin Baker violin

Daniel Lebhardt piano

Britten Suite for violin and piano Op. 6Schubert / Ernst ErlkönigElgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82

Last year, Benjamin Baker made his debutwith the Philharmonia Orchestra conductedby Nicholas Collon. His first CD for ChampsHill Records was released in 2015 andselected as the Classic FM Drive FeaturedAlbum. Benjamin is joined by YCAT andYCA (USA) pianist, Daniel Lebhardt.

£13 concs £11

Young Classical Artists Trust(Reg. Charity No. 326490)

YCAT is grateful for support for this series from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund and the legacy of Richard Oake.


Rosenblatt Recitals 2015/16

Dorottya Láng mezzo-soprano

Helmut Deutsch piano

Wolf Gutmann und Gutweib; Anakreons Grab; Der Schäfer;Blumengruß; Königlich Gebet; Die BekehrteLiszt Der du von dem Himmel bist; Freudvoll und leidvoll;Über allen Gipfeln ist RuhThomas Elle est là, près de lui! from MignonBerlioz D’amour l’ardente flame from La Damnation de FaustSchubert Rastlose Liebe; Meeres Stille; Gretchen amSpinnrade; Heidenröslein; Wandrers Nachtlied II;An Schwager Kronos; An die EntfernteGounod Faites-lui mes aveux from Faust

Hungarian mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng has won worldwideacclaim and numerous accolades including first prize at theEmmerich Smola Musik Debut Competition in 2013. She joinsthe ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera for the 2015/16season, as well as making her London recital debut.

‘She quickly showed herself to be a singer of great musicalpoise. With rich and even tone rising to a pure top, she caughtthe classical restraint and elegance of Schubert’s lines.’Daily Telegraph

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Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on28 October (Sumi Hwang)11 November (Quinn Kelsey)

Benjamin Baker Daniel Lebhardt

Helmut Deutsch

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ATOS Trio

Wednesday 2 December 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert TalkAn introduction to the lunchtime concert with Edward Nesbit, winner of OPUS2015.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event


Britten SinfoniaJacqueline Shave violin

Richard Watkins horn

Huw Watkins piano

Huw Watkins Trio for horn, violin and pianoEdward Nesbit Lifesize Gods* (London première)Brahms Albumblatt; Horn Trio in Eb Op. 40

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with thesupport of donors to the Musically Gifted campaign,and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

When Brahms wrote his Horn Trio, the combination of horn, violin and piano was considered an innovation.His evergreen score has since inspired several works for the same forces, two of which feature in this programme.Huw Watkins’s trio alternates driving rhythmic passages with slower contemplative music, presented here alongsidethe London première of a new Horn Trio written by Edward Nesbit, winner of OPUS2015, Britten Sinfonia andWigmore Hall’s competition for unpublished composers.

£13 concs £11

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series


ATOS TrioBeethoven Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2; Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11;Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2

Beethoven, already in demand in Vienna’s musical circles, reinforced his position in the imperial city with thepublication of his three Op. 1 Piano Trios in 1795. He regularly returned to the piano trio medium over the nextfifteen years, outlining a chilling vision of the supernatural in his ‘Ghost’ Trio and emulating the warmth andcharm of folk music in its companion piece, the Piano Trio in E flat.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/ATOS Trio: Beethoven Piano Trios

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Andreas Haefliger piano

Please note change of programme

Mozart Adagio in B minor K540Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5

Andreas Haefliger’s Perspectives project, in which he explores the completepiano sonatas of Beethoven alongside works by other composers rangingfrom Mozart to Ligeti, has formed the focus of his solo recital appearancesand recordings in recent years. He comes to Wigmore Hall to present oneinstalment of his series. Beethoven’s expressive and lyrical E minor PianoSonata Op. 90 is presented in company with the pulsating energy of Bartók’sfive Szabadban pieces, Brahms’s monumental F minor Piano Sonata Op. 5,and a miniature masterwork by Mozart.

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London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

Friday 4 December 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Relaxed Concert withMembers of Aurora OrchestraMusicians from the renowned Aurora Orchestra present a diverseprogramme of music in a relaxed and informal environment. Thisconcert is open to everyone, and is especially welcoming to peoplewith Autistic Spectrum Disorders or learning disabilities.

£5

Pictured right: 3D model of Aurora Orchestra


Friday 4 December 7.30 pm

Iestyn Davies countertenor

Allan Clayton tenor

James Baillieu piano

Purcell/Tippett Music for a whilePurcell/Britten Sweeter than RosesPurcell/Adès Full Fathom FiveBritten Canticle I: My beloved is mine Op. 40Thomas Adès The Lover in WinterBritten Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac Op. 51Nico Muhly New work for countertenor, tenorand piano* (world première)Barber Rain has fallen; Sleep now; I hear an army Nico Muhly Four Traditional SongsBritten Sally in our Alley; The Plough Boy; I wonder as I wander; Oliver CromwellPurcell/Britten Lost is my quiet; Sound the trumpet

*Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swissgrant-making foundation, by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, and anonymous donors

American composer Nico Muhly’s feeling for the sounds and clarity of pre-Classical music has proved a stronginfluence on his acclaimed work. His new score crowns an ear-catching programme shrewdly devised byJames Baillieu to spotlight the highest levels of invention and sophistication of English and American song.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series/Introducing James Baillieu/Focus on Nico Muhly

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Saturday 5 December 7.30 pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music GroupDominic Muldowney conductor

Roderick Williams baritone

Dominic Muldowney Six Cabaret Songs*: Adlestrop;At Last the Secret is Out; Foxtrot (from a play); Funeral Blues;Uffington; Underneath the abject willowDominic Muldowney Two Shakespeare Settings: Winter;Fear No MoreDominic Muldowney New song setting** (world première tour)Howard Skempton The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ***(world première tour)

*BCMG Sound Investment commission 2011**BCMG commission***Commissioned by Maurice and Sheila Millward

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, acclaimed worldwidefor the brilliance of its playing and innovative work in the concerthall and in the wider community, emerged from within the City ofBirmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1987.The ensemble returns to Wigmore Hallto perform works by two outstandingBritish composers. Howard Skemptoncreated his recent setting of Coleridge’sThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner forRoderick Williams and BCMG, forminganother part of the composer’s long-termrelationship with the ensemble. Thegroup’s enduring commitment to the artof Dominic Muldowney, former musicdirector of the Royal National Theatre,is reflected in a selection of songs settingpoetry by, among others, Auden,Shakespeare and Housman.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

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Sunday 6 December 11.30 am

Aquinas Piano TrioSaint-Saëns Piano Trio No. 1 in F Op. 18Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2 in C minorOp. 66

Gramophone noted how the AquinasPiano Trio was ‘spot-on in interpretativeinstinct’ in its recent recording ofSaint-Saëns’s Piano Trios. The acclaimedBritish ensemble opens this recital withthe composer’s Piano Trio No. 1 of 1863,his first big success, and continues withMendelssohn’s magnificent Piano TrioNo. 2 in C minor Op. 66.

£13 concs £11incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Supported by John and Amy Ford

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Aquinas Piano Trio

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

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7Monday 7 December 1.00 pm

Adrian Brendel cello

Aleksandar Madžar piano

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minorSir Harrison Birtwistle Variations for celloand pianoChopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 65

Known as one of the most thoughtful andversatile cellists of his generation, AdrianBrendel draws inspiration from a richfield of music. His deep experienceof contemporary music and passion forjazz and world music inform his approachto works from his instrument’s classicalmainstream. He is joined by Serbian pianistAleksandar Madžar, another musician ofstriking imagination and individuality.

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Sunday 6 December 7.30 pm

Quatuor EbèneMitsuko Uchida piano

Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2 Ravel String Quartet in F Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

Exquisite contrasts of colour and lyrical invention hallmark the two works in this programme’s first half, richlyprojected by the warmth of Haydn’s Op. 20 No. 2 and impassioned spirit of Ravel’s String Quartet in F. MitsukoUchida, who has taken a close interest in Quatuor Ebène since the group’s early years, joins the thrilling Frenchquartet in Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat, a work of near-symphonic scale and intensity.

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Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2015/16 Wigmore Series

Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trustwith ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season

CAVATINAChamber Music Trustwww.cavatina.net

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Monday 7 December 7.30 pm

The Monday Platform

Philip Attard saxophone

Christine Zerafa piano

Luka Okros solo piano

Milhaud Scaramouche Op. 165b (arr. for saxophone and piano) Schmitt Légende Op. 66 Takashi Yoshimatsu Fuzzy Bird Sonata Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 28Bach/Siloti Prelude in B minor BWV855a Rachmaninov Moments musicaux in E minor Op. 16 No. 4

Maltese saxophonist Philip Attard and Georgian pianist Luka Okros have both studied on the Master’s course atthe Royal College of Music. They were chosen by audition for the Young Artists Platform scheme in early 2015and perform as part of The Monday Platform series for the first time.

£20 £18 £14 £12 £10

Promoted by the Friends of Young Artists Platform

Supported by The Tillett Trust and the Milton Grundy Foundation


Christian Poltéra cello

Kathryn Stott piano

Dvorák Sonatina in G Op. 100 (arr. for cello and piano by Christian Poltéra) Barber Cello Sonata Op. 6Brahms Scherzo in C minor (arr. for cello and piano by Christian Poltéra) Brahms Sonata in D minor Op. 108

Brahms admired and championed the music of Dvorák, introducing the young Czech artist’s music to his publisherand to influential German critics. Christian Poltéra’s programme includes arrangements of the Sonatina Dvorákcreated for his two children at the end of his stay in New York in 1893, and the Scherzo Brahms wrote as part of acomposite work with Robert Schumann and Albert Dietrich.

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Jonathan Biss piano

Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457Schoenberg 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19Mozart Piano Sonata in F K533/494Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

Jonathan Biss presents two great works from the finaldecade of Mozart’s life, travelling through the emotionallyturbulent world of the composer’s Piano Sonata in C minorand exploring the harmonic daring and contrapuntalinvention of the late Piano Sonata in F. The Americanpianist also offers his latest thoughts on Schumann’sKreisleriana, a work central to his repertoire, and includesSchoenberg’s iconoclastic Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series

Thursday 10 December 7.30 pm

I FagioliniAnna Markland piano

Matthew Long tenor

Roderick Williams baritone

Poulenc Sept Chansons Fauré Poème d’un jour Op. 21Françaix Ode à la gastronomie (London première)Milhaud Deux poèmes Op. 39 Ravel Adagio from PianoConcerto in G major (arr. Roderick Williams for pianoand voices) Roderick Williams Is 5

I Fagiolini, founded by Robert Hollingworth almost thirtyyears ago, remains at the forefront of exploration andadventure in the performance of music for vocal ensemble.This programme celebrates the group’s love of Frenchmusic, and includes a rare performance of Jean Françaix’shumorous but beautiful ‘Ode to gastronomy’ for twelvevoices. In addition, to mark the 50th birthday of RoderickWilliams, whose solo singing career arose from his yearswith I Fagiolini, this programme includes his moving arrangement of the Adagio from Ravel’s Piano Concerto in Gand ‘Is 5’, an original work setting the poetry of e. e. cummings, composed for I Fagiolini in 1995.

£30 £25 £20 £15 £10

Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

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Friday 11 December and Saturday 12 December 10.00 am – 10.45 am; 11.00 am – 11.45 am12.45 pm – 1.30 pm; 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm

A Winter DreamINTERACTIVE PERFORMANCEFor ages 1– 5 years

Aurora Orchestra musicians guide little feet on an immersive journey through wintery worlds. Featuring works byDebussy, this multi-sensory interactive performance enables families to step inside this magical music and comeface-to-face with the characters it creates. Enter into our enchanted winter to listen and explore together.

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In partnership with Aurora Orchestra



Wigmore Hall Debut

Elīna Garanca mezzo-soprano

Malcolm Martineau piano

Songs by Brahms, Duparc and Rachmaninov

Lyric mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanca made herprofessional debut soon after she commencedsinging studies in her native Latvia, and stormedto international prominence in 2003 at theSalzburg Festival. In demand at the world’sleading opera houses, she has also flourishedas a song recitalist and forged a strong artisticpartnership with Malcolm Martineau. TheirWigmore Hall programme spans a vast rangeof emotions, moods and expressive contrasts,opening doors into the inner worlds of threeexceptional song composers.

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A Winter DreamINTERACTIVE PERFORMANCEFor ages 1– 5 years See Friday 11 December opposite for full details

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Saturday 12 December 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash Ensemble John Mark Ainsley tenor

Mozart String Quintet in Bb K174Respighi Deità silvane (arr. D Matthews for tenorand ensemble)Rossini Songs from Les soirées musicalesMendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Op. 87

Mozart’s earliest string quintet and Mendelssohn’slate Second Quintet, with its impassioned slowmovement, frame this fascinating programme.John Mark Ainsley joins the Nash for the concert’sItalian element, Respighi’s magical portraits ofthe ‘woodland deities’ of antiquity, and songs written during Rossini’s long retirement as an opera composer.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.

To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Chamber Music Season /Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians


Hugo Wolf QuartettHaydn String Quartet in G Op. 33 No. 5 Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’

Founded in Vienna in 1993, the Hugo Wolf Quartett combines curiosity with compassion in its dynamic approach tomaking music. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall concert opens with Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 5, popularly known asthe ‘How-do-you-do?’ for its genial introduction, and touches the anxious heart of Schubert’s ‘Death and the Maiden’.

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Hespèrion XXI Jordi Savall director, treble viol

MUSICAL EUROPE: 1550–1650

ITALIAN DANCES OF THE VENETIAN RENAISSANCEAnonymous Pavana del Re; Galliarda la Traditora; El Todescho; Saltarello

ELIZABETHAN CONSORT MUSIC John Dowland Lacrimae Pavan; The King of Denmark, His galliardOrlando Gibbons In Nomine a 4 William Brade Ein Schottisch Tanz

SPANISH DANCES AND VARIATIONSLuys del Milà Pavana & GallardaAntonio de Cabezón Diferencias sobre la Dama le demandaDiego Ortiz Romanesca & Passamezzo modernoAnonymous (improvisation) Canarios

MUSIC FOR KING LOUIS XIIIAnonymous (Philidor) Pavane de la petitteGuerre & Gaillarde; Sarabanda a l’italien;Courante de la Reine d’Angleterre;Bourrée d’Avignonez

GERMAN MUSICSamuel Scheidt Paduan V; CourantDolorosa IX; Galliard Battaglia XXI

EUROPEAN BAROQUE MUSICJoan Cabanilles Corrente ItalianaHenry Purcell Fantasia XIIGuillaume Dumanoir Libertas Antonio Valente Gallarda Napolitana

For all the difficulties of travel four centuries ago, fresh ideas flowed freely between major European centres of tradeand commerce. Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI have probably done more than any other ensemble to show thecorrespondences and cross-fertilisation that occurred when musicians absorbed new fashions from abroad andexported their knowledge to other lands. Their programme shows how simple dance forms were transformed intoworks of irresistible elegance for the ears of Renaissance Europe’s powerbrokers and leaders.

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Early Music and Baroque Series

Hespèrion XXI


Rachel Podger violin

Marcin Swiatkiewiczharpsichord, organ

David Miller lute

Biber Mystery Sonatas:No. 1 ‘The Annunciation’; No. 2 ‘The Visitation’;No. 3 ‘The Nativity’; No. 9 ‘Jesus Carriesthe Cross’; No. 10 ‘The Crucifixion’;No. 11 ‘The Resurrection’; Passacaglia

German composers of the seventeenthcentury cultivated extraordinary works forviolin, hallmarked by their virtuosity and invention. Heinrich Biber’s so-called Mystery Sonatas, completed in themid-1670s, rank among the genre’s finest achievements. Rachel Podger presents a selection of pieces from theset, exploring their spiritual relationship to the ancient Rosary devotion and revealing their transcendent beauty.

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La Nuova MusicaDavid Bates director

Anna Stéphany mezzo-soprano (Orontea)

Jonathan McGovern baritone (Alidoro)

Mary Bevan soprano (Silandra)

Michal Czerniawski countertenor (Corindo)

Anat Edri soprano (Giacinta)

Sam Furness tenor (Aristea)

Timothy Dickinson bass (Creonte)

Christopher Turner tenor (Tibrino)

Callum Thorpe bass-baritone (Gelone)

Cesti Orontea

In the mere eight years since La NuovaMusica’s foundation, the ensemblehas surged to prominence, hailed byBBC Radio 3 as ‘one of the mostexciting consorts in the Early Music field’,and acclaimed by reviewers worldwidefor the expressive freedom, deepintelligence and coruscating beauty ofits performances. Arguably one of themost popular operas of the seventeenthcentury, La Nuova Musica and its stellarcast of singers bring to life Cesti’s Oronteain the intimate setting of Wigmore Hall.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours and15 minutes in duration, including an interval

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Waltraud Meier mezzo-soprano

Joseph Breinl piano

Mahler KindertotenliederWagner Wesendonck LiederMahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:Rheinlegendchen; Wo die schönen Trompetenblasen; Des Antonius von Padua FischpredigtMahler Five Rückert Lieder

One of the world’s finest Wagnerians, a singer ofremarkable expressive power and radiant vocalrichness, Waltraud Meier explores the heightenedemotional states of songs by Mahler and Wagner.She moves from the grief-stricken energy of Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder to Wagner’s intensely Romantic WesendonckLieder in her programme’s first half. Her recital concludes with Mahler’s ‘Five Rückert Lieder’, first published in 1910,a year before the composer’s death, in company with songs from his ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’ settings.

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Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Song Recital Series

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Wigmore Hall Debut

Patricia Petibon soprano

Susan Manoff piano

LA BELLE EXCENTRIQUE

Hahn A Chloris; Pholoé; Quand je fus pris au pavillonFauré Spleen Rosenthal Rêverie; Pêcheur de luneFauré Les berceaux Rosenthal Fido, Fido & L’éléphantdu jardin des plantes from Chansons du Monsieur BleuPoulenc Hôtel; Voyage à Paris; Hier; Les gars qui vontà la fête; Les chemins de l’amourCollet A vida dos arreiros Obradors El vito Falla AsturianaTurina Cantares Canteloube Pastouro, sé tu m’aymo;La delaïssádo Satie Sur un vaisseau (for solo piano); La statue de bronze; DaphénéoBernstein La Bonne Cuisine Gershwin Prelude (for solo piano) Lara Granada

The sounds and artistic concerns of Belle Époque Paris echo throughout Patricia Petibon’s glorious programme,complete with chansons by Poulenc and Fauré. The French coloratura soprano, in company with her regular duopartner Susan Manoff, also explores the exquisitely eccentric musical inventions of Erik Satie and songs from thelong-lived Manuel Rosenthal’s Chansons du Monsieur Bleu.

£36 £30 £25 £20 £15

Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.

Song Recital Series

Thursday 17 December 7.30 pm

Brad Mehldau piano

Bach Preludes and Fugues from The Well-tempered ClavierBrad Mehldau Three Pieces After Bach* (UK première);Improvisations on Bach

*Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto,The National Concert Hall Dublin, and Wigmore Hall with the support of AndréHoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Even the most densely stocked thesaurus would run short of thesuperlatives needed to describe American composer, arranger and pianistBrad Mehldau’s creative contribution to the development of contemporaryjazz. He returns to Wigmore Hall to perform a selection of his own material,including a première of a specially commissioned work.

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

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Wigmore Hall Jazz Series


Brad Mehldau piano

A PROGRAMME OF IMPROVISED JAZZ

For many years Brad Mehldau has been fascinated with the art ofimprovisation and how other composers and their soundworlds influence theear of a jazz musician. Brad joins us for an evening of improvisation sureto be a sparkling highlight of this season’s Jazz Series at Wigmore Hall.

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

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Belcea Quartet 20th Anniversary Series

Belcea QuartetTill Fellner piano

Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6Thomas Larcher New work for string quartet* (UK première)Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34

*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of AndréHoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swissgrant-making foundation

The Belcea Quartet’s collaboration with Thomas Larcher, securely established three years ago with his Piano Quintet,continues with the UK première of his latest Wigmore Hall commission. Austrian pianist Till Fellner joins the Belceasfor Brahms’s expansive Piano Quintet in F minor, a work of wholehearted lyricism and free-flowing thematic variation.

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Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series


Doric String QuartetHaydn String Quartet in G Op. 64 No. 4Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1

Schumann’s String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 arosefrom his close study of Beethoven’s late string quartetsand the contributions to the genre by Haydn and Mozart.The Doric String Quartet sets the scene with Haydn’sastonishingly individual, wonderfully subversive responseto Classical conventions of composition.


Sunday Morning Coffee Concert Doric String Quartet

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EXAUDIJames Weeks director

EIN KIND IST UNS GEBOREN

Schütz From Geistliche Chormusic (1648): Ein Kind istuns geboren; Das Wort ward Fleisch; Ich bin ein rechterWeinstock; Selig sind die Toten; Ich weiss, dass meinErlöser lebt; O lieber Herre Gott; Die mit Tränen säen;So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ; Es ist erschienen dieheilsame Gnade Gottes; Unser keiner lebet ihm selber;Viel werden kommen; Herr, auf dich traue ichChristopher Fox Trostlieder (in Widerwärtigkeit des Kriegs)* (world première)

*Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swissgrant-making foundation; additional commissioning partners to be announced

Following formative training in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli, Heinrich Schütz devoted his long creative life to his dutiesas Kapellmeister to the electors of Saxony in Dresden. EXAUDI explores treasures from the composer’s great anthologyof sacred pieces, the Geistliche Chormusic, published in the closing months of the bloody Thirty Years War. ChristopherFox’s new work, written specially for this concert in his 60th birthday year, is a companion piece to Schütz’s greatmasterpiece, and sets texts from Martin Opitz’s ‘Poems of Comfort’ (1633), which Schütz would have known well.

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Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary Music Series

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L’Arpeggiata; Christina Pluhar director, theorbo

Núria Rial soprano

LA DAMA D’ARAGO

Traditional (Catalan) La dama d’Aragó; La Filadora; La Margarideta; Mareta, no’m faces plorar; La gata i en belitre;La presó de Lleida; La ploma de perdiu; La Mare de Déu; El Cant dels aucells; Eixa nit és nit de vetlla; El MarinerImprovisation Canario (instrumental) Anonymous Bella, de vós som amorós from Cançoner del Duc de Calabria(pub. 1556); Ciaccona (instrumental) Soler Fandango (instrumental) Traditional (Ladino) Durme, durme (CanciónSefardí) Traditional (Mallorcan) Jota Marineira (instrumental); Bolero de s’escandalari

Edgy and exciting, impassioned and profoundly moving, every performance by Christina Pluhar’s L’Arpeggiata opensup for the listener the chance to connect with the visceral power of music being made as if for the first time. TraditionalCatalan and Mallorcan songs and dances provide the departure point for this programme, one guaranteed to resonatelong in heart and mind.

This concert will be approximately 90 minutes in duration, without an interval

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Isabelle Faust violin

Jean-Guihen Queyras cello

Alexander Melnikov piano

Schumann Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor Op. 110Salvatore Sciarrino Piano Trio No. 2Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898

Three outstanding soloists and deep-thinkingchamber musicians join forces to perform acaptivating collection of piano trios. SalvatoreSciarrino’s Second Piano Trio dates from the late 1980s and reflects the composer’s long-standing fascination withsound and silence, and the margins between them. Jean-Guihen Queyras and his close friends and colleaguesconclude with Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 1, famously praised by Schumann for its ‘lyrical and feminine’ grace.

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Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust


Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Jean-Guihen Queyras Artist in Residence

Isabelle Faust Jean-Guihen Queyras Alexander Melnikov

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Ensemble CorrespondancesSébastien Daucé director, organ, harpsichord

A LA VENUE DE NOËLFrench sacred music of the seventeenth century for the Christmas season

Anon. (17th century) A la venue de Noël Charpentier A la venue de Noël from Noëls H531Anon. (17th century) Or nous dites Marie Charpentier Or nous dites Marie from Noëls sur les instruments H534Charpentier In nativitatem Domini canticum H416 Charpentier Pastorale sur la naissance de notre SeigneurJésus Christ H483 Charpentier Litanies de la vierge H83

Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s music for Christmas encapsulates the tenderness and loving-kindness surrounding thebirth of Jesus and the celebration of his arrival in the world. Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances haveearned a deserved reputation as perceptive and characterful interpreters of the French composer’s work, attractingrave reviews to a recent recording of his Litanies de la vierge.

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Michael Barenboim violin

Denis Kozhukhin piano

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin Sonata No. 2in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

Brahms wrote his first violin sonata, a work of extraordinarylyrical beauty, in 1878 in the resort town of Pörtschach. Hereturned to the genre almost a decade later, embarking ontwo further works by the shore of Lake Thun in Switzerland.Michael Barenboim and Denis Kozhukhin survey the threecompositions, exploring the composer’s spellbindingeconomy of expression and gorgeous melodic invention.

This concert will be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes in duration, without an interval



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Philippe Cassard piano

DEBUSSY PERSPECTIVES I: DEBUSSY’S TRAVELS

ASIE, ASIE!Debussy Pagodes from Estampes; Pour les quartes No. 3 from Études Book I

MÉDITERRANÉEDebussy La puerta del vino from Préludes Book II; La sérénade interrompuefrom Préludes Book I; La soirée dans Grenade from Estampes; Les collinesd’Anacapri from Préludes Book I

PAYSAGES ET POÈTES FRANÇAISDebussy Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir from PréludesBook I; Apparition; Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (transcribed byPhilippe Cassard)

MYTHOLOGIESDebussy Danseuses de Delphes from Préludes Book I; Et la lune descendsur le temple qui fut from Images, Series II; La terrasse des audiences duclair de lune from Préludes Book II; Pour la danseuse aux crotales & Pour l’égyptienne from Six épigraphes antiques

WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLESDebussy La danse de Puck from Préludes Book I; Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. from Préludes Book II;Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk from Children’s Corner; General Lavine – eccentric from Préludes Book II

Philippe Cassard’s lucid pianism regularly attracts critical praise, thanks, above all, to its blend of refined musicianship,poetic tonal shadings and infinite subtlety. He trains his focus on the piano works of Claude Debussy over the nextthree seasons at Wigmore Hall. This recital marks the first date of the Debussy Perspectives three-concert series,with forthcoming dates on Saturday 29 October 2016 and Monday 20 November 2017.

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Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor

Armonia AteneaGeorge Petrou director, harpsichord

Theodoros Kitsos mandolin

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Hasse Sinfonia a quattro in G minor Op. 5 No. 6 Hasse Saper ti basti ocara from Il trionfo di Clelia; Ch’io parto reo lo vedi from Tito VespasianoHaydn Keyboard Concerto in C HXVIII:1 Hasse Se mai senti from TitoVespasiano; Scherza il nocchier talora from Demetrio; Per pietà, bell’idolmio from Artaserse; Solca il mar e nel periglio fromTigraneHasse Mandolin Concerto in G Op. 3 No. 11 Hasse Se volete eterni deifrom Arminio; Si, di ferri mi cingete from Viriate

Max Emanuel Cencic, acclaimed worldwide for hisartistic distinction and programming enterprise,continues his partnership with George Petrou’sArmonia Atenea with a programme of operatic ariasand other works by Johann Adolf Hasse, among theeighteenth century’s most successful composers.Petrou also directs his award-winning periodinstrument ensemble in Haydn’s genial KeyboardConcerto in C of 1756, written during its youngcomposer’s formative years in Vienna.

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Early Music and Baroque Series George Petrou and Armonia Atenea

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Christian Blackshaw piano

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26Schubert Piano Sonata in D D850

Schumann’s fizzing evocation of Vienna’s Carnival complements the melodicinvention of works by Schubert, one of the Austrian imperial capital’s finest creativeartists. Christian Blackshaw’s programme includes the Piano Sonata in D D850,written at Gastein in the Austrian Alps in 1825, hallmarked by the virtuosity andconcision of its first movement and the symphonic scope of its scherzo.

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Modigliani QuartetBeatrice Rana piano

Schumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3; PianoQuartet in Eb Op. 47; Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44

Formed by four close friends a dozen years ago,the Modigliani Quartet makes regular appearancesat the world’s leading concert halls. The ensembleis joined for this recital by Beatrice Rana, thesensational young winner of the Audience Awardand Second Prize at the 2013 Van CliburnCompetition, for an all-Schumann programmecapped by the composer’s Piano Quintet in E flat, a towering landmark of the nineteenth-century chamber repertoire.

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Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trustwith ongoing support from John Lyon’s Charity.


Thursday 31 December 7.00 pm NB starting time

The Cardinall’s MusickAndrew Carwood director

Britten A Hymn to the Virgin; The Sycamore Tree;A Shepherd’s CarolHowells A Spotless Rose; Sing Lullaby;Here is the little doorWarlock Benedicamus Domino; As Dewe in Aprylle;Bethlehem Down; Cornish Christmas CarolHolst This have I done for my true loveFinzi All this nightElgar Four Choral Songs Op. 53Moeran Songs of SpringtimeVaughan Williams Five English Folksongs

Andrew Carwood’s passion for twentieth-century British sacred choral music took hold during his time as a choral scholarat St John’s College, Cambridge, and has deepened over the intervening three decades. He leads The Cardinall’s Musickinto the New Year with a programme of timeless Christmas compositions and a choice selection of part-songs, includingElgar’s ambitious Four Choral Songs, written over Christmas 1907, and Moeran’s Songs of Springtime.

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How to get to Wigmore HallWigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BPBox Office Tel: 020 7935 2141

John Gilhooly OBE DirectorThe Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838

Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s WestEnd and is easily accessible by public transport or car.

Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and OxfordCircus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stationsare both close by.

Buses A large number of buses travel along OxfordStreet, which is approximately five minutes walk fromWigmore Hall.

Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30pm(Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.Alternatively there are public car parks in CavendishSquare, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all ofwhich are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland ParkingScheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50%discount on their parking. Please contact the box officefor further details or visit our website.

Restaurant and Bars

Full information on pre-concert and interval refreshmentscan be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurantor by calling 020 7258 8292. Table reservations canbe made by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

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