wigmore series spring 2015 brochure

SPRING 2015JANUARY – MARCH 2015 WIGMORE SERIES

Sir András Schiff connects directly with the sound and spirit of works fromthe nineteenth century’s opening decades in three concerts given on a finefortepiano of the period. His six-octave instrument, built in Vienna around1820 by Franz Brodmann, formerly belonged to Charles I of Austria, thelast Habsburg emperor. The monarch took the fortepiano with him to exilein Switzerland in 1918. It later passed to the Swiss harpsichordist andconductor Jörg Ewald Dähler, who in turn presented it to Sir András Schiff.The Brodmann fortepiano, complete with four pedals (due corda, bassoon,moderator and dampers), is presently on loan to the Beethoven-Haus Bonn,of which Schiff is an honorary member.

Sonia Prina and Luca Pianca’s Ensemble Claudiana held their Wigmore Hallaudience spellbound at the end of 2013. This Season they are joined byRoberta Invernizzi, one of the world’s leading interpreters of baroque opera,in a programme seasoned with duet madrigals and chamber cantatas. Theirchoice of repertoire confronts the often closely related conditions, deathand love, and digs deep into the expressive material of works chiefly writtenin or inspired by Venice. The Italian city, a magnet for itinerant musiciansand students such as Handel and Lotti, became the intense focal pointfor international cultural exchange during the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. Also watch out for Luca Pisaroni (with Wolfram Rieger) andAdam Plachetka (with Gary Matthewman) in much anticipated song recitalsin early January.

Jonas Kaufmann’s recital partnership with Helmut Deutsch has deliveredexceptional performances, endorsed by five-star reviews and treasuredmemories for anyone fortunate enough to hear their visionary interpretations,and they join us on 4 January.

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Marking 100 years since the death of the Russian composer and pianistAleksandr Skryabin, Garrick Ohlsson presents the first of two recitals of hissolo piano works. The composer’s all-embracing interest in the occult andmysticism conditioned many of his works, the ‘White Mass’ Sonata and theFifth Piano Sonata among them. This programme takes listeners on a journeythrough the composer’s unique imaginary soundscape, ranging from the earlyOp. 8 Études to the sounds of such sublime miniatures as Désir and Fragilité.

Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imaginationare among the hallmarks of the JACK Quartet’s programme. It opens withGeorg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, the latestin a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualitiesof string sound. John Zorn’s The Dead Man, completed in the late 1990s,reflects insights gathered during the composer’s many years of meditativedeep listening. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and texturalcollisions of Elliott Carter’s String Quartet No. 3, a product of the early1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s new workfor string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of‘New British String Commissions’.

Nicola Benedetti’s heartfelt dedication to music education is well known.She has been working with Wigmore Hall Learning this Season in primaryschools and will give a concert for pupils aged 7 to 11 at the Hall on 21January. Her recital three days later stands as a fundraising gala forWigmore Hall Learning, which turns 21 this year. Please join us tocelebrate the remarkable success of Wigmore Hall’s internationallyacclaimed education and community programme.

Mozart wrote many of his instrumental works with outstanding artists inmind. This Season and next, Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey offers audiencesa feast of performances by some of the finest among today’s interpretersof his music. Kristian Bezuidenhout explores works for solo keyboard onfortepiano, while the glorious Hagen Quartet devotes four concerts toMozart’s mature string quartets. Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien,meanwhile, celebrate the composer’s birthday on 27 January with the latestinstalment in their ongoing survey of his sonatas for violin and piano.

Like all great story-tellers, Florian Boesch’s song interpretations arise fromalchemical combinations of personal experience, innate wisdom and aheightened sense of the collective unconscious. The Austrian baritone’sWigmore Hall residency continues in company with Roger Vignoles inJanuary with an ideal vehicle for his talents, Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch ausden österreichischen Alpen.

Wigmore Hall celebrates the life and work of a towering figure in the storyof English music with one of its most ambitious projects ever. Henry Purcell:A Retrospective unfolds this Season and next, offering audiences a rich

programme of the Londoner’s irresistible art and the chance to hear hisworks performed by a host of the world’s leading Purcellians. Early OperaCompany launches the latest round of Purcell performances with thecomposer’s semi-opera King Arthur, a patriotic entertainment partlyinfluenced by the political and constitutional upheavals of the mid-1680s.

Martin Fröst’s transcendent artistry invariably narrows the gap betweenmatters physical, cerebral and spiritual to create sublime performances,powerfully focused and imbued with profound meaning. The Swedishclarinettist continues his season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence,offering a masterclass in the shaping of interpretative ideas before exploringthe diverse riches of his instrument’s repertoire in concert.

Late masterworks by Beethoven and Schubert form the core of MariaJoão Pires’s recital. She performs Schubert’s 6 Moments Musicaux andBeethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 110, before sharing the stage with her pupilPavel Kolesnikov for Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for piano four-hands.

Paul Lewis continues his season-long series at Wigmore Hall in Februarywhen he is joined by violinist Lisa Batiashvili, with whom he formed a duopartnership in 2013 which has flourished with a succession of acclaimedrecital tours. The programme is sure to engage their all-round artistry andfathom the depths of masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Schubert.

In the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movementto restore expressivity to contemporary German music and open a moderndialogue with the past. While his strikingly original works often connect withthe aesthetics of Romanticism, they do so without trace of nostalgia orsentimental yearning for styles overturned by the cataclysmic upheavals ofthe last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, featuring performancesby artists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches on the myriadways in which his art draws pulsating life from the abiding energy of musicand poetic images of an earlier age.

The 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition is thethirteenth edition of this prestigious Competition, and a celebration of theart of the string quartet. Alongside the Competition itself, we are delightedto welcome back many ‘alumni’ from previous Competitions to perform inconcerts throughout the week.

I look forward to welcoming you to Wigmore Hall during the Spring Series.

John GilhoolyDirector

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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts

Mon 5 Jan Alisa Weilerstein Page 6

Mon 12 Jan Patricia Kopatchinskaja 11Polina Leschenko

Mon 19 Jan Kitty Whately/Joseph Middleton 15

Mon 26 Jan Igor Levit 21

Mon 2 Feb Steven Osborne 26

Mon 9 Feb Olena Tokar/Igor Gryshyn 30

Mon 16 Feb Giuliano Carmignola 35Kristian Bezuidenhout

Mon 23 Feb Louis Schwizgebel 38

Mon 2 Mar Signum Quartet 43

Mon 9 Mar Christiane Karg/Gerold Huber 45

Mon 16 Mar Paolo Pandolfo/Markus Hunninger 48

Mon 23 Mar Danish String Quartet 52

Mon 30 Mar Zhang Zuo 58

Chamber Music Season

Wed 7 Jan Brentano String Quartet 8

Sat 10 Jan Elias String Quartet 8

Mon 12 Jan Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan 11

Wed 14 Jan Britten Sinfonia 12

Wed 14 Jan Gould Piano Trio 12

Fri 16 Jan The Endellion String Quartet 13

Sat 17 Jan Nash Ensemble 13

Sun 18 Jan Jerusalem Quartet 14

Mon 19 Jan JACK Quartet 16

Tue 20 Jan Razumovsky Ensemble 15

Fri 23 Jan Giocoso String Quartet/Trio AlbaNord 18

Fri 23 Jan Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists 17Clio Gould

Sat 24 Jan Darian Trio/Stefan Zweig Trio 18

Sat 24 Jan Nicola Benedetti/Alexei Grynyuk 20

Sun 25 Jan Galatea Quartet 18

Sun 25 Jan Hagen Quartet 19

Mon 26 Jan Hagen Quartet 19

Tue 27 Jan Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 21

Wed 28 Jan Hagen Quartet 23

Thu 29 Jan Hagen Quartet/Jörg Widmann Page 23

Sat 31 Jan Takács Quartet 25

Mon 2 Feb Takács Quartet: Lecture-Recital 26

Wed 4 Feb Britten Sinfonia 27

Thu 5 Feb Anthony Marwood 28Aleksandar Madžar

Sat 7 Feb Nash Ensemble 29

Sun 8 Feb Eggner Trio 30

Thu 12 Feb Lawrence Power 31Simon Crawford-Phillips

Sat 14 Feb Doric Quartet/Andreas Haefliger 33

Sun 15 Feb Martin Fröst/Academy of St Martin 34in the Fields

Mon 16 Feb Susan Tomes/Erich Höbarth 35

Tue 17 Feb Michala Petri/Mahan Esfahani 35

Wed 18 Feb Pavel Haas Quartet/Colin Currie 36

Thu 19 Feb Dante Quartet 36

Sat 21 Feb Pavel Haas Quartet 37

Sun 22 Feb Miloš Karadaglic 38

Mon 23 Feb Lisa Batiashvili/Paul Lewis 39

Tue 24 Feb Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 38

Thu 26 Feb Scottish Ensemble/Amy Dickson 40

Sat 28 Feb Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day 42

Sun 1 Mar Belcea Quartet 41

Wed 4 Mar Britten Sinfonia 43

Thu 5 Mar Alban Gerhardt/Steven Osborne 43

Sat 7 Mar Elias String Quartet 44

Wed 11 Mar Modigliani Quartet 46

Sat 14 Mar Nash Ensemble 47

Mon 16 Mar Pacifica Quartet 49

Wed 18 Mar Nash Ensemble 49

Thu 19 Mar Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek 50

Sun 22 Mar Hilary Hahn/Cory Smythe 52

Tue 24 Mar Arcadia Quartet/Meccorre Quartet 52

Thu 26 Mar Atrium Quartet 54

Sat 28 Mar Wigmore Hall International String 55Quartet Competition Semi-Finals

Sun 29 Mar Wigmore Hall International String 55Quartet Competition Final

SERIES ATA GLANCEJ A N U A R Y – M A R C H 2 0 1 5

See pages 4 – 65 for full details of these concerts and page 67 for booking information.

Series and Events to look out for…

Roberta Invernizzi & Sonia Prina Page 5

Jonas Kaufmann 7

Garrick Ohlsson: Skryabin Focus 6

Rafał Blechacz 8

Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle 8, 44

Sir András Schiff: 9A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Nash Ensemble 13, 25, 28, 29, 47, 4950th Anniversary Season

Bracing Change: New British String Commissions 16

European Chamber Music Academy Showcase 18

The Mozart Odyssey 15, 19, 21, 22, 23, 30

Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall Learning 20with Nicola Benedetti

Introducing Igor Levit 21, 29

Florian Boesch Residency 24

Takács Quartet: Associate Artists 25, 26

Anthony Marwood and Friends 28

Henry Purcell: A Retrospective 28, 31, 32, 33, 37, 46, 49

Martin Fröst Artist in Residence 31, 34

Bohemia 36, 37

Maria João Pires Portrait Series 36

Paul Lewis: A Celebration 39

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day 42

Alban Gerhardt Focus 43

Celebrating Carolyn Sampson 49

The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration 53

2015 Wigmore Hall International 51, 52, 54, 55, 56–57String Quartet Competition

Contemporary Music Series 64–65

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Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts

Sun 4 Jan Guarneri Trio Prague Page 4

Sun 11 Jan Barnabás Kelemen/Olli Mustonen 10

Sun 18 Jan Trio Mondrian 14

Sun 25 Jan Kristian Bezuidenhout 19

Sun 1 Feb Nash Ensemble 25

Sun 8 Feb Valeriy Sokolov/Evgeny Izotov 29

Sun 15 Feb Andreas Ottensamer/José Gallardo 34

Sun 22 Feb Calidore String Quartet 37

Sun 1 Mar Beatrice Rana 41

Sun 8 Mar Kelemen Quartet 44

Sun 15 Mar Daniel Müller-Schott/Lauma Skride 47

Sun 22 Mar Tesla Quartet 51

Sun 29 Mar Dover Quartet 55

Early Music and Baroque Series

Sat 3 Jan Roberta Invernizzi/Sonia Prina 5Ensemble Claudiana/Luca Pianca

Thu 22 Jan Classical Opera 17

Fri 23 Jan Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists 17Clio Gould

Tue 3 Feb EXAUDI 27

Fri 6 Feb Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin 28Jean-Guihen Queyras/Xenia Löffler

Mon 9 Feb Florilegium 30

Wed 11 Feb Early Opera Company 31


Tue 10 Mar The English Concert 46Rosemary Joshua/Sarah Connolly

Fri 13 Mar The King’s Consort 47

Tue 17 Mar Carolyn Sampson/Laurence Cummings 49Elizabeth Kenny/Jonathan Manson

Mon 23 Mar The Cardinall’s Musick 53

Tue 31 Mar Los Músicos de Su Alteza 58

London Pianoforte Series

Tue 6 Jan Garrick Ohlsson 6

Thu 8 Jan Rafał Blechacz 8

Fri 9 Jan Sir András Schiff 9

Tue 13 Jan Sir András Schiff 9

Fri 13 Feb Imogen Cooper 33

Fri 20 Feb Maria João Pires/Pavel Kolesnikov 36

Wed 25 Feb Llyr Williams 40

Fri 6 Mar Francesco Piemontesi 44

Sun 8 Mar Marino Formenti 45

Thu 12 Mar Alexander Melnikov 46

Fri 20 Mar Cédric Tiberghien 50

Wed 25 Mar Louis Lortie 54

Song Recital SeriesFri 2 Jan Luca Pisaroni/Wolfram Rieger Page 4

Sun 4 Jan Adam Plachetka/Gary Matthewman 4

Sun 4 Jan Jonas Kaufmann/Helmut Deutsch 7

Sun 11 Jan Sam Furness/Matthew Fletcher 10

Sun 11 Jan Stephan Loges/Simon Lepper 10

Thu 15 Jan Mark Padmore/Sir András Schiff 9

Sat 17 Jan Sally Matthews/Nash Ensemble 13

Sun 18 Jan Songsmiths with Audrey Hyland 14

Wed 21 Jan Christopher Ainslie/James Baillieu 17Xandi van Dijk

Thu 29 Jan Florian Boesch/Roger Vignoles 24

Fri 30 Jan Juliane Banse/Malcolm Martineau 23

Sun 1 Feb Royal Academy of Music 25Richard Lewis Song Circle

Sun 1 Feb Robin Tritschler/Graham Johnson 26

Wed 4 Feb Christiane Karg/Joseph Middleton 27

Sat 7 Feb Sarah Connolly/Nash Ensemble 29

Sun 8 Feb Simon Bode/Igor Levit 29

Tue 24 Feb Gillian Keith/Rebecca von Lipinski 38Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Fri 27 Feb Marie-Nicole Lemieux/Roger Vignoles 41

Sat 28 Feb Christoph Prégardien/Ulrich Eisenlohr 42

Mon 9 Mar Lucy Crowe/James Baillieu 45

Sat 14 Mar Bernarda Fink/Nash Ensemble 47

Sun 15 Mar Cyrille Dubois/Tristan Raës 48

Sun 15 Mar Markus Werba/Gary Matthewman 48

Wed 18 Mar Claire Booth/Nash Ensemble 49

Sat 21 Mar Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 51

Sun 22 Mar Andrè Schuen/Daniel Heide 51

Fri 27 Mar Benjamin Appl/Graham Johnson 54

Contemporary Music SeriesWed 14 Jan Britten Sinfonia 12

Wed 14 Jan Gould Piano Trio 12

Sat 17 Jan Nash Ensemble 13

Sun 18 Jan Jerusalem Quartet 14

Mon 19 Jan JACK Quartet 16

Tue 3 Feb EXAUDI 27

Wed 4 Feb Britten Sinfonia 27

Sat 7 Feb Nash Ensemble 28

Thu 12 Feb Lawrence Power 31Simon Crawford-Phillips


Wed 18 Feb Pavel Haas Quartet/Colin Currie 36

Tue 24 Feb Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 38

Sat 28 Feb Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day 42

Wed 4 Mar Britten Sinfonia 43

Fri 6 Mar Francesco Piemontesi 44

Sun 8 Mar Marino Formenti 45

Thu 12 Mar Alexander Melnikov Page 46

Sat 14 Mar Nash Ensemble 47

Mon 16 Mar Pacifica Quartet 49

Wed 18 Mar Nash Ensemble 49

Thu 19 Mar Leila Josefowicz/John Novacek 50

Wigmore Hall Jazz SeriesMon 5 Jan Guillermo Klein/Aaron Goldberg 6

Mark Turner/Chris Cheek

Wigmore Hall LearningFri 9 Jan Post-Concert Talk 9

Wed 14 Jan Pre-Concert Talk 12

Fri 16 Jan François Le Roux Masterclass 13

Mon 19 Jan Artists in Conversation 16

Wed 21 Jan Schools Concert: Nicola Benedetti 60

Wed 21 Jan Wigmore Study Group 15

Thu 22 Jan Pre-Concert Talk 17

Fri 23 Jan Wigmore Study Group 15

Sat 24 Jan ECMA Masterclass 18

Sat 24 Jan Celebrating 21 Years of Wigmore Hall 20Learning with Nicola Benedetti

Mon 26 Jan Pre-Concert Talk 19

Tue 27 Jan Wigmore Study Group 15

Sat 31 Jan Family Day: The Music Machine 60

Mon 2 Feb Lecture-Recital: Takács Quartet 26

Wed 4 Feb Pre-Concert Talk 27

Sat 7 Feb Come and Sing: Early Opera 28, 60

Thu 12 Feb Schools Concert: King Arthur 61

Fri 13 Feb Martin Fröst Masterclass 31

Sat 14 Feb Study Afternoon: Purcell’s King Arthur 33

Tue 17 Feb Family Day: Too Hot to Handel 61

Sat 21 Feb Family Concert: 37, 61Purcell’s King Arthur

Tue 24 Feb Artists in Conversation 38

Thu 26 Feb Introduction to Music 40

Sat 28 Feb Artists in Conversation 42

Wed 4 Mar Pre-Concert Talk 43

Thu 5 Mar Introduction to Music 40

Wed 11 Mar Young Producers Concert 62


Wed 18 Mar Pre-Concert Talk 49


Sat 21 Mar CAVATINA Family Concert: 50, 62Carducci String Quartet

Tue 24 Mar Pre-Concert Talk 52

Wed 25 Mar Come and Play 57, 62

Wed 25 Mar Pre-Concert Performance 54

Sat 28 Mar Mark Messenger Masterclass 55

Sun 29 Mar String Quartet Discovery Day 63

WIGMORE SERIESSPRING SEASON JANUARY – MARCH 2015

Booking opens (except where stated) to Friends on 8 October, to Mailing List Subscribers on 21 October, and to the General Public/Online on 4 November

Friday 2 January 7.30 pm

Luca Pisaroni bass-baritone

Wolfram Rieger piano

Mozart Das Veilchen; Komm, liebe Zither, komm;An Chloe; AbendempfindungBeethoven Lied aus der Ferne; Der Kuss;Ich liebe dich; AdelaideMendelssohn Neue Liebe; Gruss; Morgengruss;Allnächtlich im Traume; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges;ReiseliedSchubert From Schwanengesang: Der Atlas;Ihr Bild; Das Fischermädchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer;Der DoppelgängerSchubert Auf dem See; Grenzen der Menschheit;Wandrers Nachtlied II; Erlkönig; Ganymed;An Schwager Kronos

Luca Pisaroni’s recital explores the riches of Germanart song, tracing its development from characterpieces by Mozart to the mature Lieder of Schubert.The young Italian bass-baritone, among the mostcharismatic artists of his generation, crowns hisprogramme with six inspired settings of verse byGoethe, the introspective ‘Grenzen der Menschheit’and dramatic ‘Erlkönig’ among them.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Saturday 3 January 7.30 pm

Roberta Invernizzi soprano

Sonia Prina contralto

Ensemble ClaudianaLuca Pianca director, lute

AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE

See page opposite for full details

Sunday 4 January 11.30 am

Guarneri Trio PragueSuk Piano Trio in C minor Op. 2Bloch Three NocturnesDvorák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’

Czech music courses through the veins of theGuarneri Trio Prague, nourished by a collectiveexperience developed since the group’s foundationin 1986. The Trio opens this Coffee Concert with ayouthful gem by Josef Suk, which includes revisionsmade at the suggestion of his teacher and futurefather-in-law, Antonín Dvorák.

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

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert

Sunday 4 January 3.00 pm

Wigmore Hall Debut

Adam Plachetka bass-baritone

Gary Matthewman piano

Dvorák Biblické písne (Biblical Songs) Strauss Heimliche Aufforderung; Die Nacht;Nachtgang; Du meines Herzens Krönelein;Traum durch die Dämmerung; Zueignung Dvorák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs)

In the decade since making his debut, Czechbass-baritone Adam Plachetka has drawn criticalacclaim for his interpretations of Mozart’s operaticanti-heroes and villains. For his Wigmore Hall debut,he turns his glorious voice and incisive dramaticimagination to this captivating programme, movingfrom Dvorák’s Biblical Songs, colourful settings often psalms, to his evocative Gypsy Songs, by wayof a fine selection of Lieder by Strauss.

£15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series

Luca Pisaroni Marco Borggreve Guarneri Trio Prague Tomasz Trzebiatowski Adam Plachetka Ilona Sochorová

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Roberta Invernizzi soprano

Sonia Prina contralto

Ensemble ClaudianaLuca Pianca director, lute

Marco Frezzato cello

Margret Köll harp

AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE

Monteverdi Vorrei baciarti; Ohimè dov’è il mio ben?Doni Toccata – Passacaglia (for solo lute)Monteverdi Mentre vaga angiolettaGabrielli Sonata No. 1 (for lute, cello and harp)Handel Sono liete, fortunateLotti Poss’io morirDurante Son io, barbara donnaBach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in Eb BWV998 (for lute and harp)Handel Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi

£50 £35 £25 £15


Sonia Prina and Luca Pianca’s Ensemble Claudianaheld their Wigmore Hall audience spellbound at theend of 2013. They are joined by Roberta Invernizzi,one of the world’s leading interpreters of baroqueopera, in a programme seasoned with duetmadrigals and chamber cantatas. Their choiceof repertoire confronts the often closely relatedconditions, death and love, and digs deep intothe expressive material of works chiefly writtenin or inspired by Venice. The Italian city, a magnetfor itinerant musicians and students such asHandel and Lotti, became the intense focal pointfor international cultural exchange during theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Photos of Roberta Invernizzi (left) and Sonia Prina by Ribaltaluce Studio

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Jonas Kaufmann tenor

Helmut Deutsch piano


Monday 5 January 1.00 pm

Alisa Weilerstein cello

Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011Kodály Sonata for solo cello Op. 8

Everyone will have a different understanding of theword ‘heartfelt’. And yet Alisa Weilerstein’s playingcomes as close as possible to defining the physicaland emotional experience through the sheerintensity of her music making. Her latest programmeincludes the Sonata for solo cello Op. 8, completedexactly a century ago under the influence ofKodály’s study of the music of Debussy.

£13 concs £11

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert


Guillermo Klein piano

Aaron Goldberg piano

Mark Turner tenor saxophone

Chris Cheek baritone saxophone

Argentine pianist and composer Guillermo Kleinreturns to Wigmore Hall with a programme infusedwith the sounds of contemporary music, jazz andfolksong. Shades of Messiaen and Ligeti, and ofMinimalism will collide and coalesce with white-hotimprovisation and instantly memorable tunes.Two pianos and two saxophones, Guillermo explains,offer ample room to explore the ‘unique, engagingand challenging sounds of symmetry’.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Jazz Series

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Alisa Weilerstein Jamie Jung Guillermo Klein

GARRICK OHLSSONSKRYABIN FOCUS

Tuesday 6 January 7.30pm

Garrick Ohlsson piano

Skryabin Prelude in A minor Op. 11 No. 2;Piano Sonata No. 2 in G# minor Op. 19;Étude in Bb minor Op. 8 No. 11; Étude inDb Op. 8 No. 10; Piano Sonata No. 4 inF# Op. 30; Piano Sonata No. 7 in F# Op. 64‘White Mass’; Désir Op. 57 No. 1; PianoSonata No. 6 in G Op. 62; Étude in Db Op. 42No. 1; Étude in C# minor Op. 42 No. 5;Fragilité Op. 51 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 5in F# Op. 53

Marking 100 years since the death of theRussian composer and pianist AleksandrSkryabin, Garrick Ohlsson presents thefirst of two recitals of his solo piano works.The composer’s all-embracing interest inthe occult and mysticism conditioned manyof his works, the ‘White Mass’ Sonata andthe Fifth Piano Sonata among them. Thisprogramme takes listeners on a journeythrough the composer’s unique imaginarysoundscape, ranging from the early Op. 8Études to the sounds of such sublimeminiatures as Désir and Fragilité.

Garrick Ohlsson performs the remaining fivepiano sonatas on Monday 27 April 2015.

£35 £30 £25 £18

London Pianoforte Series/Skryabin Focus

Garrick Ohlsson Paul Body

JonasKaufmannSunday 4 January 7.30 pm

Jonas Kaufmann tenor

Helmut Deutsch piano

Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35Songs by Strauss

Critical superlatives and audience ovations havebecome part of life for Jonas Kaufmann. The Germantenor’s vocal and musical versatility, allied to hisfull emotional commitment in performance, wouldbe remarkable enough. But it is the power ofKaufmann’s artistry to transcend the ordinary andto move the spirit that sets him in company withthe great singers of past and present. In short, heowns a precious gift for revealing profound insightsinto the human condition. His recital partnershipwith Helmut Deutsch has delivered exceptionalperformances, endorsed by five-star reviews andtreasured memories for anyone fortunate enoughto hear their visionary interpretations.

£100 £80 £60 £40

Booking limited to two tickets only per person

Song Recital Series

Photo by Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music

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Elias String Quartet Benjamin Ealovega

Wednesday 7 January 7.30 pm

Brentano String QuartetMozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’Bartók String Quartet No. 3Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67

Folk idioms surface in each of the works in thisprogramme. The Brentano String Quartet, hailedby The Independent for its ‘passionate, uninhibitedand spellbinding’ performances, opens withMozart’s lyrical ‘Hunt’ Quartet, named for thehorn-call character of its opening theme, beforeexploring the tightly woven construction of Bartók’sThird String Quartet and the Romantic contrastsof Brahms’s Op. 67.

£30 £25 £20 £15



Sir András Schiff fortepiano

SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF: A SCHUBERT & BEETHOVEN CELEBRATION



Post-Concert TalkSee page opposite for full details


Elias String QuartetBeethoven String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5;String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’;String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

The Elias String Quartet continues its Beethovenjourney with a programme of early, middle and lateworks, capped by an exploration of the universecontained within the composer’s Op. 131. AlthoughBeethoven joked that his C sharp minor quartet was‘cobbled together out of various things stolen fromhere and there’, the piece ranks among the finestworks of Western art.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/Elias String QuartetBeethoven Quartet Cycle

Brentano String Quartet Peter Schaff

RAFAŁ BLECHACZ

Thursday 8 January 7.30pm

Rafał Blechacz piano

Mozart Piano Sonata in D K311Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minorOp. 13 ‘Pathétique’Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 56; 3 WaltzesOp. 64; Polonaise in F# minor Op. 44

Rafał Blechacz’s innate musical talentbecame clear soon after he began to studythe piano at the age of five. He developednaturally with lessons in his native Polandbefore catching international attention in2005 as the first Polish musician to win theInternational Chopin Piano Competitionsince Krystian Zimerman thirty years earlier.His interpretations, noted not least for theirrefinement, grace and mature insight, drawlisteners deep into the contemplation ofsound and silence.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Rafał Blechacz Marco Borggreve

Sir András SchiffA Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Sir András Schiff connects directly with the sound and spirit of works from the nineteenthcentury’s opening decades in three concerts given on a fine fortepiano of the period. Hissix-octave instrument, built in Vienna around 1820 by Franz Brodmann, formerly belongedto Charles I of Austria, the last Habsburg emperor. The monarch took the fortepiano withhim to exile in Switzerland in 1918. It later passed to the Swiss harpsichordist and conductorJörg Ewald Dähler, who in turn presented it to Sir András Schiff. The Brodmann fortepiano,complete with four pedals (due corda, bassoon, moderator and dampers), is presently onloan to the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, of which Schiff is an honorary member.

Friday 9 January 7.30pm


Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894;Piano Sonata in Bb D960

Sir András Schiff presents his matureinterpretations of two of Schubert’s latesonatas. The Piano Sonata in G D894, thelast to be published during its composer’slifetime, reflects the lightness of bliss tingedwith shades of darkness. Its characterideally prefigures the spiritual depths of thePiano Sonata in B flat D960, completedweeks before Schubert’s death.

This concert will be approximately 90 minutesin duration, without an interval

£45 £40 £35 £25

London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff:A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Friday 9 January 9.20pm

Post-Concert TalkSir András Schiff discusses hisnineteenth-century fortepiano.

£4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Sir András Schiff:A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Tuesday 13 January 7.30 pm


Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126;Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111;33 Variations in C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120

£45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made amajor contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series

London Pianoforte Series /Sir András Schiff:A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Thursday 15 January 7.30 pm

Mark Padmore tenor


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Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben; AdelaideBeethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

£45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle

Song Recital Series /Sir András Schiff:A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Photo by Nadia F Romanini

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Barnabás Kelemen violin

Olli Mustonen piano

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in Eb Op. 12 No. 3Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80

Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen, praised bythe Guardian for his ‘innate musicality’, joins forceswith Olli Mustonen for a Coffee Concert sure todisplay the compassionate humanity of their artistry.The vitality of Beethoven’s Third Violin Sonatacontrasts here with the melancholy introspectionof Prokofiev’s F minor Violin Sonata, written duringthe deathly years of Stalin’s Great Terror and theSecond World War.

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



Wigmore Series Debut

Sam Furness tenor

Matthew Fletcher piano

Schubert An die Leier Schumann Dichterliebe Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca

Since winning the prestigious Royal Academy ofMusic Club Prize in 2012, Sam Furness hasdelivered a succession of fine performances onthe opera stage and in concert. His Wigmore Seriesdebut recital embraces songs of love, from thetender lyricism of Schubert’s ‘An die Leier’ andthe autobiographical projections of Schumann’sDichterliebe to the potent musical imagery ofLiszt’s Petrarch settings.

£15 concs £12.50

Song Recital Series


Stephan Loges bass-baritone

Simon Lepper piano

Loewe Herr Oluf; Tom der Reimer; EdwardBrahms Auf dem See; O kühler Wald; Über dieHeide; O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück;Ständchen; Sonntag; Verrat; Da unten im TaleSchumann Liederkreis Op. 39

Voice and piano work in tandem to heighten poeticexpression in Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39. The song cycle, which sets a dozen texts by Josephvon Eichendorff, reinforces the spirit of Romanticmetaphors of separation, longing and loneliness.Stephan Loges and Simon Lepper launch theirrecital with a sequence of evocative ballads andsongs by Loewe and Brahms.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

January

Barnabás Kelemen Rovid Emmer Sam Furness Maximilian Van London Stephan Loges Ana Alvarez Prada

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin

Polina Leschenko piano

Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454Enescu Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor Op. 25‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’

Scintillating energy and shimmering creative sparksstand among the many attributes of PatriciaKopatchinskaja’s art. The Moldovan violinist wasnamed as Instrumentalist of the Year by the RoyalPhilharmonic Society in 2014, an award determinedby the life-affirming power of her recentperformances in the UK. She is joined by PolinaLeschenko for a lunchtime programme completewith Enescu’s folk-inspired Third Violin Sonata.

£13 concs £11



Janine Jansen violin

Itamar Golan piano

Shostakovich Violin Sonata Op. 134Ravel Violin Sonata; Tzigane

Ravel wrote Tzigane for the Hungarian violinistJelly d’Arányi and accompanied her in its firstperformance in London in 1924. ‘This Tziganemust be a piece of great virtuosity’, he wrote whileworking on the score. In company with the ViolinSonatas of Shostakovich and Ravel, Tziganeamounts to a work of true musical substance,perfectly matched to the essential talents of JanineJansen and Itamar Golan.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Patricia Kopatchinskaja Marco Borggreve Janine Jansen Harald Hoffmann/Decca



Beethoven 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; Piano SonataNo. 32 in C minor Op. 111; 33 Variations in Con a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120

Driven by a desire to understand the evolution ofhis instrument and its music, Sir András Schiffwas naturally inspired to explore the fortepiano.His recent recording of the Diabelli Variations,made on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano in theBeethoven-Haus Bonn, casts fresh light on a workof protean complexity and profound contrasts.He presents the composition in company with twoother late masterworks.

£45 £40 £35 £25

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a majorcontribution to the 2014 /15 Wigmore Series

London Pianoforte Series/Sir András Schiff:A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

Sir András Schiff Birgitta Kowsky

January

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Pre-Concert TalkAn introduction to the lunchtime concert withKaija Saariaho.

Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)Booking open

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Contemporary Music Series


Britten SinfoniaJacqueline Shave violin

Caroline Dearnley cello

Huw Watkins piano

Kaija Saariaho NocturneDebussy Cello Sonata in D minorKaija Saariaho Light and Matter* (London première)Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support ofdonors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by WigmoreHall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Kaija Saariaho conjures sonic images of magneticforce in her music, while the power of suggestionand gifts of lyricism, colour and rhythm of theFrench composers Fauré and Debussy result insoundworlds that are both luminous and dazzling.In this programme we hear one of Debussy’s finestchamber works and Fauré’s profound Piano Trio incompany with Saariaho’s Nocturne for solo violinand her new piano trio.

£12.50 concs £10 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series


Gould Piano TrioBrahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor Op. 101James MacMillan Piano Trio No. 2Beethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

High critical praise for the Gould Piano Trio hasincluded comparisons to the legendary Beaux ArtsTrio, plaudits for the ensemble’s commitment tonew work, and acclaim for its devotion to reachingthe widest possible audience. The Trio’s latestWigmore Hall recital includes James MacMillan’ssuccinct, intensely focused Piano Trio No. 2,written for and first performed by the Gould PianoTrio in May 2014.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series


Mark Padmore tenor


Beethoven Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben;Adelaide Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Schubert Die schöne Müllerin

Every word and poetic phrase finds its quintessentialexpression in Mark Padmore’s interpretations, usedto illuminate a song’s rich blend of verbal andmusical imagery. He joins forces with Sir AndrásSchiff for a programme touched by emotionalturbulence and professional setbacks in the livesof Beethoven and Schubert, clearly mirrored intheir song cycles An die ferne Geliebte andDie schöne Müllerin.

£45 £40 £35 £25


Song Recital Series/ Sir András Schiff:A Schubert & Beethoven Celebration

January

Kaija Saariaho Priska Ketterer Gould Piano Trio Chris Stock Mark Padmore Marco Borggreve

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The Endellion String QuartetHaydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5Janácek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’Schubert String Quartet in G D887

Schubert’s late G major String Quartet reveals itscomposer’s profoundly moving creative maturity.Symphonic in conception and proportions, itencompasses extreme contrasts of characterand emotion to propel performers and listenerson a momentous journey. More concentrated yetequally vast in expressive range, Janácek’s FirstString Quartet feels like an entire opera distilledinto fifteen minutes. The programme opens withHaydn’s radiant String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5,among the first works learned by the Endellionsthirty-five years ago.

£30 £25 £20 £15


The Endellion String Quartet Eric Richmond


Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins conductor

NASH COMMISSIONSAlexander Goehr ... around Stravinsky for violinand wind quartet John Casken Infanta MarinaJudith Weir Airs from Another Planet for windquintet and piano. The works will be introduced bythe composers in conversation from the stage.

Free (ticket required) Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season



Nash EnsembleMartyn Brabbins conductor

Sally Matthews soprano

Wagner Siegfried Idyll Mozart String Quintet in C K515Strauss Prelude to Capriccio for string sextet;Moonlight Music and Last scene from Capriccio forvoice and ensemble (arr. D Matthews)

Wagner’s intimate birthday gift to his wife Cosima, theSiegfried Idyll, and Mozart’s masterly C major Quintetprecede excerpts from Richard Strauss’s magicallate opera Capriccio. Sally Matthews sings the partof the Countess Madeleine, giving life to music thatblends Mozartean classicism with the overwhelmingromantic impulses of Wagner.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Sally Matthews Johan Persson

January

FRANÇOISLE ROUXMASTERCLASS

Friday 16 January 1.00pm – 4.00pm

François Le RouxMasterclassFrançois Le Roux’s vast reserve of experienceincludes lasting lessons learned fromFrançois Loup, Vera Rósza and ElisabethGrümmer and the fruits of a distinguishedopera and concert career. The baritone,known for the breadth and depth of hisrepertoire and the sheer beauty of his voice,emerged during the 1980s as the naturalheir to Gérard Souzay in French song. Hislatest masterclass with young singers fromLondon music colleges is set to deliverinvaluable artistic insights to its participantsand audience alike.

£7 concs £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event

François Le Roux Marco Borggreve

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Trio MondrianBeethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87

Haydn, present at the first performance ofBeethoven’s three Op. 1 Piano Trios in 1795, wasreported to be surprised that the set’s C minorwork was ‘so rapidly and easily grasped, and sofavourably taken up by the public’. Trio Mondrianexplores the composition’s emotional extremes incompany with the formal perfection and compellingenergy of Brahms’s Second Piano Trio.




SongsmithsElizabeth Watts soprano

Mary Bevan soprano

Anna Huntley mezzo-soprano

Marcus Farnsworth baritone

Jonathan Lemalu bass-baritone

Audrey Hyland piano

SECRETS AND OBSESSIONS

Balfe Trust her not Messager J’ai deux amantsfrom L’amour masqué Mendelssohn Hüt du dich!Hahn Néère Granados El majo discreto fromTonadillas en un estilo antiguoRodrigo Adela Gurney Epitaph in old modeBrahms Da unten im Tale Weill Je ne t’aime pasLoewe Edward Wolf Heiss mich nicht redenSchoenberg Schenk mir deinen goldenen KammBrahms Walpurgisnacht Loewe Ach neige, duSchmerzensreiche Britten A Poison Tree fromSongs and Proverbs of William BlakeSchubert Der Doppelgänger from SchwanengesangButterworth Is my team ploughing from A ShropshireLad Strauss Morgen Schubert Abschied von der Erde

Established singers and fast-rising talents joinforces in Audrey Hyland’s outstanding ensemble,representing the best of British-trained singers.Their programme’s captivating diversity of musicalstyles, selected from almost two centuries of song,guides listeners on a journey through the highmountains and deep valleys of human emotion.

£15 concs £12.50

Supported by Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season

Song Recital Series


Jerusalem QuartetHaydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’Brian Elias String QuartetSchumann String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3

‘We feel that it is of the utmost importance tocollaborate with composers and performcontemporary music,’ says the Jerusalem Quartet’sviolist, Ori Kam. He and his colleagues gave thepremière of British composer Brian Elias’s vibrantString Quartet in 2013 and bring the work toWigmore Hall for the first time.

£35 £30 £25 £18


January

Trio Mondrian Audrey Hyland Jerusalem Quartet Felix Broede

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Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano

Joseph Middleton piano

Schumann Die Löwenbraut; Die Kartenlegerin;Die rote HanneSchumann Fünf Lieder Op. 40Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben

Kitty Whately gained an army of admirers as winnerof the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She has maderapid progress since with acclaimed debuts at theAix-en-Provence Festival and English National Opera.Her BBC Lunchtime recital explores the emotionalextremes, dramatic intensity and romantic yearningof Schumann’s Lieder.

£13 concs £11

Kitty Whately is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New GenerationArtists scheme



Artists in ConversationSee page overleaf for full details


JACK QuartetBRACING CHANGE:NEW BRITISH STRING COMMISSIONS

See page overleaf for full details


Pre-Concert EventRAZUMOVSKY ACADEMYYOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

The Razumovsky Academy provides an environmentin which exceptionally gifted young musicianscollaborate closely with some of the world’s finestartists and teachers. This concert offers the chanceto hear potential future stars at an early stage intheir careers.

£6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)


Razumovsky EnsembleMozart Divertimento in Eb K563; Piano QuartetNo. 1 in G minor K478

Mozart completed his Divertimento in E flat in thesummer of 1788, soon after finishing work on hisfinal three symphonies. The piece, for violin, violaand cello, marks the birth of the modern string trio,conceived with complete assurance and deliveredwith astonishing ingenuity. The RazumovskyEnsemble’s all-Mozart programme also includesthe sonorous and lyrical Piano Quartet in G minor.

£35 £30 £25 £15


Kitty Whately Natalie Watts Oleg Kogan (Artistic Director, Razumovsky Ensemble) Robert Cassen

January

WIGMORESTUDY GROUP

Wednesday 21 January 3.00pm – 6.00pmFriday 23 January 3.00pm – 6.00pmTuesday 27 January 3.00pm – 6.00pm

MOZART’S CHAMBER MUSICFOR PIANO AND STRINGS

Mozart’s piano trios and violin sonatas spanhis creative life and show him graduallyemancipating the violin and cello fromsubordinate roles to develop a more equaldialogue with the piano. As a child Mozartwrote these works to perform himself, butlater they were intended for publication inVienna where they satisfied a domesticmarket for chamber music. However, Mozart’skeyboard writing outstripped the capabilitiesof amateurs in such masterpieces as theG minor piano quartet, which came closeto the world of the piano concerto whilstmaintaining the intimacy of chamber music.These study sessions are hosted by composerJulian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts withcontributions from distinguished visitingmusicians and students from the GuildhallSchool of Music & Drama.

Series ticket price £60 including 3 studysessions and a ticket for the evening concerton 27 January.

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /The Mozart Odyssey

Mozart Painting by Savario dalla Rosa, 1770

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Bracing ChangeNew British String CommissionsMonday 19 January 6.00 pm

Artists in ConversationWriter and lecturer Ivan Hewett inconversation with composer Simon Holtbefore the première of his new work.

£4 Booking open

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Contemporary Music Series /Bracing Change: New BritishString Commissions


JACK Quartet*Georg Friedrich Haas String Quartet No. 8 (UK première) John Zorn The Dead ManSimon Holt New work† (world première) Carter String Quartet No. 3

†Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, Heidelberger Frühling, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Modernism, post-modernism and the limitless scope of creative imagination are among the hallmarks of theJACK Quartet’s programme. It opens with Georg Friedrich Haas’s recently completed String Quartet No. 8, thelatest in a remarkable series of works that examines the kaleidoscopic qualities of string sound. John Zorn’sThe Dead Man, completed in the late 1990s, reflects insights gathered during the composer’s many years ofmeditative deep listening. In addition to the polyrhythmic complexities and textural collisions of Elliott Carter’sString Quartet No. 3, a product of the early 1970s, the concert includes the world première of Simon Holt’s newwork for string quartet – the latest addition to Wigmore Hall’s collection of ‘New British String Commissions’.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation

*WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N TSupported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series /Bracing Change: New British String Commissions

Photo by Henrik Olund

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Christopher Ainslie countertenor

James Baillieu piano

Xandi van Dijk viola

SONGS OF NIGHT AND TRAVEL

Dowland Come, heavy sleepPurcell See, even Night from The Fairy QueenGurney All night under the moon; SleepQuilter The Night Piece; At Close of DayParry Good Night!Schubert Die Sterne; Nacht und TräumeMendelssohn NachtliedStrauss Die NachtWolf Storchenbotschaft; AbschiedBrahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91Anonymous I am a poor wayfaring strangerA Tchaikowsky Seven Sonnets of Shakespeare(a selection)Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel

Metaphors of dark journeys and night-timepilgrimages towards the light of day are deeplyrooted in the great heritage of world literature, artand music. Christopher Ainslie’s programmeexplores the many layers of meaning containedwithin everything from the simple folk poetry of‘I am a poor wayfaring stranger’ to the sublimespirit of Schubert’s ‘Die Sterne’ and deathly visionof Dowland’s ‘Come, heavy sleep’.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Song Recital Series


Pre-Concert TalkLeading Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen presents anoverview of the musical scene across Europe in 1765,and introduces music featured in the evening concert.

£4



Classical OperaAnna Devin, Sarah Fox sopranos

John Mark Ainsley tenor

Ian Page conductor

‘MOZART 250’ LAUNCH CONCERT:1765 – A RETROSPECTIVE

Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb K16; Va, dal furorportata K21 Gluck In mezzo a un mar crudele fromTelemaco JC Bach Cara la dolce fiamma fromAdriano in Siria Philidor Scene from Tom JonesGluck Di questa cetra in seno from Il Parnasoconfuso Mozart Conservati fedele K23Sacchini Al tuo valor m’accendo from Il CresoHaydn Symphony No. 39 in G minorJC Bach Ah, genitore amato from Adriano in Siria

Classical Opera explores the chronology and trajectoryof Mozart’s career with a ground-breaking new project,Mozart 250. The journey begins in 2015, the 250thanniversary of Mozart’s childhood sojourn in London,and launches with this fascinating retrospective ofthe year 1765, featuring music written in London,Paris, Vienna, Eisenstadt and in Italy, complete withMozart’s first symphony and concert arias.

£35 £30 £25 £18


ECMA ShowcaseFriday 23 January 1.00 pm

Saturday 24 January 11.00 am – Masterclass





Sainsbury Royal AcademySoloistsClio Gould director, violin

Stravinsky Concerto in DBach Concerto in A minor for violin BWV1041Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048Stravinsky Apollon Musagète – a ballet in two scenes

With her vast experience as soloist, chambermusician and ensemble leader, and as director ofthe Sainsbury Royal Academy Soloists, Clio Gouldis ideally placed to influence and inspire the nextgeneration of professional players. She leads herthrilling young colleagues in a programme thatexplores Apollonian qualities of formal logic, grace,beauty and harmony.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season /Early Music and Baroque Series

Christopher Ainslie Denis Jouglet Ian Page Clio Gould

January


Giocoso String QuartetTrio AlbaNord clarinet trio

Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minorOp. 80Jörg Widmann Nachtstück for clarinet, celloand pianoBeethoven Clarinet Trio in Bb Op. 11

Trio AlbaNord, comprising current students oralumni of the Norwegian Academy of Music, isthe first chamber group with a wind player tobe admitted to ECMA. The ensemble sharesthis showcase concert with the Giocoso StringQuartet, formed in Romania in 2003.

Saturday 24 January 11.00 am

ECMA Masterclass Professor Hatto Beyerle’s tireless work withstudents of ECMA rests on foundations set duringhis years as violist with the Vienna Soloists,the Alban Berg Quartet and the Vienna ChamberEnsemble. He leads a masterclass with theGiocoso String Quartet, working in close detail onrefined aspects of chamber music interpretation.



Darian Trio string trio

Stefan Zweig Trio piano trio

Reger String Trio in A minor Op. 77bBeethoven Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2

The Darian Trio’s name derives from the Persianfor ‘upholder of the good’. The emerging ensembleshares the recital platform for this afternoonconcert with the Vienna-based Stefan Zweig Trio,which achieved success in the ARD Competition inMunich within months of its foundation in 2012,and has since become a member of ECMA.


Galatea QuartetMilhaud String Quartet No. 1 Op. 5Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117

Galatea, the exquisite mythic statue brought to lifeby Pygmalion, is an apt name for a group of youngchamber musicians devoted to the pursuit ofensemble perfection and tonal beauty. The GalateaQuartet marks its tenth anniversary year withMilhaud’s youthful String Quartet No. 1 and thehigh-octane energy and tragicomic outbursts ofShostakovich’s Ninth String Quartet of 1964.

All tickets £5 each concert

Free admission to masterclass (ticket required)

The ECMA Showcase has been supported by a giftfrom the estates of the late Thomas and Betty Eltonin memory of Sigmund Elton

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European Chamber MusicAcademy Showcase

Galatea Quartet Molina VisualsDarian Trio Martin Wimmer Stefan Zweig Trio Georgi KalojanovGiocoso String Quartet Vincent Beaume

Trio AlbaNord Lars Venner

The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) was established in 2004 by Hatto Beyerle, co-founder and violist of the Alban Berg Quartet.Its mission is to promote and nurture today’s aspiring chamber music ensembles. The Academy, which stands as an association of leadingEuropean music education institutions and festivals, provides ongoing training opportunities for its young ensembles and offers students aninspiring mix of theoretical tuition and practical instruction.

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Celebrating 21Years ofWigmore Hall Learningwith Nicola BenedettiSee page overleaf for full details


Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

CPE Bach Rondo in C minor Wq. 59Mozart Piano Sonata in Eb K282; Rondo in D K485;Adagio in B minor K540; Piano Sonata in C K330

Fantasy played a key role in the development ofClassical art, reflected in everything from thetranscendent verse of Keats, Blake and Wordsworthto the music of CPE Bach and Mozart. KristianBezuidenhout’s fortepiano recital presents theexpressive leaps and myriad colours of everythingfrom CPE Bach’s Rondo in C minor to the strikingsounds and silences of Mozart’s B minor Adagio.


Sunday Morning Coffee Concert /The Mozart Odyssey

Kristian Bezuidenhout Marco Borggreve


Hagen QuartetMOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE

Mozart String Quartet in G K387; String Quartet inD minor K421; String Quartet in Eb K428

Revered by chamber music connoisseurs andacclaimed by critics worldwide, the Hagen Quartetis known for performances steeped in psychologicalinsight, dramatic intensity and poetic eloquence.The ensemble joins Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odysseyto share its latest thoughts on three of the composer’s‘Haydn’ Quartets, enduring monuments to aremarkable artistic friendship.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey


Igor Levit piano

INTRODUCING IGOR LEVIT

See page 21 for full details


Pre-Concert TalkJournalist and author Jessica Duchen discussesMozart’s string quartets before the second concertin the Hagen Quartet’s Mozart String Quartet Cycle.

£4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /The Mozart Odyssey



Mozart String Quartet in Bb K458 ‘Hunt’; StringQuartet in A K464; String Quartet in C K465‘Dissonance’

The Hagen Quartet concludes its survey of Mozart’s‘Haydn’ quartets, opening this recital with theunstoppable power and captivating musicalargument of the ‘Hunt’ Quartet. The remaining twoworks, completed within four days of one anotherin January 1785, are shot through with harmonicdaring, contrapuntal ingenuity and breathtakingbrilliance of invention.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Hagen Quartet Harald Hoffmann

January

Celebrating 21 Years ofWigmore Hall Learning


Nicola Benedetti violin

Alexei Grynyuk piano

Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’

In the decade since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition,Nicola Benedetti has matured into one of the finest British artists of hergeneration, in demand worldwide as concerto soloist and respected as apassionate advocate for music education. This recital with her regularchamber music partner, the Russian pianist Alexei Grynyuk, promises to bea highlight of the Wigmore Hall Chamber Music Season.

£50 £35 £25 £15

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust


Nicola Benedetti’s heartfelt dedication to music education is well known.She has been working with Wigmore Hall Learning this Season in primaryschools and will give a concert for pupils aged 7 to 11 at the Hall on21 January. Her recital three days later stands as a fundraising galafor Wigmore Hall Learning, which turns 21 this year.

Join us to celebrate the remarkable success of Wigmore Hall’sinternationally acclaimed education and community programme. Withover 400 workshops and events each season, at the Hall as well as inschools, hospitals, care homes and community settings, Wigmore HallLearning reaches a strikingly diverse community, from the babies whoattend our For Crying Out Loud! concerts to people living with dementia,whose lives are touched by the pioneering Music for Life programme.

Proceeds from this recital go to help the work of Wigmore Hall Learning

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with Nicola Benedetti

Photo by Simon Fower/Universal

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Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien Sussie Ahlburg


Alina Ibragimova violin

Cédric Tiberghien piano

MOZART BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Mozart Violin Sonata in F K376; Violin Sonata inBb K15; Violin Sonata in A K402 (incomplete);Violin Sonata in C K6; Violin Sonata in D K29;Violin Sonata in G K9; Violin Sonata in D K7;Violin Sonata in A K305

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien resumetheir survey of Mozart’s violin sonatas on hisbirthday, presenting five works from the prodigiouscomposer’s boyhood travels. Their programme alsoincludes the two miniature movements of the ViolinSonata in A K402, created in Vienna in the early1780s, and the radiant Violin Sonata in A K305,inspired by the vivid contrasts and galant styledeveloped in Mannheim during the 1770s.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall


January

INTRODUCING IGOR LEVIT

Igor Levit’s playing, notes Alex Ross in The New Yorker, is blessed with ‘technical brilliance,tonal allure, intellectual drive, and an allusive quality that the Germans indicate with theword Innigkeit, or inwardness.’ The young pianist’s ability to intuit deep personal meaningeven in the most familiar of compositions has swiftly sealed his place among the mostremarkable artists of his generation. Wigmore Hall’s ongoing series provides the perfectintroduction to Levit’s work as recital soloist and chamber musician.

Monday 26 January 1.00pm

Igor Levit piano

Tchaikovsky Méditation Op. 72 No. 5; The Seasons Op. 37b

Tchaikovsky’s art, often larger than life, contained space for reflection on intimate feelings and subtlecontrasts of mood. The dozen miniatures of his The Seasons collectively chart the changing states of themonths of the year, presented as they unfolded under Russian skies. Igor Levit opens his BBC Lunchtimerecital with the composer’s numinous Méditation Op. 72 No. 5, one of his final works for piano.

£13 concs £11

WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert / Introducing Igor Levit

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series

Sunday 8 February 3.00pm with Simon BodeWednesday 10 June 7.30pm with Christiane IvenMonday 20 July 7.30pm

Igor Levit Felix Broede

The Mozart OdysseyMozart wrote many of his instrumental works with outstanding artistsin mind. This season and next, Wigmore Hall’s Mozart Odyssey offersaudiences a feast of performances by some of the finest amongtoday’s interpreters of his music. Kristian Bezuidenhout explores worksfor solo keyboard on fortepiano, while the glorious Hagen Quartetdevotes four concerts to Mozart’s mature string quartets. AlinaIbragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, meanwhile, celebrate the composer’sbirthday on 27 January with the latest instalment in their ongoingsurvey of his sonatas for violin and piano.

The Mozart Odyssey is made possible thanks to all our contributors to theWigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund importantartistic projects.

Events in this Series

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Wednesday 21 January 3.00 pmFriday 23 January 3.00pmTuesday 27 January 3.00 pm

Wigmore Study GroupSunday 25 January 11.30 am

Kristian Bezuidenhoutfortepiano


Hagen QuartetMonday 26 January 6.00 pm

Pre-Concert TalkMonday 26 January 7.30 pm

Hagen Quartet

Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft (1764–1825)


Alina Ibragimova violin



Hagen QuartetThursday 29 January 1.00 pm

Hagen QuartetSunday 8 February 7.30 pm

Eggner Trio

Further concerts to be announcedfor Summer 2015 and the2015 /16 Season

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Hagen Quartet with Jörg Widmann Harald Hoffmann


Hagen QuartetJörg Widmann clarinet

MOZART STRING QUARTET CYCLE

Mozart String Quartet in F K590; Clarinet Quintet inA K581

Mozart’s final essay in the string quartet genre, craftedin June 1790, stands among the finest achievementsof the Classical period, a masterwork of formalconstruction, thematic contrasts and melodicinvention. Jörg Widmann brings his special qualitiesas composer and performer to the interpretation of theelegiac Clarinet Quintet in A, one of the earliest andgreatest works for solo clarinet and string quartet.

£15 concs £12.50



Florian Boesch baritone

Roger Vignoles piano

FLORIAN BOESCH RESIDENCY



Juliane Banse soprano

Malcolm Martineau piano

Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Des Antoniusvon Padua Fischpredigt; Rheinlegendchen; Wo dieschönen Trompeten blasen; Lob des hohenVerstandes; Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?Mahler Erinnerung; FrühlingsmorgenDuparc Chanson triste; Le manoir de Rosemonde;Extase; L’invitation au voyageSchoenberg Erwartung; Schenk mir deinengoldenen Kamm; Erhebung; WaldsonneMahler Rückert Lieder

Juliane Banse and Malcolm Martineau haveworked together over many years to create songinterpretations rich in spiritual insight and profoundmeaning. The German soprano, who recentlymade her Metropolitan Opera debut, builds herlatest Wigmore Hall programme around the mixedemotions and bitter-sweet yearning of Mahler’sDes Knaben Wunderhorn and his visionaryRückert songs.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series



Mozart String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’;String Quartet in D K575 ‘Prussian’; String Quartetin Bb K589 ‘Prussian’

Mozart wrote his ‘Hoffmeister’ Quartet for theViennese composer and publisher AntonHoffmeister, purveyor of chamber music to theimperial city’s music-loving population. The HagenQuartet presents it alongside two of the quartetswritten for King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall

Chamber Music Season /The Mozart Odyssey

January

Juliane Banse Stefan Nimmesgern

FlorianBoeschResidencyLike all great story-tellers, Florian Boesch’s song interpretationsarise from alchemical combinations of personal experience,innate wisdom and a heightened sense of the collectiveunconscious. The Austrian baritone’s Wigmore Hall residencycontinues in company with Roger Vignoles with an idealvehicle for his talents, Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus denösterreichischen Alpen. Boesch returns later this season toexplore the creative world of old Vienna with two deliciousprogrammes, gracing Wigmore Lates on 5 June with songs oftravel, transition and departure, and joining Malcolm Martineautwo days later for an evening of landmark works by Wolf,Brahms and Schumann.


Florian Boesch baritone


Krenek Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen

Ernst Krenek’s formative years coincided with the collapse of theHabsburg Empire, the rise of extreme political ideologies and theemergence of iconoclastic trends in art and music. He absorbedthe profusion of new musical styles and put many of them tothought-provoking effect in his Reisebuch aus den österreichischenAlpen, an entrancing song cycle that probes the existentialuncertainties of the late 1920s.

This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration, without an interval

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series /Florian Boesch Residency

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series:

Friday 5 June 10.00pm

with Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie BremenSunday 7 June 7.30 pm

with Malcolm Martineau piano

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Takács Quartet Keith Saunders Richard Hosford Keith Saunders


Takács QuartetSCHUBERT BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703;String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’;String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death andthe Maiden’

Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists commemorateSchubert’s birthday with an unmissable celebrationof the composer’s mature chamber musicmasterworks. The Takács Quartet sets the tonewith his Quartettsatz in C minor. Its single movementserves as the intense point of departure for the‘Rosamunde’ Quartet’s contrasting moods and thehaunting melancholy of the monumental ‘Deathand the Maiden’ Quartet of 1824.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Chamber Music Circle

Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

Sunday 1 February 3.00 pm

Royal Academy of MusicRichard Lewis Song CircleSCHUBERT’S HIDDEN GEMS

Schubert Am Flusse (D766); Am Flusse (D160);Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Fluss; Der Jüngling amBache; Gondelfahrer; Des Mädchens Klage;Die Knabenzeit; Herbst; Herbstlied; Liane; Lichtund Liebe; Nach einem Gewitter; Marie; Nur werdie Sehnsucht kennt; Rückweg; Vollendung;Winterlied; Die Erde; Heiss mich nicht reden

When Max Friedlaender was preparing the finalvolume of his Schubert Lieder Edition for Peters,many songs (such as 'Herbst') were unknown tohim. The Royal Academy of Music Song Circlepresents twenty such gems that are not includedin the seven Lieder volumes of the Peters Editionsand are still too rarely performed.

£15 concs £12.50



Song Recital Series

Sunday 1 February 11.30 am


Nash EnsembleRichard Hosford clarinet

Marianne Thorsen violin

Laura Samuel violin

Lawrence Power viola

Adrian Brendel cello

Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string playerspresent Haydn’s much-loved ‘Sunrise’ Quartet,so called because of its gently rising openingtheme, a work infused with the bold gestures andeffects he cultivated during his time in London.The ensemble is joined by its long-servingclarinettist Richard Hosford in Brahms’s autumnalchamber masterwork. Brahms created his ClarinetQuintet in B minor to suit the burnished playingof Richard Mühlfeld, who first introduced thecomposition to London audiences in the 1890s.

£12.50 concs £10 Booking openincl. programme and coffee/sherry/ juice

Sunday Morning Coffee Concert /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

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Robin Tritschler tenor

Graham Johnson piano

Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35

SONGS FROM THE (BARD’S) SHOWSVaughan Williams Orpheus with his luteLeveridge Who is Silvia?Anon. (17th century) Jog on, jog on the footpath wayMoeran The sweet o’ the yearEisler Horatios MonologCastelnuovo-Tedesco The clown in the churchyardFinzi Songs of Hiems and VerCastelnuovo-Tedesco CalibanTippett Songs for ArielGurney Under the greenwood treeKorngold Blow, blow thou winter windQuilter It was a lover and his lassCastelnuovo-Tedesco The FoolDale O Mistress MineFinzi Come away, come away, deathKorngold Adieu, Good Man Devil

Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson present a treatfor song-lovers with their captivating programme.Schumann’s Kernerlieder, like so many of the songshe created in 1840, convey the strength of hisfervent love for Clara Wieck. He completed his‘song sequence’ soon after their marriage, a unioncontracted against her father’s wishes. For the secondhalf, the duo performs settings of Shakespeare froma selection of his most celebrated plays.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Monday 2 February 1.00 pm

Steven Osborne piano

Rachmaninov Études-tableaux (a selection)Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal andexpressive nuance, distinguishes Steven Osborne’sinterpretations of the great works of the keyboardliterature. His receptivity to the romantic depthsof the Slavic soul invariably rises to the surface inhis acclaimed interpretations of Russian music.‘This may well be the most lucid and musicianlyPictures on record,’ observed Gramophonefollowing the release of his recording of Musorgsky’sPictures at an Exhibition.

£13 concs £11



Takács Quartet:Lecture-RecitalLecture-Recital on Beethoven’s String Quartet in FOp. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’

The Takács Quartet presents a rare opportunityto hear its highly developed thoughts about aseminal work of the string quartet repertoire.This lecture-recital opens with a discussion of theString Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’,illustrated with excerpts from the work. Theevening’s second half contains a completeperformance of Beethoven’s pioneering score.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Chamber MusicSeason/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists

February

Robin Tritschler Garreth Wong Steven Osborne Benjamin Ealovega Takács Quartet Peter Smith

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EXAUDI Matthew Andrews Christiane Karg Gisela Schenker

Tuesday 3 February 7.30 pm

EXAUDIJames Weeks director

Leonin OrganumScelsi Tre Canti SacriHeinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (excerpts)(UK première)Machaut La Messe de Nostre Dame (excerpts)Ciconia Le ray au soleylRodericus Angelorum psalatMichael Finnissy Kelir

Worlds collide in this scintillating programme, devisedby Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence JulianAnderson and EXAUDI’s director James Weeks:medieval and modern, sacred and profane, Europeanand Eastern. Twelfth-century Parisian polyphonyelides with the drone-rich imagination of GiacintoScelsi; Heinz Holliger’s fascination with Machaut canbe heard in the luminous Angelus Silesius settings ofnicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; and the intricate rhythmicworld of the Ars Subtilior finds a parallel in the ardent,tangled vocality of Finnissy’s dramatic Kelir.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts andThe London Community Foundation

Early Music and Baroque Series/Contemporary MusicSeries/Julian Anderson Composer in Residence

Wednesday 4 February 7.30 pm

Christiane Karg soprano

Joseph Middleton piano

Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Als Luise die Briefeihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte;Der Zauberer; Dans un bois solitaireSchubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Heiss mich nichtreden; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land;Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Hoffnung; DerJüngling am Bache; Des Mädchens Klage; Thekla;Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Elysium

Christiane Karg’s vitality connects directly with theworks in her repertoire, sparking words and musicto life. The Bavarian soprano’s programme includessettings of verse by one of the titans of worldliterature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amongthem Mozart’s exquisite treatment of ‘Das Veilchen’and Mignon’s songs of yearning for her Italianhomeland, ‘Kennst du das Land’ and ‘Nur wer dieSehnsucht kennt’.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series


Pre-Concert TalkAn introduction to the lunchtime concert withBen Comeau, the Winner of the CambridgeUniversity Composers’ Workshop.




Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin

Clare Finnimore viola Catherine Musker viola

Caroline Dearnley cello

Vaughan Williams Phantasy String QuintetBen Comeau New work* (world première)Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support fromdonors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by WigmoreHall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy for string quintet, wasdedicated to William Wilson Cobbett, whose celebratedcompetition encouraged young composers to writenew chamber works. Winner of Britten Sinfonia’sCambridge University Composers’ Workshop, BenComeau’s work receives its première in this concert,alongside Beethoven’s transitional tumultuous StringQuintet of 1801, popularly known as ‘The Storm’.



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Thursday 5 February 7.30 pm

Anthony Marwood violin

Aleksandar Madžar piano

Janácek Violin SonataBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30No. 2Ravel Violin Sonata in A minor (Sonate Posthume)Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis

Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in C minor Op. 30 No. 2was written in 1802, the fateful year when hefirst experienced the sharp despair of deafness.Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar surveythe equally personal emotions of Janácek’s ViolinSonata, composed in the early months of the FirstWorld War, together with the classical elegance ofworks by Ravel and Prokofiev.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Anthony Marwood and Friends

Friday 6 February 7.30 pm

Akademie für Alte Musik BerlinJean-Guihen Queyras cello

Xenia Löffler oboe

Vivaldi Sinfonia from Giustino RV717; Cello Concertoin G minor RV416; Concerto for strings in C RV114;Concerto in G minor for oboe, cello and stringsRV812; Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and celloOp. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565; Sinfoniafrom Dorilla in Tempe RV709; Cello Concerto inF RV412Caldara Sinfonia No. 6 in G minor from San Elenaal CalvarioVivaldi Oboe Concerto in C RV450; Cello Concertoin A minor RV419

Period instrument performances have been raisedto the highest levels of technical virtuosity andinsight thanks to the work of ensembles such as theAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin and artists of thecalibre of Jean-Guihen Queyras and Xenia Löffler.Their thrilling programme reflects Vivaldi’s passionfor the cello, a comparative newcomer in thecomposer’s day, and the jaw-dropping virtuosity ofhis writing for solo oboe and strings.

£40 £35 £25 £15


Saturday 7 February 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: Early OperaAs part of our Henry Purcell: A Retrospective series,come and sing some of the composer’s operaticwork and have a go at some of the movements andgestures which accompany the words and music.Isabelle Adams leads this workshop day for adults,which includes the opportunity to perform on theWigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.

£24 concs £16

Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective

Saturday 7 February 6.00 pm


Nash EnsemblePhilippa Davies flute


Lucy Wakeford harp

Roderick Williams baritone

NASH COMMISSIONS

Debussy Syrinx Bennett Sonata after Syrinx for flute,viola and harp Julian Anderson Prayer for solo violaMaw Roman Canticle for baritone, flute, viola and harp

The works will be introduced from the stage byJulian Anderson.


Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

February

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Kristof Fischer Roderick Williams Benjamin Ealovega

Anthony Marwood & Aleksandar Madžar Benjamin Ealovega

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Nash EnsembleIan Brown conductor


Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano

Mozart Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452Mahler Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews for voiceand ensemble)Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91; Piano Quintetin F minor Op. 34

This programme is bookended by two contrastingworks for five instrumentalists, Mozart’s perfectlyfinished Quintet for piano and winds and Brahms’spassionate Quintet for piano and strings. SarahConnolly also sings Mahler’s lyrical settings of poemsby Rückert and Brahms’s eloquent songs with violaand piano, ‘Gestillte Sehnsucht’ (‘Stilled Desire’)and ‘Geistliches Wiegenlied’ (‘Sacred Lullaby’).

£35 £30 £25 £18 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season

Sarah Connolly Peter Warren Simon Bode Wolfgang Runkel


Valeriy Sokolov violin

Evgeny Izotov piano

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75Ravel Tzigane

Valeriy Sokolov’s recent recording of violin concertosby Tchaikovsky and Bartók received rave reviews,reinforcing his status among the finest artists of hisgeneration. The young Ukrainian violinist, partneredby Evgeny Izotov, opens his recital with the ViolinSonata Op. 30 No. 1, Beethoven’s spiritually sereneand noble response to encroaching deafness.

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



Simon Bode tenor

Igor Levit* piano

Schubert Abendlied für die EntfernteBeethoven An die ferne GeliebteWolfgang Rihm Das RotSchubert Dass sie hier gewesenBeethoven Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmut;Neue Liebe, neues Leben

Distant love and unfulfilled desires combine in thisprogramme, projected with overwhelming fervour byBeethoven in the half dozen songs of An die ferneGeliebte and focused with sustained introspectionby Schubert in his ‘Abendlied für die Entfernte’.Wolfgang Rihm’s song cycle Das Rot (1990), asetting of six texts by the German Romantic poetKaroline von Günderrode, explores the shiftingborderlands between illusion and reality, darknessand light.

£15 concs £12.50

* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T


Song Recital Series/Introducing Igor Levit

Valeriy Sokolov Simon Fowler/EMI Classics

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Eggner TrioMozart Piano Trio in C K548; Piano Trio in Bb K502Hummel Piano Trio in G Op. 65Mozart Piano Trio in G K564

The Austrian Eggner Trio, a family ensemble of threebrothers, performs works by Mozart which helped todefine the piano trio genre. The programme beginswith the Piano Trio in C, simple in its design andharmony yet emotionally complex. The composer’sfinal piano trio is prefaced with a score by the hugelygifted Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a child prodigywho became Mozart’s only full-time pupil in 1786.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season /The Mozart Odyssey


Wigmore Hall Debut

Olena Tokar soprano

Igor Gryshyn piano

Brahms Botschaft; Sommerabend; Über die Heide;Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuerStrauss Der Stern; Schlechtes Wetter; Allerseelen;MorgenRimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night;Cool and fragrant is thy garland; Not the wind,blowing from the heights; The lark sings louderDvorák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs)

Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar made herbreakthrough in 2011 with the Salzburg Festival’sYoung Singers Project. She won the ARDInternational Music Competition in Munich thefollowing year and went on to represent herhomeland as a finalist in the 2013 BBC CardiffSinger of the World competition. She makes herWigmore Hall debut with an enchanting programmeof German, Russian and Czech songs.

£13 concs £11

Olena Tokar is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New GenerationArtists scheme



FlorilegiumAshley Solomon director, flute

Bojan Cicic violin

Reiko Ichise viola da gamba

Jennifer Morsches cello

Terence Charlston harpsichord

Telemann Quartet in D from the ‘Paris Quartets’(1738 collection)Forqueray La Rameau; La Leclair Leclair Deuxième recréation de musique Op. 8Rebel Les caractères de la danseMarais Sonnerie de Sainte GenevièveTelemann Quartet in E minor from the ‘Paris Quartets’(1738 collection)

Florilegium’s programme includes works by someof the greatest French chamber music composersemployed by the courts of Louis XIV and XV.Rebel’s Les caractères de la danse is one of thefirst choreographed ‘symphonies’, a popular genrein eighteenth-century France. Two of Telemann’scelebrated ‘Paris Quartets’ frame this concert andbear witness to the international reach of Frenchmusical fashions three centuries ago.

£30 £25 £20 £15


February

Eggner Trio Keith Saunders Olena Tokar Dorothee Falke Florilegium Amit Lennon

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Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord

Joélle Harvey soprano

Mhairi Lawson soprano

Samuel Boden tenor

Nick Pritchard tenor

George Humphreys bass

Purcell King Arthur

John Dryden’s King Arthur was among the mostsuccessful of his ‘Dramatick Operas’, where play,ballet and music were combined much as they arein present day West End musical theatre. Purcell’sexquisite music, the work’s chief glory, heightensthe plot’s depictions of Druid sacrifices, drunkenfarmers, Evil Spirits and, in the shivering frostscene, a very chilly Cupid!

£40 £35 £30 £20

Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective


Lawrence Power viola, violin

Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Britten Suite for violin and piano Op. 6Colin Matthews Four Moods for viola and pianoBowen Phantasy for viola and piano Op. 54Huw Watkins Fantasy for viola and pianoMark-Anthony Turnage Powerplay* (world première)

*Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam, and byWigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swissgrant-making foundation

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Powerplay, completewith punning title and vigorous virtuosity,receives its world première. The work was writtento complement the phenomenal artistry ofLawrence Power and his regular duo partnerSimon Crawford-Phillips.

£30 £25 £20 £15


Christian Curnyn Benjamin Ealovega Lawrence Power Jack Liebeck

MARTIN FRÖSTMASTERCLASS

Friday 13 February 2.30pm – 5.30pm

Martin Fröst MasterclassThe relationship between music andmovement falls within the spread ofsubjects on Martin Fröst’s masterclassagenda. He will work with postgraduatestudents from London’s four conservatoiresand introduce them to ideas alreadytested on outstanding young clarinettistsin his home city of Stockholm. ‘We mustnot lose the human connection or thephysical part of music-making’, heobserves. ‘That connection has existedforever. Now is the right time to highlightits place in classical music.’

£7 concs £4

Wigmore Hall Learning Event /Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Martin Fröst Mats Bäcker

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Henry Purcell:

Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman

Wigmore Hall celebrates the life and work of a towering figure in the story ofEnglish music with one of its most ambitious projects ever. Henry Purcell:A Retrospective unfolds this Season and next, offering audiences a richprogramme of the Londoner’s irresistible art and the chance to hear hisworks performed by a host of the world’s leading Purcellians. Early OperaCompany launches the latest round of Purcell performances with thecomposer’s semi-opera King Arthur, a patriotic entertainment partlyinfluenced by the political and constitutional upheavals of the mid-1680s.

Henry Purcell: A Retrospective is made possible thanks to all our contributorsto the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund importantartistic projects.

Events in this Series

A Retrospective

Saturday 7 February 10.30 am

Come and Sing: Early Opera


Early Opera CompanyChristian Curnyn director

Joélle Harvey soprano

Mhairi Lawson soprano

Samuel Boden tenor

Nick Pritchard tenor

George Humphreys bass

KING ARTHUR


Study Afternoon

Saturday 21 February 11.00 am

Family Concert:KING ARTHUR

Tuesday 10 March 7.30pm

The English ConcertHarry Bicket director

Rosemary Joshua soprano


SONGS AND DUETS

Tuesday 17 March 7.30pm

Carolyn Sampson soprano

Elizabeth Kenny lute

Jonathan Manson bass viol

Laurence Cummings harpsichord

COME ALL YE SONGSTERS:SONGS AND ARIAS

Further concerts to be announced for Summer 2015 and the 2015/16 Season

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Imogen Cooper piano

1836–1846 – PARALLEL PATHS

Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Nocturne in EbOp. 55 No. 2Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20; Novellette inF# minor Op. 21 No. 8; Novellette in D Op. 21 No. 2Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in EOp. 62 No. 2; Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49;Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23

A regular guest at Wigmore Hall since her acclaimeddebut at the BBC Proms forty years ago, ImogenCooper explores the parallel paths of Chopin andSchumann, who were both born in 1810. Herprogramme embraces the fleeting moods and witof Schumann’s Humoreske, the delicate shadingsof Chopin’s Op. 62 Nocturnes and the wistfulnostalgia of the Polish composer’s youthful Balladein G minor.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Saturday 14 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Study Afternoonwith Andrew PinnockPURCELL’S KING ARTHUR –THE ORIGINAL ROYAL OPERA

Interest in royal opera increased towards the end ofKing Charles II’s reign, as the 25th anniversary ofthe Restoration approached. A number of ambitiousworks were commissioned, King Arthur among them,but Charles’s unexpected death in February 1685threw plans for a national celebration off course,and King Arthur had to wait until 1691 to receiveits première. By then, the political climate hadchanged radically, and to ensure its acceptabilityto the new regime, King Arthur needed a politicalmakeover. Andrew Pinnock, Professor of Music at theUniversity of Southampton and a much-publishedPurcellian, presents this study afternoon whichdraws on recent research to explore the opera’smasque precursors, its complicated productionhistory and its hidden message – prophesyingendless British prosperity under Stuart rule.

£12 concs £8



Doric String Quartet Andreas Haefliger piano

Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57

Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger joins the DoricString Quartet for a performance of one of thelast century’s most powerful and uplifting chambermusic compositions. While Shostakovich’s PianoQuintet in G minor includes irony and melancholy,it stands above all for optimism in an age ofbloodshed and brutality, as meaningful today as itwas at the time of its composition in 1940.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Imogen Cooper Sussie Ahlburg Doric String Quartet George Garnier

Andreas Haefliger Marco Borggreve

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Andreas Ottensamer clarinet

José Gallardo piano

Weber Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op. 48A selection of Hungarian and Romanian dancesand folk songsBrahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1

Known for his beautiful sound and beguiling artistry,Andreas Ottensamer became the first clarinettist tosign an exclusive recording contract with DeutscheGrammophon in 2013. The Austrian musician’srecital programme touches on the folk allegiancesof his instrument before closing with the tonalradiance and tender melancholy of Brahms’sF minor Clarinet Sonata.



Andreas Ottensamer Anatol Kotte/Mercury Classics/DG

February

MARTIN FRÖST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Martin Fröst’s transcendent artistry invariably narrows the gap between matters physical,cerebral and spiritual to create sublime performances, powerfully focused and imbuedwith profound meaning. The Swedish clarinettist continues his season as Wigmore Hall’sArtist in Residence, offering a masterclass in the shaping of interpretative ideas beforeexploring the diverse riches of his instrument’s repertoire in concert.

Sunday 15 February 7.30pm

Academy of St Martin in the FieldsMartin Fröst clarinet

Mozart Serenade in G K525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’; Clarinet Concerto in A K622Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies Op. 34Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 (Nos. 1, 2 & 5) (arr. for clarinet and strings)Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 12, 13 & 21 (arr. for clarinet and strings by Göran Fröst)Traditional 3 Klezmer Dances (arr. for clarinet and strings by Göran Fröst)

Martin Fröst’s mature vision of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto evokes mystical imagery with its hypnoticlyricism and joyful spontaneity. He has performed the piece many times with the Academy of St Martinin the Fields, establishing an artistic relationship based on mutual respect and emotional engagement.Their programme also includes works arranged by Fröst’s brother Göran, crowned by his evocativetreatment of three Klezmer dances.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series

Chamber Music Season /Martin Fröst Artist in Residence

Other Events in this Series

Friday 13 February 2.30pm MasterclassFriday 1 May 7.30pm with Miah Persson soprano Maxim Rysanov viola Roland Pöntinen piano

Sunday 3 May 11.30am with Roland Pöntinen piano

Sunday 3 May 3.00pm Family Concert

Martin Fröst Mats Bäcker

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February


Giuliano Carmignola violin

Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano

Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526

Over the course of a career spanning more thanfour decades, Giuliano Carmignola has given poeticexpression to the full range of human emotions onmodern and period instruments. He is partneredby Kristian Bezuidenhout for a recital rooted in thesoundworld of the eighteenth century yet alive tothe spirit of the present moment.

£13 concs £11


Giuliano Carmignola Anna Carmignola/DG Mahan Esfahani & Michala Petri Sven Withfelt


Susan Tomes piano

Erich Höbarth violin

Schubert Sonata in A minor (Sonatina) for pianoand violin D385; Sonata in A (Duo) for piano andviolin D574Schubert Moments Musicaux D780: No. 1 in C;No. 2 in Ab; No. 3 in F minorSchubert Fantasy in C for piano and violin D934

Two seasoned chamber music artists and closefriends turn to the works of Schubert. Susan Tomesand Erich Höbarth, who received ovations for theirMozart recitals at Wigmore Hall two years ago,begin with the striking rhetoric and pathos ofSchubert’s ‘Sonatina’. Tomes occupies centrestage as soloist in three of the composer’sMoments Musicaux before partnering Höbarthin the majestic Fantasy in C.

£30 £25 £20 £15



Michala Petri recorder

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Corelli Sonata in G (transcription of Violin Sonata inF Op. 5 No. 10); Sonata in G minor (transcriptionof Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 5 No. 12 ‘La Folia’) Bach Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030; Sonatain G minor (transcription of Flute Sonata in E minorBWV1034) Borup-Jørgensen FantasiaDaniel Kidane TourbillionJacob Sonatina

Music both ancient and modern appeals toMichala Petri and Mahan Esfahani, virtuoso artistsever ready to bring new works to life and challengereceived wisdom about the repertoires of theirrespective instruments. Their programme exploresthe baroque art of transcription in company withtwentieth-century works for recorder and harpsichord.It also includes Tourbillion by 28-year-old Britishcomposer Daniel Kidane, whose music hasbeen described by the Financial Times as‘quietly impressive’.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Chamber Music Season / Early Music and BaroqueSeries /Contemporary Music Series

Susan Tomes Robert Philip

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Pavel Haas Quartet Colin Currie percussion

Dvorák Miniatures Op. 75aJanácek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’Jirí Gemrot Quintet for two violins, viola, cello andmarimba (UK première)Haas String Quartet No. 2 Op. 7 ‘From the MonkeyMountains’ with percussion

Jirí Gemrot, Prague-based Director in Chief of CzechRadio, composed his Quintet for the Pavel HaasQuartet and Colin Currie in 2014. They place thescore’s individual sounds and lyrical melodies at theheart of a programme of works by Czech composers,complete with the white-hot creative energy ofJanácek’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ and Pavel Haas’s innovativeand atmospheric ‘From the Monkey Mountains’.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series/Bohemia


Dante QuartetHaydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1Bartók String Quartet No. 4Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Bartók’s synthesis of folk and art music went furtherand deeper than anything attempted before. HisFourth String Quartet encapsulates the composer’sexperiments in form and content, texture andtimbre. The Dante Quartet frames Bartók’s workwith the pathos and dark wit of Haydn’s Op. 33No. 1 and Debussy’s iconoclastic String Quartet inG minor.

£30 £25 £20 £15



Maria João Pires piano

Pavel Kolesnikov piano

Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110Schumann Fantasy in F minor D940Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111

Late masterworks by Beethoven and Schubert formthe core of this recital. Maria João Pires performsSchubert’s 6 Moments Musicaux and Beethoven’sPiano Sonata Op. 110, before sharing the stage withher pupil Pavel Kolesnikov for Schubert’s Fantasy inF minor for piano four-hands. Kolesnikov’s WigmoreHall debut in January 2014, greeted by five-starreviews, set the seal on the remarkable openingphase of the young Russian-born pianist’s career.He closes this recital with a performance ofBeethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Pavel Kolesnikov is a soloist of the Music Chapel and thisconcert forms part of the Partitura Project. Initiated by MariaJoão Pires, the aim of this project is to create an altruisticdynamic between artists of different generations and to offeran alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness.www.musicchapel.org

London Pianoforte Series/Maria João PiresPortrait Series

February

Pavel Haas Quartet Marco Borggreve Maria João Pires Felix Broede/DG

Dante Quartet Phillip PrattColin Currie Marco Borggreve

Pavel Kolesnikov Colin Way

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Family Concert www.benjaminharte.co.uk Calidore String Quartet Jeffrey Fasano

February

Saturday 21 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Early Opera Company andIsabelle Adams: Purcell’sKing ArthurFAMILY CONCERTFor ages 5 plus

Join instrumentalists and singers from theEarly Opera Company and presenter Isabelle Adamsfor a magical musical story featuring King Arthur,Merlin, Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint,George. Adapted from Purcell’s opera and usingextracts of the original music, we will tell analternative tale of King Arthur on an adventurethrough golden fields, icy forests and epic battles.

Adults £9 Children £7



Pavel Haas QuartetSchulhoff String Quartet No. 1Dvorák String Quartet in Eb Op. 51Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘Frommy life’

The Pavel Haas Quartet’s programme featuresworks influenced by the composers’ personalcircumstances and shared concerns. Smetana,whose autobiographical quartet presents scenes‘From my life’, wrote that its four players ‘shouldconverse together in an intimate circle aboutthe things which so deeply trouble me’. ErwinSchulhoff’s String Quartet No. 1, meanwhile,dates from the short-lived Czechoslovak Republic’shugely creative interwar years.

£30 £25 £20 £15

Chamber Music Season/Bohemia


Calidore String QuartetMendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op.13Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2‘Razumovsky’

Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first complete stringquartet within months of Beethoven’s death in1827. The work, later published as the prodigiouslygifted young composer’s Second String Quartet,was inspired by the example of Beethoven’s stringquartets, which Mendelssohn knew well. TheCalidore String Quartet’s Coffee Concert concludeswith Beethoven’s emotionally complex Second‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which silence serves toarticulate and intensify the musical argument.



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Miloš Karadaglic guitar

Sor Variations on a Theme of MozartBach Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004Gerhard FantasiaGranados Danza española No. 2: OrientaleRodrigo Invocación y danza; Zapateado from3 Piezas españolasDomeniconi Koyunbaba

Since moving to London from Montenegro in hislate teens to study at the Royal Academy of Music,Miloš Karadaglic has emerged as one of the finestclassical guitarists of our time. He returns toWigmore Hall with a typically zestful programme,which includes Roberto Gerhard’s Fantasia of1957 and Fernando Sor’s eternally delightfulVariations on a Theme of Mozart, first publishedin London in 1821.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by an anonymous donor



Louis Schwizgebel piano

Haydn Piano Sonata in Eb HXVI:49 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Étude in C# minorOp. 25 No. 7; Waltz in C# minor Op. 64 No. 2;Fantaisie-impromptu in C# minor Op. 66Liszt Consolation No. 3 in Db S172; HungarianRhapsody No. 6 in Db S244

Born in Geneva in 1987, Swiss-Chinese pianist LouisSchwizgebel has been described by the Guardianas ‘a pianist with a profound gift’, a view consistentlyunderlined by the refinement and searchingintelligence of his performances. His BBC Lunchtimeprogramme spans the gamut from Classical Haydnto the expressive extremes and technical challengesof Liszt’s virtuosic art.

£13 concs £11

Louis Schwizgebel is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme



Lisa Batiashvili violin

Paul Lewis piano

PAUL LEWIS: A CELEBRATION



Artists in ConversationMembers of Birmingham Contemporary Music Groupin conversation before the evening concert.

£4 Booking open



Birmingham ContemporaryMusic GroupGillian Keith soprano

Rebecca von Lipinski soprano

Jonathan Berman conductor

Harvey YouBabbitt QuatrainsGerald Barry New work (BCMG commission)(world première)Thomas Adès Life Story Op. 8 Kurt Schwertsik Human Existence; Der Herr weiswas der Wil; Singt meine SchwäneSir Harrison Birtwistle Three Settings of Celan:White and Light; Night; TenebraeOlga Neuwirth The Cartographer SongPoul Ruders Alone Osvaldo Golijov SarajevoDetlev Glanert Contemplated by a Portrait of a DivineCastiglioni Vallis clausaSalvatore Sciarrino Due risvegli e il ventoA Clementi WiegenliedDonatoni An Angel within my Heart

Since its foundation in 1987, BirminghamContemporary Music Group has premièred over150 works. The chamber ensemble’s pioneeringSound Investment commissioning scheme, admiredand emulated worldwide, has funded the creationof many new scores by emerging talents andestablished composers. This programme includesthe world première of the BCMG’s fourthcommission from Irish composer Gerald Barry,alongside a selection of songs from the remarkablecollection commissioned by John Woolrich forMary Wiegold’s Songbook.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series

February

Miloš Karadaglic Lars Borges/Mercury Classics Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Clive Barda

Paul Lewis: A CelebrationPaul Lewis’s virtuosity derives from devoted study, tireless preparation and a readiness toforge fresh ideas of interpretation in the white heat of performance. The English pianistcontinues his season-long series at Wigmore Hall with three programmes sure to engagehis all-round artistry and fathom the depths of masterworks by Bach, Beethoven andSchubert. He joins forces with two like-minded musicians, Lisa Batiashvili and Allan Clayton,in landmarks of chamber music and song, before presenting his mature thoughts onBeethoven’s three final piano sonatas twice in the same evening!


Lisa Batiashvili violin

Paul Lewis piano

Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574; Rondo in B minor D895Bach Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96

Following the artistic success of their collaboration in 2013,Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis formed a duo partnership thathas flourished with a succession of recital tours. Their latestproject opens with Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A, posthumouslydubbed ‘Duo’ by its publisher to signify the equal status of thework’s violin and piano parts.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall

Chamber Music Season /Paul Lewis: A Celebration

Forthcoming Concerts in this Series:

Wednesday 29 April 7.30pm

with Allan Clayton tenor

Thursday 11 June 6.00pm & 9.00pm

Photo of Paul Lewis by Josep Molina/Harmonia Mundi

Lisa Batiashvili Sammy Hart/Deutsche Grammophon

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Llyr Williams piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1;Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; 6 Variationson an Original Theme in F Op. 34; Fantasia in Gminor Op. 77; Piano Sonata No. 13 in Eb Op. 27No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14in C# minor Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’

Llyr Williams charts the evolution of Beethoven’smusic in this recital, opening with the strikinglydifferent characters of the composer’s earlyOp. 14 piano sonatas, the former full of bolddramatic contrasts, the latter praised by the criticand scholar Donald Tovey as ‘an exquisite littlework’. The improvisatory Fantasia in G minor,perhaps inspired by Bach, prepares the atmospherefor Beethoven’s radical Op. 27 piano sonatas.

The next concert in Llyr Williams’s Beethovenpiano sonata cycle is on 30 May 2015.

£35 £30 £25 £18



Scottish EnsembleJonathan Morton leader

Amy Dickson saxophone

Glazunov Saxophone Concerto Op. 109 Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C minorOp. 110a Giya Kancheli Night PrayersTchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings Op. 48

Amy Dickson, the young Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist, joins the Scottish Ensemblein two powerful pieces for classical saxophone –Glazunov’s lyrical yet scintillatingly virtuosicSaxophone Concerto, and the profound spiritualityof Georgian composer Giya Kancheli’s captivatingNight Prayers. The programme’s transformativejourney from darkness to light contrastsShostakovich’s deeply personal Chamber Symphony,a transcription by Rudolf Barshai of the composer’smonument to ‘the victims of fascism and war’,his autobiographical String Quartet No. 8, withTchaikovsky’s radiant Serenade for Strings.

£30 £25 £20 £15


February

Llyr Williams Benjamin Ealovega Amy Dickson

INTRODUCTIONTO MUSIC

Thursday 26 February 5.00pm – 6.15pmThursday 5 March 5.00pm – 6.15pmThursday 12 March 5.00pm – 6.15pmThursday 19 March 5.00pm – 6.15pm

HOW MUSIC WORKS

Aimed at music lovers who do not possessan intimate knowledge of the ‘nuts and bolts’of music and would like to know a little more.Listening to music is greatly enriched byunderstanding, and many aspects of theconstruction of music are easily explainedgiven a little time and the assistance ofmusical examples to put the ideas incontext. Harmony, melody and rhythm areamong the fundamental elements of music,but how do they work and what are the rulesthat govern their use? These four lectures withRoy Stratford will demystify what can be anintimidating subject, and will help you to gaina better understanding of these key areas.

Series ticket price £30


Benjamin Ealovega

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February/March

Saturday 28 February

Wolfgang RihmComposer Focus DaySee page overleaf for full details

Sunday 1 March 11.30 am

Wigmore Hall Debut

Beatrice Rana piano

Bach Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825Chopin Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor Op. 39; PianoSonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’Ravel La valse

Beatrice Rana’s impassioned music-makingentranced listeners at the 2013 Van CliburnInternational Piano Competition, and wasacknowledged with the prestigious event’s SilverMedal and Audience Award. The 21-year-oldItalian pianist makes her Wigmore Hall debut witha programme designed to display the breadthof her musicianship and her gift for expressingvivid images in music.




Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto


Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58Lekeu Trois PoèmesHahn Offrande; D’une prison; L’heure exquise;Fêtes galantesKoechlin Menuet; La pêche; La lune; L’hiver;Si tu le veuxDebussy From Fêtes galantes Book II: Les ingénus;Le faune; Colloque sentimentalDuparc L’invitation au voyage; La vie antérieure;Sérénade florentine; Phidylé

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, a native of Québec, madeher mark in 2000 as winner of the Prix de la ReineFabiola and Prix du Lied at the Concours ReineElisabeth in Belgium. The unique colours of hersonorous contralto voice and probing artistry, in highdemand worldwide, are directed in this recital to anexquisite programme of chansons from the goldenage of French song.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Sunday 1 March 7.30 pm

Belcea QuartetWebern Five Movements Op. 5Schubert String Quartet in A minor D804‘Rosamunde’Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Webern’s admiration for the music of Schubertfrequently extended to his concert programmesas conductor. The Belcea Quartet’s concert offersa natural pairing of works by two composersprofoundly concerned with the spiritual qualitiesof sound and the power of music to speak wherewords fall short. It closes with Brahms’s StringQuartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2, the rich outcomeof many years of experiment and painstaking work.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Marie-Nicole Lemieux Denis Rouvre Beatrice Rana Neda Navaee Belcea Quartet Ronald Knapp

Wolfgang RihmComposer Focus Day

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6.00pm

Artists in ConversationJoin composer Wolfgang Rihm whenhe discusses his life and works.

£4


7.30pm

Arditti QuartetTanja Tetzlaff cello

Teodoro Anzellotti accordion

Wolfgang Rihm Grave in memoriamThomas Kakuska;Fetzen for accordion and string quartet;String Quartet No. 10;Epilog for string quintet

This concert will be approximately 2 hoursin duration, with an interval

£30 £25 £20 £15

ALL DAY TICKET £30

Booking is open for all events on this date


11.30am

Quatuor DanelJörg Widmann clarinet

Bruno Schneider horn

Wolfgang Rihm Sextet* (UK première);Vier Male for clarinet in A;4 Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett

*Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdamwith the support of the AMMODO Foundation; Wigmore Hallwith the support of André Hoffmann, President of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation,and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutesin duration, without an interval

£12.50 concs £10

2.00pm

Christoph Prégardien tenor

Ulrich Eisenlohr piano

Schubert Songs on poems by Ernst SchulzeWolfgang Rihm Songs from Ende der HandschriftWolfgang Rihm Das RotSchubert Heine Lieder from Schwanengesang

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

£12.50 concs £10

Chamber Music Season /Contemporary Music Series/Song Recital Series

In the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movement to restoreexpressivity to contemporary German music and open a modern dialogue with the past.While his strikingly original works often connect with the aesthetics of Romanticism,they do so without trace of nostalgia or sentimental yearning for styles overturned bythe cataclysmic upheavals of the last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day,featuring performances by artists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches onthe myriad ways in which his art draws pulsating life from the abiding energy of musicand poetic images of an earlier age.

Photo by Manu Theobald

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March

Wednesday 4 March 12.15 pm

Pre-Concert TalkAn introduction to the lunchtime concert withcomposer Joey Roukens.




Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould violin Caroline Dearnley cello

Huw Watkins piano Owen Gunnell percussion

Harrison Varied Trio for violin, piano and percussionJoey Roukens New work* (world première)Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support ofdonors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by WigmoreHall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Joey Roukens has emerged as one of the finestyoung composers on the Dutch music scene. Hisworks explore the natural coexistence of differentmusical genres, be they new or old in style,influenced by high or popular culture, western ornon-western. In this hour-long concert we hear anew work from Roukens, co-commissioned byBritten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall, alongside musicby Lou Harrison, a maverick of twentieth-centuryAmerican music, and Shostakovich’s hauntingsecond piano trio.



ALBAN GERHARDT FOCUS

Thursday 5 March 7.30pm

Alban Gerhardt cello

Steven Osborne piano

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minorSchnittke Cello Sonata No. 1 (dedicatedto Natalia Gutman)Messiaen Louange à l’éternité de Jésusfrom Quatuor pour la fin du tempsBeethoven Cello Sonata in D Op. 102No. 2; Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1

Alban Gerhardt’s spiritually chargedinterpretations draw energy from hisprofound reflections on life and the natureof reality. His duo partnership with StevenOsborne has delivered, among many finethings, insightful readings of Beethoven’slate cello sonatas and a recording ofSchnittke’s First Cello Sonata that revelsin the work’s imaginative treatment of theoften tense, sometimes subtle dialoguebetween minor and major tonalities.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by the Season Patrons who have made amajor contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series

Chamber Music Season /Alban Gerhardt Focus

Forthcoming Concert in this Series


String Quintets with

Baiba Skride violin Gergana Gergova violin

Brett Dean viola Nils Mönkemeyer viola

Alban Gerhardt Sim Canetty-Clarke

Monday 2 March 1.00 pm

Signum QuartetBeethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 withGrosse Fuge Op. 133

Completed almost two centuries ago, Beethoven’sOp. 130 and its vast finale, the ‘Great Fugue’,stand as a timeless monument to the highestambitions of human achievement. Stravinskyconsidered the Grosse Fuge to be ‘an absolutelycontemporary piece of music that will becontemporary forever’, a view certain to bereinforced when the Signum Quartet presents themovement in its original context in this recital.

£13 concs £11


Signum Quartet Irène Zandel

Joey Roukens Dick Staats

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Friday 6 March 7.30 pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Scarlatti Sonata in A Kk208; Sonata in G Kk55;Sonata in A minor Kk175; Sonata in A Kk212Mendelssohn Songs without Words: in Eb Op. 53No. 2; in B minor Op. 30 No. 4; in A Op. 102 No. 5;in Ab Op. 38 No. 6 ‘Duo’Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110Maximilian Schnaus New work* (world première)Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16

* Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support ofAndré Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann,a Swiss grant-making foundation

Francesco Piemontesi’s poetic artistry andimmaculate technique are at the heart ofperformances that reveal countless details all tooeasily overlooked. His latest Wigmore Hallprogramme explores the light and shade of sonatasby Domenico Scarlatti and Mendelssohn’s Songswithout Words. He also gives the first performanceof a new work by the young German composerMaximilian Schnaus.

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series

Saturday 7 March 7.30 pm

Elias String QuartetBeethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6;String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’;String Quartet in F Op. 135

For the composer Robert Simpson, Beethoven’sfinal string quartet contained ‘the most sensitivelycoloured quartet writing in existence’. The Op. 135score combines searing tragedy and subtle humour,the latter used to reflect on life’s fragility. The EliasString Quartet’s Beethoven cycle places the piecein company with two other pioneering works, bothof which anticipate the spiritual heights attainedin the composer’s late quartets.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Chamber Music Season /Elias String Quartet Beethoven Quartet Cycle


Paolo Borciani Quartet CompetitionPrizewinner’s Concert

Kelemen QuartetTchaikovsky String Quartet No. 3 in Eb minor Op. 30Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’

The Paolo Borciani International String QuartetCompetition, named after the Quartetto Italiano’sfounder and first violinist, has helped launch thecareers of many of today’s leading string quartetssince its creation in 1987, the Artemis, Pavel Haasand Bennewitz quartets among them. The KelemenQuartet won the triennial competition’s tenth editionin June 2014 and performs this Wigmore Hallrecital as part of its prize.



March

Francesco Piemontesi Felix Broede

Elias String Quartet Benjamin Ealovega

Kelemen Quartet Tamas Dobos

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Marino Formenti piano

PATHS TO A MASTERPIECE

Barraqué Piano SonataWith short works by D’Anglebert, Debussy,Schubert and Webern

Italian pianist and conductor Marino Formentihas created a fascinating programme aroundJean Barraqué’s Piano Sonata. This monumentalmasterpiece, which was completed in 1952,is presented alongside smaller works that led,like paths, towards it.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open

London Pianoforte Series /Contemporary Music Series


Christiane Karg soprano

Gerold Huber piano

Wolf Heiss mich nicht reden; Nur wer die Sehnsuchtkennt; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das LandBrahms Wie erkenn ich den Treulieb; SeinLeichenhemd weissStrauss Wie erkenn’ ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun? Brahms Auf morgen ist Sankt Valentins TagStrauss Guten Morgen, ’s ist Sankt ValentinstagBrahms Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss;Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück?Strauss Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre blossSaint-Saëns La mort d’OphélieHahn Lydé; A Chloris; SéraphineDuparc Phidylé; Romance de Mignon

Christiane Karg opens her BBC Lunchtime recitalwith a group of Goethe settings by Wolf, exquisitelyjudged musical complements to the poet’s alreadymusical use of language. She continues by exploringresponses to the desperate tragedy of Shakespeare’sOphelia in songs by Brahms, Richard Strauss andSaint-Saëns before touching on the musical pasticheof Hahn’s ‘A Chloris’ and seductive beauty ofDuparc’s early ‘Romance de Mignon’.

£13 concs £11



Lucy Crowe soprano

James Baillieu piano

Songs by PurcellFolk songsLutosławski Chantefleurs et chantefablesWolf Songs from Italienisches LiederbuchStrauss Vier letzte Lieder (4 Last Songs)

Lucy Crowe’s lyrical lightness and clarity of voiceare allied to her delightfully imaginative engagementwith words and their meaning. She recently receivedglowing reviews for her interpretation of Strauss’sSophie (Der Rosenkavalier) in concert with theLondon Symphony Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder,underlining her place among the most compellingBritish singers of her generation.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Song Recital Series

Christiane Karg Gisela Schenker Lucy Crowe Marco BorggreveMarino Formenti Gyula Fodor

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Tuesday 10 March 7.30 pm

The English Concert Harry Bicket director

Rosemary Joshua soprano


Locke Suite from The Tempest (Part 1)Purcell If music be the food of love; Draw near, youlovers that complain; Oh, the sweet delights of loveLocke Suite from The Tempest (Part 2)Purcell Music for a while; Oh! Fair Cedaria;My dearest, my fairestBlow Arietta variata from Partita No. 7 in C minorPurcell One charming night; The plaint; Love, thouart best

Music by Henry Purcell, his predecessor ascomposer to Charles II’s violin band, Matthew Locke,and his teacher and friend, John Blow, occupyThe English Concert’s attention. Harry Bicket andhis acclaimed period-instrument orchestra arejoined by Rosemary Joshua and Sarah Connolly ina selection of Purcell’s songs, arias and duets,crowned by ‘One charming night’ and ‘The plaint’from The Fairy Queen.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Early Music and Baroque Series /Henry Purcell: A Retrospective


Modigliani QuartetBeethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10Dohnányi String Quartet No. 3 Op. 33

Described as one of ‘the best quartets in the world’by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and as ‘a fab foursome’by the Seattle Times, the Modigliani Quartet isglobally admired for the symphonic intensity, refinedbalance, tonal beauty and panache of itsperformance style. This programme presents threecontrasting works in minor keys, including a rarechance to hear Dohnányi’s emotionally chargedThird String Quartet.

£30 £25 £20 £15


Thursday 12 March 7.30 pm

Alexander Melnikov piano

Feldman Triadic Memories

Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, first performedat the ICA in London in 1981, offers a study in deeplistening. This vast work barely rises above a whisper,gently drawing listeners into its kaleidoscopicsoundworld of shifting Minimalist textures. Thecomposer described his score as ‘probably thelargest butterfly in captivity’, a wonderful metaphorfor one of the most exquisite pieces in thecontemporary piano repertoire.

There will be no interval in this concert

£30 £25 £20 £15

London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary Music Series

March

Rosemary Joshua, Harry Bicket & Sarah Connolly Peter Warren

Modigliani Quartet Sylvie Lancrenon Alexander Melnikov Marco Borggreve

The English Concert Richard Haughton

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The King’s ConsortJulie Cooper soprano

Rebecca Outram soprano

Daniel Auchincloss high tenor

Christopher Watson high tenor

James Gilchrist tenor

Charles Daniels tenor

Andrew Rupp bass

Robert Macdonald bass

Robert King conductor

GENIUS OF VENICE:Sacred Music by Claudio Monteverdi

Monteverdi Dixit Dominus (Primo); Currite, populi,psallite timpanis A Gabrieli Intonatione Settimo tonoMonteverdi Gloria in excelsis Deo a 7; Venitesiccientes; Beatus vir (Primo); Salve Regina;Letaniae della Beata Vergine a 6; O beatae viae;Christe Redemptor omnium A Gabrieli IntonationePrimo tono Monteverdi Magnificat (Primo)

Glorious sacred music from Monteverdi’s Venice, aswould have been heard by visitors attending servicesat St Mark’s Basilica around 1610, provides thelifeblood of this concert. One such visitor, hearingmusic ‘to ravish and stupefy all those that neverheard the like’, described the performers as‘superexcellent’. The King’s Consort’s Monteverdiperformances have been acclaimed worldwide.In this vivid programme they feature a world-classensemble of singers and instrumentalists.

£35 £30 £25 £18




Nash EnsembleIan Brown conductor

Philippa Davies flute

Claire Booth soprano

NASH COMMISSIONS

Huw Watkins New workDavid Matthews A Blackbird Sang for flute andstring trioMichael Berkeley Three Rilke Sonnets for sopranoand ensemble

The works will be introduced by the composers inconversation from the stage.


Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series



Nash EnsembleJuanjo Mena conductor

Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano

Juan Martín flamenco guitar

Turina La oración del torero Op. 34 (The Bullfighter’sPrayer) for string quartetFalla 7 canciones populares españolas (7 Spanishfolk songs) for voice and piano; El corregidor y lamolinera (The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife);El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) for mezzo-sopranoand ensembleFlamenco guitar music from Andalucía

A programme centred around the ballet music ofFalla, including The Magistrate and the Miller’s Wife,which became Act I of The Three-Cornered Hat, andLove, the Magician. Bernarda Fink sings the part ofthe gypsy Candelas in the latter, and adds a groupof folksong arrangements, while the programme iscompleted by a tone-poem for string quartet byFalla’s friend Turina and a special appearance bythe celebrated flamenco guitarist Juan Martín.

£35 £30 £25 £18 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series


Daniel Müller-Schott cello

Lauma Skride piano

Debussy Cello Sonata in D minorSchumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70Franck Sonata in A for cello and piano

Daniel Müller-Schott returns to Wigmore Hall toperform three landmark works of the cellorepertoire, including Schumann’s heartfelt Adagioand Allegro. He is joined by the Latvian pianistLauma Skride, recipient of the Bonn BeethovenFestival’s Beethoven-Ring award in 2008.

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


Juan Martín Suzan FeltonThe King’s Consort Keith Saunders

Daniel Müller-Schott Uwe Arens


Markus Werba baritone

Gary Matthewman piano

Schubert Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk;Der Kreuzzug; Des Fräuleins Liebeslauschen;An die Laute; Alinde; Bei dir allein!; Augenlied;Abendlied für die Entfernte; Auf der Brücke;Normans Gesang; Romanze des Richard Löwenherz;Gebet während der Schlacht; Erlafsee; Der lieblicheStern; Um Mitternacht; Sehnsucht; Selige Welt;Todesmusik

Markus Werba looks at history as seen through therear-view mirror of Romantic poetry in songs suchas ‘Der Wallensteiner Lanzknecht beim Trunk’, the ‘Romanze des Richard Löwenherz’ and thefearsome battle imagery of ‘Gebet während derSchlacht’. The Austrian baritone, accompanied byGary Matthewman, also explores richly detailedminiatures by Schubert, ‘An die Laute’, ‘Alinde’and ‘Sehnsucht’ among them.

£35 £30 £25 £18

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Wigmore Hall Debut

Cyrille Dubois tenor

Tristan Raës piano

Duparc Chanson triste; Soupir; PhidyléLiszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Britten Seven Sonnets of MichelangeloRachmaninov These Summer Nights; The muse;Spring waters; Dreams

Cyrille Dubois has made mighty career strides sincegraduating from the Paris Conservatoire. The youngFrench tenor’s notable successes on the opera stageinclude appearances at La Scala and the Opéra deParis. In 2010 he joined forces with pianist TristanRaës to form a duo partnership. Their Wigmore Halldebut recital includes Britten’s Seven Sonnets ofMichelangelo, a work which received its worldpremière at the Hall in 1942.

£15 concs £12.50

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Paolo Pandolfo viola da gamba

Markus Hunninger harpsichord

Bach Viola da gamba SonatasWorks by Abel

Paolo Pandolfo began his career as a jazz performer.He subsequently made his mark as a viola dagamba specialist in the late 1970s, co-founding theperiod-instrument ensemble La Stravaganza andswiftly establishing his position among the world’sfinest gamba players. He joins his regular artisticcollaborator Markus Hunninger for a programmecomplete with Bach’s intensely expressive sonatas.

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Pacifica QuartetBeethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6Shulamit Ran Glitter, Doom, Shards, Memory –String Quartet No. 3* (UK première)Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

*Co-commissioned by Music Accord, Suntory Hall, andby Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation

Shulamit Ran’s musical language pulsates withcomplex rhythmic patterns and contrasting textures.The virtuosity of her music often pushes performersto explore the far limits of instrumental technique,an essential ingredient of her art’s dramatic power.The Pacifica Quartet presents the UK première ofRan’s latest chamber music score, co-commissionedfor the ensemble by Wigmore Hall and presentedalongside two works shot through with insights intothe human psyche.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open




Elizabeth Kenny lute

Jonathan Manson bass viol

Laurence Cummings harpsichord

COME ALL YE SONGSTERS

Purcell From The Fairy Queen: Come all ye songsters;Sing while we trip it; Ye gentle spirits of the air Purcell The cares of lovers from Timon of Athens;Fly swift, ye hours; Not all my torments; From rosybowers from Don Quixote; Let the dreadful enginesfrom Don Quixote; I see she flies me; What a sadfate is mine; Pious Celinda goes to prayers;’Tis nature’s voice; Lucinda is bewitching fair;Hark! The echoing air from The Fairy QueenInterspersed with solo instrumental music by Purcell

Henry Purcell and John Blow refined the repertoireof ‘songs sung at court and at the public theatres’in the years following Charles II’s return to thethrone in 1660. Purcell went further than any of hiscontemporaries in terms of the eloquence, inventionand expressive impact of his contributions to thegreat Restoration songbook. Wigmore Hall favouriteCarolyn Sampson and a trio of period-instrumentexperts present their choice of Purcell songsand arias.

£40 £35 £25 £15

Supported by Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocalmusic in all its forms throughout the 2014 /15 Season

Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective/Celebrating Carolyn Sampson


Pre-Concert TalkNASH INVENTIONS

Composers discuss their works to be performed inthe evening concert.


Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary MusicSeries/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Series



Nash EnsembleLionel Friend conductor

Richard Hosford clarinet

Lucy Wakeford harp

Bjørg Lewis cello

Claire Booth soprano

NASH INVENTIONS

Richard Causton Piano Quintet* (2015) (Londonpremière) Carter Poems of Louis Zukofsky forsoprano and clarinet** (2010)Sir Peter Maxwell Davies String Quintet*** (2015)(world première)Simon Holt Shadow Realm for clarinet, cello andharp** (1983)Sir Harrison Birtwistle 9 Settings of Lorine Niedeckerfor soprano and cello** (1998 /2000)Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence** (1997)

* Commissioned by the BBC for the Nash Ensemble’s50th anniversary** Nash Ensemble commissions** * Commissioned by the Nash Ensemble with fundsprovided by Arts Council England and Wigmore Hall

The Nash Ensemble’s 50th anniversary series endswith its annual ‘Nash Inventions’ concert, featuringtwo new quintets commissioned from major Britishcomposers of two generations, Richard Caustonand the irrepressible octogenarian Sir Peter MaxwellDavies. The programme also includes works writtenfor the group by the eminent American composerElliott Carter and by three leading British figures,Davies’s contemporary Sir Harrison Birtwistle,Simon Holt and Wigmore Hall’s current Composerin Residence, Julian Anderson.

£25 £22 £18 £12 Booking open

Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary SeriesClaire Booth Sven ArnsteinCarolyn Sampson Marco Borggreve

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Mozart Adagio in B minor K540Schubert Piano Sonata in B D575Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1Mozart Piano Sonata in C minor K457Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Op. 53‘Waldstein’

Cédric Tiberghien’s pianism spans the widestcontrasts of expression, colour and touch to deliverperformances that appear to make time stand still.His programme includes two masterly works byMozart, both coloured by turbulent emotions, thelate Romanticism of Alban Berg’s Op. 1 and thefiery passions and unbridled technical challengesof Beethoven’s ‘Waldstein’ Sonata.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Saturday 21 March 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

CAVATINA Family Concert:Carducci String QuartetFor ages 5 plus

GETTING THE QUARTET BUG

An exciting, interactive hour of fun with theCarducci String Quartet full of inspiration, audienceparticipation and glorious music, including Haydn’s‘Bird’ and ‘Frog’ quartets, and works by Beethoven,Piazzolla and Philip Glass. Learn the ‘forbiddenrhythm’ and see how Shostakovich used it in the‘wrong note’ Polka, and join the quartet in aperformance of Arbeau’s ‘Sword Dance’.


CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringingchamber music to young people and young people tochamber music, is delighted to present this concert inassociation with Wigmore Hall.


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Thursday 19 March 7.30 pm

Leila Josefowicz violin

John Novacek piano

Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor Op. 105Magnus Lindberg New work* (world première)Erkki-Sven Tüür ConversioJohn Adams Road Movies

*Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Linda and StuartNelson, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of AndréHoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swissgrant-making foundation

Schumann’s subjective reflections and the personalpsychological torments expressed in his ViolinSonata No. 1 set the concentrated mood for thisrecital. Leila Josefowicz and John Novacek alsobring Magnus Lindberg’s Wigmore Hall commissionto life and explore the pulsating rhythms and shiftingpatterns of John Adams’s Road Movies. Estoniancomposer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s rip-roaring Conversiocompletes this irresistible programme mix.

£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open


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Gerald Finley bass-baritone

Julius Drake piano

Mozart Cantata ‘Die ihr des unermesslichenWeltalls Schöpfer ehrt’ K619Songs by BeethovenBrahms Four Serious Songs Op. 121Vaughan Williams 3 Poems by Walt WhitmanNed Rorem War ScenesSong by Ives

Matters of life and death course through thisprogramme, powerfully treated by Brahms in hisFour Serious Songs and touched upon withlightness by Mozart in his tuneful ‘little Germancantata’ of July 1791. Gerald Finley and JuliusDrake tackle Ned Rorem’s War Scenes in theirrecital’s second half, a haunting cycle of five songsdedicated to ‘those who died in Vietnam, both sides,during the composition: 20–30 June 1969’.

£35 £30 £25 £18

Supported by The Hargreaves and Ball Trust

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Tesla QuartetSchubert Quartettsatz in C minor D703Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4Mendelssohn String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2

Classical balance and Romantic intensity meld inMendelssohn’s String Quartet in E minor Op. 44 No. 2,drafted while the composer was on honeymoon inthe Black Forest during the summer of 1837. Thisconcert by the Tesla Quartet, Third Prize-winner ofthe 2012 Wigmore Hall London International StringQuartet Competition, sets out with the noble sweepof Schubert’s Quartettsatz before turning to Haydn’sString Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4, highly advanced indrawing its thematic material from tuneful melodiescomposed in a popular style.

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



Wigmore Hall Debut

Andrè Schuen baritone

Daniel Heide piano

Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24Wolf Harfenspieler I – III: Wer sich der Einsamkeitergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; Wer niesein Brot mit Tränen assMartin Six Monologues from Hofmannsthal’sJedermann

Born in Italy’s South Tyrol, Andrè Schuen studiedat the Salzburg Mozarteum and refined his innatefeeling for song under Wolfgang Holzmair’s care.He opens his Wigmore Hall debut with Schumann’ssetting of nine Heine poems, the Liederkreis Op. 24,and journeys towards Frank Martin’s redemptivemonologues from Hofmannsthal’s Jedermann byway of the three Harfenspieler songs from Wolf’sGoethe-Lieder.

£15 concs £12.50

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Tesla Quartet Arthur Moeller Andrè Schuen Angelika SchwarzGerald Finley Sim Canetty-Clarke

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Danish String QuartetHaydn String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2Shostakovich String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117

Within a month of starting piano lessons, DmitryShostakovich was playing easy pieces by Mozartand Haydn. The Russian composer’s Ninth StringQuartet also looks back to music of the past,alluding to the famous fanfare theme from Rossini’s‘William Tell’ Overture. The dynamic Danish StringQuartet, First Prize-winner of the 2009 LondonInternational String Quartet Competition, pairsShostakovich’s often experimental work with thebold rhetoric and virtuosity of Haydn’s String Quartetin C Op. 54 No. 2.

£13 concs £11

The Danish String Quartet is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme



The Cardinall’s MusickFayrfax CelebrationSee page opposite for full details


Hilary Hahn violin

Cory Smythe piano

Programme to include:Bach Partita No. 3 in E for solo violin BWV1006Debussy Violin Sonata in G minorInterspersed with a selection of encore pieces bycontemporary composers

Soon after making her professional debut 21 yearsago, Hilary Hahn seized international attentionwith a series of high profile concerto debuts andrecordings. Her commitment to the evolution ofher instrument’s repertoire is reflected not leastin the 27 Hilary Hahn Encores, which she andCory Smythe have introduced to their recitalprogrammes in recent seasons.

£35 £30 £25 £18



Pre-Concert TalkViolist, teacher, and editor of the new Peters Editionof Haydn’s String Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones talksabout the composer’s output for the genre, illustratedwith excerpts played by the Arcadia Quartet.

£4



Arcadia QuartetMeccorre QuartetHaydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20

First and Second Prize-winners at the 2012 WigmoreHall London International String Quartet Competition,the Arcadia and Meccorre Quartets, join forces inMendelssohn’s peerless Octet. The wit of Haydn’sString Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2, nicknamedfor the ‘has-it-finished-yet?’ repetitions of its rondotheme, and Beethoven’s Shakespeare-inspired StringQuartet in F Op.18 No.1 complete this programme.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Arcadia Quartet Marion GravrandDanish String Quartet Caroline Bittencourt

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Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick continue their season-long celebration of the life and work of Robert Fayrfax.Each concert is shaped by a main theme related to a sacred subject and a sub-plot connected to a central character fromTudor politics. Fayrfax and contemporaries such as John Taverner, William Cornysh and Nicholas Ludford heightened theruling elite’s experience of worship with music of intricate complexity and sonorous weight, underlining the vitality of thelate medieval English Church before Henry VIII’s break with Rome.

Monday 23 March 7.30pm

The Cardinall’s MusickAndrew Carwood director

CHRIST THE KINGSub-plot: Henry VIII

Fayrfax Gloria from Missa ‘Regali ex progenie’Turges From stormy wyndisSampson Psallite felicesFayrfax Benedicite: What dremyd I?; Magnificat ‘O bone Jesu’Ludford Domine Jesu ChristeFayrfax I love, lovedTaverner Christe Jesu, pastor boneHenry VIII Helas madameFayrfax That was my woo; Lauda vivi alpha

Photo by Dmitri Gutjahr

Robert Fayrfax, incorporated as a Doctor of Music inOxford in 1511, was among the musicians whotravelled with Henry VIII to France in 1520 todemonstrate England’s prowess at the Field of Clothof Gold. The King’s considerable skills as a composerare recognised in this concert, which also displaysthe technical brilliance of Fayrfax’s Missa ‘Regali exprogenie’ and the forward-looking choral textures ofhis motet Lauda vivi alpha.

£35 £30 £25 £18


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Future Concert in this Series:

Saturday 20 June 2015 7.30 pm

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Pre-Concert PerformancePerformance by quartets that took part in theNational Young String Quartet Weekend earlier in theyear at Chetham’s School of Music.

Free (ticket required)



Louis Lortie piano

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in Bb Op. 106‘Hammerklavier’Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Louis Lortie’s acclaimed artistry arises from thecombination of his uncanny technical commandand the visionary insights into the works in hisrepertoire. Two mighty pillars of the piano literatureoccupy his attention in this recital, both inexhaustiblein the variety of their ideas and what they have tosay about the human condition.

£35 £30 £25 £18

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Atrium QuartetBorodin String Quartet No. 1 in AShostakovich String Quartet No. 12 in Db Op. 133Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

Founded in St Petersburg in 2000, the AtriumQuartet confirmed its exceptional promise threeyears later as winner of the London InternationalString Quartet Competition. The ensemble’s closeassociation with the music of Shostakovich isreflected in this programme, which sets thecomposer’s ground-breaking Twelfth String Quartetin company with the contrapuntal complexities ofBorodin’s First String Quartet and transcendentspiritual qualities of Beethoven’s late String Quartetin A minor.

£35 £30 £25 £18

This concert will be approximately 2 hours 30 minutes induration, with an interval



Benjamin Appl baritone

Graham Johnson piano

Schubert Am Bach im Frühling; Der Wandereran den Mond; Im Freien; Geheimes; WandrersNachtlied II; An den Mond (D259); Das Lied imGrünen; Fischerweise; Verklärung; An den Tod;Der Zwerg; An die Leier; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus;Strophe aus ‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Memnon;Alinde; Der Kampf; Prometheus; Die Gebüsche;Nachtstück; Im Abendrot

German baritone Benjamin Appl has establisheda close artistic rapport with Graham Johnson sincejoining the latter’s Young Songmakers’ Almanacproject in 2012. Their recital highlights Appl’saffinity for Schubert, devoted here to a selection ofsongs that span everything from the radiant joyof ‘Am Bach im Frühling’ and conflicting emotionsof ‘An den Mond’ to the contemplation of deathand renewal in ‘Nachtstück’.

£30 £25 £20 £15

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Saturday 28 March 2.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall InternationalString Quartet Competition2015SEMI-FINALS

After giving two different recital programmes duringthe Preliminary Round, at least six quartets selectedby the International Jury will perform their choice ofone of Beethoven’s quartets. At the end of the evening,the Jury will select at least three quartets for the Final.

Each session: £35 £30 £25 £18

Book for both Semi-Final sessions and receive a 20% discount

Chamber Music Season/ Wigmore Hall InternationalString Quartet Competition

Saturday 28 March 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

Beethoven MasterclassMark Messenger gives a masterclass on one ofBeethoven’s string quartets, with a big screen projectionof the score behind the performing ensemble.

£4


Mark Messenger Milken Family Foundation


Dover QuartetHaydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1Dvorák String Quartet No. 11 in C Op. 61

The Dover Quartet emerged victorious from the2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition,capturing the event’s Grand Prize and securingthree additional prizes, including that for the bestHaydn performance. The ensemble returns toWigmore Hall following its Semi-Final performancein the 2012 Wigmore Hall London InternationalString Quartet Competition, pairing one of Haydn’smost inventive string quartets with the classicalrefinement and romantic harmonies of Dvorák’sString Quartet No. 11.




Wigmore Hall InternationalString Quartet Competition2015FINAL

The selected finalists will each play their chosenwork from the Romantic repertoire, which couldinclude works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák,Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert andSmetana. The concert will be followed by theAwards Ceremony at about 9.00 pm.

£35 £30 £25 £18

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The 2015 Wigmore Hall InternationalString Quartet Competition is thethirteenth edition of this prestigiousCompetition, and a celebration of theart of the string quartet. Alongside theCompetition itself, we are delightedto welcome back many ‘alumni’ fromprevious years to perform in concertsthroughout the week.

Saturday 28 March 2.00 pm & 7.30 pm

Wigmore Hall InternationalString Quartet Competition2015SEMI-FINALS

After giving two different recital programmes duringthe Preliminary Round, at least six quartets selectedby the International Jury will perform their choiceof one of Beethoven’s quartets. At the end of theevening, the Jury will select at least three quartetsfor the Final.

Each session: £35 £30 £25 £18

Book for both Semi-Final sessions and receive a20% discount



Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition 2015FINAL

The selected finalists will each play their chosenwork from the Romantic repertoire, which couldinclude works by Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák,Mendelssohn, Ravel, Schumann, Schubert andSmetana. The concert will be followed by theAwards Ceremony at about 9.00 pm.

£35 £30 £25 £18


Related Events

Tuesday 24 March 10.00 am

At the Royal Academy of Music

Mark-Anthony Turnage TalkCONTUSION

To open the 2015 Competition, Mark-AnthonyTurnage talks about Contusion, his new workfor string quartet, which is the compulsorypiece for the Competitors. Contusion wascommissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMCRecordings, and by Wigmore Hall with thesupport of André Hoffmann, president of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-makingfoundation, to be premièred by the BelceaQuartet at Wigmore Hall in December 2014.

Free (no ticket required)



Pre-Concert TalkViolist, teacher, and editor of the new PetersEdition of Haydn’s String Quartets, SimonRowland-Jones talks about the composer’soutput for the genre, illustrated with excerptsplayed by the Arcadia Quartet.

£4


Wednesday 25 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pmRepeated 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm


Come and Play:String QuartetsAn unmissable opportunity for inspiration andprofessional coaching for adult amateur stringquartets. Work on a piece of repertoire ofyour choice with expert guidance from theCarducci String Quartet, and perform it in theRoyal Academy of Music’s David JosefowitzRecital Hall at the end of the workshop.

£60 per quartet(Tickets can only be booked as a complete quartet)



Pre-Concert PerformancePerformance by quartets that took part in theNational Young String Quartet Weekend earlier inthe year at Chetham’s School of Music.

Free (ticket required)


Thursday 26 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Friday 27 March 10.00 am – 5.00 pm


MasterclassesWITH CHRISTOPH RICHTERString quartets wishing to take part should [email protected] forinformation. The sessions will be open to the public.



Saturday 28 March 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

Beethoven MasterclassWITH MARK MESSENGERA masterclass on one of Beethoven’s stringquartets, with a big screen projection of thescore behind the performing ensemble.

£4


Related Concerts at Wigmore Hall


Tesla QuartetMonday 23 March 1.00 pm

Danish String QuartetTuesday 24 March 7.30 pm

Arcadia QuartetMeccorre QuartetThursday 26 March 7.00 pm

Atrium QuartetSunday 29 March 11.30 am

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Zhang Zuo piano

Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26

Zhang Zuo, a Radio 3 New Generation Artist,has inspired audiences and critics alike with thetechnical accomplishment and captivatingspontaneity of her performances. With a busyinternational schedule, including a date in the 2014BBC Proms, she makes her Wigmore Hall debutwith a choice of works guaranteed to bring out theemotional fire and precision of her pianism.

£13 concs £11

Zhang Zuo is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New GenerationArtists scheme



Los Músicos de Su Alteza Olalla Alemán soprano

Pedro Reula viola da gamba

Josep María Martí chitarrone

Luis Antonio González director, harpsichord

Monteverdi Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius Grandi O quam tu pulchra esCorrea de Arauxo Tiento y discurso de segundo tonoBerges Oh santísima CruzKapsberger Toccata secondaFerrari Cantata spiritualeMonteverdi Pianto della Madonna Frescobaldi Toccata primaSances Stabat Mater

Los Músicos de Su Alteza, named after theaccomplished band of musicians maintained by theVicar General of Aragón in the late 1600s, has madewaves in the Early Music world with the sheer vitalityand affective power of its performances. The thrillingSpanish ensemble, founded by Luis Antonio Gonzálezin 1992, explores the multi-hued colours of sacredworks from the Iberian Peninsula and Venicetogether with improvisatory toccatas by Kapsbergerand Frescobaldi.

£35 £30 £25 £18


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Los Músicos de Su Alteza Michal NovakZhang Zuo

It remains of the utmost importance for Wigmore Hall to nurture the finest young artists in order to ensure that thedemanding standards and values set deep within today’s musical practices live long into the next generation and beyond.Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent allows us to create essential performance opportunities for some of these artists as theygain experience and broaden their knowledge of the repertoire.

Young artists supported by the Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme in 2014/15 are:

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Apollon Musagète QuartetTuesday 16 September 2014

Four Polish-born musicians chose the title of a Stravinskyballet to name their new quartet in 2006. The ApollonMusagète Quartet made its mark two years later by winningthe ARD International Music Competition, and was selectedas BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist in 2012. The Quartetnow enjoys a busy international schedule, and is acclaimedby audiences and critics alike around the globe.

Behzod AbduraimovTuesday 30 September 2014

Behzod Abduraimov’s jaw-dropping technical brilliance iscomplemented by the subtle eloquence of his musicianship.The Uzbek artist, born in 1990, stormed to spectacularsuccess as winner of the 2009 London International PianoCompetition. Now an exclusive Decca artist, Behzod’scaptivating performances are rapidly establishing him asone of the forerunners of his generation.

Igor LevitSaturday 27 December 2014Monday 26 January 2015Sunday 8 February 2015Wednesday 10 June 2015Monday 20 July 2015

The Russian-German pianist, born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1987,emerged from the Hanover Academy of Music, Theatre andMedia five years ago with the highest performance andacademic marks in the institution’s long history. His work sincehas been compared with that of the young András Schiff andrecognised for its depth and maturity. Small wonder that Levit wasrecently tipped by the Daily Telegraph to become ‘one of thiscentury’s big names’. Anyone unfamiliar with the artistry of IgorLevit should beat a path to his Wigmore Hall series this Season.

JACK QuartetMonday 19 January 2015

The JACK Quartet electrifies audiences worldwidewith ‘explosive virtuosity’ (Boston Globe) and‘viscerally exciting performances’ (New YorkTimes). The Washington Post commented, ‘Thestring quartet may be a 250-year old contraption,but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartetare keeping it thrillingly vital.’ Having studied withthe Arditti, Kronos and Muir string quartets, andmembers of Ensemble intercontemporain, theJACK Quartet is focused on the commissioningand performance of new works.

Royal Academy of MusicRichard Lewis Song CircleSunday 1 February 2015

Each year a small group of the Royal Academyof Music’s most accomplished performers of artsong are selected to be part of the Song Circle.Since its inception in 2004, the Song Circle hasgiven more than twenty concerts, and its annualSchubertiade has become a much-anticipatedfeature of the Academy’s calendar.




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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTSAll events listed on pages 60 – 63 will open for booking on 4 November, with the exception of the Family Concerts on 21 February and 21 March, Comeand Sing on 7 February, and Come and Play on 25 March, which go on sale to Friends on 8 October and to Mailing List Subscribers on 21 October.

We are grateful to Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Monument Trust for their support of our Family Programme, and to The Monument Trust,John Lyon’s Charity and The Loveday Charitable Trust for their support of our Schools Programme.

January/February

Wednesday 21 January 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Nicola BenedettiKEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT

A very special opportunity to hear the celebratedyoung violinist, Nicola Benedetti, in a concertpresented especially for schools. Nicola will playmusic, including works by Beethoven, which hasbeen explored through her work with young peopleover the years. She will be accompanied by herregular pianist, Alexei Grynyuk.

£3.50

Saturday 31 January 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

The Music MachineFAMILY DAY

For ages 6 plus

Create a mechanical musical world with workshopleader Jessie Maryon Davies and musicians from theRoyal Academy of Music. Work together to explorenew sounds, hear exciting music by contemporarycomposers, and build a brand new piece whereeveryone is a musical cog in a marvellous machine.


In partnership with the Royal Academy of Music andLondon Music Masters

Saturday 7 February 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Come and Sing: Early OperaAs part of our Henry Purcell: A Retrospective series,come and sing some of the composer’s operaticwork and have a go at some of the movements andgestures which accompany the words and music.Isabelle Adams leads this workshop day for adults,which includes the opportunity to perform on theWigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.

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Thursday 12 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Early Opera Company andIsabelle Adams: Purcell’sKing ArthurKEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT

Join instrumentalists and singers from theEarly Opera Company and presenter Isabelle Adamsfor a magical musical story featuring King Arthur,Merlin, Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint,George. Adapted from Purcell’s opera and usingextracts of the original music, we will tell analternative tale of King Arthur on an adventurethrough golden fields, icy forests and epic battles.

£3.50

Tuesday 17 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

Too Hot to HandelFAMILY DAY

For ages 6 plus

Travel back to the year 1749 to explore the greatcomposer George Frideric Handel’s home, wherehe is busy writing his Music for the Royal Fireworks.After our morning visit to Handel House Museum,join workshop leader Kate Mapp to discover yourinner composer, and create some explosive music ofyour own to perform on stage at the end of the day.


In partnership with Handel House

Saturday 21 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Early Opera Company andIsabelle Adams: Purcell’sKing ArthurFAMILY CONCERT

For ages 5 plus

A repeat of the schools concert on 12 February,for families.


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Wednesday 11 March 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm

Young Producers ConcertWhat happens when a group of talented youngpeople from three secondary schools in TowerHamlets programme a concert at Wigmore Hall?Which artists will they choose? What will they play?

Find out more about this unique project atwww.wigmore-hall.org.uk/young-producers


In partnership with Tower Hamlets Arts andMusic Education Service (THAMES)

Wednesday 25 March 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Repeated 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm


Come and Play:String Quartets An unmissable opportunity for inspiration andprofessional coaching for adult amateur stringquartets. Work on a piece of repertoire ofyour choice with expert guidance from theCarducci String Quartet and perform it in the RoyalAcademy of Music’s David Josefowitz Recital Hallat the end of the workshop.

£60 per quartet(Tickets can only be booked as a complete quartet)


Saturday 21 March 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

CAVATINA Family Concert:Carducci String QuartetFor ages 5 plus

GETTING THE QUARTET BUG

An exciting, interactive hour of fun with the CarducciString Quartet full of inspiration, audience participationand glorious music, including Haydn’s ‘Bird’ and‘Frog’ quartets, and works by Beethoven, Piazzollaand Philip Glass. Learn the ‘forbidden rhythm’ andsee how Shostakovich used it in the ‘wrong note’Polka, and join the quartet in a performance ofArbeau’s ‘Sword Dance’.


CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringingchamber music to young people and young people tochamber music, is delighted to present this concert inassociation with Wigmore Hall.


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Sunday 29 March 11.30 am – 4.30 pm


String Quartet Discovery DayFREE FAMILY DAY

For ages 5 plus

Join us at the Royal Academy of Music, whereyou will be able to listen to a concert, write yourown music, try out a violin or even build your ownpaper cello at this fun family day. Discover andexplore interesting instruments and spectacularstringy sounds with fantastic young musicians onhand to help you along the way, including a stringquartet of course.


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Chamber ZoneFREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

AND SCHOOLS

Over the last seven years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticketscheme Chamber Zone has reached over 5,000

young people aged 8 –25 years.

Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, withongoing support from The Monument Trust and

John Lyon’s Charity

For details on the concerts included in theChamber Zone scheme and how to book visitwww.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone


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EXAUDIHeinz Holliger & Michael Finnissy(Programme devised by Composer in ResidenceJulian Anderson)


Britten SinfoniaBen Comeau*


Nash EnsembleRichard Rodney Bennett, Julian Anderson &Nicholas Maw


Lawrence Power viola, violin

Simon Crawford-Phillips piano

Colin Matthews, Huw Watkins &Mark-Anthony Turnage*


Britten SinfoniaKaija Saariaho*


Gould Piano TrioJames MacMillan


Nash EnsembleAlexander Goehr, John Casken & Judith Weir


Jerusalem QuartetBrian Elias


JACK QuartetElliott Carter, Georg Friedrich Haas, John Zorn& Simon Holt*

Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissionerof new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energyto the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UKand London premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chambermusic,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly. ‘We plan to present up to 20 commissions perseason and make Wigmore Hall one of the world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’

Full details of the January – March concerts are provided throughout the brochure in chronological order.Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk / contemporary for further details on all forthcoming concerts in theContemporary Music Series. Booking for all concerts in this series is now open.


Michala Petri recorder

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Daniel Kidane & Axel Borup-Jørgensen


Pavel Haas QuartetColin Currie percussion

Jirí Gemrot


Birmingham ContemporaryMusic GroupGillian Keith soprano

Rebecca von Lipinski soprano

Jonathan Berman conductor

Jonathan Harvey, Milton Babbitt, GeraldBarry, Thomas Adès, Kurt Schwertsik,Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Olga Neuwirth,Poul Ruders, Osvaldo Golijov, SalvatoreSciarrino, Detlev Glanert, Niccolò Castiglioni,Aldo Clementi & Franco Donatoni


Wolfgang RihmComposer Focus DayWolfgang Rihm*


Britten SinfoniaJoey Roukens*

Friday 6 March 7.30pm

Francesco Piemontesi piano

Maximilian Schnaus*


Marino Formenti piano

Jean Barraqué


Alexander Melnikov piano

Morton Feldman

Saturday 14 March 6.00pm

Nash EnsembleHuw Watkins, David Matthews &Michael Berkeley

Monday 16 March 7.30pm

Pacifica QuartetShulamit Ran*


Nash EnsembleSir Peter Maxwell Davies*, Elliott Carter,Julian Anderson, Richard Causton,Simon Holt & Sir Harrison Birtwistle


Leila Josefowicz violin

John Novacek piano

Magnus Lindberg*, Erkki-Sven Tüür &John Adams

Friday 8 May 7.00pm

The Chamber Music Societyof Lincoln CenterHelen Grime*

£30 £25 £20 £15

Sunday 24 May 7.30pm

Inon Barnatan piano

Sebastian Currier*

£30 £25 £20 £15

Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm

Aurora OrchestraAlice Coote mezzo-soprano

Judith Weir*

£40 £35 £25 £15

Sunday 14 June 7.30 pm

Carducci String QuartetGuy Johnston cello

Anthony Gilbert*

£30 £25 £20 £15


Baiba Skride violin

Gergana Gergova violin

Brett Dean viola

Nils Mönkemeyer viola

Alban Gerhardt cello

Brett Dean

£30 £25 £20 £15

Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm


Heath QuartetJohn Musto*

£30 £25 £20 £15

Tuesday 7 July 7.30 pm

Aurora OrchestraClaire Booth soprano

Julian Anderson, Augusta Read Thomas*& Sir Harrison Birtwistle(Programme devised by Composer in ResidenceJulian Anderson)

£30 £25 £20 £15

Monday 20 July 7.30pm

Igor Levit piano

Cornelius Cardew & Frederic Rzewski*

£30 £25 £20 £15

*Commissioned or co-commissioned by WigmoreHall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swissgrant-making foundation

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BOOKING INFORMATIONBooking DatesBooking Period 2Friday 2 January – Tuesday 31 March 2015

Friends – Priority booking form to reachthe Box Office by Wednesday 8 October 2014

Mailing List – Priority booking form to reachthe Box Office by Tuesday 21 October 2014

General Public – By telephone/online fromTuesday 4 November 2014

We strongly recommend early booking forPre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversationand Study Events.

Wigmore Hall Box Office36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BPTel: 020 7935 2141

Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Email: (not for bookings)[email protected]

TicketsUnless otherwise stated, tickets are dividedinto four price ranges

Stalls C – M: Highest priceStalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest priceBalcony A – D: 2nd highest priceStalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd priceStalls AA, T – X: Lowest price

Box Office Hours7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm.Days without an evening concert10.00am–5.00pm. No advance bookingduring the half-hour prior to performance.

Telephone Bookings7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.Days without an evening concert10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable£3.00 administration charge for eachtransaction. This includes the return of yourtickets by post if time permits.

Postal BookingsPlease make cheques payable to Wigmore Hallwith the amount left open but stating an upperlimit, and add an administration charge of£3.00. Tickets will then be sent by post.

Online BookingsOnline booking is available 24 hours a day,7 days a week, and you can select your ownseat. There is a non-refundable £2.00administration charge.

Tickets for ConcessionsWhere a concession (concs) ticket price islisted these are available to students, seniorcitizens and the unemployed.

Group BookingsDiscounts of 10% are available for groups of12 or more, subject to availability.

Restaurant/BarFull information on pre-concert and intervalrefreshments can be found atwww.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be madeby calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.

TransportTubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines),Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass alongOxford Street.

Car ParkingThere is limited street parking after 6.30 pm(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-goers50% discount on their parking. Please contact theBox Office for further details or visit our website.

Facilities for Disabled PeopleFull details from 020 7258 8210or [email protected]

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

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This brochure is available in alternative formats.Please contact the Box Office if this would be ofassistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141Email: [email protected]

Information in this brochure was correct at the timeof printing. The right is reserved to substitute artistsand to vary programmes if necessary.

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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALLWith £1.5 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to supportWigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 oremail [email protected] for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investmentin our concert, Learning and community programmes:

Honorary PatronsAubrey AdamsAndré and Rosalie HoffmannSir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady KohnMr and Mrs Paul Morgan

Season PatronsAubrey Adams*American Friends of Wigmore HallKarl Otto Bonnier*Cockayne‡

Henry and Suzanne DavisDunard Fund†

The Hargreaves and Ball TrustValerie O’ConnorDavid Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma†

Ian RosenblattVictoria Sharp and Simon Robey*Cita and Irwin Stelzer*Alisa and Joshua Swidler*William and Alex de Winton*and an anonymous donor

Chamber Music Circle Karl Otto Bonnier*Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning*The Hargreaves and Ball TrustPauline and Ian HowatThe Marchus Trust‡

Oliver PrennJo and Barry SlavinThe Tertis FoundationMarina VaizeyKathleen Verelst*Tony Wingateand several anonymous donors

Corporate SupportersCapital Group (corporate matched giving)Clifford Chance LLPComplete Coffee LtdDuncan Lawrie Private BankingHutton Collins Partners LLPLloyds Banking GroupMartin Randall Travel LtdRosenblatt SolicitorsRothschild

Donors and SponsorsMr Eric Abraham*Elaine AdairTony and Marion Allen*The Andor Charitable TrustDavid and Jacqueline Ansell*Arts Council EnglandAnthony AustinBen Baglio and Richard WilsonBBC Children in NeedDavid and Margaret BeatonAlan Bell-BerryMr Nicholas J BezMrs Arline BlassDavid and Mary Bowerman*Alan Bradley*Wolf-Reiner Braun and John SinclairbureauexportClive ButlerCAVATINA Chamber Music TrustCharities Advisory TrustCity Bridge TrustColin ClarkEric Clause*Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and

The London Community Foundation‡

Edwin C CohenSonia and Harvey ColeJohn Crisp*Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch*Anthony Davis*Pauline Del MarDiaphoniqueThe Dorset FoundationDouglas and Janette EdenAnnette Ellis*Vernon and Hazel EllisThe Elton FamilyDr C A Endersby and Prof D CowanCaroline ErskineMrs Susan FeakinThe Fidelio Charitable TrustPeter and Sonia FieldA bequest from the late Miss

Margaret FlatmanJohn and Amy FordInstitut Français du Royaume-Uni

S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3Friends of Wigmore HallJonathan Gaisman*The Garrick Charitable TrustJohn GilhoolyJohn and Lauren Goldsmith*Nicholas and Judith Goodison*Charles GreenBarbara and Michael GwinnellMr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Haringey Music ServiceThe Headley TrustNicholas HodgsonAndré and Rosalie Hoffmann‡Peter and Carol Honey*Gay Huey Evans*Graham and Amanda Hutton*Hyde Park Place Estate CharitySimone Hyman*Peter and Nikki JeffcoteJohn Lyon’s CharityMarc Jourdren*In memory of Donald KahnSu and Neil Kaplan*Jerome Karet*David and Louise Kaye*Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn*The Kohn FoundationChristian Kwek and David Hodges*Maryly La Follette*The Leverhulme TrustTim LlewellynDame Felicity Lott*The Loveday Charitable TrustSimon and Sophie Ludlam*Julia MacRae*Simon and Pamela MajaroMayfield Valley Arts TrustGeorge MeyerMilton Damerel TrustThe Monument TrustAmyas and Louise Morse*A C and F A MyerValerie O’Connor and Jeannette McIntoshHamish ParkerThe Piano FundDr Clive Potter*Nick and Claire Prettejohn*

The Radcliffe TrustEdith RandallThe Rayne FoundationGifts to honour Rick Rogers from

Beryl McAlhone and friendsCharles Rose*Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM*Ruth Rothbarth*The Rubinstein CircleThe Sampimon TrustThe Samuel Sebba Charitable TrustLouise ScheuerJulia Schottlander*Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen*The Shoresh Charitable TrustSir Martin and Lady Smith*Nigel and Johanna Stapleton*Gill and Keith Stella*Derek SugdenAnne and Paul Swain*Katja and Nicolai Tangen*The Tertis Foundation Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson*Tower Hamlets Arts Music and

Education ServiceJohn and Ann Tusa*Robin Vousden*Gerry Wakelin*Stephen and Josie Waley-CohenAndrew and Hilary Walker*Professor Janet Walker CD and

Professor Doug Jones AO*David and Frances Waters*David Evan WilliamsThe Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationPhilip and Emeline Winston*The Wolfson FoundationSimon Yates and Kevin Roonand several anonymous donors

*Rubinstein Circle members†Early Music & Baroque Series supporters‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters

Details correct as of July 2014

CDs priced from £9.99 Available to buy from the foyer, www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/liveand 020 7935 2141

Ian Bostridge Julius Drake Songs by Schubert

New releases on Wigmore Hall Live

Jonathan Biss Schumann & Janáček

Christian Blackshaw Mozart Piano Sonatas –Volume 2 (Double CD)Available from 29 September

Sitkovetsky TrioBrahms & SchubertAvailable from 29 September

Director: John Gilhooly OBE36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BPThe Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

EUROPE’S LEADING VENUE FOR CHAMBER MUSIC, EARLY MUSIC AND SONG

BOX OFFICE TEL: 020 7935 2141· www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

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