Wigmore Hall Summer Brochure 2015

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A P R I L – J U LY 2 0 1 5 Keith Saunders
Welcome
John Butt and the Dunedin Consort shed fresh light on Bach’s St John
Passion in their revelatory recording, hailed by Gramophone for its
‘naturalness and emotional honesty’. They bring their vision of the work
to Wigmore Hall for a special Holy Week performance, projecting the
vivid drama of Christ’s betrayal and suffering, and the profound humanity
of Bach’s response to it.
Andreas Scholl has inspired countless new listeners to fall in love with
lesser-known works. His artistry reveals the timeless qualities of great
music from the distant past, restoring the rhetorical power and emotional
impact of pieces conceived for star performers of eighteenth-century
Europe. Scholl’s latest Wigmore Hall programme explores the vitality of
Italian cantatas by three masters of the genre and frames their work with
the seductive songs of Venetian gondoliers.
Formed 70 years ago, soon after the Second World War, the Borodin
Quartet has become synonymous with the works of Shostakovich and
Beethoven. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall series offers a complete
cycle of the two composers’ string quartets, works deeply inscribed in
the group’s collective DNA.
Benjamin Ealovega
Our season-long Paul Lewis: A Celebration continues when the much-loved
English pianist partners Allan Clayton in a work of timeless musical beauty
and artistic truth. Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, which was first
performed at Wigmore Hall in 1903, explores a young man’s love, despair,
contemplation of death and ultimate recognition of impermanence.
Body and soul are united in Martin Fröst’s intensely focused approach
to making music. The Swedish clarinettist’s entrancing season as Wigmore
Hall’s Artist in Residence draws to a close this summer with a beguiling
sequence of concerts over the early May Bank Holiday weekend.
Two visionary artists, Dorothea Röschmann and Mitsuko Uchida, explore
the expressive range and timeless human insights of two of Schumann’s
greatest song cycles, landmarks of nineteenth-century music. Röschmann’s
artistry has deepened and matured since her sensational international
breakthrough at the 1995 Salzburg Festival, securing her place among
the best-loved performers of her generation. She is joined by Mitsuko
Uchida, renowned worldwide for her penetrating interpretations of Mozart,
Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, and music by composers of the
Second Viennese School, Alban Berg among them.
Awards and acclaim have followed the pioneering work of the Monteverdi
Choir and its founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner. ‘If there were a Nobel prize
for choirs, the Monteverdi Choir should be its laureate’, noted Le Monde.
Their interpretations of everything from medieval music and Monteverdi
to the great choral works of Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Brahms have
set benchmark standards in terms of style and substance, stripping
away anachronistic performance traditions and keeping faith with the
original intentions of composers for their music. The ensemble makes a
long-awaited return to Wigmore Hall with a programme guaranteed to
seduce the ear and gladden the heart.
Following the commemoration of Jonathan Harvey’s 75th birthday, the
Royal Northern College of Music brings the sound of one of the UK’s
most extraordinary composers to Wigmore Hall. Harvey possessed
the ability to transform the transcendental and beyond into sound.
The day culminates in his epic work Bhakti – a mystical exploration
of the Sanskrit Hymns of Rig Veda for chamber ensemble and
quadrophonic tape.
Our wide-ranging Henry Purcell: A Retrospective, generously spread
over two seasons, continues this summer with unmissable performances
of his music for the London stage, royal court and private chamber.
Highlights include the composer’s birthday odes for Queen Mary, a
selection of works for instrumental consort, Alison Balsom’s survey of
trumpet tunes with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert, and a
thrilling community opera based on the legend of King Arthur. Henry
Purcell: A Retrospective is made possible thanks to all our contributors
to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund
important artistic projects.
Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent became pioneers of
the Early Music Movement in the 1970s and remain leaders in the
interpretation of works written long before the Industrial Revolution. In
this concert they explore the extreme emotions and chromatic twists
and turns of the mature madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo, the Italian
nobleman who turned to composition soon after he took part in the
murder of his wife and her lover.
Judith Weir recently made headline news following her appointment
as Master of the Queen’s Music, the first woman to hold this ancient
royal position. The world première of her work, written for Alice Coote
and Aurora Orchestra, is presented in company with two pulsating
compositions, each marked by bold ideas, intense energy and joy.
Routine is a word beyond the ken of Hervé Niquet and the musicians of
Le Concert Spirituel. Their vibrant, full-blooded interpretations of baroque
masterworks arise from a deep understanding of the music’s expressive
gestures and affects, so much so that they restore a sense of the excitement
that must have gripped audiences at the time of their first performances.
Celebrating reflections of the musical past in the present, Hugo Ticciati’s
ӘRNT festival at Ulriksdal’s Palace Theatre Confidencen
pioneering O/MODӘ
in Sweden explores the relationships between the work of old composers
and the artistic and intellectual creations of modern culture. O/MOD RNT
comes to the Hall in July to present Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint.
Arcangelo, inspired by Jonathan Cohen’s leadership, has injected fresh
energy and panache into the performance of Baroque music. The
ensemble’s approach is informed by a deep understanding of the
emotional language and expressive rhetoric of works from the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also draws from the jaw-dropping
virtuosity of the players and their ability to work in consort as chamber
musicians. Arcangelo is joined by the internationally acclaimed French
baritone Stéphane Degout, among the most versatile artists of his
generation, and Samuel Boden, a seasoned performer of lyric works of the
French Baroque, in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s intense settings of the
Lamentations of Jeremiah.
I would like to mention more highlights but space is limited, so please
browse the brochure yourself or look at the At a Glance and the new
Calendar section (on pages 72–73) for an overview. I look forward to
welcoming you to the Hall during the Summer Series.
John Gilhooly
Director
SERIES AT A GLANCE
A P R I L
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J U L Y
2 0 1 5
See pages 4 – 71 for full details of these concerts and page 75 for booking information.
Series and Events to look out for…
Song Recital Series
Bach St John Passion
Tue 7 Apr
7, 9, 15, 17
Sun 12 Apr
Andreas Scholl/Avi Avital
Marco Frezzato/Tiziano Bagnati
Tamar Halperin
Dominik Köninger/Volker Krafft
11, 12, 49, 51
Wed 15 Apr
Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper
9
Mon 27 Apr
Sun 19 Apr
Daniel Behle/Oliver Schnyder Trio
10
Mon 4 May
Page 5
Andreas Scholl
6
The Mozart Odyssey
Borodin Quartet Beethoven and
Shostakovich Cycle
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts
Page 6
Mon 6 Apr
Mon 13 Apr
Mon 20 Apr
8
Interactive Recital: Tana Quartet
14
Mon 20 Apr
Alice Coote/Julius Drake
12
Garrick Ohlsson Skryabin Focus
16
Wed 22 Apr
13
Martin Fröst Artist in Residence
18, 20
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015
Semi-Final
Fri 24 Apr
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015
Final
13
Wed 29 Apr
Allan Clayton/Paul Lewis
17
Fri 1 May
Miah Persson/Martin Fröst
Maxim Rysanov/Roland Pöntinen
18
Sat 2 May
Dorothea Röschmann/Mitsuko Uchida 19
Mon 22 Jun
Mon 4 May
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
21
Mon 29 Jun
Tue 5 May
Dorothea Röschmann/Mitsuko Uchida
19
Sun 10 May
Claire Booth/Christopher Glynn
27
Sun 10 May
Werner Güra/Christoph Berner
27
Mon 11 May
Christianne Stotijn/Julius Drake
28
Dorothea Röschmann & Mitsuko Uchida
19
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra
21
Wigmore Lates 23, 24–25, 30, 35, 39, 43, 47, 55, 58, 65
Jonathan Harvey Study Day
Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
26
23, 29, 41, 62
Roger Vignoles Masterclass
Czech Chamber Music
30
28, 32, 33
Mon 11 May
Mon 18 May
Mon 25 May
Mon 1 Jun
Mon 8 Jun
Mon 15 Jun
Mon 6 Jul
Mon 13 Jul
Ian Bostridge: Schubert Lieder
31
10th Anniversary of the Trasimeno Music Festival
36
Collegium Vocale Gent
37
Sat 16 May
Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake
31
Elly Ameling Masterclasses
38
Fri 22 May
Bernarda Fink/Anthony Spiri
33
39, 41
Fri 29 May
Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper
35
Sun 31 May
Gerald Finley/Angela Hewitt
Cremona Quartet/Kerson Leong
36
Thu 4 Jun
Mauro Peter/James Baillieu
38
Sat 6 Jun
Alice Coote/Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon
40
Tue 14 Apr
Sun 7 Jun
Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau
41
Mon 4 May
Wed 10 Jun
Christiane Iven/Igor Levit
42
Mon 15 Jun
Christoph Prégardien/Michael Gees
45
Wed 17 Jun
Mark Padmore/Roger Vignoles
46
Wed 24 Jun
Matthew Polenzani/Julius Drake
49
Wed 1 Jul
Carolyn Sampson/Heath Quartet
52
Thu 2 Jul
Matthias Goerne/Menahem Pressler
53
Thu 9 Jul
Ekaterina Semenchuk
Helmut Deutsch
57
Sat 11 Jul
Roger Vignoles 70th Birthday Concert
59
Florian Boesch Residency
Judith Weir Master of the Queen’s Music
Paul Lewis: A Celebration
40
17, 42
Bracing Change: New British String Commissions
44
Alban Gerhardt Focus
46
The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration
47
Le Concert Spirituel
50
Celebrating Carolyn Sampson
52
Matthias Goerne & Menahem Pressler
53
O/MODӘ
ӘRNT: Monteverdi in Historical
Counterpoint
54–55
Julian Anderson Composer in Residence
57
Anthony Marwood and Friends
58
59
Arcangelo
61
Introducing Igor Levit
42, 63
Trio Mediæval
65
Contemporary Music Series
67
2
Early Music and Baroque Series
Thu 2 Apr
Sat 4 Apr
Tue 7 Apr
Wed 6 May
Tue 12 May
Wed 13 May
Tue 2 Jun
Tue 9 Jun
Fri 17 Jul
Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius
62
Wed 22 Jul
Matthew Rose/Helen Collyer
64
Fri 24 Jul
Angelika Kirchschlager
Helmut Deutsch
64
Sat 25 Jul
Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside
65
Meta4
Page 6
Kristian Bezuidenhout
9
Miah Persson/Malcolm Martineau
12
Birgit Kolar
Antoine Tamestit
15
Elias String Quartet
20
Simon Crawford-Phillips
Sara Mingardo/Giorgio Dal Monte
28
Ivano Zanenghi
Christoph Prégardien/Daniel Heide
32
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
34
Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe
36
Škampa Quartet/Krzysztof Chorzelski 41
Gould Piano Trio
45
Ailish Tynan/James Baillieu
48
Ilya Gringolts/Ashley Wass
51
Jean-Guihen Queyras
56
Stephen Kovacevich
60
Sat 20 Jun
Thu 25 Jun
Mon 6 Jul
Tue 14 Jul
Tue 21 Jul
The English Concert/Harry Bicket
Terry Wey
Dunedin Consort/John Butt
Anna Dennis/Clare Wilkinson
Nicholas Mulroy/Matthew Brook
Andreas Scholl/Avi Avital
Marco Frezzato/Tiziano Bagnati
Tamar Halperin
London Handel Players
Sophie Bevan/Daniel Taylor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Classical Opera/Ian Page/Allan Clayton
Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh
Paul McCreesh
Philippe Herreweghe
Phantasm
The Cardinall’s Musick
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
The Brook Street Band/Matthew Brook
Arcangelo/Samuel Boden
Thomas Walker/Stéphane Degout
Roberta Invernizzi/La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni
4
5
6
9
21
22
29
29
37
41
47
50
56
61
63
Chamber Music Season
Fri 10 Apr
Sat 11 Apr
Sat 18 Apr
Sun 19 Apr
Tue 21 Apr
Sat 25 Apr
Sun 26 Apr
Tue 28 Apr
Thu 30 Apr
Fri 1 May
Sun 3 May
Fri 8 May
Sat 9 May
Sun 17 May
Wed 20 May
Sat 23 May
Mon 25 May
Tue 26 May
Thu 28 May
Sun 31 May
Sat 6 Jun
Fri 12 Jun
Sun 14 Jun
Thu 18 Jun
Fri 19 Jun
Fri 26 Jun
Sat 27 Jun
Sun 28 Jun
Tue 30 Jun
Fri 3 Jul
Fri 3 Jul
Sat 4 Jul
Sat 4 Jul
Sun 5 Jul
Tue 7 Jul
Sun 12 Jul
Wed 15 Jul
Sat 18 Jul
Sun 19 Jul
Heath Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer Page 7
Kari Kriikku/Tim Horton
Kuss Quartet
8
Borodin Quartet
11
Borodin Quartet
12
Wihan Quartet
13
Arcanto Quartet
14
Heath Quartet/Michael Collins
15
Vienna Piano Trio
17
Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien
17
Martin Fröst/Miah Persson
18
Maxim Rysanov/Roland Pöntinen
Heath Quartet
20
The Chamber Music Society of
23
Lincoln Center
Belcea Quartet/Nicolas Bone
23
Antonio Meneses
Jack Liebeck/Katya Apekisheva
31
Joshua Bell/Lawrence Power
32
Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk
Joshua Bell/Pamela Frank
33
Lawrence Power/Steven Isserlis
Jeremy Denk
Quatuor Ebène
34
James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong
34
Philippe Cassard/David Grimal
35
Anne Gastinel
Angela Hewitt/Cremona Quartet
36
Kerson Leong/Gerald Finley
Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon
40
Alice Coote
Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov
42
Carducci String Quartet/Guy Johnston 44
The Endellion String Quartet
46
Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova
46
Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer
Alban Gerhardt
Borodin Quartet
49
Leipzig String Quartet
49
Borodin Quartet
51
Razumovsky Ensemble
52
Hugo Ticciati/Julia Zenko
55
Tango for 3/Amstel Quartet
Svante Henryson Quartet
55
Hugo Ticciati/Meghan Cassidy
55
Guy Johnston/Henrik Måwe
Amstel Quartet/Renata Pokupić
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier
Hugo Ticciati/Jennifer Stumm
55
Bartholomew LaFollette
Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson
Alexander Oliver
Hugo Ticciati/Christian Poltéra
55
Voces8 and friends
57
Claire Booth
Alexander Chaushian & Friends
59
The Schubert Ensemble
60
Quatuor Mosaïques
62
Quatuor Mosaïques
63
Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts
Sun 5 Apr
Sun 12 Apr
Sun 19 Apr
Sun 26 Apr
Sun 3 May
Sun 10 May
Sun 17 May
Sun 24 May
Sun 31 May
Sun 7 Jun
Sun 14 Jun
Sun 21 Jun
Sun 28 Jun
Sun 5 Jul
Sun 12 Jul
Sun 19 Jul
Sun 26 Jul
London Bridge Ensemble
Lukas Geniušas
London Conchord Ensemble
Vienna Piano Trio
Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen
Schumann Quartett
London Winds/Michael Collins
Michael McHale
Aviv String Quartet
Jean-Marc Luisada
ATOS Trio
Lana Trotovsek/Simon Lane
Szymanowski Quartet
John O’Conor
Modigliani Quartet
Sitkovetsky Trio
Quatuor Voce
Page 4
8
10
15
18
27
31
33
36
39
43
48
51
56
58
62
66
Fri 8 May
Sat 9 May
Sun 24 May
Thu 28 May
Sun 31 May
Sat 6 Jun
Sun 14 Jun
Fri 19 Jun
Sat 27 Jun
Wed 1 Jul
Sat 4 Jul
Sun 5 Jul
London Pianoforte Series
Wed 1 Apr
Thu 9 Apr
Wed 22 Apr
Thu 23 Apr
Mon 27 Apr
Thu 7 May
Thu 14 May
Sun 24 May
Sat 30 May
Wed 3 Jun
Thu 11 Jun
Sat 13 Jun
Tue 16 Jun
Fri 10 Jul
Mon 13 Jul
Mon 20 Jul
Thu 23 Jul
Sun 26 Jul
Khatia Buniatishvili
Andreas Haefliger
Kun Woo Paik
Alice Sara Ott
Garrick Ohlsson
Olli Mustonen
Kirill Gerstein
Inon Barnatan
Llŷr Williams
Richard Goode
Paul Lewis
François-Frédéric Guy
Till Fellner
Gabriela Montero
Janina Fialkowska
Igor Levit
Marc-André Hamelin
Matan Porat
4
6
13
14
16
22
30
34
36
38
42
43
45
58
60
63
64
66
Wigmore Lates
Fri 8 May
Fri 15 May
Fri 29 May
Fri 5 Jun
Fri 12 Jun
Fri 19 Jun
Fri 3 Jul
Fri 10 Jul
Fri 24 Jul
Alison Balsom/Trevor Pinnock
The English Concert/Lucy Crowe
Tim Mead
Trish Clowes/Gwilym Simcock
Heath Quartet
Simón Bolívar String Quartet
Florian Boesch/Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Arcangelo/Christiane Karg
Fantasticus
Anthony Marwood/James Crabb
Graham Mitchell
Trio Mediæval
23
30
35
39
43
47
55
58
65
Tue 7 Jul
Mon 20 Jul
Thu 23 Jul
Page
Lincoln Center
Inon Barnatan
Philippe Cassard/David Grimal
Anne Gastinel
Angela Hewitt/Cremona Quartet
Kerson Leong/Gerald Finley
Alice Coote
Carducci String Quartet/Guy Johnston
Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova
Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer
Alban Gerhardt
Hugo Ticciati/Meghan Cassidy
Guy Johnston/Henrik Måwe
Amstel Quartet/Renata Pokupić
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier
Hugo Ticciati/Christian Poltéra
Voces8 and friends
Aurora Orchestra/Claire Booth
Igor Levit
Marc-André Hamelin
23
26
34
35
36
40
44
46
49
52
55
55
57
63
64
Wigmore Hall Jazz Series
Fri 5 Jun
Christian McBride Trio
39
Wigmore Hall Learning
Family Day: Stories Sung
Introduction to Music commences
Artists in Conversation
Family Concert: Martin Fröst
RNCM Study Day: Jonathan Harvey
Wigmore Study Group commences
Voiceworks
Family Day: Musical Fairy Tales
Pre-Concert Talk
Elly Ameling Masterclass
Post-Concert Talk
Ignite – Celebrating a Year in
the Community
Wed 24 Jun RNIB Study Day
Sat 27 Jun
RNIB Family Day: A Night at
the Museum
Sun 5 Jul
Study Afternoon: O/MODӘ
ӘRNT
Tue 7 Jul
Wed 8 Jul
Schools Concert: Sing a Story
Thu 16 Jul
Reimagining King Arthur
Sat 18 Jul
Come and Sing: English Music
Mon 27 – Thu 30 Jul Musical Portraits
Sat 11 Apr
Thu 16 Apr
Sat 25 Apr
Mon 27 Apr
Sun 3 May
Wed 6 May
Sat 9 May
Tue 12 May
Thu 14 May
Tue 26 May
Wed 27 May
Sat 30 May
Wed 3 Jun
Thu 4 Jun
Fri 5 Jun
Sun 7 Jun
Tue 9 Jun
68
10
14
16
20, 68
22
26
28
30
68
69
36
38
38
39
41
69
48, 69
69
55
57
70
62, 70
62, 70
71
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WIGMORE SERIES
SUMMER SEASON
A P R I L – J U LY 2 0 1 5
Booking opens (except where stated) to Friends on 13 January, to Mailing List Subscribers on 23 January, and to the General Public/Online on 3 February
April
Wednesday 1 April 7.30 pm
Thursday 2 April 7.30 pm
Saturday 4 April 7.30 pm
Khatia Buniatishvili piano
The English Concert
Harry Bicket director, harpsichord
Terry Wey countertenor
Dunedin Consort
John Butt director
Schütz Die mit Tränen säen SWV378
JC Bach Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte
(Lamento)
Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri BuxWV75
See page opposite for full details
The English Concert, Harry Bicket and a small
consort of singers recreate Dietrich Buxtehude's
Membra Jesu Nostri, the seven sections of which
address different parts of Christ’s crucified body.
This masterwork of Lutheran oratorio, the title of
which translates as ‘the limbs of our Jesus’, is
prefaced by Johann Christoph Bach’s lachrymose
‘Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte’, an inestimably
moving solo cantata that evokes the compassion of
Easter through its lament, ‘Oh, that I had enough
tears in my head to bewail my sins’.
Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition
Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan S418;
La leggierezza S144 No. 2; Feux follets S139 No. 5;
Étude in G # minor ‘La campanella’ S141 No. 3;
Grand galop chromatique S219
Liszt/Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in
C# minor
Energy and electricity seem to flow from Khatia
Buniatishvili’s being whenever she performs.
The Georgian pianist, born in 1987, gave her first
concerts as a child and has astonished audiences
with the visionary power of her performances ever
since. She has matured to become one of her
generation’s most charismatic artists, acclaimed
worldwide for creating interpretations of great
spontaneity and psychological depth.
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Bach St John Passion BWV245
Sunday 5 April 11.30 am
Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3
Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898
An early work by Beethoven and a late work by
Schubert mark the historic boundaries of the London
Bridge Ensemble’s programme. In terms of their
contents, however, the two compositions span a vast
cosmos of invention. Haydn, present at the première
of Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3, was surprised
and delighted that its well-heeled Viennese audience
had ‘so rapidly and easily grasped’ such a quixotic
and often tempestuous composition.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry /juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
4
Julia Wesely
Terry Wey
Petra Benovsky
operaomnia.co.uk
Bach
St John
Passion
Dunedin Consort
John Butt director
Anna Dennis soprano
Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano
Nicholas Mulroy Evangelist, tenor
Matthew Brook Jesus, bass
Bach St John Passion BWV245
John Butt and the Dunedin Consort shed fresh light
on Bach’s St John Passion in their revelatory recording,
hailed by Gramophone for its ‘naturalness and
emotional honesty’. They bring their vision of the work
to Wigmore Hall for a special Holy Week performance,
projecting the vivid drama of Christ’s betrayal and
suffering, and the profound humanity of Bach’s
response to it.
£50 £40 £30 £20
5
April
Monday 6 April 1.00 pm
ANDREAS SCHOLL
Meta4
Not long after its foundation the Finnish quartet
Meta4 made its mark by winning the 2004
International Shostakovich Quartet Competition
in Moscow. Formerly in the BBC Radio 3 New
Generation Artists scheme, the ensemble returns
to Wigmore Hall with the fascinating combination
of Haydn’s String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2, a
richly textured early masterwork, and Schumann’s
intensely Romantic String Quartet in A minor
Op. 41 No. 1.
£13 concs £11
Andreas Scholl
James McMillan/Decca
Tuesday 7 April 7.30 pm
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Andreas Haefliger piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Op. 54
Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) Sz. 81
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor Op. 90
Brahms Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2
Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1
Andreas Scholl countertenor
Avi Avital mandolin
Marco Frezzato cello
Tiziano Bagnati lute
Tamar Halperin harpsichord
Andreas Haefliger’s Perspectives project, in which
he explores the complete piano sonatas of
Beethoven alongside works by other composers
ranging from Mozart to Ligeti, has formed the focus
of his solo recital appearances and recordings in
recent years. He comes to Wigmore Hall to present
one instalment of his series. Beethoven’s miniature
masterwork, the exquisitely subtle F major Piano
Sonata Op. 54, and his expressive and lyrical
E minor Piano Sonata Op. 90, are presented in
company with the pulsating energy of Bartók’s five
Szabadban pieces, and Brahms’s monumental
F minor Piano Sonata Op. 5.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Lanzetti Sonata in G for cello and basso
continuo Op. 1 No. 7
Vivaldi Trio Sonata in C RV82
A Scarlatti Cantata: M’ha diviso il cor dal core
Venetian Gondolier songs (Anonymous)
L’occasion delle mei pene; La biondino;
La farfalle
Caldara Cantata: Da tuoi lumi
Vivaldi Trio Sonata in G minor RV85
Handel Cantata: Sento là che ristretto
Caldara Cantata: Vaghe luci
Andreas Scholl has inspired countless new
listeners to fall in love with lesser-known
works. His artistry reveals the timeless
qualities of great music from the distant past,
restoring the rhetorical power and emotional
impact of pieces conceived for star performers
of eighteenth-century Europe. Scholl’s latest
Wigmore Hall programme explores the vitality
of Italian cantatas by three masters of the
genre and frames their work with the
seductive songs of Venetian gondoliers.
£50 £40 £30 £20
Song Recital Series /
Meta4
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Noora Isoeskeli
Andreas Haefliger
Marco Borggreve
The Mozart Odyssey
Four contrasting programmes celebrate the creative brilliance of Mozart’s
chamber music, some of it conceived for gifted amateurs, some for the
finest professional musicians of the late 1700s. Our performers are true
Mozarteans, armed with the technical, emotional and spiritual qualities
required to carry listeners to the heart of the composer’s sublime art.
The Mozart Odyssey continues at Wigmore Hall for another year in the
2015/16 Season.
The Mozart Odyssey is made possible thanks to all our contributors to the Wigmore
Hall Endowment Fund, whose purpose is to help fund important artistic projects.
Friday 10 April 7.30 pm
Kari Kriikku clarinet
Nils Mönkemeyer viola
Tim Horton piano
Heath Quartet
Mozart Duo for violin and viola
in B b K424; Clarinet Trio in E b K498
‘Kegelstatt’; String Quintet in G minor
K516
Wigmore Hall’s ambitious Mozart Odyssey
continues to unfold with an irresistible
collection of the composer’s chamber
works performed by an ideal gathering of
Mozarteans. Their programme opens with
one of the two Duos Mozart wrote to help
his esteemed Salzburg colleague Michael
Haydn honour a commission deadline,
and includes the tragic and tender-hearted
G minor String Quintet, a cornerstone
work of the chamber music repertoire.
Forthcoming Concerts in
this Series
fortepiano
Sunday 26 April 7.30 pm
Michael Collins clarinet
Heath Quartet
Alina Ibragimova violin
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Further concerts to be announced
for the 2015 /16 Season
£30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season / The Mozart Odyssey
Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft (1764 –1825)
7
April
Kuss Quartet
Wigmore Hall Debut
Lukas Geniušas piano
Dominik Köninger* baritone
Volker Krafft piano
Chopin 12 Études Op. 10
Brahms Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1
*Winner of the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation
International Song Competition
Lukas Geniušas, winner of the Silver Medal at the
2010 Chopin International Piano Competition,
studied with his grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva, a
distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory.
The young pianist’s Wigmore Hall debut programme,
complete with Chopin’s dazzling Op. 10 Études,
promises to display his virtuosity as well as the
characteristic seriousness, intense focus and
searching eloquence of his music-making.
SONGS OF THE ELEMENTS
Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 50 No. 6 ‘The Frog’
Lutosławski String Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse
Fuge Op. 133
The Kuss Quartet’s interpretations of the chamber
repertoire are informed by a shared desire to
recreate the energy and excitement generated by
great works when they were new. The approach is
sure to deliver a compelling account of Beethoven’s
String Quartet in B flat, performed here complete
with its original finale, the Grosse Fuge, described
by Igor Stravinsky as ‘the most perfect miracle in
music … contemporary for ever’.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
£30 £25 £20 £15
WATER
Schubert Der Schiffer; Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Mahler Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt from
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Brahms Verzagen
Wolf Seemanns Abschied
AIR
Brahms Unbewegte laue Luft
Mahler Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft from
Five Rückert Lieder
Liszt Es rauschen die Winde
Brahms Wehe, so willst du mich wieder
FIRE
Mendelssohn And’res Maienlied
Mahler Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle
Flammen from Kindertotenlieder
Wolf Der Feuerreiter
EARTH
Schubert Die Mutter Erde
Brahms Juchhe!
Schumann Mondnacht
Wolf Nachtgruss
Mahler Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
from Five Rückert Lieder
Kuss Quartet
Neda Navaee
Recipient of the Wigmore Hall/INDEPENDENT OPERA
Voice Fellowship, German baritone Dominik Köninger
presents a meditation on the four elements and their
qualities. His programme engages with the myriad
ways in which Romantic composers connected
with the essential materials for life and with their
immense potential to affect human feelings,
sensations and emotions.
£15 concs £12.50
Song Recital Series
Lukas Geniušas
8
Evgenij Evtiukhin
Dominik Köninger
April
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano
London Handel Players
Sophie Bevan soprano
Daniel Taylor countertenor
Adrian Butterfield director, violin
Karen Cargill mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper piano
Mozart Piano Sonata in F K332; Adagio in F
K.Anh. 206a; Piano Sonata in D K284
Kristian Bezuidenhout continues his survey of
Mozart’s works for solo keyboard, opening with a
sonata dating from the composer’s early years in
Vienna. The critic Arthur Hutchings wisely described
the F major Piano Sonata’s Adagio as ‘the summit
of expression Mozart reached without departing
from the formality and reticence of his epoch’.
ANNA MARIA STRADA AND
GIOVANNI CARESTINI
Handel Arias, duets and instrumental music from
Alcina and Il pastor fido
Sophie Bevan and Daniel Taylor join the London
Handel Players to sing a selection of the glorious
arias and duets that Handel created in Alcina and
Il pastor fido for two sensational Italian opera stars
of the 1730s. Canadian countertenor Daniel Taylor’s
present status as a world-class Handelian rests on
foundations set two decades ago with postgraduate
studies in London, while young British soprano
Sophie Bevan’s great passion for Handel’s music
began during childhood.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert /
The Mozart Odyssey
Grieg 6 Songs Op. 48
Gustav Mahler Rückert Lieder
Alma Mahler Die stille Stadt; In meines Vaters Garten;
Laue Sommernacht; Bei dir ist es traut; Ich wandle
unter Blumen
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Karen Cargill’s sonorous mezzo-soprano voice has
beguiled audiences around the world ever since
she won the 2002 Kathleen Ferrier Award. She is
joined for this recital by her regular duo partner,
Simon Lepper, in a programme steeped in the
imagery of Nature and, in the case of Wagner’s
sublime Wesendonck Lieder, fuelled by the
turbulent energy of love.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
£35 £30 £25 £18
Daniel Taylor
Marco Borggreve
Marie Reine Mattera
Sophie Bevan
Sussie Ahlburg
Karen Cargill and Simon Lepper
Ken Dundas
9
April
INTRODUCTION
TO MUSIC
Borodin Quartet
Daniel Behle tenor
Oliver Schnyder Trio piano trio
BEETHOVEN AND SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE
Schubert Winterreise
(UK première of an arrangement by Behle)
Daniel Behle’s perceptive response to poetic texts,
apparently infinite vocal nuance and spine-tingling
feeling for the silence between individual notes and
phrases have made his song recitals unmissable
events. His work as composer has also attracted
wide attention. Behle’s arrangement of Winterreise
for voice and piano trio, completed in 2013,
reaches the UK for the first time.
Duruflé Prélude, Récitatif et Variations for flute,
viola and piano Op. 3
Loeffler L’Étang from Two Rhapsodies
Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15
Paris stood at the heart of the artistic world for
decades before and after the First World War, a
cosmopolitan melting pot of invention, innovation,
conservatism and elegance. The three works in
the London Conchord Ensemble’s Coffee Concert
evoke the rich variety of the city’s musical milieu,
complete with Duruflé’s plainchant-influenced
Prélude, Récitatif et Variations of 1928 and Fauré’s
noble C minor Piano Quartet.
£15 concs £12.50
Song Recital Series
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee /sherry/juice
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
Thursday
16 April
23 April
30 April
7 May
Joseph Karl Stieler c.1820
5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Daniel Behle & Oliver Schnyder Trio
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven’s reputation as arguably the
‘greatest composer’ has remained relatively
intact since his death in 1827. He seems
to represent our stereotype of an artist –
defiant, difficult, temperamental, revolutionary,
visionary – and his music is often held up
as ‘speaking on behalf of all humanity’.
He was a musician with a powerful and
individual way of interpreting the classical
musical language, inherited from Haydn
and Mozart, and fashioning it with a new
and radical approach. This series of talks
investigates the way in which he uses and
develops this language and, in particular,
the extraordinary evolution of his style from the
dynamic and individualistic early works to the
transcendental utterances of the late quartets,
piano sonatas and the Missa Solemnis.
Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
10
Marco Borggreve
Borodin Quartet
Beethoven and Shostakovich Cycle
Formed 70 years ago, soon after the Second World War, the Borodin Quartet has become synonymous with the works of Shostakovich and
Beethoven. The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall series offers a complete cycle of the two composers’ string quartets, works deeply
inscribed in the group’s collective DNA.
Sunday 28 June 7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
Borodin Quartet
Borodin Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2
‘Razumovsky’
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118;
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110
Beethoven String Quartet in C # minor Op. 131
Interior worlds open up in Shostakovich’s Second
String Quartet, completed in September 1944.
The work probes dark shadows of the mind,
conjured up most vividly in its dissonant waltz and
final Theme and Variations. Beethoven’s second
‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, meanwhile, uses silence
and unexpected harmonic shifts to pull the listener
deep into mysterious imaginative territory.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F
Op. 73
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor
Op. 95 ‘Serioso’; String Quartet in C
Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Friday 26 June 7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101
Beethoven String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1
£35 £30 £25 £18
The series continues with 8 further
concerts in the 2015 /16 and
2016 /17 Seasons
Chamber Music Season /
Borodin Quartet Beethoven and
Shostakovich Cycle
Photo: Ny Che Goyang /Aram Nuri Arts Center
11
April
Borodin Quartet
Miah Persson soprano
Birgit Kolar violin
Malcolm Martineau piano
Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Programme to include:
Handel Three German Arias
Spohr 6 deutsche Lieder Op. 103 (a selection)
Donald Waxman Lovesongs
Strauss Morgen; Beim Schlafengehen from
Four Last Songs
Much loved by Wigmore Hall audiences for the
tonal beauty, lyrical intensity and coruscating wit of
her artistry, Alice Coote is universally acknowledged
to be among the greatest performers of our time.
She launched her 2014/15 season in the title-role
of Handel’s Xerxes at English National Opera before
singing Oktavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna
State Opera. Reigniting her recital partnership with
Julius Drake, this concert promises an evening of
captivating and enchanting music.
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 10 in A b Op. 118;
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110
Beethoven String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131
By turns furious and fierce, gentle and reflective,
Shostakovich’s Tenth String Quartet charts a vast
terrain of emotions while leaving its audience free
to determine the work’s message. The Borodin
Quartet offers it in tandem with the Eighth Quartet,
an unequivocal indictment of inhumanity as
experienced by those who lived through Stalin’s
Terror and suffered under Nazi oppression, and
crowns its programme with the ultimately consoling
invention of Beethoven’s Quartet in C sharp minor.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season /Borodin Quartet Beethoven
and Shostakovich Cycle
Much-loved soprano Miah Persson, celebrated
by The Sunday Times for her Wigmore Hall Live
recording ‘mixing charm, depth and romantic
ardour’, returns with a programme spanning over
two and a half centuries of music, from Handel to
Donald Waxman’s Lovesongs. The recital is crowned
by Strauss’s ‘Morgen’ and ‘Beim Schlafengehen’
from Four Last Songs, sparkling jewels of the
Lieder repertoire.
Programme to be announced
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
£13 concs £11
Miah Persson
12
Mina Artistbilder
Birgit Kolar
Alice Coote
April
Wihan Quartet
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
‘From my life’
Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
‘Razumovsky’
Over the past three decades, the Wihan Quartet
has flourished on the world stage thanks to
performances shot through with rhythmic élan and
gripping commitment. The ensemble celebrates its
30th anniversary year with two masterworks from
its Czech homeland and the first of Beethoven’s
‘Razumovsky’ Quartets, the haunting Adagio of
which was almost certainly influenced by news of
death and defeat brought to Vienna from the
battlefield at Austerlitz.
£35 £30 £25 £18
KATHLEEN FERRIER
AWARDS 2015
Kun Woo Paik piano
Schubert Impromptus D899: No. 1 in C minor;
No. 3 in G b; No. 2 in E b; No. 4 in A b
Klavierstücke D946: No. 3 in C; No. 1 in E b minor;
No. 2 in E b
Moments Musicaux D780: No. 2 in A b; No. 4 in
C# minor; No. 6 in A b
Wednesday 22 April
1.30 pm
SEMI-FINAL
Friday 24 April
6.00 pm
Described by Gramophone as a pianist of
‘consummate artistry, great tonal finesse and
elegance’, Kun Woo Paik is admired for his
passionate and virtuosic playing. This all-Schubert
programme takes us on an emotional journey of
joy, excitement, torment, conflict and sorrow.
FINAL
The annual auditions
for the famous singing
competition attract
capacity houses
from both devoted
lovers of vocal art
and students of
singing, since no one
can resist the challenge of
spotting the stars of the future.
£35 £30 £25 £18
22 April All seats £18 students £10
24 April £35 £30 £25 £18
Wihan Quartet
Marklik.cz
Kun Woo Paik
Cho Sei-hon
13
April
Wigmore Hall Debut
INTERACTIVE RECITAL
Alice Sara Ott piano
TANA QUARTET
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31
No. 2 ‘The Tempest’
Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV944
Bach/Busoni Chaconne in D minor from Violin
Partita No. 2 BWV1004
Liszt From Liebesträume S541: Seliger Tod
(Gestorben war ich); O lieb, o lieb, so lang du
lieben kannst
Liszt Grandes études de Paganini S141
Arcanto Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95
‘Serioso’
Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
‘From my life’
Schumann String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1
Formed by four outstanding soloists in 2002, the
Arcanto Quartet has garnered critical acclaim and
audience ovations ever since its debut concert.
The ensemble’s latest Wigmore Hall programme
unveils the psychological complexities, expressive
transformations and emotional conflicts of three
Romantic masterworks, each touched by formative
events in the lives of their composers.
Alice Sara Ott’s fiery virtuosity and impassioned
performance style ideally complement the works in
her programme, from the unrelenting concentration
of Beethoven’s ‘Tempest’ Sonata and the cumulative
power of the Bach/Busoni Chaconne to Liszt’s
fiendishly difficult, utterly thrilling Grandes études
de Paganini. She also surveys the contrasting
qualities of fantasy and contrapuntal rigour at work
in Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in A minor.
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Tana Quartet
Nicolas Draps
Saturday 25 April 2.00 pm – 3.15 pm
The Tana String Quartet, founded in 2004, is
rapidly gaining a reputation across Europe for
its performances of contemporary repertoire.
This event focuses on the Spanish school of
composition with works by Arriaga, Turina
and a world première by Hèctor Parra.
Inspired by Velázquez’s painting, ‘Les Fileuses’,
Parra’s score* is not the final depiction,
but rather the beginning of invention and
exploration, and musicians must find space
to discover the music and invent their own
final score. Tana performs from electronic
scores on computers or iPads and, for this
recital, the music will also be projected on
screen at the back of the stage.
The quartet will introduce its programme from
the stage and there will be an opportunity to
ask questions.
*Co-commissioned by Musée du Louvre, Festival Nits
de Clàssica de Girona, organised by the Concert Hall
of Girona, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.
All seats £15
Alice Sara Ott
14
Marie Staggat/DG
Arcanto Quartet
Marco Borggreve
April
Vienna Piano Trio
Michael Collins clarinet
Heath Quartet
Antoine Tamestit viola
Beethoven Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich bin der
Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97
‘Archduke’
One of the world’s finest piano trios returns to
Wigmore Hall to perform two richly contrasted
works by Beethoven. The composer based his
delightful Variations in G on a song popular
in Vienna in the early 1800s. His ‘Archduke’
Trio, meanwhile, turns to loftier matters and
projects a sense of symphonic grandeur and
spiritual nobility.
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
It would be hard to imagine two more elegiac
compositions than the clarinet quintets of Mozart
and Brahms, both conceived to display the talents
of outstandingly gifted clarinettists. Michael Collins
joins the Heath Quartet as part of Wigmore Hall’s
Mozart Odyssey to bring these sublime masterworks
to life.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007
Hindemith Sonata for solo viola Op. 25 No. 1
Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009
Antoine Tamestit’s affinity for the music of Bach
runs deep. The Parisian viola player, a regular
visitor to Wigmore Hall, received five-star reviews
for his recording of three of the composer’s
Cello Suites. He presents two of the works in his
lunchtime recital, together with the wild energy
and rhapsodic twists and turns of Paul Hindemith’s
Sonata for solo viola of 1922.
£13 concs £11
The Mozart Odyssey
Heath Quartet
Vienna Piano Trio
Nancy Horowitz
Michael Collins
Sussie Ahlburg
Benjamin Ealovega
Antoine Tamestit
Eric Larrayadieu
15
Garrick Ohlsson
Skryabin
Focus
Garrick Ohlsson discusses Skryabin with Geoffrey Norris before the
final instalment in his two-concert Focus on the composer.
£4
Garrick Ohlsson piano
Skryabin Piano Sonatas: No. 1 in F minor Op. 6; No. 8 Op. 66;
No. 9 in F Op. 68 ‘Black Mass’; No. 3 in F # minor Op. 23;
No. 10 Op. 70
Marking the centenary of Skryabin’s death to the very day, Garrick
Ohlsson’s two-concert series focusing on the composer concludes
with a programme immersed in the mysticism and transcendental
soundscapes of his music. His recital opens with the emotionally
volatile F minor Piano Sonata and embraces the haunting
chromatic dissonances and meditative intensity of the so-called
‘Black Mass’ Sonata, a work with the power to open minds to
new ways of being in the world.
£35 £30 £25 £18
London Pianoforte Series / Garrick Ohlsson Skryabin Focus
Photo by Paul Body
16
April
Vienna Piano Trio
Allan Clayton tenor
Paul Lewis piano
Alina Ibragimova violin
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin
Mozart Violin Sonata in Bb K454; Violin Sonata in
G K27; Violin Sonata in C K296; Violin Sonata in
F K547; Violin Sonata in Bb K31; Violin Sonata in
D K306
Mozart Piano Trio in C K548
Turina Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 35
Schumann Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63
The Vienna Piano Trio’s collective insights, tonal
warmth and irresistible panache contribute to
performances that live long in the memory. The
ensemble’s Wigmore Hall programme includes
Joaquín Turina’s Piano Trio No. 1, a fascinating
blend of rigorous counterpoint, folk-like melodies
and evocative Spanish dance rhythms, first
performed in London in 1927.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Our season-long Paul Lewis: A Celebration continues
when the much-loved English pianist partners Allan
Clayton in a work of timeless musical beauty and
artistic truth. Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, which
was first performed at Wigmore Hall in 1903, explores
a young man’s love, despair, contemplation of death
and ultimate recognition of impermanence.
Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle
Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien began
their complete survey of Mozart’s violin sonatas
last September as part of Wigmore Hall’s Mozart
Odyssey. In this recital they journey through six
works, including two pieces written during the
composer’s prodigious childhood and his final
essay in the genre, the delightful Violin Sonata in
F K547, described by Mozart as ‘a small piano
sonata for beginners, with violin’.
Song Recital Series /Paul Lewis: A Celebration
£35 £30 £25 £18
This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration,
without an interval
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by the Chamber Music Circle
Chamber Music Season/
The Mozart Odyssey
Vienna Piano Trio
Allan Clayton
Nancy Horowitz
Jack Liebeck
Paul Lewis
Cédric Tiberghien & Alina Ibragimova
Molina Visuals
Benjamin Ealovega
17
May
Saturday 2 May 7.30 pm
MARTIN FRÖST ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Mitsuko Uchida piano
Sunday 3 May 11.30 am
Martin Fröst clarinet
Roland Pöntinen piano
Brahms Songs (arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen):
Die Mainacht; Wie Melodien zieht es mir;
Mädchenlied
Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 14, 19 & 21
(arr. M Fröst & R Pöntinen)
Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E b Op. 120 No. 2
Martin Fröst
Mats Bäcker
Body and soul are united in Martin Fröst’s intensely focused approach to making music.
The Swedish clarinettist’s entrancing season as Wigmore Hall’s Artist in Residence draws
to a close this summer with a beguiling sequence of concerts over the early May Bank
Holiday weekend.
Martin Fröst pays homage to the music of Brahms
as his season as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence
draws to a close. He is joined by Roland Pöntinen,
a friend and colleague since schooldays, to perform
arrangements of well-known songs and Hungarian
Dances in company with the glorious Clarinet Sonata
in E flat, praised by the Brahms scholar Karl
Geiringer for its ‘tender melancholy’ and ‘splendid
perfection of form’.
Friday 1 May 7.30 pm
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert /
Maxim Rysanov viola
Roland Pöntinen piano
Maxim Rysanov
Miah Persson
Mozart Clarinet Trio in E b K498 ‘Kegelstatt’
Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock); Romance from Der häusliche Krieg
Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73
Kurtág Hommage à Robert Schumann Op. 15d
Martin Fröst’s term as Wigmore Hall Artist in Residence continues with a programme rich in contrasts
and correspondences. The clarinettist works with Miah Persson for the first time, joining fellow Swede
Roland Pöntinen in Schubert’s enchanting ‘The Shepherd on the Rock’. Mozart’s lyrical ‘Kegelstatt’
Trio and György Kurtág’s epigrammatic Hommage à Robert Schumann add to their recital’s variety.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season / Martin Fröst Artist in Residence
Forthcoming Events in this Series
Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm
Martin Fröst clarinet Roland Pöntinen piano
Martin Fröst Family Concert
Photos of Maxim Rysanov by Pavel Kazhevnikov and Miah Persson by Mina Artistbilder
Roland Pöntinen
18
Mats Bäcker
Dorothea Röschmann
& Mitsuko Uchida
Repeated Tuesday 5 May 7.30 pm
Schumann Liederkreis Op. 39
Berg Sieben frühe Lieder
Schumann Frauenliebe und -leben Op. 42
Two visionary artists explore the expressive range and
timeless human insights of two of Schumann’s greatest
song cycles, landmarks of nineteenth-century music.
Dorothea Röschmann’s artistry has deepened and matured
since her sensational international breakthrough at the
1995 Salzburg Festival, securing her place among the
best-loved performers of her generation. She is joined
by Mitsuko Uchida, renowned worldwide for her
penetrating interpretations of Mozart, Schubert,
Schumann and Beethoven, and music by composers of
the Second Viennese School, Alban Berg among them.
£45 £40 £35 £25
Song Recital Series
Photos: Dorothea Röschmann by Jim Rakete; Mitsuko Uchida by Justin Pumfrey/Decca
19
May
Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Monday 4 May 1.00 pm
Heath Quartet
FAMILY CONCERT
Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 76 No. 6
Janáček String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Dvořák String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
For ages 5 plus
Working alongside presenter Julian West and pianist
Roland Pöntinen, the dynamic Swedish clarinettist
Martin Fröst features in a concert especially for
families introducing the dramatic music of Brahms,
including his thrilling Hungarian Dances.
Adults £9 Children £7
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and
The Monument Trust
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /
Following a survey of Michael Tippett’s string
quartets at Wigmore Hall last season, the Heath
Quartet returns with a captivating programme of
mature masterworks. Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 6, first
published in London in 1799, balances popular
melodies with profound reflections on the human
condition, while Janáček’s First String Quartet
projects an imaginary response to the life of ‘a poor
woman, tormented and run down, just like the one
… Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata.’
Emily Howard Afference
Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44
Emily Howard’s Afference, inspired by the flow of
signals between body and brain, provides the
pulsating opening to the Elias String Quartet’s BBC
Lunchtime recital. The ensemble is joined by Simon
Crawford-Phillips in Schumann’s Piano Quintet,
another work of great energy and vitality, among
the finest pieces created during the composer’s
year-long immersion in chamber music in 1842.
£13 concs £11
£30 £25 £20 £15
Family Concert
Heath Quartet
20
Simon Crawford-Phillips
www.benjaminharte.co.uk
Sussie Ahlburg
Keith Saunders
& Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
Monteverdi Hor che'l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace; Lamento
della ninfa; Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Tirsi e Clori
Schubert Gondelfahrer (D809); Ständchen (D920); Gebet
Brahms Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52
Awards and acclaim have followed the pioneering work of the
Monteverdi Choir and its founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
‘If there were a Nobel prize for choirs, the Monteverdi Choir
should be its laureate’, noted Le Monde. Their interpretations
of everything from medieval music and Monteverdi to the great
choral works of Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Brahms have
set benchmark standards in terms of style and substance,
stripping away anachronistic performance traditions and
keeping faith with the original intentions of composers for
their music. The ensemble makes a long-awaited return to
Wigmore Hall with a programme guaranteed to seduce the ear
and gladden the heart.
This concert will be approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes in duration,
including an interval
£60 £45 £30 £20
Early Music and Baroque Series/Song Recital Series
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May
Tuesday 5 May 7.30 pm
Wednesday 6 May 7.30 pm
Thursday 7 May 7.30 pm
Classical Opera
Allan Clayton tenor
Ian Page conductor
Olli Mustonen piano
Repeat of concert on 2 May
See page 19 for full details
£45 £40 £35 £25
Song Recital Series
Classical Opera’s conductor and artistic director
Ian Page introduces the life and career of the tenor
John Beard, and discusses some of the music
featured in the evening concert.
£4
Beethoven 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from
Wranitsky’s ballet Das Waldmädchen in A WoO71
Chopin 3 Mazurkas Op. 59; 3 Mazurkas Op. 56
Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15
Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 82
‘WHERE’ER YOU WALK’:
HANDEL’S FAVOURITE TENOR
Handel Un momento di contento from Alcina;
Vedi l’ape from Berenice; Where’er you walk from
Semele; Waft her angels through the skies from
Jephtha
Boyce Softly rise, o southern breeze from Solomon
JC Smith Hark how the hounds and horn from
The Fairies
Arne From the dawn of early morning from Alfred;
Thou like the glorious sun from Artaxerxes
Allan Clayton, former Classical Opera Associate Artist,
joins the company to celebrate the 300th birthday
of John Beard (1715–1791), the tenor who created
more Handel roles than any other singer and caused
a high society scandal by marrying into the English
aristocracy. Classical Opera’s compelling concert
explores Beard’s eventful life and career with a
programme including rarities by Boyce, JC Smith
and Arne, and a selection of Handel’s most
celebrated airs.
Olli Mustonen has been inspired by visits to the
Karelia region, an area of mystery, natural beauty
and imaginative folklore. His interpretations are
touched by a corresponding spirit of openness to
the moment. The Finnish pianist’s latest Wigmore
Hall recital opens with a Beethoven rarity before
moving to Schumann’s evocative childhood
reminiscences in Kinderszenen and the engrossing
complexities of Prokofiev’s Sixth Piano Sonata.
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Ian Page
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Allan Clayton
Jack Liebeck
Olli Mustonen
Outi Montosen
May
Saturday 9 May
Lincoln Center
Alison Balsom trumpet
Trevor Pinnock harpsichord, organ
The English Concert
Lucy Crowe soprano
Tim Mead countertenor
Arnaud Sussmann violin
Matthew Lipman viola
David Finckel cello
Wu Han piano
Brahms Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38
Helen Grime String Trio* (world première)
Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz)
Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47
* Co-commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center and by Wigmore Hall with the support of
André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann,
a Swiss grant-making foundation.
Wigmore Hall’s collaboration with the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center continues to bear
fruit with the co-commission of a string trio from
Helen Grime. The Scottish composer’s new work
is prefaced by Brahms’s impassioned First Cello
Sonata. David Finckel and Wu Han are joined by
two distinguished colleagues to close the concert
with Schumann’s sublime Piano Quartet in E flat.
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open
‘SOUND THE TRUMPET’
Handel Eternal source of light divine; Overture from
Atalanta Purcell Chacony in G minor; The Plaint
Purcell From King Arthur: Chaconne; Symphony;
Come if you dare Handel Chaconne in G HWV435
Purcell Sound the trumpet; Overture from the Duke
of Gloucester’s Birthday Ode Purcell From The Fairy
Queen: If Love’s a sweet passion; Prelude from Act V;
Hark! The echoing air; Chaconne in C; They shall be
as happy as they are fair
Alison Balsom’s partnership with Trevor Pinnock and
The English Concert began in the recording studio
and blossomed with their acclaimed performances
together in Samuel Adamson’s Gabriel at the Globe
Theatre in 2013. They return to the music of Purcell
and Handel in this late-night concert, which opens
with the haunting aria ‘Eternal source of light divine’
and digs deep into the instrumental music of
Purcell’s spectacular works for the London stage.
See page 26 for full details
Belcea Quartet
Nicolas Bone viola
Antonio Meneses cello
Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3
Brahms String Quartet in Bb Op. 67
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Op. 4
Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht arose under the
influence of Wagner’s richly chromatic music and
absorbed ideas about the human psyche and
sexuality current in the Vienna of Sigmund Freud
and Arthur Schnitzler. The sextet’s surging
Romanticism is prefaced with Beethoven’s visionary
C minor String Trio, truly a musical treasure of old
Vienna, and Brahms’s String Quartet in B flat Op. 67,
a work suggestive of summer days, folk music and
the contemplation of nature.
£35 £30 £25 £18
All seats £20
Wigmore Lates /
Helen Grime
Alison Balsom
Jason Bell/EMI
Antonio Meneses
Studio fotografico Gielle
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Wigmore
Lates
Wigmore Lates is a vibrant and eclectic series which
runs on Friday evenings throughout the summer.
We welcome artists such as Alison Balsom, Florian
Boesch, Christiane Karg, Svante Henryson Quartet
and Anthony Marwood for hour-long concerts in the
auditorium at 10.00 pm. Later in the bar we have live
jazz at 11.15 pm from the best established and emerging
acts on the UK scene, including Dave O’Higgins Quartet,
Callum Au Quintet and Tom Green Septet.
Please visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/lates for full details
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Full details of the concerts are
provided throughout the brochure
in chronological order
The English Concert
Lucy Crowe soprano
SOUND THE TRUMPET
Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert are
joined by Alison Balsom and a stellar duo
of singers to explore the music of Purcell
and Handel.
Trish Clowes saxophone
Gwilym Simcock piano
Heath Quartet
Saxophonist Trish Clowes is joined for a
late-night selection of original works new
and old by fellow former BBC Radio 3
New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock,
and the ever-adventurous Heath Quartet.
The Simón Bolívar String Quartet brings a
colourful programme, featuring music by
Alberto Ginastera, tinged with the Argentine
composer’s ‘imagined folklore’, and Ravel’s
lyrical and striking String Quartet in F.
Friday 3 July 10.00 pm
Florian Boesch baritone
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen
Romantic imagery and evocations of life-changing
journeys echo through Florian Boesch’s late-night
programme with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen, featuring Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer.
Florian Boesch Residency
Svante Henryson cello, composer
Anders Jormin double bass
Audun Kleive drums
Jon Balke piano
MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ
A reinvention of Monteverdi in the spirit of Jazz.
O/MODӘ RNT: Monteverdi in Historical
Counterpoint
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord
Christiane Karg soprano
HANDEL: NINE GERMAN ARIAS
Christiane Karg and Arcangelo make a much
anticipated appearance with Handel’s Nine
German Arias and one of Dietrich Buxtehude’s
most soulful sonatas.
Anthony Marwood violin
James Crabb accordion
Graham Mitchell double bass
Anthony Marwood is joined by accordionist
James Crabb and double bass player Graham
Mitchell for an evening of tango music, which
promises some jaw-dropping arrangements
of existing compositions.
Anthony Marwood and Friends
Fantasticus
Rie Kimura baroque violin
Robert Smith viola da gamba
Guillermo Brachetta harpsichord
Trio Mediæval
AQUILONIS
Musical paintings from the French Baroque
A musical journey from
Iceland to the Mediterranean via
the coasts of Scandinavia and England
Fantasticus stands for intense expression and
emotional extravagance. Each work in the
Netherlands-based baroque ensemble’s
programme defies the boundaries of convention!
Trio Mediæval makes a welcome return to
Wigmore Hall to cast shadows of forgotten
ancestors and evoke the mystical traditions
of medieval worship.
SONNERIE AND OTHER PORTRAITS
Wigmore Lates
Wigmore Hall images by Benjamin Ealovega
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Jonathan Harvey
Study Day
Saturday 9 May
Musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music
Clark Rundell conductor
Following the commemoration of his 75th birthday, the RNCM brings
the sound of one of the UK’s most extraordinary composers to Wigmore
Hall. Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012) possessed the ability to transform
the transcendental and beyond into sound. The day culminates in his
epic work Bhakti – a mystical exploration of the Sanskrit Hymns of Rig
Veda for chamber ensemble and quadrophonic tape.
10.00 am
Jonathan Harvey ff for solo piano; Nataraja for flute and piano;
The Riot for flute, bass clarinet and piano; Three Sketches for solo cello;
Tombeau de Messiaen for solo piano; Death of Light, Light of Death
for five players
11.45 am
In conversation: a glimpse into the life and works of Jonathan Harvey
with his daughter Anna Harvey.
2.00 pm
Jonathan Harvey Bhakti for ensemble and electronics
All tickets £5 concs £3 (each event) or
Day Ticket £10 concs £7
In partnership with the
Royal Northern College of Music
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
Photo by Maurice Foxall
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May
Schumann Quartett
Claire Booth soprano
Christopher Glynn piano
Werner Güra tenor
Christoph Berner piano
Schubert Die Blumensprache; Die Sterne;
Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Versunken
Grieg Haugtussa (The Mountain Maid) Op. 67
Grainger Willow, Willow; Died for Love; Bold William
Taylor; The Power of Love; The Sprig of Thyme
Schubert An die Musik; Trost im Liede;
Des Sängers Habe; Liedesend; Die gefangenen
Sänger; Der Liedler; Die Sterne; Vor meiner Wiege;
Drang in die Ferne; Das Weinen; Des Fischers
Liebesglück; Der Fischer; Die Forelle; Widerschein;
Fischerweise; Der Schiffer (D536)
Verdi String Quartet in E minor
Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3
‘Razumovsky’
Formed in 2007 by the three Schumann brothers,
Erik, Ken and Mark, and the violist Liisa Randalu,
the Schumann Quartett has scored notable success
in international competitions and with the critics.
The ensemble’s Coffee Concert programme includes
a work of inexhaustible invention, the Third
‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which Beethoven reflects
on feelings and emotions triggered by his deafness.
Australian-born Percy Grainger was among the
most original and free-thinking of twentieth-century
composers, a multi-talented musician with
outstanding gifts as creator, performer, writer and
ethnographer. Claire Booth’s programme sets his
evocative works in the context of the song cycle
Haugtussa by his friend Edvard Grieg and a group
of exquisite Lieder by Schubert.
£15 concs £12.50
Song Recital Series
Schubert has been at the core of Werner Güra’s
art for more than two decades. The German tenor
owns the tonal variety, technique and poetic
imagination required to do justice to the composer’s
often deceptively difficult Lieder. He is joined for
this recital by regular duo partner Christoph Berner
for a programme generously filled with evergreen
songs such as ‘An die Musik’, ‘Die Forelle’ and
‘Der Schiffer’.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Schumann Quartett
Kaupo Kikkas
Claire Booth
Sven Arnstein
Werner Güra
Marco Borggreve
27
May
Sara Mingardo contralto
Ivano Zanenghi theorbo
Giorgio Dal Monte harpsichord
Christianne Stotijn mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Monteverdi Quel sguardo sdegnosetto; Il lamento
di Arianna; Voglio di vita uscir
Falconieri Vezzosette e care pupillette; Non più
d’amore
Piccinini Toccata XX; Aria di Sarabanda in Varie
Partite (for solo theorbo)
Carissimi Deh memoria e che più chiedi?
Frescobaldi Work for solo harpsichord
Strozzi L’Eraclito amoroso; La, sol, fa, mi, re, do
Hailed as ‘one of a kind’ by The Independent
following her most recent Wigmore Hall concert, the
Venetian contralto Sara Mingardo is in great demand
at the world’s leading opera houses and recital halls.
She is joined by Ivano Zanenghi and Giorgio Dal
Monte for a programme that illustrates the vivacity,
colour and dash of the early Italian baroque.
£13 concs £11
Strauss Ständchen; Traum durch die Dämmerung;
Freundliche Vision; Cäcilie
Korngold Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31
Strauss Schlechtes Wetter; Nachtgang; Befreit;
Zueignung
Eisler From Hollywood Liederbook: Erinnerung an
Eichendorff und Schumann; Über den Selbstmord;
An der kleinen Radioapparat; Hotelzimmer 1942;
Diese Stadt hat mich belehrt; Vom Sprengen des
Gartens; Der Kirschdieb
Weill O captain! My captain!; Beat! Beat! Drums!;
Dirge for two veterans; Come up from the fields,
father
Nazi oppression in Austria and Germany forced
Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill into
overseas exile in the 1930s and delivered them to
work for Hollywood’s soundstages. Christianne
Stotijn and Julius Drake evoke the musical energy
generated by these three émigré composers, from
the austere beauty of Korngold’s Four Shakespeare
Songs to the powerful imagery of Weill’s Walt
Whitman settings.
£35 £30 £25 £18
WIGMORE
STUDY GROUP
Nelahozeves, in the Czech Republic (Dvořák’s place of birth)
Tuesday 12 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Friday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Wednesday 20 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
CZECH CHAMBER MUSIC
Song Recital Series
Delve into the chamber music of Smetana,
Dvořák, Suk and Janáček in three afternoon
study sessions. We journey from the
mid-nineteenth century into the twentieth,
as a preoccupation with the notion of Czech
musical identity develops from the simple
adoption of dance rhythms to a profound
engagement with the indigenous music of
the region. Often these compositions are
deeply personal, even autobiographical,
and they show both the development of a
national style and the emergence of some
wonderful and highly individual musical
voices within it. The Study Group is hosted
by composer Julian Philips with pianist
Laura Roberts and visiting musicologists,
and includes music performed by students
from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Series ticket price £60, which includes 3 study
sessions and a ticket for the evening concert
by Joshua Bell, Lawrence Power, Steven Isserlis
and Jeremy Denk on 20 May.
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /
Czech Chamber Music
Sara Mingardo
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Carlo Coppitz
Christianne Stotijn
Joost van den Broek
Wigmore Hall’s wide-ranging Henry
Purcell: A Retrospective, generously
spread over two seasons, continues
this summer with unmissable
performances of his music for the
London stage, royal court and
private chamber. Highlights include
the composer’s birthday odes for
Queen Mary, a selection of works
for instrumental consort, Alison
Balsom’s survey of trumpet tunes
with Trevor Pinnock and The English
Concert, and a thrilling community
opera based on King Arthur.
Henry Purcell: A Retrospective is made
possible thanks to all our contributors
to the Wigmore Hall Endowment Fund,
whose purpose is to help fund
important artistic projects.
Paul McCreesh director
PURCELL ODES: II
Purcell Love’s goddess sure was blind
(Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary,
1692); Celebrate this festival (Ode for
the birthday of Queen Mary, 1693);
Come, ye sons of art away (Ode for the
birthday of Queen Mary, 1694)
Purcell set benchmark standards in his
works for royal occasions. Paul McCreesh
continues his survey of the composer’s
birthday odes for Queen Mary with three
exceptional compositions. The programme
is capped by Come, ye sons of art away,
an ideally blended mix of solo airs,
ensemble songs and instrumental pieces.
£50 £40 £30 £20
Paul McCreesh director
PURCELL ODES: I
Purcell Now does the glorious day
appear (Ode for the birthday of Queen
Mary, 1689); Arise, my muse (Ode for
the birthday of Queen Mary, 1690);
Welcome, welcome glorious morn (Ode
for the birthday of Queen Mary, 1691)
Paul McCreesh directs his Gabrieli
Consort & Players in a programme of
Purcell’s odes, part of a series of works
written following the Restoration of
Charles II to mark royal birthdays and
other important occasions at court. The
three pieces in this programme reflect
the strength of public affection for Queen
Mary and the sheer quality of Purcell’s
musical invention.
Other Events in this Series
The English Concert
Lucy Crowe soprano
‘ SOUND THE TRUMPET’
Tuesday 9 June 7.30 pm
Phantasm viol consort
Elizabeth Kenny theorbo
FANTASIAS
Thursday 16 July 2.00 pm & 6.30 pm
£50 £40 £30 £20
Community Chamber Opera
Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall
REIMAGINING KING ARTHUR
Further concerts to be announced for the 2015 /16 Season
Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
Portrait of Henry Purcell after John Closterman
29
May
ROGER VIGNOLES
MASTERCLASS
Kirill Gerstein piano
Trish Clowes saxophone
Gwilym Simcock piano
Heath Quartet
Bartók Excerpts from Mikrokosmos
Bach 15 Sinfonias (3 Part Inventions) BWV787– 801
Liszt Études d’exécution transcendante S139
Winner of the prestigious Gilmore Award, Kirill
Gerstein’s musical curiosity, technical prowess and
cultivated musicianship have led him to fathom the
depths and explore the breadth of the piano repertoire.
His latest Wigmore Hall programme presents a
fascinating juxtaposition of works conceived by
Bartók and Bach as student exercises, together with
Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, a dozen fiendishly
difficult elaborations of earlier keyboard studies.
Weill It never was you (arr. by Richard Rodney
Bennett) Trish Clowes The Master and Margarita
(dedicated to Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The
Master and Margarita); Under Your Wing
Gwilym Simcock New work (world première)
Trish Clowes A cat called Behemoth
(for the cat in The Master and Margarita)
Gershwin Lullaby
John Taylor/Norma Winstone Enjoy this Day
Mikhail Bulgakov’s mesmerising The Master and
Margarita, among the last century’s greatest novels,
has inspired young British saxophonist Trish Clowes
to write some of her best music, thrilling and
haunting by turns. She is joined for a late-night
line up of original works new and old by fellow
former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym
Simcock and the ever-adventurous Heath Quartet.
£35 £30 £25 £18
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
Roger Vignoles
Benjamin Ealovega
Kirill Gerstein
Marco Borggreve
Thursday 14 May 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Roger Vignoles has developed a unique
personal insight into the relationship
between pianist and singer. His work was
directly inspired by two legends of the
recital world, Gerald Moore and Paul
Hamburger, and has evolved to the highest
refinement in collaboration with such
world-class artists as Elisabeth Söderström,
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen,
Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Hampson,
Dame Felicity Lott and Mark Padmore. In
this masterclass he focuses on German
Lieder with postgraduate students from
UK music colleges.
£7 concs £4
Gwilym Simcock
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Eric Richmond
Trish Clowes
May
IAN BOSTRIDGE
SCHUBERT LIEDER
London Winds
Jack Liebeck violin
Katya Apekisheva piano
Philippa Davies flute
Gareth Hulse oboe
Richard Watkins horn
Robin O'Neill bassoon
Michael Collins clarinet, director
Messiaen Theme and Variations
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80
Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13
Stravinsky Divertimento
Michael McHale piano
Saint-Saëns Caprice sur des airs danois et russes
Op. 79
Mozart Quintet in E b for piano and winds K452
Thuille Sextet in Bb for piano and winds Op. 6
Ian Bostridge
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Ian Bostridge tenor
Julius Drake piano
Technological advances during the early 1900s
delivered new versions of wind instruments that
soon attracted interest from composers. The
transformation was prompted by works such as
Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds, which
demonstrated the enormous musical potential
of instruments usually associated with outdoor
performance. Michael Collins and his ensemble
London Winds also explore the vibrant colours and
energy of Saint-Saëns’s Caprice, first performed in
St Petersburg in 1887, and the heroic Sextet by
Austrian composer Ludwig Thuille.
Jack Liebeck’s fine artistry flows naturally from his
innate gifts as a communicator. His Wigmore Hall
debut in 2002 attracted a capacity audience and
he has since become established among the most
dynamic and intense performers of his generation.
This programme offers two contrasting violin sonatas
together with Messiaen’s haunting Theme and
Variations and Stravinsky’s romantic Divertimento.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Schubert Wehmut; Der Zwerg; Nacht und
Träume; Der Musensohn; An die Entfernte;
Am Flusse; Willkommen und Abschied;
Wandrers Nachtlied II; An die Leier;
Am See; Im Haine; Erlkönig; An den Mond
(D259); Nähe des Geliebten; Nachtgesang;
Liebhaber in allen Gestalten; Meeres Stille;
Auf dem See; An Mignon; Erster Verlust;
Ganymed; An den Mond (D296)
Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake launched
their critically acclaimed Schubert Lieder
series at Wigmore Hall during the 2013/14
Season. Their ambitious journey through
some of the greatest songs ever written
concludes with works infinitely rich in
poetic nuance, musical expression and
dramatic power.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series /
Ian Bostridge Schubert Lieder
London Winds
Eric Richmond
Jack Liebeck
David Corfield
31
May
Christoph Prégardien tenor
Daniel Heide piano
Joshua Bell violin
Lawrence Power viola
Steven Isserlis cello
Jeremy Denk piano
Schubert An den Mond (D259); Schäfers Klagelied;
Erster Verlust; Rastlose Liebe; Wandrers Nachtlied II;
Willkommen und Abschied
Schumann Dichterliebe
At its best, music holds the power to enhance poetic
imagery and focus the listener’s contemplation of
things that lie beyond easy understanding. The
works in Christoph Prégardien’s BBC Lunchtime
recital, crowned by Schumann’s famous song cycle,
transcend words and music to create imaginary
worlds in which the human spirit can set aside
everyday concerns to experience a heightened
sense of reality.
£13 concs £11
Suk Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 1
Janáček Violin Sonata
Martinu° Cello Sonata No. 2
Dvořák Piano Quartet in E b Op. 87
Thursday 21 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm
Steven Isserlis is joined by three close friends and
colleagues for this programme of Czech music,
complete with Martinů’s radiant Second Cello
Sonata. Growing awareness of national identity,
underpinned by the rediscovery of Bohemian and
Moravian folk music, found its way into the fabric
of works such as Dvořák’s Piano Quartet in E flat
and the Piano Quartet in A minor by his pupil
and future son-in-law, Josef Suk. Janáček’s
Violin Sonata, meanwhile, was influenced by the
song-like qualities of the Czech language.
£40 £35 £30 £20
Supported by the members of The Rubinstein Circle
Chamber Music Season/Czech Chamber Music
YCAT Public Final
Auditions 2015
Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT):
Identifying, nurturing, promoting and
supporting exceptional young artists
YCAT artists are identified through a rigorous
annual audition process. In this third and
final round, outstanding young soloists
and ensembles, selected from over 100
applicants in the preliminary and semi-final
rounds, audition before a distinguished
panel of judges. At a critical time in their
development YCAT offers guidance and
advice alongside a full artist management
service to selected artists for 3–5 years.
Previous artists include Ian Bostridge, Susan
Gritton, Elizabeth Watts, Alison Balsom,
Joanna MacGregor, Llŷr Williams and the
Belcea, Heath and Doric string quartets.
£10 concs £8 per session (or £16 for both sessions)
Christoph Prégardien
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Marco Borggreve
Joshua Bell
Lisa Marie Mazzucco
Lawrence Power
Jack Liebeck
May
Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano
Anthony Spiri piano
Joshua Bell violin
Pamela Frank violin
Lawrence Power viola
Jeremy Denk piano
Aviv String Quartet
Schumann Sechs Gedichte Op. 90
Songs by Schumann, Guastavino, López Buchardo
and Ginastera
Few artists today can hold an audience more
spellbound than Bernarda Fink. The Buenos
Aires-born mezzo’s personal warmth and openness
nourish interpretations that convey the emotional
life force of the songs in her extensive repertoire.
She begins this recital with a survey of Schumann’s
later songs before turning to music by three great
Argentine composers.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 68
Brahms String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1
Dvořák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75 (arr. for 2 violins
and viola)
Janáček Pohádka
Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15
Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op. 81
Songs and dances marked every occasion of life in
the Czech lands, from births, marriages and funerals
to evenings in the local wine cellar and visits to
country fairs. Steven Isserlis and friends gather
once more to revive the spirit of works created by
composers raised on free-flowing melody. Their
recital includes Pohádka for cello and piano, rooted
in its composer’s passion for Slavic culture, and
Dvořák’s majestic Second Piano Quintet.
Formed in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet
received early coaching from some of the greatest
names in chamber music-making, members of the
Amadeus, Emerson and Juilliard string quartets
among them. The ensemble’s Coffee Concert
explores the ironic nature of Shostakovich’s Second
String Quartet, a wartime work rich in allusion to
Jewish folk themes, and the tragic tone of Brahms’s
First String Quartet.
£40 £35 £30 £20
Chamber Music Season/Czech Chamber Music
Bernarda Fink
Stefan Reichmann
Steven Isserlis
Satoshi Aoyagi
Pamela Frank
Nicolas Lieber
Aviv String Quartet
Tashko Tasheff
Jeremy Denk
Michael Wilson
33
May
Inon Barnatan piano
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
Quatuor Ebène
Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894
Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue
Sebastian Currier Glow* (world première)
Ravel Gaspard de la nuit
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78
Boulez Piano Sonata No. 1
Ohana From 12 Études d’interprétation: No. 2
Mouvements parallèles; No. 5 Quintes; No. 4 Main
gauche seule
Debussy From Études Book I: No. 2 Pour les tierces;
No. 4 Pour les sixtes; No. 5 Pour les octaves
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The
Emperor’ Dutilleux Ainsi la nuit
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
* Co-commissioned by Aspen Music Festival, Het
Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and by Wigmore Hall with
the support of André Hoffmann, president of Fondation
Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Inon Barnatan was named as the New York
Philharmonic’s first Artist in Association in January
2014, a position that reflects his growing international
reputation. He has been a regular performer at
Wigmore Hall over several seasons and returns to
give an imaginatively conceived programme. His
repertoire choice includes Schubert’s serene G major
Piano Sonata and the world première of Glow by
American composer Sebastian Currier, recipient of
the 2007 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Stylish pianism and profound musicianship are among
the hallmarks of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s artistry.
The French pianist here presents Beethoven’s
two-movement Piano Sonata No. 24 in company
with three Gallic masterworks, including Boulez’s
gritty Piano Sonata No. 1 and a selection of Maurice
Ohana’s Debussy-inspired Études d’interprétation.
£13 concs £11
£35 £30 £25 £18
James Ehnes violin
Andrew Armstrong piano
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
Respighi Violin Sonata in B minor
Szymanowski Myths Op. 30
Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open
Quatuor Ebène launches its latest Wigmore Hall
programme with Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ Quartet, so called
for its use of the Austrian emperor’s hymn, and
explores the borderlands of sound and silence that
course through Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit of 1976.
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
London Pianoforte Series /
Canadian violinist James Ehnes’s trademark
eloquence arises from his jaw-dropping technical
command, serene lyricism and unfaltering musicality.
His programme includes works that resonate fully
with his artistic soul, from the yearning lyricism of
Debussy’s late Violin Sonata to the impassioned
melancholy of Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Inon Barnatan
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Marco Borggreve
Quatuor Ebène
Benjamin Ealovega
Julien Mignot
James Ehnes
Benjamin Ealovega
May
Philippe Cassard piano
David Grimal violin
Anne Gastinel cello
Henk Neven baritone
Imogen Cooper piano
Baptiste Trotignon Trio* (world première)
Chausson Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3
Schubert Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb D929
* Co-commissioned by SACEM (Société des Auteurs,
Compositeurs et Editeurs de musique), and by Wigmore
Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the
Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Philippe Cassard and his long-time chamber music
partners, David Grimal and Anne Gastinel, begin
this recital with the world première of a new work
by French composer Baptiste Trotignon, known
to many for his work as jazz pianist. They devote
the concert’s second half to one of the greatest
of all chamber music compositions, Schubert’s
all-encompassing Piano Trio in E flat.
Mendelssohn Gruß; Allnächtlich im Traume;
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Jagdlied;
Venetianisches Gondellied; Der Mond; Nachtlied
Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:
Der Tamboursg’sell; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz;
Nicht wiedersehen!; Trost im Unglück; Wo die
schönen Trompeten blasen; Revelge; Urlicht
Henk Neven’s charisma and distinctive timbre
belong to a package of artistic attributes that have
placed him among the most exciting young singers
to emerge over the past decade. He continues his
collaboration with Imogen Cooper with a programme
tailored to inspire their shared empathy for Romantic
music, including a second half devoted to songs
from Mahler’s evocative Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Ginastera String Quartet No. 1 Op. 20
Ravel String Quartet in F
Venezuela’s ‘El Sistema’ programme of music
education has, among many fine things, helped
create the Simón Bolívar String Quartet. The
ensemble’s late-night programme opens with the
colourful music of Alberto Ginastera’s First String
Quartet, tinged with the Argentine composer’s
‘imagined folklore’, and continues with Ravel’s
lyrical String Quartet in F.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
£35 £30 £25 £18
£30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series
Philippe Cassard
Vincent-Catala
Henk Neven
Marco Borggreve
Harald Hoffmann/DG
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May/June
Pre-Concert Talk
Jean-Marc Luisada piano
Pianist and broadcaster David Owen Norris introduces
the evening concert.
Haydn Variations in F minor HXVII:6
Schumann Arabeske in C Op. 18;
Humoreske in Bb Op. 20
£4
10TH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE TRASIMENO
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Jean-Marc Luisada sets the scene in this recital
for two Romantic masterworks by Schumann with
the intense brilliance of Haydn’s Variations in
F minor, among the composer’s most original and
forward-looking keyboard pieces.
Llŷr Williams piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 16 in G Op. 31 No. 1;
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor Op. 31 No. 2 ‘The
Tempest’; Piano Sonata No. 18 in E b Op. 31 No. 3;
Piano Sonata No. 28 in A Op. 101
Llŷr Williams presented Beethoven’s complete piano
sonatas in chronological order in 2010 and explored
them within the space of a fortnight at the Edinburgh
International Festival the following year. His first
London cycle continues at Wigmore Hall with a
programme carefully constructed to reveal the
composer’s revolutionary keyboard invention in
the Op. 31 sonatas of the early 1800s and the
psychological and formal complexities of his Piano
Sonata No. 28 in A.
Tasmin Little violin
Martin Roscoe piano
The next concert in Llŷr Williams’s Beethoven piano
sonata cycle is on 3 October 2015.
Monday 1 June 1.00 pm
A Trasimeno Music Festival concert
Brahms Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata (Sonatensatz)
Dvořák Four Romantic Pieces Op. 75
Franck Sonata in A for violin and piano
Tasmin Little’s artistry speaks directly to the heart
and beguiles the ear. She is joined by regular duo
partner Martin Roscoe for a lunchtime recital of late
Romantic masterworks, crowned by César Franck’s
majestic Sonata in A for violin and piano.
Angela Hewitt piano
Cremona Quartet
Kerson Leong violin
Gerald Finley bass-baritone
Liszt From Années de pèlerinage, deuxième
année S161: Sonetto del Petrarca No. 47;
Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104; Sonetto del
Petrarca No. 123
Ysaÿe Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 27 No. 3
(à Georges Enescu)
Michael Berkeley Three Cabaret Songs
(on poems by Ian McEwan) (UK première)
Franck Piano Quintet in F minor
£13 concs £11
£35 £30 £25 £18
Ten years have passed since Angela Hewitt
founded the Trasimeno Festival, a jewel in
the cultural crown of the Umbrian town of
Magione. She introduces the annual event’s
special atmosphere to Wigmore Hall,
partnering fellow Canadian Gerald Finley in
Michael Berkeley’s Three Cabaret Songs,
piquant settings of words by Ian McEwan,
and joining the Cremona Quartet for
Franck’s intensely expressive Piano Quintet
in F minor.
£50 £40 £30 £20
Chamber Music Season /Song Recital
Series/Contemporary Music Series
Llŷr Williams
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Benjamin Ealovega
Tasmin Little
Melanie Winning
& Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe director
O DOLCE MIO TESORO
Gesualdo Madrigali libro sesto
Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent became pioneers of the
Early Music Movement in the 1970s and remain leaders in the interpretation
of works written long before the Industrial Revolution. In this concert they
explore the extreme emotions and chromatic twists and turns of the mature
madrigals of Carlo Gesualdo, the Italian nobleman who turned to composition
soon after he took part in the murder of his wife and her lover.
£50 £40 £30 £20
Supported by Dunard Fund
Philippe Herreweghe
Photos by Michiel Hendryckx
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June
ELLY AMELING
MASTERCLASSES
Wednesday 3 June 7.30 pm
Thursday 4 June 7.30 pm
Richard Goode piano
Mauro Peter tenor
James Baillieu piano
Mozart Adagio in B minor K540
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 24 in F# Op. 78
Brahms Klavierstücke Op. 76
Debussy Children’s Corner
Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20
Known for the intelligence and warm humanity of
his music-making, Richard Goode belongs to the
pantheon of today’s great pianists. His programme
comprises works by composers central to his art,
embracing everything from Mozart’s fantasy-like
Adagio in B minor to the uplifting lyricism and dash
of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 24.
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte Op. 98
Schumann From Myrthen: Widmung; Freisinn;
Der Nussbaum; Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch
im Divan; Zwei Venetianische Lieder;
Du bist wie eine Blume
Brahms Meerfahrt; Nachtigall; Versunken;
Wie Melodien zieht es mir; Feldeinsamkeit;
Geheimnis
Wolf Lied eines Verliebten; Der Knabe und das
Immlein; An die Geliebte; Nimmersatte Liebe;
Der Tambour; Abschied
Lessons from Helmut Deutsch at Munich’s
Hochschule für Musik und Theater supplied
secure foundations for Mauro Peter’s artistic
development. The young Swiss tenor, who made
his international breakthrough at the 2012
Hohenems Schubertiade, returns to Wigmore
Hall to perform a delectable banquet of Lieder,
complete with such evergreen works as Brahms’s
‘Feldeinsamkeit’ and Beethoven’s impassioned
song-cycle An die ferne Geliebte.
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Elly Ameling
Wednesday 3 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm
Thursday 4 June 10.30 am – 1.30 pm
Elly Ameling Masterclasses
A true legend of song, Elly Ameling has
received critical acclaim worldwide for
the interpretative insights and captivating
power of her performances. The Dutch
soprano shares the fruits of a lifetime’s
experience with postgraduate students
in two masterclass sessions that focus
on repertoire from the heart of German
and French art song, exploring works in
depth and cultivating strong ideas about
their musical and poetic meaning. Her
wisdom, based on a fruitful career spanning
sixty years, is sure to enlighten anyone
interested in the song recitalist’s art.
£7 concs £4 each session
Richard Goode
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Michael Wilson
Mauro Peter
Franziska Schroedinger
June
Christian McBride in conversation before his
evening concert.
Saturday 6 June 7.30 pm
FLORIAN BOESCH
RESIDENCY
£4
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
JUDITH WEIR:
MASTER OF THE QUEEN’S MUSIC
See page overleaf for full details
Sunday 7 June 11.30 am
Christian McBride double bass
Christian Sands piano
Ulysses Owens Jr. drums
ATOS Trio
Christian McBride, Christian Sands and Ulysses
Owens Jr. have been honing their trio to a fine
point of expressive depth and nuance with high
profile performances around the world. ‘The real
core foundation is hardcore swingin’, blues and
the American songbook’ says McBride. ‘Part of that
is because Christian [Sands] is so well-rounded
and willing to go to so many places, that I can’t
help but want to swing hard with him and Ulysses.’
£30 £25 £20 £15
Wigmore Hall Jazz Series
Debussy Piano Trio in G
Chaminade Piano Trio No. 2 in A minor Op. 34
Boulanger D’un matin de printemps
Florian Boesch
Lukas Beck
Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen
Berlin-based ATOS Trio turns to the chamber music
of fin-de-siècle France, exploring the youthful
sentiment of Debussy’s Piano Trio in G and linking
it to magnificent works by Cécile Chaminade and
Lili Boulanger, the latter completed shortly before its
composer’s premature death in 1918.
Mahler/Schoenberg Lieder eines fahrenden
Gesellen
Romantic imagery and life-changing journeys
echo through Florian Boesch’s late-night
programme, an essential strand in his Wigmore
Hall Residency. The German baritone and
the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
embark on an exploration of Mahler’s Songs
of a Wayfarer, offered in Arnold Schoenberg’s
exquisite arrangement for chamber orchestra.
All seats £20
Wigmore Lates/ Florian Boesch Residency
Also in this Series
Post-Concert Talk
Christian McBride
ATOS Trio
Frank Jerke
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Judith Weir
Master of the Queen’s Music
Aurora Orchestra
Mendelssohn Octet in E b Op. 20
Judith Weir Good Morning, Midnight* (world première)
Copland Appalachian Spring
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Judith Weir recently made headline news following her appointment
as Master of the Queen’s Music, the first woman to hold this
ancient royal position. The world première of her work, written for
Alice Coote and Aurora Orchestra, is presented in company with
Mendelssohn’s Octet and Copland’s Appalachian Spring, performed
in its original version for thirteen instruments – two pulsating
compositions marked by bold ideas, intense energy and joy.
£40 £35 £25 £15 Booking open
Song Recital Series /Chamber Music Series /
Photo of Judith Weir by Chris Christodoulou
Nicholas Collon & Aurora Orchestra
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Simon Weir
Alice Coote
Benjamin Ealovega
June
Škampa Quartet
Krzysztof Chorzelski viola
Phantasm
Wolf From Italienisches Liederbuch: Ein Ständchen
euch zu bringen; Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag’
erhoben; Ihr seid die Allerschönste; Geselle, woll’n
wir uns in Kutten hüllen; Heut’ Nacht erhob ich
mich; Benedeit die sel’ge Mutter; Was für ein Lied
soll dir gesungen werden?; Wenn du mich mit den
Augen streifst und lachst
Brahms Four Serious Songs
Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale
(St Wenceslas) Op. 35a
Pavel Fischer String Quartet No. 3 ‘Mad Piper’
Dvořák String Quintet in E b Op. 97
Florian Boesch is blessed with a rare gift for
conveying the subtle alchemy of words and music,
matching a felt sense of their meaning to the
appropriate colours and shades of his richly
endowed voice. His Wigmore Hall Residency
concludes with a programme shot through with
striking images and profound emotions, crowned
by Schumann’s sublime settings of poetry by
Joseph Eichendorff.
Folk music’s direct simplicity and deep resonance
in the collective unconscious inspired Pavel Fischer,
former first violin of the Škampa Quartet, to write
his ‘Mad Piper’ Quartet. The work’s multi-hued
emotional palette complements the national pride
and yearning hope of Suk’s Meditation on an old
Bohemian Chorale, written following the outbreak
of the First World War.
£13 concs £11
Laurence Dreyfus director, treble viol
Emilia Benjamin treble viol
Jonathan Manson tenor viol
Mikko Perkola tenor viol
Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol
Elizabeth Kenny theorbo
PURCELL: FANTASIAS
Gibbons Fantasies a 3, Nos. 3 & 4
Purcell Fantasias a 3, Nos. 1, 2 & 3
Locke Little Consort ‘for my cousin Kemble’
Lawes Royall Consort No. 5 in D
Ward Fancies a 5, Nos. 1 & 5
Locke Consort of 4 Parts in D minor
Contemplation and cultivation of the imagination
appear to have been central to the English fantasia.
Purcell’s contribution to the genre, as so often with
his work, reached heights rarely scaled by others,
although he was clearly inspired by the legacy of
compositions by Orlando Gibbons, William Lawes,
Matthew Locke and John Ward. Phantasm’s
programme digs deep into the seventeenth-century
viol consort tradition to reveal its greatest treasures.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series /Florian Boesch Residency
Sunday 7 June 9. 45 pm
£35 £30 £25 £18
Post-Concert Talk
Early Music and Baroque Series /
Following the concert, Florian Boesch discusses
his life and career with Wigmore Hall Director
John Gilhooly.
£4
Krzysztof Chorzelski
Florian Boesch
Lukas Beck
Škampa Quartet
Ivan Pinkava
Phantasm
Marco Borggreve
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June
PAUL LEWIS:
Christiane Iven soprano
Igor Levit* piano
Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis
Wolf From Mörike Lieder: Um Mitternacht;
Elfenlied; Das verlassene Mägdlein; In der Frühe;
Begegnung; Er ist’s
Mahler From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Um schlimme
Kinder artig zu machen; Scheiden und Meiden;
Ich ging mit Lust; Nicht wiedersehen!
Schoenberg From Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs):
Galathea; Gigerlette; Der genügsame Liebhaber;
Mahnung; Seit ich soviele Weiber sah (Arie aus
dem Spiegel von Arkadien)
Igor Levit’s breathtaking artistry has been endorsed
by critical consensus, audience acclaim and
carefully considered comparisons with legendary
performers from the past. The German-Russian
pianist’s gifts as duo partner will be on display
when he is joined by Christiane Iven, a celebrated
member of the Staatsoper Stuttgart and a
transcendent interpreter of late Romantic song.
£35 £30 £25 £18
A CELEBRATION
Isabelle Faust violin
Alexander Melnikov piano
Dietrich/Schumann/Brahms F.A.E. Sonata
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78; Violin
Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100; Violin Sonata No. 3
in D minor Op. 108
The artistic partnership between Isabelle Faust
and Alexander Melnikov has grown over time,
shaped by award-winning encounters in the
recording studio and refined in the white heat of
concert performance. Their latest Wigmore Hall
recital opens with the complete F.A.E. Sonata,
the collaborative work of Robert Schumann,
his pupil Albert Dietrich and the young Johannes
Brahms, before turning to the flowing lyricism
and telling expressive economy of Brahms’s
mature violin sonatas.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Paul Lewis
Molina Visuals
Repeated Thursday 11 June 9.00 pm
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Paul Lewis piano
Song Recital Series /Introducing Igor Levit
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109;
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A b Op. 110
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111
Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas belong
to the category of inexhaustible artworks,
compositions that offer their performers and
listeners a bridge into an infinite world of
creativity and imagination. Paul Lewis crowns
his Wigmore Hall Celebration series with
two performances of Opp. 109 –111 in one
evening, a marathon feat of mental and
physical endurance, and an unmissable
opportunity to share the pianist’s total
immersion in Beethoven’s music.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Paul Lewis: A Celebration
Also in this Series
Allan Clayton tenor
Paul Lewis piano
Christiane Iven
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Christine Schneider
Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov
Molina Visuals
June
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord
Christiane Karg soprano
François-Frédéric Guy piano
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
Lana Trotovsek violin
Simon Lane piano
Bartók Two Pictures Op. 10
Debussy Jeux (arr. Bavouzet)
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108
Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher
Op. 42
Arvo Pärt Fratres for violin and piano
Frolov Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin’s
Porgy and Bess Op. 19
HANDEL: NINE GERMAN ARIAS
Handel Die ihr aus dunklen Grüften; Künft’ger
Zeiten eitler Kummer; Das zitternde Glänzen der
spielenden Wellen; Süsse Stille, sanfter Quelle
Buxtehude Sonata in A minor for violin, viola da
gamba and basso continuo BuxWV254
Handel Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden;
Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise; In den angenehmen
Büschen; Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken;
Meine Seele hört im Sehen
Handel’s Nine German Arias, the composer’s final
musical settings of his mother tongue, were inspired
by the popular success of a collection of verse by
the Hamburg poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes.
Christiane Karg and Arcangelo perform the complete
set together with one of Dietrich Buxtehude’s most
soulful sonatas, probably written in the 1690s for
performance at St Mary’s Church in Lübeck.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s arrangement for two pianos
of Debussy’s Jeux trains the spotlight on the ballet
score’s intricate interplay of ideas and intimacy of
expression. He joins forces with François-Frédéric Guy,
acclaimed for his interpretations of the Viennese
classics and affinity for the works of Bartók. Their
recital closes with Stravinsky’s barnstorming
transcription of The Rite of Spring for piano duo.
£35 £30 £25 £18
While Brahms and Arvo Pärt applied telling
expressive economy to the works in this programme,
extrovert display hallmarks the Frolov work, as it
delves into themes from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.
London-based, Slovenian-born violinist Lana Trotovsek
also explores Tchaikovsky’s haunting reflections on
‘a dear place’, the country estate of the composer’s
patroness, Nadezhda von Meck.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
Christiane Karg
Gisela Schenker
François-Frédéric Guy
Benjamin Ealovega
Guy Vivien
Lana Trotovsek
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Bracing Change
New British String Commissions
Carducci String Quartet
Guy Johnston cello
Haydn String Quartet in E b Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’
Anthony Gilbert Haven of Mysteries for string quintet* (world première)
Schubert String Quintet in C D956
*Co-commissioned by The Radcliffe Trust, NMC Recordings, and by Wigmore Hall with the support
of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Wigmore Hall’s wholehearted commitment to building the chamber music repertoire
continues with the first performance of a new work for string quintet. Anthony Gilbert’s
composition, Haven of Mysteries, belongs to the Hall’s Bracing Change programme,
a series of new British string commissions. The Carducci String Quartet is joined by
Guy Johnston for this performance, which also includes Schubert’s divine String Quintet,
among the great masterworks dating from the composer’s final months. The programme
begins with Haydn’s dazzling String Quartet in E flat Op. 33 No. 2, the popular nickname
of which reflects the stop-start ending of its rondo.
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open
Chamber Music Season / Contemporary Music Series/
Bracing Change: New British String Commissions
Anthony Gilbert
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Morris Adam
Tom Barnes
Guy Johnston
Jack Liebeck
June
Gould Piano Trio
Christoph Prégardien tenor
Michael Gees piano
Till Fellner piano
Bowen Rhapsody Trio for violin, cello and piano
Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898
York Bowen, youngest son of the owner of a
whisky distillery, made the transition from
prodigiously talented student to a major figure
on the British music scene in the first half of
the twentieth century. The Gould Piano Trio
received rave reviews for its recent recording of
his Romantic Rhapsody Trio, a work underpinned
by emotional uplift and optimism.
£13 concs £11
Schubert Winterreise
The conflicts between striving and acceptance,
literal and poetic truth, and life and death itself
are played out in Winterreise, Schubert’s peerless
setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller.
Christoph Prégardien and Michael Gees bring their
vast collective experience to its interpretation,
probing its spine-chilling melancholy and aiming
to uncover insights into the human condition.
Bach The Well-tempered Clavier Book II Nos. 5–8
BWV874–77
Mozart Piano Sonata in E b K282; Rondo in
A minor K511
Schumann Kreisleriana Op. 16
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 15 minutes in
duration, without an interval
Till Fellner’s broad repertoire spans three centuries
of music, from the keyboard works of J S Bach to
pieces specially written for him. The Viennese
pianist opens his recital with an illustration of the
inventive genius of Bach’s The Well-tempered
Clavier Book II and journeys towards the fantasy of
Schumann’s Kreisleriana by way of two works in
which Mozart experiments with bold new ideas.
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by the Patron Friends of Wigmore Hall
Song Recital Series
Gould Piano Trio
Chris Stock
Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees
H & C Baus
Till Fellner
Benjamin Ealovega
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June
Mark Padmore tenor
Roger Vignoles piano
Schubert Atys; Ganymed; Strophe aus ‘Die Götter
Griechenlands’; Am Strome; Des Fischers
Liebesglück; Der Jüngling an der Quelle;
Der Schiffer (D536)
Britten Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente
Britten The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Schubert Die Mutter Erde; Im Abendrot;
Die Taubenpost (D965a)
It is tempting to imagine the spirits of Britten and
Schubert tuning in to and approving of Mark
Padmore’s artistry. The tenor’s affinity for both
composers, not to mention that of Roger Vignoles,
has deepened over many years. This recital places
Britten’s only song cycle in German and his equally
penetrating settings of John Donne in company
with some of Schubert’s greatest Lieder.
Mozart String Quartet in E b K428
Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
Op. 13
Ravel String Quartet in F
ALBAN GERHARDT
FOCUS
‘Maybe thirty-five years of playing together has
brought … a uniformity of thought and instinct
that allows them to play as a single entity,’
observed Gramophone about The Endellion String
Quartet. The group’s seasoned blend of art and
craft here finds expression in Mozart’s genial
String Quartet in E flat K428 and Mendelssohn’s
Beethoven-inspired String Quartet No. 2. Ravel’s
youthful String Quartet in F proved a succès de
scandale following its rejection by the Prix de
Rome jury in 1904.
£30 £25 £20 £15
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by Voices at Wigmore: champions of vocal
music in all its forms throughout the 2014/15 Season
Song Recital Series
Alban Gerhardt
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Baiba Skride violin
Gergana Gergova violin
Brett Dean viola
Alban Gerhardt cello
Mozart String Quintet in E b K614
Brett Dean Epitaphs
Brahms String Quintet in G Op. 111
The final concert in Wigmore Hall’s Alban
Gerhardt Focus reflects the German cellist’s
wide and open repertoire outlook and
lifelong love for making chamber music.
Brett Dean performs one of the viola parts
in his Epitaphs (2010), a personal tribute to
five friends and colleagues who died within
the space of little more than a year. The
programme closes with another work for
two violins, two violas and cello, Brahms’s
sonorous String Quintet in G.
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking Open
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary
Music Series /Alban Gerhardt Focus
Mark Padmore
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Marco Borggreve
Eric Richmond
June
THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK
FAYRFAX CELEBRATION
Fantasticus
Rie Kimura baroque violin
Robert Smith viola da gamba
Guillermo Brachetta harpsichord
SONNERIE AND OTHER PORTRAITS
Musical paintings from the French Baroque
Marais Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du-Mont
de Paris
Rameau Cinquième pièce de clavecin en concert:
Fugue, La Forqueray – La Cupis – La Marais
Marais Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully
Francœur Adagio and Rondeau from Sonata VI
(Deuxième Livre)
Leclair Sonata in D Op. 2 No. 8
Fantasticus stands for intense expression and
emotional extravagance. The Netherlands-based
baroque ensemble’s playing is directly informed by
the stylus fantasticus, a concept coined in 1650
by Athanasius Kircher, the German Jesuit scholar,
alchemist and polymath, to describe ‘the most free
and unrestrained method of composing’. Each of
the works in its programme defies the boundaries
of convention, none more so than Marin Marais’s
elegiac Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lully.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
Dmitri Gutjahr
Andrew Carwood director
THE PASSION OF CHRIST – Sub-plot: Cardinal Wolsey
Taverner Sospitati dedit aegros; Mater Christi sanctissima
Cornysh Woefully arrayed Fayrfax Maria plena virtute
Merbecke Domine Jesu Christe Davy Ah blessed Jesu how fortuned this
Fayrfax Alas for lak of her presens Taverner O Wilhelme pastor bone
Fayrfax Agnus Dei from Tecum principium
The Passion of Christ has brought forth much powerful music chief amongst which is the extended
devotion Maria plena virtute by Fayrfax. Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall’s Musick conclude their
Fayrfax Celebration with a selection of mellifluous choral works from early Tudor times, complete
with Taverner’s Mater Christi sanctissima and the exquisite ‘Agnus Dei’ from Fayrfax’s Mass Tecum
principium . The sub-text of this concert focuses on Cardinal Wolsey – Henry VIII’s principal advisor
until his fall from power – and is reflected in the music of John Taverner who was appointed Informator
(choirmaster) at Cardinal College (now Christ Church), Oxford.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Early Music and Baroque Series / The Cardinall’s Musick Fayrfax Celebration
Fantasticus
Rudi Wells
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June
Szymanowski Quartet
Ailish Tynan soprano
James Baillieu piano
RNIB Study Day:
Success through Sponsorship
Hahn Fêtes galantes; En sourdine; A Chloris
Poulenc La courte paille; Trois poèmes de Louise
de Vilmorin
Hahn Venezia – Chansons en dialecte vénitien
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY
FOR BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED
MUSICIANS
Mozart String Quartet in D minor K421
Beethoven String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4
Szymanowski Nocturne and Tarantella
(arr. for string quartet)
Since its foundation in Warsaw a decade ago, the
Szymanowski Quartet has attracted an international
following. The ensemble’s sophisticated musicianship
and collective feeling for tonal nuance can be heard
in a programme complete with Mozart’s String
Quartet in D minor, a work of heart-breaking pathos,
and the exotic soundscapes of Szymanowski’s
Nocturne and Tarantella.
Szymanowski Quartet
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Marco Borggreve
Reynaldo Hahn’s music always rewards its listeners,
offering glimpses of the composer’s soul through its
refined surface. Ailish Tynan and her duo partner
James Baillieu present four of the Frenchman’s
finest mélodies in company with Poulenc’s final
song collection, La courte paille (‘The short straw’),
inspired by recollections of childhood, and the
Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, written soon
after the young composer’s return to Catholicism in
the mid-1930s.
This practical study day is an opportunity for blind
and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways
into the classical music industry and career
development, including how to make the most out
of opportunities for sponsorship. The day involves
discussion, talks and the chance to perform on the
Wigmore Hall stage.
For more information and to book, please contact
James Risdon, RNIB Music Officer on
020 7391 2273 or mas@rnib.org.uk
£13 concs £11
Free (application required)
Ailish Tynan
Benjamin Ealovega
Benjamin Ealovega
June
Matthew Polenzani tenor
Julius Drake piano
Hervé Niquet director
Beethoven Adelaide
Liszt Wie singt die Lerche schön; Der Glückliche;
Die stille Wasserrose; Im Rhein, im schönen Strome;
Es rauschen die Winde; S’il est un charmant gazon;
Enfant, si j’étais roi; Comment, disaient-ils;
Oh! Quand je dors
Ravel Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Satie Trois Mélodies
Barber Hermit Songs
VENETIAN SPLENDOURS
In recent seasons Matthew Polenzani and Julius
Drake have developed a partnership of the highest
calibre. Their work together continues with a
compelling recital that reflects Liszt’s debt to
Beethoven and explores Samuel Barber’s love for
European culture. The programme also contains
Satie’s wonderfully quirky, deeply touching Trois
Mélodies, written in 1916 at a time of bloody
stalemate on the Western Front.
Beethoven Grosse Fuge in Bb Op. 133
Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 103
Hanna Kulenty New work* (UK première)
Mendelssohn String Quartet in D Op. 44 No. 1
See page overleaf for full details
*Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam and by
Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss
grant-making foundation
Borodin Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 6 in G Op. 101
£35 £30 £25 £18
The legendary Borodin Quartet performs works
deeply ingrained in the group’s collective DNA.
Generations of Wigmore Hall audiences have
followed the Borodins since their earliest visits in
the 1960s. Richness of sound, attention to detail
and an abiding respect for the music remain the
core values of one of the world’s greatest chamber
music ensembles.
Supported by the Supporter Friends of Wigmore Hall
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet
Matthew Polenzani
Dario Acosta
Borodin Quartet
Andy Staples
Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge has been described as
‘a poetic discourse of enormous size’, a mighty
combination of counterpoint and fantasy that
transcends the conventional lines of fugal argument
to confront the vastness of the universe. This great
masterwork prefaces the Leipzig String Quartet’s
account of Haydn’s ‘swansong’, the fragmentary
String Quartet Op. 103, before the ensemble then
gives the UK première of a new quartet by the
Polish composer Hanna Kulenty.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Michael Bader
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Hervé Niquet director
VENETIAN SPLENDOURS
Campra Mass ‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’
Vivaldi Laetatus sum RV607; In exitu Israel RV604; Magnificat RV610;
Lauda Jerusalem RV609; Gloria RV589
£35 £30 £25 £18
Photo: detail of the basilica San Marco, Venice
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Pascal Brunet
Routine is a word beyond the ken of Hervé Niquet
and the musicians of Le Concert Spirituel. Their
vibrant, full-blooded interpretations of baroque
masterworks arise from a deep understanding
of the music’s expressive gestures and affects,
so much so that they restore a sense of the
excitement that must have gripped audiences at
the time of their first performances. This programme
opens with André Campra’s Mass 'Ad majorem Dei
gloriam' and moves on to a series of radiant sacred
works by Antonio Vivaldi, capped by the so-called
Red Priest’s famous Gloria.
June
Jack Liebeck violin
Katya Apekisheva piano
Borodin Quartet
Ilya Gringolts violin
Ashley Wass piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1
Lekeu Violin Sonata in G
Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice, Act II: Dance of the
Blessed Spirits ‘Melody’ (arr. Kreisler)
Falla Danse espagñole from La Vida breve
(arr. Kreisler)
In 1802 Beethoven accepted medical advice and
moved to the village of Heiligenstadt. The change of
scene sparked a period of extraordinary creativity
during which he wrote his spellbinding Violin Sonata
No. 6 in A. Jack Liebeck’s recital pairs Beethoven’s
work with the ill-fated Guillaume Lekeu’s impassioned
Violin Sonata in G, a composition of dramatic contrasts
and compelling energy.
Jack Liebeck
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Beethoven String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3
‘Razumovsky’
To mark its 70th anniversary year, the Borodin
Quartet offers its vision of a work written soon after
the group’s formation. Shostakovich’s enigmatic
String Quartet No. 3 reflects on the insanity of
war and the legacy of fear fuelled by Stalin’s terror
campaign against ordinary citizens. The Borodins
turn to Beethoven after the interval and the ‘Serioso’
Quartet, originally intended for ‘a small circle of
connoisseurs’, and the deeply personal expression
of the composer’s third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet.
Korngold Violin Sonata in G Op. 6
Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor
Two exceptional artists known for the adventure
and vitality of their music-making share the
Wigmore Hall stage for this recital. They open
with the Violin Sonata in G Op. 6, a seductively
Romantic composition completed in 1912 by the
fifteen-year-old prodigy Erich Wolfgang Korngold,
who later found fame in Hollywood. Debussy’s
Violin Sonata in G minor, his final composition,
explores the creative tension between contrasting
musical moods.
£13 concs £11
£35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season/Borodin Quartet
Ashley Wass
Patrick Allen
Ilya Gringolts
Tomasz Trzebiatowski
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June/July
CELEBRATING
CAROLYN SAMPSON
Pre-Concert Event
JEAN-SÉLIM
ABDELMOULA piano
RAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY
YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL
The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment in
which exceptionally gifted young musicians collaborate
closely with some of the world’s finest artists and
teachers. This concert offers the chance to hear
potential future stars at an early stage in their careers.
GUILDHALL
WIGMORE
RECITAL PRIZE
Bach Prelude and
Fugue in E b minor
BWV853 from The
Well-tempered Clavier
Book I
£6 or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)
Razumovsky Ensemble
Debussy Images,
Series 2
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula
Variations fantômes
Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Schubert Piano Sonata in B b D960
The Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize
annually awards an exceptional Guildhall
School musician with a Wigmore Hall
recital. Swiss pianist Jean-Sélim
Abdelmoula is the recipient of this year’s
award, and his recital promises to be a
special occasion.
£13 concs £11
Kolja Blacher violin
Alexander Sitkovetsky violin
Andriy Viytovych viola
Oleg Kogan cello
Alexander Chaushian cello
Beethoven String Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Brahms String Sextet in G Op. 36
Carolyn Sampson
Chosen from a select pool of world-class players,
the Razumovsky Ensemble brings great insight and
subtlety to the interpretation of an astonishingly wide
range of chamber music. This concert includes Ravel’s
elegant Sonata for violin and cello, dedicated to the
memory of Debussy, and Brahms’s sublime Sextet
in G, among his finest chamber compositions.
£35 £30 £25 £15
Marco Borggreve
Wednesday 1 July 7.30 pm
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Heath Quartet
Bach Chorale Preludes: Liebster Jesu, wir
sind hier BWV731; Allein Gott in der Höh
sei Ehr BWV662; In dulci jubilo BWV608
John Musto New work for soprano and
string quartet* (world première)
Webern Langsamer Satz
Schoenberg String Quartet No. 2 in F # minor
Op. 10
*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support
of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Wigmore Hall’s Celebrating Carolyn Sampson
series concludes in festive fashion with the
world première of Brooklyn-born composer
John Musto’s latest score for soprano and
string quartet. Carolyn Sampson also joins
the Heath Quartet in the haunting final
movements of Schoenberg’s String Quartet
No. 2, a work marked by a period of emotional
turmoil in its composer’s personal life.
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open
Song Recital Series /Contemporary Music
Series/Celebrating Carolyn Sampson
Kolja Blacher
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Priska Ketterer
Oleg Kogan
Robert Cassen
Matthias Goerne
& Menahem Pressler
Thursday 2 July 7.30 pm
Matthias Goerne baritone
Menahem Pressler piano
Songs by Schumann
Schumann Variations on an original theme
in E b WoO. 24 ‘Geister Variations’
£40 £35 £30 £20
Song Recital Series
Photos by Marco Borggreve
In constant demand at the world’s leading
concert halls and opera houses, Matthias
Goerne made headline news in March 2014
when he stepped into the title-role of Berg’s
Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera at short
notice, and went on to receive rave reviews
for his account of Schubert’s Winterreise at
last summer’s Aix-en-Provence Festival. The
German baritone’s ability to express emotional
states and conjure up tone colours that bring
poetic texts to life are among the rare gifts in
his artistic locker, comparable to those of the
greatest Lieder singers of all time. We also
look forward to a welcome return from legendary
pianist Menahem Pressler, described by The
New York Times as ‘a poet, time and again
revealing unexpected depths in works that
have been endlessly plumbed and surveyed’.
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O/MOD RNT
Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
Celebrating reflections of the musical past
in the present, Hugo Ticciati’s pioneering
O/MODӘRNT festival at Ulriksdal’s Palace
Theatre Confidencen in Sweden explores
the relationships between the work of old
composers and the artistic and intellectual
creations of modern culture. O/MODӘRNT,
Swedish for ‘un/modern’, comes to
Wigmore Hall to present Monteverdi in
Historical Counterpoint.
For Leo Schrade, a leading scholar on
Claudio Monteverdi, the great Italian
composer was nothing less than the ‘creator
of modern music’. Monteverdi’s revolutionary
expressive style certainly changed the
course of music four centuries ago. His
radical and provocative spirit is celebrated
at Wigmore Hall in five imaginative concerts
and a round-table discussion.
Monteverdi’s sensuous arabesques merge
with the vibrant physicality of Argentinian
tango; 400-year-old bass lines inspire
extemporized jazz; Orfeo, the original modern
opera, is reinterpreted with a postmodern
twist; Schoenberg’s tonal-atonal revolution
is twinned with the Old Master’s modal-tonal
paradigm shift; finally, Monteverdi’s aesthetic
credo ‘music is the servant of the words’
resonates in contemplative works by Arvo
Pärt, John Tavener and Pēteris Vasks.
Monteverdi image by Simone Kotva
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Saturday 4 July 1.00 pm
Sunday 5 July 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Julia Zenko voice
Hugo Ticciati violin
Tango for 3 tango quartet
Study Afternoon
Amstel Quartet saxophone quartet
Renata Pokupić mezzo-soprano
Meghan Cassidy viola
Guy Johnston cello
Henrik Måwe piano
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier dancer
MONTEVERDI TO TANGO
ORPHEUS GOES POSTMODERN
Monteverdi Movements from masses
(in a tango style)
Sverre Indris Joner Toque de Tango
Monteverdi (arr. Sverre Indris Joner)
Lasciatemi morire
Grever Alma mia
Piazzolla Renacere
Blázquez Sin piel
Monteverdi (arr. Sverre Indris Joner) Hor
che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace; Sí dolce è’l
tormento; Lamento della ninfa; Pur ti miro from
L’incoronazione di Poppea
Wijnand van Klaveren Orpheus Revisited
Sverre Indris Joner piano
Per Arne Glorvigen bandoneon
Odd Hannisdal violin
Steinar Haugerud double bass
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration,
without an interval
£30 £25 £20 £15
The Wigmore Hall Restaurant will serve dinner after the
concert. Please contact the Box Office to make your
table reservations.
Svante Henryson cello, composer
Anders Jormin double bass
Audun Kleive drums
Jon Balke piano
Short opera/ballet based on the myth of
Orpheus with music from Monteverdi, Philip
Glass, Gluck and Wijnand van Klaveren
All seats £15
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI:
A THEOLOGIAN, MUSICOLOGIST
AND PHILOSOPHER MEET!
At the beginning of the seventeenth
century, the cusp of what historians have
since called ‘the modern era’, Monteverdi
posed the perennial question of every
artist: how do my creations relate to those
of past masters? How does innovation
relate to imitation? Such questions will
spark the imagination of our highly
distinguished panel of speakers, including
Professor John Milbank, Professor Emma
Dillon, Dr Simone Kotva and Hugo Ticciati.
£12 concs £8
Sunday 5 July 7.30 pm
Jennifer Stumm viola
Bartholomew LaFollette cello
Doric String Quartet
Alasdair Beatson piano
Alexander Oliver reciter
ON THE LIMITS OF TONALITY:
MONTEVERDI MEETS SCHOENBERG
Monteverdi Madrigals arranged for string
quintet
Schoenberg Phantasy Op. 47; Ode to
Napoleon Op. 41; Verklärte Nacht Op. 4
Christian Poltéra cello
Voces8 and Friends
VOICES FROM AFAR
Monteverdi Lagrime d’amante al
sepolcro dell’amata
Arvo Pärt Magnificat
Pēteris Vasks Plainscapes
Improvisations for solo violin
Arvo Pärt Dopo la Vittoria
Tavener Svyati
£30 £25 £20 £15
£30 £25 £20 £15
MONTEVERDI MEETS JAZZ
A reinvention of Monteverdi in the spirit of Jazz
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
Chamber Music Season /O/MODӘ RNT: Monteverdi in Historical Counterpoint
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July
Sunday 5 July 11.30 am
Monday 6 July 1.00 pm
John O’Conor piano
Jean-Guihen Queyras cello
The Brook Street Band
Beethoven 7 Bagatelles Op. 33
Schubert Piano Sonata in Bb D960
Britten Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72
Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012
John O’Conor, Artistic Director of the Dublin
International Piano Competition, has been hailed
for the boundless sensitivity, flawless touch and
musical insights of his pianism. Studies with Wilhelm
Kempff and first prize at the 1973 International
Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna prepared
the way for the Irish musician’s distinguished
international career.
First performed fifty years ago by Mstislav
Rostropovich at the Aldeburgh Festival, the nine
continuous sections of Britten’s First Cello Suite
make massive technical and emotional demands
on the soloist. Jean-Guihen Queyras journeys
through the work before turning to the last of
Bach’s Cello Suites, which Rostropovich aptly
described as ‘a symphony for cello’.
Rachel Harris baroque violin
Farran Scott baroque violin
Nichola Blakey baroque viola
Tatty Theo baroque cello
Carina Cosgrave baroque bass
Alexandra Bellamy baroque oboe
Carolyn Gibley harpsichord, chamber organ
£13 concs £11
HEAVEN AND EARTH
Handel Concerto for oboe and strings in G minor
HWV287
Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1039
Handel Cantata: Dalla guerra amorosa HWV102a
Bach Trio Sonata in G BWV1038
Handel Trio Sonata in G minor HWV404
Bach Cantata BWV82 ‘Ich habe genug’
Sunday 5 July 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
O/MODӘ
ӘRNT
Bach’s sacred cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ is central
to this programme encompassing love and destiny,
both earthbound and celestial. Bach and Handel’s
sublime music explores this theme, through both
composers’ understanding of the pains and delights
of the human condition, expressed through the
power and beauty of their music.
MONTEVERDI IN HISTORICAL COUNTERPOINT
See pages 54–55 for full details
£30 £25 £20 £15
John O’Conor
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Jean-Guihen Queyras
François Séchet
The Brook Street Band
Kate Mount
July
JULIAN ANDERSON
COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
Tuesday 7 July 6.00 pm
Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence
Julian Anderson in conversation with
Augusta Read Thomas.
£4 Booking open
Aurora Orchestra
Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo-soprano
Helmut Deutsch piano
Tchaikovsky We sat together; To forget so soon;
The fires in the room were already out; Do not ask;
If only I had known; It was in the early spring;
Night; Does the day reign?
Musorgsky What are words of love to you?;
Forgotten; Night; Gopak; The magpie; Hebrew song;
Eremushka’s lullaby; A society tale: The goat
Rachmaninov In the silence of the secret night;
She is as lovely as the noon; On the death of a
linnet; Christ is risen; Sing not to me, beautiful
maiden; Here it’s so fine; Spring waters
Russian composers created a remarkable legacy
of romances, art songs influenced by the spirit of
nostalgia and passion of the Slavic soul. Ekaterina
Semenchuk, one of today’s leading mezzo-sopranos,
presents an inspired selection of works from her
homeland, complete with Tchaikovsky’s ‘Night’, a
series of Musorgsky’s spirited songs, and
Rachmaninov’s heart-breaking ‘Christ is risen’.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Stravinsky Concertino for string quartet
Stravinsky Three Japanese Lyrics
Ravel Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Julian Anderson Poetry Nearing Silence
Augusta Read Thomas New work for voice
and ensemble* (world première)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle Tragoedia
Julian Anderson
John Batten
Julian Anderson’s dazzling new opera
Thebans inspired rave reviews following
its world première at English National
Opera in May 2014, reinforcing his status
among today’s foremost composers. He
has curated this concert as Wigmore Hall’s
Composer in Residence, locating the
striking aural imagery of his Poetry Nearing
Silence at the heart of a programme
complete with the world première of a
new work by Augusta Read Thomas and
a 50th-anniversary performance of
Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s Tragoedia.
* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support
of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation
Julian Anderson has programmed a concert
of compelling reflections on the music of
poetry and the poetry of music. Aurora
Orchestra opens with the rhythmic intensity
of Stravinsky’s Concertino for string quartet
and includes Anderson’s own Poetry Nearing
Silence, an eight-movement suite inspired
by the drawings and poems of Tom Phillips.
Claire Booth is soloist in the world première
of Augusta Read Thomas’s new work.
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking open
Chamber Music Season/
Julian Anderson Composer in Residence/
Ekaterina Semenchuk
Sheila Rock
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July
Gabriela Montero piano
Anthony Marwood violin
James Crabb accordion
Graham Mitchell double bass
Roger Vignoles
70th Birthday Concert
Schubert 4 Impromptus D899
Schumann Carnaval Op. 9
Gabriela Montero Improvisations
Gabriela Montero’s heartfelt performances arise,
above all, from a powerful desire to communicate
directly with her audience. She is heir to the great
tradition of keyboard improvisation, an art once
common but now exceptionally rare among classical
performers. Her programme’s second half will be
created in the moment in the styles of various
composers, with shades of Schubert and Schumann
no doubt appearing in her improvisations.
Traditional (Scottish) Mary Scott, the Flower of
Yarrow/Struan Robertson’s Rant (arr. James Crabb)
Piazzolla S.V.P. (S’il vous plait); Tzigane Tango;
Preparense
Ravel Deux mélodies hébraïques
Gardel/Williams Por una Cabeza
Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016
Piazzolla Libertango; Oblivion; Escualo (arr. James
Crabb)
For this late-night concert, Anthony Marwood is
joined by accordionist James Crabb and double bass
player Graham Mitchell for an evening of tango
music. One of the world’s leading exponents of Astor
Piazzolla’s music, James Crabb has helped revitalise
the accordion repertoire by commissioning new works
and creating jaw-dropping arrangements of existing
compositions. The three musicians highlight
Piazzolla’s debt to Bach and embrace the mysterious
beauty of Ravel’s Deux mélodies hébraïques.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Modigliani Quartet
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 49
Dvořák String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’
Praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung for the
‘balance, transparency, symphonic comprehension
[and] confident style’ of its music-making, the
Modigliani Quartet is in demand at the world’s
leading concert venues. Award-winning recordings
of everything from Haydn and Arriaga to Brahms
and Debussy bear witness to the French ensemble’s
exceptional unity and collective brilliance.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates /Anthony Marwood and Friends
Gabriela Montero
James Crabb
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Colin Bell/EMI Classic
Christoffer Askman
Anthony Marwood
Felix van Dijk
Modigliani Quartet
Colin Bell/EMI Classics
July
ROGER VIGNOLES
70TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Roger Vignoles piano
Christine Brewer soprano
Joan Rodgers soprano
Elizabeth Watts soprano
Bernarda Fink mezzo-soprano
Levon Chilingirian violin
Sergey Khachatryan violin
Kim Kashkashian viola
Alexander Chaushian cello
Sergei Babayan piano
Lusine Khachatryan piano
Vahan Mardirossian piano
Yevgeny Sudbin piano
IN MEMORIAM 1915
Komitas Miniatures for string quartet
Arutiunian Pieces for solo piano
Babadjanian Piano Trio; Poem
Komitas Songs (arranged for solo piano)
Babadjanian 6 Pictures
Schumann Piano Quartet in E b Op. 47
mezzo-soprano
Michael Chance countertenor
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Mark Padmore tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
To mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide,
the deliberate campaign of mass murder
perpetrated by Ottoman forces during the First
World War, a group of world-renowned artists
offer a programme of works chiefly by Armenian
composers. Devised by Alexander Chaushian,
this concert celebrates the fact that, despite the
genocide of 1915, Armenians and their musical
culture survived and continue to flourish today.
AN MEIN KLAVIER
£35 £30 £25 £18
At John Gilhooly’s request, Roger
Vignoles, an aristocrat among piano
accompanists, marks the eve of his
70th birthday with a kaleidoscopic
programme built around the theme of
music and musicians, and woven
together with songs for a summer night.
He is joined by a stellar cast of singers,
close colleagues and friends with whom
he has collaborated over many years.
Their recital includes works by, among
others, Schubert, Purcell, Loewe,
Brahms, Wolf, Joaquín Nin,
Rangstrøm, Tomášek, Rossini,
Britten and John Dankworth.
This concert will be approximately 3 hours in
duration, including two intervals
£50 £40 £30 £20
Song Recital Series
Roger Vignoles
Benjamin Ealovega
Alexander Chaushian
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Stephen Kovacevich piano
Janina Fialkowska piano
Berg Piano Sonata Op. 1
Schubert Piano Sonata in A D959
Grieg Six Lyric Pieces
Liszt Gretchen – 2nd movement from A Faust
Symphony S513
Ravel Jeux d’eau
Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord, organ
Samuel Boden tenor
Thomas Walker tenor
Stéphane Degout baritone
The prospect of lessons with Dame Myra Hess
attracted Stephen Kovacevich to London from his
native Los Angeles in the late 1950s. He made
his European debut in 1961 with a sensational
recital at Wigmore Hall, complete with Alban Berg’s
Piano Sonata Op. 1. The acclaimed pianist’s BBC
Lunchtime programme includes another work
close to his heart, the lyrical late Piano Sonata in
A D959 by Schubert.
£13 concs £11
Janina Fialkowska made her professional debut
more than half a century ago. The Canadian
pianist’s mature artistry still draws from the
spontaneity and virtuosity of her youth, combined
now with the insight and wisdom of experience.
Her latest Wigmore Hall programme includes
Gretchen, Liszt’s moving reflections on the tragic
figure from Goethe’s Faust, and the vibrant virtuosity
of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Schumann’s
entrancing evocation of the Vienna Carnival.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Schumann Canonic Study in A b (arr. for piano
quintet by Orlando Jopling)
Fauré Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor Op. 89
Schumann Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44
Bach’s influence is ever present in Schumann’s
Canonic Study in A flat, originally created in 1846
for the pedal piano and performed in Orlando
Jopling’s sumptuous arrangement for piano quartet.
The Schubert Ensemble also explores the enigmatic
world of Fauré’s rarely performed Piano Quintet
No. 1 before turning to Schumann’s pioneering
Piano Quintet in E flat, among the first works to
pair string quartet with piano.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Stephen Kovacevich
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David Thompson/EMI Classics
Janina Fialkowska
Peter Schaaf
Schubert Ensemble
Jack Liebeck
Arcangelo
Arcangelo*
Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord, organ
Samuel Boden tenor
Thomas Walker tenor
Stéphane Degout baritone
Couperin L’Apothéose de Lully
Blow An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
Charpentier Leçons de ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint
Arcangelo, inspired by Jonathan Cohen’s visionary artistic leadership,
has injected fresh energy and panache into the performance of
Baroque music. The ensemble’s approach is informed by a deep
understanding of the emotional language and expressive rhetoric of
works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focused here
on Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s intense settings of the Lamentations
of Jeremiah. The programme draws on the jaw-dropping virtuosity of
the players and their ability to work in consort as chamber musicians.
Arcangelo is joined by the internationally acclaimed French baritone
Stéphane Degout, among the most versatile artists of his
generation, Samuel Boden, a seasoned performer of
lyric works of the French Baroque, and fine
British tenor Thomas Walker.
£50 £40 £30 £20
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
Photo by Adam Swann
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Thursday 16 July
Saturday 18 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
2.00 pm – Schools & Community Groups Matinée
6.30 pm – Evening Performance
Come and Sing:
English Music
Quatuor Mosaïques
A COMMUNITY CHAMBER OPERA
Composer Alasdair Nicolson, Early Opera Company
and Ignite – Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident
ensemble – explore the myths and legends of
King Arthur alongside a community cast of all ages
from across Westminster. Together, they perform
this unique reworking of Purcell’s opera.
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults
exploring a range of English music and song. Get
to know the music from the inside, develop your
singing skills and finish the day with a performance
on the Wigmore Hall stage.
£24 concs £16
2.00 pm – Free performance for schools & community groups
(Please book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240)
6.30 pm – £5 concs £3
Mozart String Quartet in C K157
Haydn String Quartet in F Op. 77 No. 2
Brahms String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Mozart’s early String Quartet in C, written while the
teenaged composer was working on his opera Lucio
Silla for Milan, and mature Haydn form the first half
of this recital. The period instruments, long experience
and revelatory musicianship of the Quatuor Mosaïques
are sure to offer fresh perspectives on both works
and reconnect with the radical nature of Brahms’s
String Quartet in A minor, a composition of striking
contrasts and remarkable coherence.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by The Monument Trust, City Bridge Trust,
John Lyon’s Charity, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation,
Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust
Sitkovetsky Trio
Beethoven Piano Trio in E b Op. 70 No. 2
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/
Since making its debut appearance at Wigmore Hall
in 2008, the Sitkovetsky Trio has forged ahead with
performances driven by a powerful blend of virtuosity,
sophisticated musicianship and total commitment.
The recital features Beethoven’s Op. 70 No. 2, a
work of profound humanity, capable of carrying the
listener into new realms of the imagination.
Camilla Tilling soprano
Paul Rivinius piano
Linde Äppelträd och päronträd; Den ängen där du
kysste mig Stenhammar Vandraren; Nattyxne;
Jungfru Blond och jungfru Brunett; Det far ett skepp
Sibelius Den första kyssen; Lasse liten; Soluppgång;
Var det en dröm?; Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote;
En slända Mahler Ich ging mit Lust; Frühlingsmorgen;
Hans und Grethe; Ablösung im Sommer; Wer hat
dies Liedlein erdacht? Strauss Traum durch die
Dämmerung; Schlagende Herzen; Nachtgang;
Ruhe, meine Seele; Cäcilie; Heimliche Aufforderung;
Morgen
Camilla Tilling
Mats Widén
Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling received critical
acclaim for her recent performances of Bach’s
St Matthew Passion with Simon Rattle and the
Berliner Philharmoniker. She makes a welcome
return to Wigmore Hall to perform a programme
inspired by imaginary landscapes, natural beauty,
young love and romantic adventures, including works
by her countryman Wilhelm Stenhammar and the
expansive emotions of Strauss’s Op. 27 songs.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
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Sitkovetsky Trio
Benjamin Ealovega
July
INTRODUCING IGOR LEVIT
Quatuor Mosaïques
Haydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 64 No. 2
Beethoven String Quartet in E b Op. 127
Mozart String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’
Vivaldi From Griselda: Agitata da due venti; Ombre
vane, ingiusti orrori
Vivaldi Sinfonia from Dorilla in Tempe
Vivaldi Se mai senti spirarti sul volto from Catone in
Utica; Rete, lacci e strali adopra from Dorilla in Tempe
Handel From Giulio Cesare: Da tempeste; Se pietà
di me non senti
Handel Overture from Rodrigo
Handel Scherza in mar la navicella from Lotario
Three Viennese classics occupy Quatuor Mosaïques
in this programme. The period-instrument ensemble
launches its programme with Haydn’s Op. 64 No. 2,
an enticing blend of ‘Storm and Stress’ outbursts and
genial good humour, before exploring Beethoven’s
Op. 127, completed in 1825, and Mozart’s
‘Dissonance’ Quartet, which offers yet another
penetrating examination of the human condition.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Igor Levit
Roberta Invernizzi soprano
La Risonanza
Fabio Bonizzoni director, harpsichord
Felix Broede
Igor Levit piano
Cardew Thälmann Variations
Frederic Rzewski Dreams II* (UK première);
The People United will never be Defeated
*Co-commissioned by Heidelberger Frühling and by
Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
Most of Vivaldi’s 50 or so operas proved a success
during the composer’s lifetime. They soon faded
from view following his death in 1741. Fabio
Bonizzoni and La Risonanza, in company with
Roberta Invernizzi, have played an important role
in the recent revival of interest in Vivaldi’s stage
works. They have also been acclaimed worldwide
for their enchanting performances and recordings
of Handel’s music.
£50 £40 £30 £20
American composer and piano virtuoso
Frederic Rzewski absorbed fertile ideas from
teachers such as Roger Sessions, Milton
Babbitt and Luigi Dallapiccola. Taking this
inspiration he found his true voice with a
series of works inspired by social and political
concerns, famously so in his set of 36 variations
on the Chilean song The People United will
never be Defeated. Igor Levit prefaces the
UK première of Rzewski’s Dreams II with
Thälmann Variations by another politically
motivated composer, Cornelius Cardew.
£30 £25 £20 £15 Booking Open
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a
major contribution to the 2014–15 Wigmore Series
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING T A L E N T
London Pianoforte Series/Contemporary
Music Series/Introducing Igor Levit
Also in this series
Christiane Iven
Igor Levit piano
Quatuor Mosaïques
Wolfgang Krautzer
soprano
Roberta Invernizzi
Ribaltaluce Studio
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Matthew Rose bass
Helen Collyer piano
Purcell/Britten Job’s Curse
Loewe Edward; Odins Meeresritt; Tom der Reimer;
Heinrich der Vogler
Brahms Mit vierzig Jahren ist der Berg erstiegen;
Steig auf, geliebter Schatten; Mein Herz ist schwer;
Sapphische Ode; Kein Haus, keine Heimat
Brahms Four Serious Songs
Loewe Archibald Douglas
Purcell/Britten Let the dreadful engines
Britten’s vivid versions of bold, dramatic songs by
Purcell frame Matthew Rose’s survey of German
Romantic ballads and narrative pieces. The power
and warmth of his majestic bass voice contain the
colours required to bring each song to life, and to
trawl deep beneath their often simple melodies to
catch the archetypal messages.
Marc-André Hamelin piano
Field Andante inédit
Liszt Soirées de Vienne No. 6 from ‘Valses caprices
d’après Schubert’ S427
Yehudi Wyner Toward the center
Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B b minor Op. 35
‘Funeral March’
Few recitalists can match Marc-André Hamelin
when it comes to imaginative programme building.
The Canadian virtuoso’s latest Wigmore Hall recital
combines the reflective soundworlds of Field’s
Andante inédit and Yehudi Wyner’s Toward the
center with two masterful approaches to sonata form
and Liszt’s impassioned Soirées de Vienne No. 6.
£35 £30 £25 £18
£35 £30 £25 £18
Acclaimed worldwide for her profound interpretations
of Lieder, and renowned for her inspired engagement
with words and music, Austrian mezzo-soprano
Angelika Kirchschlager has been a firm favourite with
Wigmore Hall audiences over many seasons. She is
joined by regular duo partner Helmut Deutsch for a
rich programme of some of the most captivating
Romantic art song.
Song Recital Series
Song Recital Series
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Helmut Deutsch piano
Brahms Von waldbekränzter Höhe; Wenn du nur
zuweilen lächelst; Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer;
Ach, wende diesen Blick; Unbewegte laue Luft
Wolf Alte Wiesen: Sechs Gedichte von Keller
Hahn Le souvenir d’avoir chanté; Seule; A Chloris;
Quand je fus pris au pavillon; L’heure exquise from
Chansons grises; La chère blessure
Songs by Schumann
£35 £30 £25 £18
In memory of Robert Easton
Matthew Rose
mezzo-soprano
Lena Kern
Marc-André Hamelin
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Nikolaus Karlinsky
July
TRIO MEDIÆVAL
Nelson Goerner
Ailish Tynan soprano
Iain Burnside piano
Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58
Dominic Muldowney In Paris with you
Poulenc Fiançailles pour rire
Ned Rorem Early in the morning
Dave Frishberg Another song about Paris
Parry Good night!; Crabbed age and youth; Bright
star; Where shall the lover rest
Judith Bingham The shadow side of Joy Finzi:
A mad song
Stanford La Belle Dame sans merci
Jake Heggie From Eve-Song : My name; Snake;
The farm
Ailish Tynan and Iain Burnside continue their
fruitful artistic partnership with a programme filled
with bold musical ideas and poetic reflections on
life. Judith Bingham’s The Shadow Side of Joy Finzi:
A Mad Song offers pathways into the nature of the
unconscious mind, blending loud echoes of grief
with fragments from Lorna Doone.
Jean-Baptiste Millot
£35 £30 £25 £18
Song Recital Series
Trio Mediæval
Oddleiv Apneseth
Trio Mediæval
AQUILONIS
A musical journey from Iceland to the Mediterranean via the coasts of Scandinavia and England
14th century Icelandic From Thorlakstidir : Dum Johannes; Adest festum; Aquilonis; Fans ex Basan
Dominus; Docent digna; Sursum in altissima; O Pastor Islandia
Anders Jormin Ama
15th century English carols Ave Rex Angelorum; Ecce quod natura; Alleluia a newe werk
Andrew Smith Ave Maris Stella; Iosef fili David; Ave Regina Caelorum
12th century Italian Fammi cantar; Benedicti e llaudati (arr. A M Friman/L A Fuglseth)
Traditional (Norway) Gud unde oss (arr. Berit Opheim); Ingen vinner frem til den evige ro
(arr. A M Friman/L A Fuglseth); Fryd dig, du Kristi brud (arr. L A Fuglseth)
William Brooks Vace, dulcis amice
Trio Mediæval, founded in Oslo in 1997, has attracted a cult following to sacred and secular works
from the distant past. The female vocal trio’s discography for ECM Records includes everything from
polyphony and thirteenth-century Worcester and Scandinavian folksongs to contemporary compositions
by William Brooks and Andrew Smith. This late-night programme casts shadows of forgotten ancestors
and evokes the mystical traditions of medieval worship.
All seats £15
Wigmore Lates
Ailish Tynan
Benjamin Ealovega
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Wigmore Series Debut
Final concert of the 2014 /15 Season
Quatuor Voce
Matan Porat piano
Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op. 95 ‘Serioso’
Schubert String Quartet in G D887
Ligeti Musica Ricercata: 11 pieces for piano
Rameau Suite in A minor: Allemande, Courante,
Sarabande, Fanfarinette, Gavotte et doubles from
Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
Praised by The Strad for its ‘refinement, beautiful
tone, excellent ensemble, precise chording, fine
rhythm and loads of character’, Quatuor Voce
underlined its growing reputation when it was
selected for the ECHO Rising Stars scheme for the
2013/14 Season. The quartet makes its Wigmore
Series debut with two works of great substance,
Beethoven’s intensely focused ‘Serioso’ Quartet
and Schubert’s equally inventive String Quartet
in G D887.
Pianist and composer Matan Porat’s artistic evolution
has been led by the breadth of his musical interests
and his mind’s intense curiosity, qualities vividly
mirrored in this programme. His recital opens with
a modern masterwork, Ligeti’s carefully constructed
Musica Ricercata, presented in tandem with
movements from Rameau’s Suite in A minor. Porat
also offers his thoughts on Piano Sonata in A D959,
among Schubert’s last and finest compositions.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Matan Porat
Quatuor Voce
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Neda Nevaee
Sophie Pawlak
Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and
song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall
is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through
its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London
premières. ‘Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe
for chamber music,’ comments Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly. ‘We plan to
present up to 20 commissions per season and make Wigmore Hall one of the
world’s foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.’
Full details of the April – July 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 the Contemporary Music Series.
Meghan Cassidy viola
Guy Johnston cello
Henrik Måwe piano
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier dancer
Wijnand van Klaveren
The Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center
Aurora Orchestra
Helen Grime*
Judith Weir*
Christian Poltéra cello
Voces8 and friends
Arvo Pärt, Pēteris Vasks & John Tavener
Saturday 9 May
Musicians from the Royal
Northern College of Music
Clark Rundell conductor
Guy Johnston cello
Anthony Gilbert*
Jonathan Harvey
Inon Barnatan piano
Sebastian Currier*
Philippe Cassard piano
David Grimal violin
Anne Gastinel cello
Baptiste Trotignon*
Baiba Skride violin
Gergana Gergova violin
Brett Dean viola
Alban Gerhardt cello
Aurora Orchestra
Julian Anderson, Augusta Read Thomas*
& Sir Harrison Birtwistle
(Programme devised by Composer in Residence
Julian Anderson)
Igor Levit piano
Cornelius Cardew & Frederic Rzewski*
Brett Dean
Marc-André Hamelin piano
Yehudi Wyner
Hanna Kulenty*
Angela Hewitt piano
Cremona Quartet
Kerson Leong violin
Gerald Finley bass-baritone
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Heath Quartet
* Commissioned or co-commissioned by Wigmore
Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
John Musto*
Michael Berkeley
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EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE & ADULTS
All events listed on pages 68 –71 will open for booking on 3 February, with the exception of the Family Concert on 3 May, Reimagining King Arthur
on 16 July and Come and Sing on 18 July, which go on sale to Friends on 13 January and to Mailing List Subscribers on 23 January.
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.
April/May
Saturday 11 April 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Sunday 3 May 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Tuesday 26 May 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm
Stories Sung
Voiceworks
FAMILY FOLK DAY
FAMILY CONCERT
A CONCERT OF NEW WORKS FOR VOICE
For ages 5 plus
For ages 5 plus
Join workshop leader Ruairi Glasheen and fellow
members of the vibrant young group, Tir Eolas, for
a fun day exploring folk music. Join in with songs
and tunes from across the British Isles, listen to
traditional stories, and create some tall tales and
magical music of your own to perform alongside
Tir Eolas on the Wigmore Hall stage at the end
of the day.
Working alongside presenter Julian West and pianist
Roland Pöntinen, the dynamic Swedish clarinettist
Martin Fröst features in a concert especially for
families introducing the dramatic music of Brahms,
including his thrilling Hungarian Dances.
Now in its ninth year, Voiceworks is a unique
collaboration between poets from the Contemporary
Poetics research centre at Birkbeck, University of
London and composers, singers and instrumentalists
from Guildhall School of Music & Drama, brought
together by Wigmore Hall Learning.
Details at www.voiceworks.org.uk
Free (ticket required)
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/learning
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May/June
RNIB Study Day:
Success through Sponsorship
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY
MUSICIANS
This practical study day is an opportunity for blind
and partially sighted musicians to explore pathways
into the classical music industry and career
development, including how to make the most out
of opportunities for sponsorship. The day involves
discussion, talks and the chance to perform on the
Wigmore Hall stage.
020 7391 2273 or email mas@rnib.org.uk
Saturday 27 June 11.00 am – 4.00 pm
RNIB Family Day:
A Night at the Museum
CHILDREN AGED 6 –12 YEARS AND
THEIR FAMILIES
When the doors are locked and the visitors have
gone home, what mischief do lords and ladies of
the Wallace Collection get up to? Come and meet
the quirky characters in the paintings, make up
some spooky stories and compose your own music
to perform onstage at Wigmore Hall at the end of
the day.
Wednesday 27 May 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Tuesday 9 June 5.30 pm – 6.15 pm
Musical Fairy Tales
Ignite – Celebrating a Year
in the Community
020 7391 2273 or email mas@rnib.org.uk
Following Ignite’s year of creative projects working
in community settings including Chelsea and
Westminster Hospital School and The Cardinal
Hume Centre, we invite you to join us for a
celebration of this important and impactful work.
Ignite presents pieces inspired by material
developed on projects alongside a preview of some
of the music from the forthcoming community
chamber opera, Reimagining King Arthur.
HALF-TERM FAMILY DAY
For ages 5 plus
Experience famous fairy tales as you have never
heard them before with presenter Julian West
and wind quintet the Magnard Ensemble. Hear
the quintet play musical arrangements of some
well-known stories, then work alongside the
musicians to create a brand new musical fairy tale
of your own to perform together onstage at the end
of the day.
Free (ticket required)
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Thursday 16 July
2.00 pm – Schools & Community Groups Matinée
6.30 pm – Evening Performance
A COMMUNITY CHAMBER OPERA
Following Westminster 100 in 2014 and BASCA
shortlisted Woodwose in 2013, the local Westminster
community once again comes together, working with
professional artists to present a staged performance
at Wigmore Hall. We are thrilled to be working with
composer Alasdair Nicolson, Early Opera Company
and Ignite – Wigmore Hall Learning’s resident
ensemble – to develop a new work based on the
myths and legends around King Arthur. Inspired by
Purcell’s opera of the same name, the performance
features some of the original music alongside newly
commissioned work, developed in collaboration with
the participants, exploring themes of national heroes
and identity within our diverse local community.
2.00 pm – Free performance for schools & community groups
(Please book through the Learning Office on 020 7258 8240)
6.30 pm – £5 concs £3
Supported by The Monument Trust, City Bridge Trust,
John Lyon’s Charity, The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation,
Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The Loveday Charitable Trust
Saturday 18 July 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Come and Sing:
English Music
Isabelle Adams leads a workshop day for adults
exploring a range of English music and song.
Get to know the music from the inside, develop
your singing skills and finish the day with
a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.
£24 concs £16
This event forms part of Wigmore Hall’s
series Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
Wednesday 8 July 11.00 am – 12 noon
Repeated 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm
Sing a Story
KEY STAGE 1 SCHOOLS CONCERT
All aboard the Sing a Story train for a journey
through songs and stories with presenter
John Webb, actor Charlotte Mapham and a cast
of marvellous musicians who will bring both
well-known and new stories to life. Learn the songs
with our interactive resource pack and you’ll be
ready to join in on the day!
£3.50
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Monday 27 – Thursday 30 July 11.00 am – 4.00 pm
Musical Portraits
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC
SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Be inspired by paintings in the National Portrait
Gallery, make your own works of art, create some
brand new music with Wigmore Hall Learning’s
resident ensemble Ignite, and finish by performing
your own pieces onstage at the end of this
four-day course.
For more information, and to apply for a place,
contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060 or email
ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, The Monument
Trust and BBC Children in Need
In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and
Turtle Key Arts
Chamber Zone
FREE CONCERT TICKETS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
AND SCHOOLS
Over the last seven years, Wigmore Hall’s free ticket scheme
Chamber Zone has reached over 5,000 young people
aged 8 –25 years.
Supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing
support from The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
For details on the concerts included in the Chamber Zone scheme
and how to book visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk /chamberzone
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May
Calendar
April
Date
Start Time
Event
Wed 1 Apr
7.30 pm
Page
4
Thu 2 Apr
7.30 pm
The English Concert/Harry Bicket/Terry Wey
4
Sat 4 Apr
7.30 pm
Dunedin Consort/John Butt/Anna Dennis/Clare Wilkinson
Nicholas Mulroy/Matthew Brook
5
Sun 5 Apr
11.30 am
4
Mon 6 Apr
1.00 pm
Meta4
6
Tue 7 Apr
7.30 pm
Andreas Scholl/Avi Avital/Marco Frezzato/Tiziano Bagnati
Tamar Halperin
6
Thu 9 Apr
7.30 pm
Andreas Haefliger
6
Fri 10 Apr
7.30 pm
Heath Quartet/Nils Mönkemeyer/Kari Kriikku/Tim Horton
Sat 11 Apr
10.30 am
7.30 pm
Family Day: Stories Sung
Kuss Quartet
Sun 12 Apr
11.30 am
3.00 pm
Mon 13 Apr
7
Date
Start Time
Event
Fri 1 May
7.30 pm
Martin Fröst/Miah Persson/Maxim Rysanov/Roland Pöntinen
Page
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Sat 2 May
7.30 pm
19
Sun 3 May
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen
Family Concert: Martin Fröst
Heath Quartet
Mon 4 May
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Elias String Quartet/Simon Crawford-Phillips
Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra/Sir John Eliot Gardiner
20
21
Tue 5 May
7.30 pm
19
Wed 6 May
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Classical Opera/Ian Page/Allan Clayton
22
22
Thu 7 May
7.30 pm
Olli Mustonen
22
Fri 8 May
7.00 pm
10.00 pm
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Alison Balsom/Trevor Pinnock/The English Concert
Lucy Crowe/Tim Mead
23
23
Sat 9 May
10.00 am
7.30 pm
RNCM Study Day: Jonathan Harvey
Belcea Quartet/Nicolas Bone/Antonio Meneses
26
23
Sun 10 May
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Schumann Quartett
Claire Booth/Christopher Glynn
Werner Güra/Christoph Berner
27
27
27
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20
Mon 11 May
68
8
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Sara Mingardo/Giorgio Dal Monte/Ivano Zanenghi
Christianne Stotijn/Julius Drake
28
28
Tue 12 May
Lukas Geniušas
Dominik Köninger/Volker Krafft
8
8
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Wigmore Study Group commences
Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh
28
29
Wed 13 May
7.30 pm
Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh
29
1.00 pm
9
Thu 14 May
Tue 14 Apr
7.30 pm
London Handel Players/Sophie Bevan/Daniel Taylor
9
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Kirill Gerstein
30
30
Wed 15 Apr
7.30 pm
Karen Cargill/Simon Lepper
9
Fri 15 May
10.00 pm
Trish Clowes/Gwilym Simcock/Heath Quartet
30
Sat 16 May
7.30 pm
Ian Bostridge/Julius Drake
31
Sun 17 May
11.30 am
7.30 pm
London Winds/Michael Collins/Michael McHale
31
31
Mon 18 May
1.00 pm
Christoph Prégardien/Daniel Heide
32
Wed 20 May
7.30 pm
Joshua Bell/Lawrence Power/Steven Isserlis/Jeremy Denk
32
Thu 21 May
3.00 pm
7.00 pm
YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015
YCAT Public Final Auditions 2015
32
32
Fri 22 May
7.30 pm
Bernarda Fink/Anthony Spiri
33
Sat 23 May
7.30 pm
Joshua Bell/Pamela Frank/Lawrence Power/Steven Iserlis
Jeremy Denk
33
Sun 24 May
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Aviv String Quartet
Inon Barnatan
33
34
Thu 16 Apr
5.00 pm
Introduction to Music commences
10
Sat 18 Apr
7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
11
Sun 19 Apr
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
Daniel Behle/Oliver Schnyder Trio
Borodin Quartet
10
10
12
Mon 20 Apr
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Miah Persson/Malcolm Martineau/Birgit Kolar
Alice Coote/Julius Drake
12
12
Tue 21 Apr
7.30 pm
Wihan Quartet
13
Wed 22 Apr
1.30 pm
7.30 pm
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 Semi-Final
Kun Woo Paik
13
13
Thu 23 Apr
7.30 pm
Alice Sara Ott
14
Fri 24 Apr
6.00 pm
Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2015 Final
13
Mon 25 May
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Quatuor Ebène
34
34
Sat 25 Apr
2.00 pm
7.30 pm
Arcanto Quartet
14
14
Tue 26 May
5.30 pm
7.30 pm
Voiceworks
James Ehnes/Andrew Armstrong
68
34
Sun 26 Apr
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Vienna Piano Trio
Heath Quartet/Michael Collins
15
15
Wed 27 May
10.30 am
Family Day: Musical Fairy Tales
69
Thu 28 May
7.30 pm
Philippe Cassard/David Grimal/Anne Gastinel
35
Fri 29 May
7.00 pm
10.00 pm
Henk Neven/Imogen Cooper
35
35
Sat 30 May
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
Llŷr Williams
36
36
Sun 31 May
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Jean-Marc Luisada
Angela Hewitt/Cremona Quartet/Kerson Leong/Gerald Finley
36
36
Mon 27 Apr
1.00 pm
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Antoine Tamestit
Garrick Ohlsson
15
16
16
Tue 28 Apr
7.30 pm
Vienna Piano Trio
17
Wed 29 Apr
7.30 pm
Allan Clayton/Paul Lewis
17
Thu 30 Apr
7.30 pm
Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien
17
72
June
July
Date
Start Time
Event
Date
Start Time
Event
Mon 1 Jun
1.00 pm
Tasmin Little/Martin Roscoe
Page
36
Wed 1 Jul
7.30 pm
52
Tue 2 Jun
7.30 pm
Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe
37
Thu 2 Jul
7.30 pm
Matthias Goerne/Menahem Pressler
53
Wed 3 Jun
10.30 am
7.30 pm
Richard Goode
38
38
Fri 3 Jul
7.30 pm
10.00 pm
Julia Zenko/Hugo Ticciati/Tango for 3/Amstel Quartet
55
55
Thu 4 Jun
10.30 am
7.30 pm
Mauro Peter/James Baillieu
38
38
Sat 4 Jul
1.00 pm
55
Fri 5 Jun
6.00 pm
7.00 pm
10.00 pm
Florian Boesch/Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
39
39
39
Hugo Ticciati/Meghan Cassidy/Guy Johnston/Henrik Måwe
Amstel Quartet/Renata Pokupić/Ederson Rodrigues Xavier
Hugo Ticciati/Jennifer Stumm/Bartholomew LaFollette
Doric String Quartet/Alasdair Beatson/Alexander Oliver
Sat 6 Jun
7.30 pm
Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon/Alice Coote
40
Sun 7 Jun
11.30 am
7.30 pm
9.45 pm
ATOS Trio
Florian Boesch/Malcolm Martineau
Post-Concert Talk
39
41
41
Mon 8 Jun
1.00 pm
Škampa Quartet/Krzysztof Chorzelski
41
Tue 9 Jun
5.30 pm
7.30 pm
Ignite – Celebrating a Year in the Community
Phantasm
Wed 10 Jun
7.30 pm
Thu 11 Jun
6.00 pm
9.00 pm
Fri 12 Jun
7.00 pm
10.00 pm
7.30 pm
Page
55
Sun 5 Jul
11.30 am
3.00 pm
7.30 pm
John O’Conor
ӘRNT
Study Afternoon: O/MODӘ
Hugo Ticciati/Christian Poltéra/Voces8 and friends
56
55
55
Mon 6 Jul
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Jean-Guihen Queyras
The Brook Street Band/Matthew Brook
56
56
Tue 7 Jul
6.00 pm
7.30 pm
Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon/Claire Booth
57
57
69
41
Wed 8 Jul
11.00 am
1.30 pm
Sing a Story
Sing a Story
70
70
Christiane Iven/Igor Levit
42
Thu 9 Jul
7.30 pm
Ekaterina Semenchuk/Helmut Deutsch
57
Paul Lewis
Paul Lewis
42
42
Fri 10 Jul
7.00 pm
10.00 pm
Gabriela Montero
Anthony Marwood/James Crabb/Graham Mitchell
58
58
Isabelle Faust/Alexander Melnikov
Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen/Christiane Karg
42
43
Sat 11 Jul
7.00 pm
59
Sun 12 Jul
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Modigliani Quartet
Alexander Chaushian & Friends
58
59
Sat 13 Jun
7.30 pm
François-Frédéric Guy/Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
43
Sun 14 Jun
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Lana Trotovsek/Simon Lane
Carducci String Quartet/Guy Johnston
43
44
Mon 13 Jul
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Stephen Kovacevich
Janina Fialkowska
60
60
Mon 15 Jun
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Gould Piano Trio
Christoph Prégardien/Michael Gees
45
45
Tue 14 Jul
7.30 pm
Arcangelo/Samuel Boden/Thomas Walker/Stéphane Degout
61
Wed 15 Jul
7.30 pm
Thu 16 Jul
2.00 pm
6.30 pm
Fri 17 Jul
7.30 pm
Camilla Tilling/Paul Rivinius
Sat 18 Jul
10.00 am
7.30 pm
Come and Sing: English Music
Quatuor Mosaïques
Sun 19 Jul
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Sitkovetsky Trio
Quatuor Mosaïques
62
63
Mon 20 Jul
7.30 pm
Igor Levit
63
Tue 21 Jul
7.30 pm
Roberta Invernizzi/La Risonanza/Fabio Bonizzoni
63
48, 69
49
Wed 22 Jul
7.30 pm
Matthew Rose/Helen Collyer
64
Tue 16 Jun
7.30 pm
Till Fellner
45
Wed 17 Jun
7.30 pm
Mark Padmore/Roger Vignoles
46
Thu 18 Jun
7.30 pm
46
Fri 19 Jun
7.00 pm
46
10.00 pm
Baiba Skride/Gergana Gergova/Brett Dean/Nils Mönkemeyer
Alban Gerhardt
Fantasticus
47
Sat 20 Jun
7.30 pm
47
Sun 21 Jun
11.30 am
Szymanowski Quartet
48
Mon 22 Jun
1.00 pm
Ailish Tynan/James Baillieu
48
Wed 24 Jun
60
62, 70
62, 70
62
62, 70
62
10.00 am
7.30 pm
RNIB Study Day
Matthew Polenzani/Julius Drake
Thu 25 Jun
7.30 pm
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet
50
Thu 23 Jul
7.30 pm
Marc-André Hamelin
64
Fri 26 Jun
7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
49
Fri 24 Jul
7.00 pm
10.00 pm
Angelika Kirchschlager/Helmut Deutsch
Trio Mediæval
64
65
Sat 27 Jun
11.00 am
7.30 pm
RNIB Family Day: A Night at the Museum
69
49
Sat 25 Jul
7.30 pm
Ailish Tynan/Iain Burnside
65
Sun 28 Jun
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Borodin Quartet
51
51
Sun 26 Jul
11.30 am
7.30 pm
Quatuor Voce
Matan Porat
66
66
Mon 29 Jun
1.00 pm
7.30 pm
Ilya Gringolts/Ashley Wass
Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula
51
52
Mon 27 – Thu 30 Jul
Musical Portraits
71
Tue 30 Jun
7.30 pm
Razumovsky Ensemble
52
73
Wigmore Hall/
2015 Kohn Foundation
International
Song
Competition
Kindly supported by the Kohn Foundation since 1997
This Competition recognises the song tradition
as a whole and requires contestants to perform
in at least three languages. At the same time it
honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the song
repertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean
stature of Schubert in the genre.
Audiences are invited to attend the Preliminary
and Semi-Final rounds, as well as the grand finale
and Prize-giving on Thursday 10 September.
JURY
John Gilhooly OBE Chair
Iain Burnside
Wolfgang Holzmair
Graham Johnson OBE
Sir Ralph Kohn non-voting
Christoph Prégardien
Maxine Robertson
Asadour Santourian
David Stern
Ailish Tynan
Sunday 6 September 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 1
All day £13 concs £11
Monday 7 September 11.00 am and 2.00 pm
PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 2
Tuesday 8 September 3.00 pm and 7.30 pm
SEMI-FINAL STAGE
Please note there will be an interval from
6.00 pm to 7.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a
table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant,
please contact the Box Office.
Book for the first three stages at
the same time for £30 concs £25
Thursday 10 September 6.00 pm
FINAL STAGE AND PRIZE-GIVING
£30 £25 £20 £15
Please note there will be an interval from
8.20 pm to 9.30 pm. If you would like to reserve a
table for dinner in the Wigmore Hall Restaurant,
please contact the Box Office.
Song Recital Series
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BOOKING INFORMATION
Booking Dates
Booking Period 3
Wednesday 1 April – Sunday 26 July 2015
Friends – Priority booking form to reach the
Box Office by Tuesday 13 January 2015
Mailing List – Priority booking form to reach
the Box Office by Friday 23 January 2015
General Public – By telephone/online from
Tuesday 3 February 2015
We strongly recommend early booking for
Pre-Concert Talks, Artists in Conversation
and Study Events.
Wigmore Hall Box Office
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Tel: 020 7935 2141
Online Booking: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Email: (not for bookings)
boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets
Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided
into four price ranges
Stalls C – M: Highest price
Stalls A – B, N – P: 2nd highest price
Balcony A – D: 2nd highest price
Stalls BB, CC, Q – S: 3rd price
Stalls AA, T – X: Lowest price
A–D
T– X
Q– S
N–P
STA LL S
C– M
A –B
A AA A
CC
BB
PL ATFO RM
Car Parking
7 days a week: 10.00am– 8.30pm.
Days without an evening concert
10.00am– 5.00pm. No advance booking
during the half-hour prior to performance.
There is limited street parking after 6.30 pm
(Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.
Alternatively there are public car parks in Cavendish
Square, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all of
which are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.
Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland Parking
Scheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers
50% discount on their parking. Please contact the
Box Office for further details or visit our website.
Telephone Bookings
7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.
Days without an evening concert
10.00am – 5.00pm. There is a non-refundable
£3.00 administration charge for each
transaction. This includes the return of your
tickets by post if time permits.
A AA A
Facilities for Disabled People
Full details from 020 7258 8210
or access@wigmore-hall.org.uk
Postal Bookings
Please make cheques payable to Wigmore Hall
with the amount left open but stating an upper
limit, and add an administration charge of
£3.00. Tickets will then be sent by post.
Wigmore Hall has been awarded the Bronze
Charter Mark from Attitude is Everything
Online Bookings
Online booking is available 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, and you can select your own
seat. There is a non-refundable £2.00
administration charge.
Tickets for Concessions
Where a concession (concs) ticket price is
listed these are available to students, senior
citizens and the unemployed.
Group Bookings
OXFORD
CIRCUS
Discounts of 10% are available for groups of
12 or more, subject to availability.
Restaurant/Bar
BALCONY
CC
BB
Box Office Hours
BOND
STREET
Full information on pre-concert and interval
refreshments can be found at
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurant or by calling
020 7258 8292. Table reservations can be made
by calling the Box Office on 020 7935 2141.
This brochure is available in alternative formats.
Please contact the Box Office if this would be of
assistance to you. Telephone: 020 7935 2141
Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk
Transport
Information in this brochure was correct at the time
of printing. The right is reserved to substitute artists
and to vary programmes if necessary.
Tubes: Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines),
Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines).
Buses: A number of bus routes pass along
Oxford Street.
Cover photos by Benjamin Ealovega
Cover design by WLP Ltd.
www.whitelabelproductions.co.uk
Brochure design and production by Peter Williamson
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SUPPORTING WIGMORE HALL
With £1.5 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support
Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concert or Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or
email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.
The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment
in our concert, Learning and community programmes:
Honorary Patrons
Donors and Sponsors
Aubrey Adams
André and Rosalie Hoffmann
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn
Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan
Mr Eric Abraham*
Neville and Nicola Abraham
Elaine Adair
Tony and Marion Allen*
The Andor Charitable Trust
David and Jacqueline Ansell*
Arts Council England
Anthony Austin
Ben Baglio and Richard Wilson
BBC Children in Need
David and Margaret Beaton
Alan Bell-Berry
Mr Nicholas J Bez
Mrs Arline Blass
The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust
David and Mary Bowerman*
Alan Bradley*
Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair
Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson
bureauexport
Clive Butler
CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust
Charities Advisory Trust
City Bridge Trust
Colin Clark
Eric Clause*
Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and
The London Community Foundation ‡
Edwin C Cohen
Nicola Coldstream
Sonia and Harvey Cole
The Ernest Cook Trust
John Crisp*
Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch*
Anthony Davis*
Pauline Del Mar
Diaphonique
The Dorset Foundation
In memory of Robert Easton
Douglas and Janette Eden
Annette Ellis*
The Elton Family
Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan
Caroline Erskine
Mrs Susan Feakin
The Fidelio Charitable Trust
Peter and Sonia Field
A bequest from the late Miss
Margaret Flatman
John and Amy Ford
Season Patrons
Aubrey Adams*
American Friends of Wigmore Hall
Karl Otto Bonnier*
Cockayne ‡
Henry and Suzanne Davis
Dunard Fund†
The Hargreaves and Ball Trust
Graham and Amanda Hutton*†
Valerie O’Connor
David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma†
Ian Rosenblatt
Victoria 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 Trust
Pauline and Ian Howat
The Marchus Trust ‡
Oliver and Helen Prenn
Jo and Barry Slavin
The Tertis Foundation
Marina Vaizey
Kathleen Verelst*
Tony Wingate
and several anonymous donors
Corporate Supporters
Capital Group (corporate matched giving)
Clifford Chance LLP
Complete Coffee Ltd
Duncan Lawrie Private Banking
Lloyds Banking Group
Martin Randall Travel Ltd
Rosenblatt Solicitors
Rothschild
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The Foyle Foundation
S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3
Friends of Wigmore Hall
Jonathan Gaisman*
The Garfield Weston Foundation
The Garrick Charitable Trust
J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust
John Gilhooly
John and Lauren Goldsmith*
Nicholas and Judith Goodison*
Charles Green
Barbara and Michael Gwinnell
Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour*
Haringey Music Service
The Headley Trust
The Henry C Hoare Charitable Trust
Nicholas Hodgson
André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡
Peter and Carol Honey*
Hyde Park Place Estate Charity
Simone Hyman*
Peter and Nikki Jeffcote
John Lyon’s Charity
Marc Jourdren*
In memory of Donald Kahn
Su and Neil Kaplan*
Jerome Karet*
David and Louise Kaye*
Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn*
The Kohn Foundation
Christian Kwek and David Hodges*
Maryly La Follette*
The Leverhulme Trust
Tim Llewellyn
Dame Felicity Lott
The Loveday Charitable Trust
Simon and Sophie Ludlam*
A bequest from the late John Lunn
Julia MacRae*
Simon Majaro MBE and
Pamela Majaro MBE
Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
George Meyer
Milton Damerel Trust
Michael and Lynne McGowan*
The Monument Trust
Amyas and Louise Morse*
Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones
A C and F A Myer
Valerie O’Connor and Jeanette McIntosh
Hamish Parker
The Piano Fund
Dr Clive Potter*
Nick and Claire Prettejohn*
The Radcliffe Trust
Edith Randall
The Rayne Foundation
Gifts to honour Rick Rogers from
Beryl McAlhone and friends
Charles Rose*
Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM*
Rothschild
Ruth Rothbarth*
The Rubinstein Circle
The Sampimon Trust
The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust
Louise Scheuer
Julia Schottlander*
Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen*
The Shoresh Charitable Trust
Sir Martin and Lady Smith*
Nigel and Johanna Stapleton*
Gill and Keith Stella*
Cita and Irwin Stelzer*
The Stewarts Law Foundation
Derek Sugden
Anne and Paul Swain*
Katja and Nicolai Tangen*
The Tertis Foundation
Allen Thomas and Jane Simpson*
Tower Hamlets Arts Music and
Education Service
Professor Christopher Thompson
John and Ann Tusa*
Robin Vousden*
Gerry Wakelin*
Andrew and Hilary Walker*
Professor Janet Walker CD and
Professor Doug Jones AO*
Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary
Settlement
David and Frances Waters*
David Evan Williams
The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation
Philip and Emeline Winston*
The Wolfson Foundation
Simon Yates and Kevin Roon
and several anonymous donors
* Rubinstein Circle members
† Early Music & Baroque Series supporters
‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters
Details correct as of October 2014
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