February 2016
Avi Avital & Mahan Esfahani
INSIDE:
Behzod Abduraimov | Piotr Anderszewski
Nicola Benedetti | Doric String Quartet
Ensemble intercontemporain | Christian Gerhaher
Steven Isserlis | Gidon Kremer
Tasmin Little | Gil Shaham
Takács Quartet | Daniil Trifonov
And many more
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Cover: Avi Avital and Mahan Esfahani © Simon Jay Price
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Bill Wyatt
Alec Frank-Gemmill horn
Alasdair Beatson piano
Giorgia Bertazzi
Monday 1 February 1.00 pm
Sir James MacMillan Motet V from Since it was the day
of Preparation
Beethoven Horn Sonata in F Op. 17
John Casken Serpents of Wisdom (world première)
Schumann Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70
Alec Frank-Gemmill’s total mastery of his instrument has
brought him signal success whether as concerto soloist,
chamber musician or performing on the natural horn.
His lunchtime recital programme sets two totemic pieces
Alec Frank-Gemmill
Alasdair Beatson
from the classical horn repertoire alongside Sir James
MacMillan’s Motet V and the world première of Serpents of Wisdom, a work written for him by John Casken.
£13 concs £11
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity.
To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Alec Frank-Gemmill is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 1 February 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall Associate Artists
Takács Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 74 No. 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 in F Op. 73
Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’
Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists unleash the white-hot spirit of invention present in works by two of the greatest
string quartet composers. Haydn’s Op. 74 quartets, written for the 1793 London concert season, are shot through
with appealing melodies and intricate thematic developments, while Shostakovich’s Third String Quartet offers a
searing lament for the victims of war and tyranny.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Keith Saunders
Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet Associate Artists
Takács Quartet
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YCAT Lunchtime Concert Series 2015/16
Kaupo Kikkas
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Tuesday 2 February 1.00 pm
Ji Liu piano
Chopin Polonaise in A Op. 40 No. 1 ‘Militaire’; 4 Waltzes; Piano Sonata No. 2
in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’; Polonaise in A b Op. 53
Born in 1990, Ji Liu studied in Shanghai, Madrid and London. Last year, his
debut CD ‘Piano Reflections’ was released by Classic FM and reached No.1 in
the classical charts. Future engagements include appearances as soloist with
the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, and
the première of a new concerto by Ludovico Einaudi.
£13 concs £11
Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)
YCAT is grateful for support from the Paul Woodhouse Fund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund,
and the legacy of Richard Oake for this series.
Ji Liu
Tuesday 2 February 7.30 pm
Cicconi Massi
Robert Romik
Henning Kraggerud violin
Kathryn Stott piano
Grieg Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Op. 8; Violin Sonata No. 2 in
G Op. 13; Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45
Grieg’s high reputation as a genial miniaturist can easily
obscure the striking force and individuality of his chamber
music. Henning Kraggerud, one of Norway’s most
distinguished soloists, and renowned pianist Kathryn Stott
chart the evolution of the composer’s original style from his
early Op. 8 to what Grieg called the ‘wider horizons’ of his
Third Violin Sonata of 1886–87.
Henning Kraggerud
Kathryn Stott
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
Takács Quartet
Aleksandar Madžar piano
Keith Saunders
Wigmore Hall Associate Artists
Benjamin Ealovega
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Wednesday 3 February 7.30 pm
Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3
Timo Andres Strong Language for string quartet*
(UK première)
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84
*Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Shriver Hall
Takács Quartet
Aleksandar Madžar
Raised in rural Connecticut and now resident in
Brooklyn, Timo Andres was praised by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for his debut album’s ‘unhurried grandeur’.
The young American composer wrote Strong Language for the Takács Quartet to show that ‘longer pieces can
actually be made out of less stuff as a way of supporting the weight of their structures’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by the Chamber Music Circle
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts,
supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s
Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Thursday 4 February 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music
MOZART
As the Classical style reaches its culmination and Enlightenment values penetrate
all aspects of cultural and political life, Mozart’s music exemplifies a period in
which serenity, rationality, and a sense of proportion and symmetry take centre
stage. Using the most simple and direct means, this extraordinary musician seems
to capture the whole range of human emotion. This course led by Roy Stratford
(on 4, 11, 18 & 25 February) explores the enormous diversity of his output and
examines the sometimes subversive means that he used to express his musical
ideas. As H C Robbins Landon wrote, ‘the Mozartian Legacy, in brief, is as good
an excuse for mankind’s existence as we shall ever encounter and is perhaps,
after all, a still small hope for our ultimate survival’.
Series ticket price £30
Portrait of Mozart by Barbara Kraft
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /The Mozart Odyssey
baritone
Schubert Sehnsucht (D123); Hoffnung (Schaff’ das Tagwerk
meiner Hände) (D295); Wonne der Wehmut; An den Mond
(D296); Geheimes (D719); Rastlose Liebe; Nachtgesang
(D119); Schäfers Klagelied
Wolfgang Rihm 6 Goethe Lieder: Willst du dir ein gut Leben
zimmern; Worte sind der Seele Bild; Heut und ewig; Höchste
Gunst; Parabase; Aus ‘Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren’
Schubert Gesänge des Harfners
Gerold Huber Der Wanderer (world première)
Schubert Prometheus; Mahomets Gesang (fragment) (D549);
Ganymed; An Schwager Kronos
Wolfgang Rihm Harzreise im Winter (UK première)
Jim Rakete/Sony Classical
Christian Gerhaher
Gerold Huber piano
Marion Koell/Avi Service for music
Thursday 4 February 7.30 pm
Christian Gerhaher
Gerold Huber
Wolfgang Rihm’s multifaceted music has been nourished by his abiding passion for Schubert. This programme
explores the correspondences and contrasts present in settings of Goethe by both composers, including Wolfgang
Rihm’s ‘Harzreise im Winter’ – written for and first performed by Christian Gerhaher and his regular duo partner
Gerold Huber in 2014 – and the questing drama of Schubert’s ‘Prometheus’.
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Song Recital Series/Contemporary Music Series/Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence
Christian Gerhaher Masterclass
Christian Gerhaher’s art balances matters of metaphysics and poetic imagination
with the pressing practicalities of performance. Wigmore Hall’s Singer in Residence
shares his thoughts on the nature of fine Lieder singing with outstanding postgraduate
students from UK conservatoires, as he works with duos on settings of Goethe’s
Wilhelm Meister. His masterclass sessions invariably offer insights to participants and
audience members alike, lifting the veil on the alchemical process of understanding
and interpreting the raw material of notes and words on a printed page.
£8 concs £6
Hiromichi Yamamoto
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Friday 5 February 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Christian Gerhaher
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for 8 –25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by John Lyon’s Charity. To book,
please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence
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Gil Shaham violin
Bach Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV1001; Partita No. 1 in B minor
BWV1002; Sonata No. 2 in A minor BWV1003; Partita No. 2 in D minor
BWV1004; Sonata No. 3 in C BWV1005; Partita No. 3 in E BWV1006
Christian Steiner
Friday 5 February 7.00 pm NB starting time
Although rooted in the fertile soil of seventeenth-century German fiddle
music, Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin stand proud as works
of matchless genius. Gil Shaham sets out on an epic journey of musical
discovery, creating the perfect conditions to experience the virtuosity,
contrapuntal ingenuity and life-enhancing energy of Bach’s Sei Solo.
The American violinist’s revelatory readings of the works, recently
committed to disc, rest on three decades of close study, thought and
performance experience.
Gil Shaham
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
This concert will be approximately 3 hours and 15 minutes in duration, including two intervals
Chamber Music Season
Nash Ensemble
Richard Hosford clarinet
Keith Saunders
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
K. Leighton
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Saturday 6 February 7.30 pm
Donizetti String Quartet No. 13 in A
Verdi String Quartet in E minor
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Two Italian composers famed for their operas
are represented in this programme by their
string quartets – Donizetti by one of the many
pieces he wrote in his youth for quartet meetings
in his native Bergamo, and Verdi by the lone
Quartet he composed in his 60th year, with its
fugal finale looking ahead to Falstaff. The recital
is completed by a Nash speciality, Mozart’s
mellow Quintet for clarinet and strings.
Nash Ensemble
Richard Hosford
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Nash Ensemble: Mozart, Mendelssohn and the Italians
Quartetto di Cremona
Mozart String Quartet in G K80
Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Elisa Caldana
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Sunday 7 February 11.30 am
Mozart was only fourteen when he began his String
Quartet in G K80, among the many accomplishments
of his first visit to Italy. Quartetto di Cremona moves
from the work’s tuneful warmth to Beethoven’s
darkly serious String Quartet in A minor Op. 132,
completed in the wake of a serious illness and graced
by the composer’s ‘Hymn of thanksgiving to God
of an invalid on his convalescence’.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Quartetto di Cremona
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Wigmore Hall Debut
La Compagnia del
Madrigale
Simone Bartoli
Sunday 7 February 7.30 pm
Rossana Bertini soprano
Francesca Cassinari soprano
Elena Carzaniga alto
Giuseppe Maletto tenor
Raffaele Giordani tenor
Daniele Carnovich bass
IO MORIRÒ D’AMORE
Marenzio Io morirò d’amore
Monteverdi Anima mia, perdona
Gesualdo T’amo mia vita
Marenzio Cruda Amarilli
Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde
Marenzio Filli volgendo i lumi
Gesualdo O dolorosa gioia
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Marenzio Dura legge d’amor
Gesualdo O dolce mio tesoro Monteverdi Ecco Silvio colei Gesualdo Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno
Monteverdi Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori Marenzio Vivrò dunque lontano Gesualdo Chiaro risplender suole
Monteverdi Cruda Amarilli Gesualdo Moro, lasso
So much of the adventurous vocal writing of Marenzio, Monteverdi and Gesualdo challenged convention, breaking
with past models by elevating emotional expression above the austere and ancient rules of contrapuntal composition.
La Compagnia del Madrigale, founded by a group of seasoned early music performers in 2008, brings visceral
energy and embodied sensuality to its interpretations of Italian madrigals, reviving qualities that delighted a devoted
following of open-minded connoisseurs four centuries ago. The ensemble makes its Wigmore Hall debut with a
selection of works infused with vivid dissonances, heightened emotions and mellifluous melodies, including such
impassioned pieces as Gesualdo’s ‘Moro, lasso’ and Monteverdi’s ‘Cruda Amarilli’.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Escher String Quartet
Mendelssohn Andante sostenuto and Variations
Op. 81 No. 1; Scherzo Op. 81 No. 2
Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and
the Maiden’
Sophie Zhai
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Monday 8 February 1.00 pm
The Escher String Quartet has been deeply immersed
in Mendelssohn’s chamber music of late, releasing
the first recording in its complete cycle of his works
for string quartet in June 2015. The New York-based
ensemble opens this programme with the Andante
sostenuto and Variations, and the Scherzo, written in
the composer’s final year.
£13 concs £11
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
Escher String Quartet
Escher String Quartet is a member of
BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Monday 8 February 7.30 pm
Christiane Karg soprano
Christian Gerhaher baritone
Gerold Huber piano
Schumann Lieder und Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister ; Die Soldatenbraut; Das verlassne Mägdelein; Tragödie I–III
Schumann Myrthen Op. 25
Christian Gerhaher’s way with words and music arises from foundations built on technical mastery, and flourishes
thanks to his oceanic imagination. He is joined by another consummate Lieder singer, Christiane Karg, in a programme
that includes Schumann’s transcendent Myrthen and the composer’s late Op. 98a songs.
Returns only
Supported by the members of the Rubinstein Circle
Jim Rakete/Sony Classical
Gisela Schenker
Christiane Karg
Christian Gerhaher
Gerold Huber
Tuesday 9 February 7.30 pm
Piotr Anderszewski piano
K. Miura
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Marion Koell/Avi Service for music
Song Recital Series/Christian Gerhaher Singer in Residence
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF WIGMORE DEBUT
Bartók Fourteen Bagatelles Op. 6
Bach Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830; Partita No. 1 in Bb BWV825
The meditative intensity of Piotr Anderszewski’s pianism invites audiences
to follow a journey deep into the spiritual heart of the works in his broad
repertoire. The Polish-Hungarian artist, a favourite at Wigmore Hall ever
since his debut twenty-five years ago, prefaces two of Bach’s technically
demanding Partitas with Bartók’s pioneering Bagatelles of 1908, works
deliberately stripped of artifice and display.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
London Pianoforte Series
Wednesday 10 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
KEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT
Kaupo Kikkas
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
James Baillieu piano
Benjamin Ealovega
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Piotr Anderszewski
Music leader Jessie Maryon Davies, baritone Marcus Farnsworth
and pianist James Baillieu come together to bring a variety of
classical songs to life, exploring the drama and character
behind the music in this interactive concert for Key Stage 2
children and their teachers.
£3.50
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Marcus Farnsworth
James Baillieu
Wednesday 10 February 7.30 pm
Eric Richmond
Paul Mitchell
Tasmin Little violin
Martin Roscoe piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23; Violin Sonata
No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’
Two outstanding British artists launch their recital with works created
in the early years of the nineteenth century, contrasting the darkly
dramatic atmosphere of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 4 with the
optimistic spirit of his serene ‘Spring’ Sonata. Tasmin Little and
Martin Roscoe conclude with the ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata, aptly described
by Donald Tovey as ‘one of the landmarks of musical history’.
Tasmin Little
Martin Roscoe
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
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Thursday 11 February 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music
MOZART See 4 February for full details
Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /The Mozart Odyssey
Thursday 11 February 7.30 pm
Jonas Sacks
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists
Rachel Podger director, violin
FIT FOR A KING’S TABLE
Telemann Tafelmusik II
Poets of the ancient world wrote of great feasts accompanied by music, connecting
with a tradition rooted in distant prehistory. Telemann’s Tafelmusik belongs to a genre
first named in the 1500s. The German composer published three sets of ‘table music’
in 1733, the second of which opens with a bold overture and suite for trumpet,
oboe and strings, and includes a quartet, concerto, trio sonata and solo sonata.
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Gidon Kremer violin
Daniil Trifonov piano
Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė cello
Kreisler Preghiera (arrangement of themes from
the 2nd mvt of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2)
Weinberg Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano Op. 53
Weinberg Sonata No. 3 for solo violin Op. 126
Rachmaninov Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor Op. 9
Dario Acosta
Friday 12 February 7.30 pm
KASSKARA/ECM Records
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Rachel Podger
Gidon Kremer
Daniil Trifonov
Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė
Daniil Trifonov partners Gidon Kremer in Mieczysław Weinberg’s rarely heard Fifth Violin Sonata, written shortly after
the persecuted composer’s release from Moscow’s notorious Lubyanka prison in 1953 and dedicated to his close friend
Dmitry Shostakovich. The duo is joined in the second half by Lithuanian cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė to perform
Trio élégiaque No. 2, Rachmaninov’s response to the death of his friend and mentor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1893.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Chamber Music Season/Daniil Trifonov Residency
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Saturday 13 February
STUDY EVENT:
GERMAN SONG ONSTAGE 1770 –1914
How and why did musicians start programming song recitals the way they do
now? Join leading figures in the field of Lieder to explore the history of song
performance, before a recital of Schumann’s Dichterliebe as it would have
been performed by his wife Clara, interleaved with solo piano works.
Part of the Royal College of Music’s German Song Onstage weekend.
visit www.rcm.ac.uk for further details.
10.00 am – 10.45 am
Talk
Song expert Susan Youens discusses the great Lieder singers of Schubert’s day.
Clara and Robert Schumann
11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Workshop
Stephan Loges bass-baritone
Graham Johnson piano
Malcolm Crowthers
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Alexander Barnes
Singer-pianist duos from the Royal College of Music work with Christoph Prégardien and Graham Johnson, exploring
how programmes for song recitals are put together.
Schumann Dichterliebe
Schumann Selections from Kreisleriana Op. 16
All Day Ticket: £20
Ticket for 1.00 pm concert only: £13
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Stephan Loges
Graham Johnson
Scharoun Ensemble Berlin
CAMI
Saturday 13 February 7.30 pm
Henze Quattro Fantasie
Mark-Anthony Turnage This Silence
Schubert Octet in F D803
Founded in 1983 by members of the Berlin
Philharmonic, Scharoun Ensemble Berlin performs
everything from baroque music to contemporary
works. The core group, comprising clarinet,
bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello and
double bass, demonstrates its versatility with
contemporary works by Hans Werner Henze and
Mark-Anthony Turnage, and a performance of
Schubert’s monumental Octet.
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£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Scharoun Ensemble Berlin
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Jeremy Denk piano
Samantha West
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Sunday 14 February 11.30 am
Bach Goldberg Variations BWV988
Jeremy Denk’s thoughtful attitude to making music surfaces
in everything from his essays and programme notes to
interpretations that pulsate with energy, conviction and
originality. His recording of the Goldberg Variations, released
on the Nonesuch label in 2013, marked a major milestone
in the pianist’s long personal relationship with Bach’s dazzling
celebration of the creative spirit.
This concert will be approximately 75 minutes in duration,
without an interval
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Jeremy Denk
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Christian Steiner
Daniil Trifonov piano
Sergei Babayan piano
Dario Acosta
Sunday 14 February 7.30 pm
Programme to include:
Schumann Andante and variations Op. 46
Rachmaninov Suite No. 1 Op. 5 ‘Fantaisie-Tableaux’;
Suite No. 2 Op. 17
Daniil Trifonov’s prodigious natural gifts and
far-sighted musical intuition have been nurtured
over the years by lessons received from Sergei
Babayan, the Armenian-American concert pianist
and pedagogue. They share the Wigmore Hall
stage in a programme of works for two pianos,
Daniil Trifonov
complete with Rachmaninov’s sonorous Second
Suite and Schumann’s heart-melting Andante and variations Op. 46.
Sergei Babayan
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2015 /16 Wigmore Series
London Pianoforte Series/Daniil Trifonov Residency
Behzod Abduraimov piano
Chopin The Four Ballades: No. 1 in G minor Op. 23; No. 2 in F Op. 38;
No. 3 in A b Op. 47; No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Book I) Op. 35
Cristian Fatu
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Monday 15 February 1.00 pm
Moments of the most intense intimacy overlap with jaw-dropping displays of
virtuosity in Behzod Abduraimov’s performances. The young Uzbek pianist
charts the epic emotional landscapes of Chopin’s Four Ballades, among the
most technically demanding works in the keyboard repertoire. His lunchtime
recital closes with another virtuosic challenge, Brahms’s fiendishly difficult
Paganini Variations.
£13 concs £11
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Behzod Abduraimov
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Monday 15 February 7.30pm
Aiga Ozo
The Monday Platform
Yoon-Kyung Cho cello
Anna Szalucka piano
Bach French Suite No. 3 in B minor BWV814
Ligeti Sonata for solo cello
Lutosławski Grave (Metamorphoses for cello and piano)
Debussy Cello Sonata
Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Szymanowski Mazurkas Op. 50 (a selection)
Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op. 119
South Korean cellist Yoon-Kyung Cho and Polish pianist
Anna Szalucka combine to offer a diverse programme of
solo works and duets for cello and piano, featuring works
by Bach and Debussy to Ligeti, with a distinctive Polish
flavour from Chopin, Lutosławski and Szymanowski.
Yoon-Kyung Cho
Anna Szalucka
£20 £18 £14 £12 £10
Presented by Musicians’ Company Concerts (Reg. Charity) and Maisie Lewis Young Artists’ Fund
Tuesday 16 February 11.00 am – 3.30 pm
Wednesday 17 February 11.00 am – 3.30 pm
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Musical Portraits Band
HALF-TERM COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
Following the success of our long-running summer course, we invite young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
to be inspired by paintings at the National Portrait Gallery, and to create art and music with inspiring visual artists
alongside Wigmore Hall Learning Associate Artists Ignite.
For more information, and to apply for a place, contact Turtle Key Arts on 020 8964 5060
or email ruth@turtlekeyarts.org.uk
Free (application required)
In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery and Turtle Key Arts
Benjamin Ealovega
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Ignite
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Painting by George Romney
Mary Bevan soprano
Ben Johnson tenor
Robin Tritschler tenor
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Graham Johnson piano
Painting by Wilhelm August Rieder
Tuesday 16 February 6.00 pm
BALLADS FROM OSSIAN
Schubert Ossians Lied nach dem Falle Nathos;
Shilric und Vinvela; Der Tod Oscars; Die Nacht (D534)
James Macpherson
Franz Schubert
Graham Johnson’s early evening survey of Schubert’s ballads, given in company with thrilling young singers,
continues with four settings of supposedly ancient Gaelic verse by Ossian, the pseudonym of the Scottish poet
James Macpherson. The composer brings Macpherson’s mythic world to life, matching Ossian’s romantic tales of
bards, chieftains, love rivals and honour to music of great drama and eloquence.
This concert will be approximately 45 minutes in duration, without an interval
All seats £5
Mary Bevan
Benjamin Ealovega
Garreth Wong
Chris Gloag
Victoria Cadisch
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
Ben Johnson
Robin Tritschler
Marcus Farnsworth
SETTINGS OF GOETHE, MAYRHOFER
AND SCHULZE
Schubert Meeres Stille (D215a); Wandrers Nachtlied I;
An den Mond (D259); Wonne der Wehmut; Jägers
Abendlied; An Schwager Kronos; Geheimnis; Wie Ulfru
fischt; Atys; Einsamkeit; An die Freunde; Freiwilliges
Versinken; Der zürnenden Diana; Abendstern; Auflösung;
Gondelfahrer (D808); Im Walde (D834); Der liebliche
Stern; Auf der Brücke; Im Jänner 1817 (Tiefes Leid);
Lebensmut; Im Frühling; Über Wildemann
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Ian Bostridge tenor
Graham Johnson piano
Harry Rankin
Tuesday 16 February 7.30 pm
Ian Bostridge
Graham Johnson
It would be impossible to overstate the attraction of this concert or the appeal of hearing some of Schubert’s most
sophisticated songs performed by two great artists. Ian Bostridge and Graham Johnson own the intellectual, spiritual and
musical reserves required to give new life to these works and reveal their profound reflections on the human condition.
Supported by the Benefactor Friends of Wigmore Hall
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Song Recital Series/Schubert: The Complete Songs
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Wigmore Study Group
PURCELL
Immerse yourself in the world of the great English composer Henry Purcell.
In his lifetime, he was most admired for his vocal music, and in the preface
to the collection of his songs, Orpheus Britannicus, Henry Playford described
his ‘particular Genius to express the energy of English Words, whereby he mov’d
the Passions of all his Auditors’. Instrumental works such as his Fantasias for
viol consort have become cornerstones of the repertoire, showing Purcell’s
fascination with formal counterpoint inspired by English and Italian composers
of the Renaissance, and, in turn, we explore the influence Purcell had on
the twentieth-century composers Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett.
The sessions (on 17, 19 & 23 February) are presented by Dame Emma Kirkby
and Liam Byrne with composer Julian Philips and pianist Laura Roberts,
alongside student performers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Painting by John Closterman
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Wednesday 17 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Henry Purcell
Returns only
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
Steven Isserlis cello
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007
György Kurtág From Signs, Games and Messages: Hommage
à John Cage; János Pilinszky: Gérard de Nerval
Bach Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011
György Kurtág From Signs, Games and Messages: Az Hit;
Jelek 1 & 2
Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in Eb BWV1010
Jean-Baptiste Millot
Wednesday 17 February 7.30 pm
Sound and silence are never segregated in the works of
JS Bach and György Kurtág, whose ninetieth birthday falls
on 19 February. Signs, Games and Messages, a sequence
Steven Isserlis
of fragmentary pieces, drills down deep into music’s nature
in search of essential truths, while Bach’s Cello Suites transcend the conventional boundaries of early eighteenthcentury dance music. Steven Isserlis brings together their two soundworlds in a pair of compelling concerts, the
second of which takes place on Wednesday 24 February.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Steven Isserlis: Bach & Kurtág
Fairies and Forests
FAMILY DAY
For ages 5 plus
Spend a day in the enchanted world of Purcell’s
opera The Fairy Queen with workshop leader
Freya Wynn-Jones. Come and explore some of
Purcell’s original music, create your own magical
stories and songs, and put it all together to
make a mini opera to perform on the Wigmore
Hall stage at the end of the day.
Children £10 Adults £15
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
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Benjamin Ealovega
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Thursday 18 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Thursday 18 February 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music
MOZART
See 4 February for full details
Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /The Mozart Odyssey
Vivaldi Trio Sonata in G minor RV85
Scarlatti Sonata in G Kk91
Kuwahara Improvised Poem for solo mandolin
Vivaldi Concerto in A minor Op. 3
No. 8 from L’estro armonico RV522 (arr. Mahan
Esfahani) Bach Sonata No. 6 in G BWV1019
Avi Avital
Powell Recitative and Toccata Percossa for
solo harpsichord Ben-Haim Sonata a tre for mandolin, guitar and harpsichord
Benjamin Ealovega
Bernhard Musil/DG
Avi Avital mandolin
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Sean Shibe guitar
Jean-Baptiste-Millot
Thursday 18 February 7.30 pm
Mahan Esfahani
Sean Shibe
Face value is not acceptable currency to any of this recital’s performers. Avi Avital and Mahan Esfahani inevitably
penetrate the surface of everything they play to find the rarest qualities of emotion and feeling. The Iranian-American
harpsichordist and Israeli mandolin player, who met through their mutual love of Bach’s music, are joined by
Edinburgh-born guitarist Sean Shibe to conclude the programme with a work by Ben-Haim.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season / Early Music and Baroque Series
Wigmore Study Group
PURCELL
See 17 February for full details
Returns only
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
Friday 19 February 7.30 pm
Carolin Widmann violin
Telemann Fantaisie No. 12 in A minor for solo violin TWV40:25
Zimmermann Sonata for solo violin
Pascal Dusapin in vivo* (UK première)
Bach Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004
Marco Borggreve
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Friday 19 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
*Co-commissioned by WDR Witten, Wiener Konzerthaus with the support of Ernst von
Siemens Musikstiftung, and by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann,
president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Anyone unfamiliar with the music of Pascal Dusapin should prepare to
experience the composer’s fascination with tonal beauty, textural contrasts
Carolin Widmann
and lyricism. Carolin Widmann presents the UK première of the French
composer’s in vivo, which she performed for the first time at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in April 2015.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Saturday 20 February 2.00 pm
Viv McLean piano
Jessica Duchen narrator
ALICIA’S GIFT: THE CONCERT OF THE NOVEL
Author Jessica Duchen and pianist Viv McLean unite to
tell the story of a child prodigy pianist trying to grow up,
exploring her talent’s effect on her family and her family’s
effect on her talent. Jessica’s readings from her novel
Alicia’s Gift alternate with Viv’s performances of the
relevant music to create a compelling joint narrative in
words and music.
Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A b Op. 47
Viv McLean
Debussy Jardins sous la pluie from Estampes
Chopin Étude in C minor Op. 25 No. 12 Granados Quejas, o La maja y el ruiseñor from Goyescas
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Ravel Sonatine (3rd mvt); Le jardin féerique from Ma mère l’oye
Jessica Duchen
This concert will be approximately one hour in duration, without an interval
Children £8 Adults £10
London Pianoforte Series
Saturday 20 February 3.30pm – 4.30 pm
Alicia’s Gift Panel Discussion
Child prodigies are a perpetual source of fascination in the musical world,
but controversy is never far away from them. What constitutes a true prodigy?
What are the pros and cons of starting a musical career this way? How should
families and teachers best nurture such a talent? Music journalist and author
of Alicia’s Gift Jessica Duchen is joined by cellist Guy Johnston, Head of
Keyboard at Chetham’s School of Music Murray McLachlan, and Artistic
Director at the Royal Northern College of Music Dr Michelle Castelletti to
debate these issues and more.
£4
Photo of girl at the piano © Alamy/Getty Images/Hodder & Stoughton
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Doric String Quartet
HAYDN STRING QUARTETS OP. 76
George Garnier
Saturday 20 February 7.30 pm
Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1
Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 ‘Fifths’
Haydn String Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 ‘The Emperor’
Haydn has never been far from the Doric String Quartet’s
programmes since its foundation in 1998. The acclaimed British
ensemble performs the first half of the composer’s Op. 76, giving
life to works first published in London in 1799 and famed for their
blend of popular melody, sophisticated thematic development,
outbreaks of eccentricity and glorious hymn-like slow movements.
Doric String Quartet
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Chamber Music Season
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Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts,
supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s
Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Anthony Marwood violin
Aleksandar Madžar piano
Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526
Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Op. 13
Benjamin Ealovega
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Sunday 21 February 11.30 am
Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar have
forged a close artistic union as duo partners
over the past decade. Their latest Wigmore Hall
programme pairs the brilliance of Mozart’s
penultimate Violin Sonata with Fauré’s First
Violin Sonata. The latter, observed Saint-Saëns,
contains ‘everything to tempt a gourmet: new
forms, excellent modulations, unusual tone
colours, and the use of unexpected rhythms’.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madžar
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
Doric String Quartet
HAYDN STRING QUARTETS OP. 76
George Garnier
Sunday 21 February 7.30 pm
Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’
Haydn String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5
Haydn String Quartet in Eb Op. 76 No. 6
The Doric String Quartet concludes its two-part
survey of Haydn’s Op. 76, moving from the
exquisite opening, meditative Adagio and boisterous
conclusion of the ‘Sunrise’ to the experimental
ideas of the String Quartet in E flat, with its
‘Fantasia’ slow movement, fleet-footed minuet and
tongue-in-cheek finale.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season
Monday 22 February 1.00 pm
Denis Kozhukhin piano
Haydn Piano Sonata in D HXVI:24
Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor Op. 18b
Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude S173 No. 3
Bartók Szabadban (Out of Doors Suite) BB89
Paul Marc Mitchell
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Doric String Quartet
Denis Kozhukhin attracted accolades as winner of the
2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one
of the toughest of all tests for young concert pianists.
The Russian artist, born into a family of musicians in
Nizhny Novgorod in 1986, continues to win admirers
with playing that combines technical command and
athleticism with open-hearted communication.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Denis Kozhukhin
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Bartók Seven Pieces from Mikrokosmos for two
pianos BB120
Aurélio Edler-Copes Presence for two pianos and
percussion* (world première)
Debussy En blanc et noir
Bartók Sonata for two pianos and percussion BB115
Gilles Durot
Frank Ferville
* Co-commissioned by Ensemble intercontemporain, and by
Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president
of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Frank Ferville
Gilles Durot percussion
Samuel Favre percussion
Hidéki Nagano piano
Sébastien Vichard piano
Samuel Favre
Frank Ferville
Ensemble intercontemporain
Frank Ferville
Monday 22 February 7.30 pm
Born in Brazil in 1976, Aurélio Edler-Copes has written
for many of the world’s leading contemporary music
ensembles. His latest score for piano and percussion
was created for the exceptional collective talents of
Ensemble intercontemporain. The programme also
includes Bartók’s Sonata for two pianos and percussion,
and and Debussy’s three-movement ‘En blanc et noir’.
Hidéki Nagano
Sébastien Vichard
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Tuesday 23 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
O Duo: Crash, Bang, Wallop
KEY STAGE 3 SCHOOLS CONCERT
Virtuoso percussionists O Duo whizz around the Wigmore Hall
stage as you’ve never seen before! With a marimba, vibraphone,
glockenspiel, drum kit, African and Brazilian drums and a
multitude of handheld percussion, the pair performs music by
a range of composers including Bach, Philip Glass and Chopin.
This is a perfect opportunity for Key Stage 3 students to explore
the huge variety of genres and styles that can be explored with
percussion instruments.'
£3.50
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
O Duo
Tuesday 23 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Wigmore Study Group
PURCELL
See 17 February for full details
Returns only
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Tuesday 23 February 7.30 pm
Theatre of the Ayre
Rodolfo Richter violin
Clare Salaman violin
Alison McGillivray viola da gamba
Robert Howarth organ
Sophie Daneman soprano
Katherine Watson soprano
Robin Blaze countertenor
Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Matthew Brook bass-baritone
Clare Salaman
SACRED THEATRE
Solo songs, dialogues and scenes by
Purcell and his contemporaries
Raphaelle Photography
Anonymous Canon a 3 Laudate Dominum
Purcell We sing to him whose wisdom form’d the ear
Blow/Humfrey Hark how the wakeful cheerful cock
Purcell My song shall be alway of the loving
kindness of the Lord; Sonata in Three Parts No. 10
in A Z799; Lord, what is man?
Blow Enough, my muse, of earthly things
Robin Blaze
Purcell In the black, dismal dungeon of despair;
Sonata in Three Parts No. 11 in F minor Z800;
In Guilty Night (Saul and the Witch of Endor); I was glad when they
said unto me; Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes; Awake, ye dead,
the trumpet calls
Carissimi Lucifer, caelestis olim
Purcell Sonata in Four Parts No. 6 in G minor Z807
Humfrey Lord, I have sinned
Blow Help, Father Abraham
Purcell With sick and famish’d eyes; Now that the sun hath veiled its
light (An Evening Hymn); Sonata in Four Parts No. 10 in D Z811;
The night is come (An Evening Hymn)
Clarke All praise to thee my God this night
Sophie Daneman
Katherine Watson
Nicholas Mulroy
Matthew Brook
Benjamin Ealovega
Dorothea Heise
Robert Howarth
Richard Shymansky
Elizabeth Kenny director, theorbo
Alison McGillivray
Hugo Bernand
Sandra Lousanda
Rodolfo Richter
Elizabeth Kenny
Playford’s Harmonia Sacra, first published in 1688, was aimed at people ‘no less musical’ than those who had a
keen appetite for lighter ‘sportings of wit’ but who were more devout. Prospective purchasers were assured that
they would ‘feel the breathings of divine love from every line’ and also experience life-and-death sacred drama.
Theatre of the Ayre and a stellar team of soloists show how Playford’s anthology brought music fit for the Chapel
Royal to intimate domestic settings.
£40 £35 £30 £25 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series / Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Wednesday 24 February 12.15 pm
Pre-Concert Talk
An introduction to the Britten Sinfonia lunchtime concert with
composer Daníel Bjarnason and Dr Kate Kennedy.
Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Daníel Bjarnason
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Wednesday 24 February 1.00 pm
Emer McDonough flute Clare Finnimore viola
Lucy Wakeford harp
Tina Foster
Harry Rankin
Britten Sinfonia
Debussy Syrinx Donatoni Small II
Daníel Bjarnason New work* (London première)
Donatoni Marches
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp
* Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with the support of
donors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by Wigmore
Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the
Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Emer McDonough
Clare Finnimore
Lucy Wakeford
Flute, viola and harp may not be the most familiar trio combination, but it certainly lends itself to the rich exploration
of colour and harmonies typical of Debussy’s output. A deeply expressive curiosity in soundscapes and association
with visual art is also infused in the music of Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason, whose new work features
alongside Debussy in this programme.
£13 concs £11
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Steven Isserlis cello
Bach Cello Suite No. 3 in C BWV1009 György Kurtág From Signs, Games
and Messages: Souvenir de Balatonboglár; In memoriam Ferenc Wilheim
Bach Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008
György Kurtág From Signs, Games and Messages: Schatten; György Kroó in memoriam
Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012
Satoshi Aoyagi
Wednesday 24 February 7.30 pm
Steven Isserlis completes his landmark survey of Bach’s Cello Suites, surrounding three
of them with space for deep absorption in the aphoristic form of pieces from György
Kurtág’s Signs, Games and Messages. Bach stands as one of the strongest and most
enduring influences on Kurtág’s highly personal, deeply expressive musical language.
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series /Steven Isserlis: Bach & Kurtág
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Steven Isserlis
Thursday 25 February 1.00 pm
Lisa Peacock Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals
Rivka Golani viola
Michael Hampton piano
Britten Lachrymae Op. 48a Howard Blake Prelude for solo viola
Op. 402 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821
Brahms 2 Hungarian Dances: No. 3 in F & No. 1 in G minor
‘[Rivka Golani] stands at the head of today’s supreme viola virtuosi
– white-hot in delivery, kaleidoscopic in tone colours, electrifying in
rhythmic attack, an obvious inspiration to composers’ Financial Times
Rivka Golani
Michael Hampton
‘Rivka Golani is a magnificent violist, with impeccable technique and both taste and power … she may be carving
out a place of her own that no other performer on the instrument can reach.’ Fanfare Magazine
Michael Hampton performs regularly on major stages around the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He plays
in all the major chamber music venues in London and at the Royal Festival Hall and is broadcast frequently on radio.
He also performs regularly at music societies and festivals around the UK.
£13 concs £11 20% discount when you book for 3 or more concerts in this series (see further dates below)
Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 28 January (Thomas Gould & Diana Ketler) and
17 March (Hélène Dautry & Bruno Rigutto)
Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd
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Thursday 25 February 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music
MOZART
See 4 February for full details
Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event /The Mozart Odyssey
Bryan Hymel tenor
Irene Roberts mezzo-soprano
Dario Acosta
Rosenblatt Recitals 2015/16
K. Hobermann
Thursday 25 February 7.30 pm
Violist to be announced
Julius Drake piano
Vaughan Williams Four Hymns for tenor, viola and piano:
Lord, Come Away!; Who is this fair one?; Come Love, Come
Bryan Hymel
Lord; Evening Hymn Wagner Wesendonck Lieder
Gounod Ah! lève-toi, soleil! from Roméo et Juliette
Mascagni Mamma, quel vino e generoso from Cavalleria rusticana
Berlioz D’amour l’ardente flame from La damnation de Faust Bizet Flower song: La fleu
que tu m’avais jetée, and Duet and final Chorus: C’est toi! C’est moi! from Carmen
Sim Canetty-Clarke
Irene Roberts
American tenor Bryan Hymel is one of opera’s fastest-rising stars. Impressing audiences
with his ‘clarion tone and a ringing top’ (Opera), he is joined by guest mezzo-soprano
Irene Roberts. Hymel is an exclusive Warner Classics recording artist and winner of
the 2013 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for a trio of performances
at London’s Royal Opera House.
Julius Drake
‘Pavarotti, roll over. There’s a new king of the high Cs ... Hymel’s voice is rare these days: a combination of Wagnerian
muscle and bel canto refinement, comfortable in the stratospheric register… This is why we listen to opera!’ NPR
‘If Hymel had been born a generation earlier we might have had The Four Tenors. That’s how good he is.’ Sinfini Music
£30 £26 £22 £18 £16
Tickets also on sale for Rosenblatt Recitals on 12 January (Gianluca Buratto), 16 March
(Ekaterina Siurina & Charles Castronovo), 14 April (Javier Camarena) and 14 June (Mariella Devia)
Dunedin Consort
John Butt director
Sophie Bevan soprano
Bach Cantata: Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht BWV52
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G BWV1049
Handel Cantata: Alpestre monte HWV81
Handel Concerto Grosso in B b Op. 3 No. 2
Handel Gloria HWV deest
John Butt’s personal fusion of penetrating scholarship
Dunedin Consort
and heartfelt music-making is mirrored in the work of
his Dunedin Consort, Scotland’s leading baroque ensemble. Their recordings of great
choral works by Bach and Handel, the St Matthew Passion and Messiah among them,
have become instant classics, offering interpretative benchmarks and confirming the
group’s excellence and artistry. The Dunedin Consort returns to Wigmore Hall in
company with Sophie Bevan, known not least for her vocal beauty and readiness to
take risks in unlocking the vital expressive energy of baroque recitatives and arias.
Sussie Ahlburg
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Friday 26 February 7.30 pm
£50 £40 £30 £25 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
Sophie Bevan
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O Duo: Crash, Bang, Wallop
Sussie Ahlburg
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Saturday 27 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
FAMILY CONCERT
For ages 5 plus
Virtuoso percussionists O Duo whizz around the Wigmore Hall stage
as you’ve never seen before! With a marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel,
drum kit, African and Brazilian drums and a multitude of handheld
percussion, the pair performs music by a diverse range of composers
including Bach, Philip Glass and Chopin, illustrating the variety of
genres and styles that can be explored with percussion instruments.
Children £8 Adults £10
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
O Duo
Saturday 27 February 7.30 pm
Apartment House
Egidija Medekšaitė Pratiksha* (world première)
Luiz Henrique Yudo A QUARTET FOR FRANÇOIS
MORELLET (UK première)
Henning Christiansen Modeller: First Series Op. 33
Leo Chadburn Freezywater* (world première)
Martin Arnold Stain Ballad (world première)
Luiz Henrique Yudo A QUARTET FOR CLAUDE
MOLLET (UK première)
John White Newspaper Reading Machine
* Co-commissioned by Apartment House and by Wigmore
Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the
Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Wigmore Hall’s contribution to contemporary chamber
Apartment House
music and repertoire development goes from strength
to strength, as this unmissable programme richly demonstrates. Apartment House, formed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze
in 1995, became the first contemporary music ensemble to win the coveted Royal Philharmonic Society Award for
Chamber Music and Song in 2012. In this programme for string quartet, piano, percussion and harmonium, the
ensemble gives the first performance of Freezywater, a Wigmore Hall commission by Leo Chadburn, known to many
as the ‘transgressive pop’ artist Simon Bookish. Works by Lithuanian composer Egidija Medekšaitė, Toronto-based
composer and performer Martin Arnold, and Dutch/Brazilian composer Luiz Henrique Yudo add to the concert’s
ear-catching mix of world and UK premières.
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
Signum Quartet
Mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546
Schubert String Quartet in G D887
Irène Zandel
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Sunday 28 February 11.30 am
The Signum Quartet was recently praised by the
Süddeutscher Zeitung for its ‘exquisitely expressive
playing’ and ‘awe-inspiring tonal acuity’. The group’s
latest Wigmore Hall recital prefaces Schubert’s mighty
String Quartet in G D887 with Mozart’s Adagio and
Fugue in C minor, the opening of which veers from
violent outbursts to moments of mystical reverence.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Signum Quartet
Sunday 28 February 7.30 pm
Kaupo Kikkas
The Keyboard Charitable Trust Prizewinners’ Concert Series
Alexander Ullman piano
Chopin Polonaise-fantasy in Ab Op. 61; Berceuse in Db Op. 57; Piano Sonata
No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’; Waltz in F Op. 34 No. 3; Scherzo
No. 2 in Bb minor/Db major Op. 31; Nocturne in C# minor Op. 27 No. 1;
5 Mazurkas Op. 24; Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52
Born in 1991 in London, Alexander Ullman studied at The Purcell School,
the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Leon Fleisher, Ignat
Solzhenitsyn and Robert McDonald, and is currently at the Royal College
of Music with Dmitri Alexeev and Ian Jones. In 2011 he won First Prize at
the Liszt Competition in Budapest and in 2014 was selected by Young
Classical Artists Trust (YCAT).
Alexander Ullman
‘His performance of the Chopin fourth Ballade will live in my mind’s ear for ever: every nuance perfectly judged,
poised and placed … His sound is unique.’ Seen and Heard International
£30 £25 £20 £15 £10
Lisa Peacock Concert Management Keyboard Charitable Trust (Reg. Charity No. 1017036)
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96
Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100
Simon Fowler/Decca
Nicola Benedetti violin
Alexei Grynyuk piano
Whether speaking up for the fundamental importance of
music in education or appearing as concerto or recital soloist,
Nicola Benedetti is known for her intoxicating mix of eloquence,
receptivity and passion. Her lunchtime programme, presented
Nicola Benedetti
Alexei Grynyuk
with regular chamber music partner Alexei Grynyuk, includes
Beethoven’s final violin sonata, written under the influence of an intense yet ultimately unrequited love affair.
Returns only
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Ralph Kirshbaum cello
Shai Wosner piano
Beethoven 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’
from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Wo0. 46; Cello Sonata in
G minor Op. 5 No. 2; 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oder
Weibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66; Cello Sonata
in A Op. 69
Marco Borggreve
Monday 29 February 7.30 pm
J Henry Fair
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Monday 29 February 1.00 pm
Ralph Kirshbaum, loved by cellists and audiences alike, made
Ralph Kirshbaum
Shai Wosner
his professional debut in the late 1950s with the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra and went on to win the Cassadó Competition and the International Tchaikovsky Competition little more than
a decade later. He begins the week of his 70th birthday in company with Shai Wosner to give the first of two concerts
of Beethoven’s works for cello and piano (the second concert takes place on Wednesday 2 March at 7.30pm).
£36 £30 £25 £20 £15
CAVATINA
Chamber Music Trust
www.cavatina.net
Part of the Chamber Zone scheme: Free tickets for 8 – 25 year olds at selected concerts,
supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, with ongoing support from John Lyon’s
Charity. To book, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
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How to get to Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141
Director: John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM
The Wigmore Hall Trust, Registered Charity No. 1024838
Wigmore Hall is situated in the heart of London’s West
End and is easily accessible by public transport or car.
Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and Oxford
Circus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stations
are both close by.
Buses A large number of buses travel along Oxford
Street, which is approximately five minutes walk from
Wigmore Hall.
Car Parking 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 par ticipates 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.
Restaurant and Bars
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.
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