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One of the most daunting (and eventually mostfulfilling) things to face as an artistic director is themoment when you sit down to begin planning anew season. You are faced with a blank canvas,an empty diary and you momentarily wonder whereyour inspiration for that particular season willcome from and, more pertinently, when inspirationactually arrives, you scratch your head and wonderhow on earth are you going to pay for it? A newprogramme needs to be vibrant, fresh and creativewith a good balance of the traditional and the new.It is very important that no two seasons look alike!An artistic season must be different from the onethat went before and from what will follow it in theyear after. It must resonate with the public andbring audiences established and new to us. It mustretain a core ethos, a sense of the familiar, but itmust also introduce bold projects, new artists, newrepertoire, and approach more familiar themes inexciting ways. Through this, we keep our audiencesengaged, adding a special energy to all that we dohere. All of this is made possible by the ongoingsupport of the Friends of Wigmore Hall for whichwe are most grateful.

The 2011–12 season offers so much that is newand dynamic, whilst remaining true to ourtraditions. Opened by the renowned Finnishsoprano Soile Isokoski, it is preceded by the7th Biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn FoundationInternational Song Competition, one of twocompetitions in our 11–12 calendar. We are also

delighted to host the first Wigmore HallInternational String Quartet Competition in 2012,a highly regarded competition for which we arenow the custodians, and originally launched asthe Portsmouth Competition in 1979.

Having made his highly acclaimed Royal OperaHouse debut in late 2010 as Wolfram in Wagner’sTannhäuser, Christian Gerhaher (with GeroldHuber) joins us for the three Schubert song cycles.Other highlights of our song series throughoutthe season include Natalie Dessay (with PhilippeCassard) for her Wigmore Hall debut recital, andreturn visits for Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonatoand Magdalena Kozená (with Mitsuko Uchida).Since first appearing at Wigmore Hall in the mid-1990s, Ian Bostridge has built up an extraordinarycareer. I have invited him to present a series entitled‘Ancient and Modern’, which allows us to hear himin some very beautiful music, alongside many ofhis distinguished colleagues. Other highlights ofthe vocal series include Mark Padmore (in recitaland with the Chamber Orchestra of Basel),Simon Keenlyside, John Mark Ainsley, WolfgangHolzmair, Thomas Quasthoff, Gerald Finley,Christine Brewer, Robert Holl, Elizabeth Watts,Iestyn Davies, Karen Cargill and Sally Matthews.

In its Echoes of Romanticism series, our ChamberEnsemble in Residence, the Nash Ensemble, tracesthe Romantic spirit from Mozart, Beethoven andSchubert by way of Mendelssohn, Schumann andBrahms, to Schoenberg and Richard Strauss.Leading singers join the ensemble in song cyclesby Mahler, to mark the centenary of his death.

Stephen Hough is our Artist in Residence throughout2011–12 (see page 64). Widely regarded as one ofthe most distinctive pianists of his generation, hisresidency has a special emphasis on piano quintets,and he joins the Skampa, Juilliard, Heath andEndellion String Quartets in quintets by Elgar,Brahms, Liebermann and Dvorák. Other highlightsof our piano series include the continuation of PaulLewis’s Schubert cycle, and recitals and concertsfrom Christian Zacharias, Khatia Buniatishvili,Louis Lortie, Richard Goode, Simon Trpceski,Steven Osborne, Ingrid Fliter, András Schiff,

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Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Kovacevich,Alexandre Tharaud and Garrick Ohlsson. Admirersof Angela Hewitt will rejoice in her celebration ofFrench masterworks throughout the season.

Garlanded by awards and admired for the rangeof its repertoire, the Pacifica Quartet brings us aShostakovich string quartet cycle, and they will bejoined by that redoubtable octogenarian MenahemPressler for the quintet. A great body of Beethoven’sremarkable canon of chamber and instrumental musicis a particular highlight of the season, including agalaxy of today’s performers, among them theBelcea Quartet, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, andpianist Emanuel Ax, and the Florestan Trio whowill retire (as a Trio) from the concert platform withBeethoven’s piano trios here at Wigmore Hall inJanuary of 2012. Pieter Wispelwey and KristianBezuidenhout perform Beethoven’s cello sonatas.

To commemorate 75 years (in 2012) since the deathof Maurice Ravel, we present a series of concertsof his songs and piano music, as well as his onlystring quartet, so please join the Artemis Quartet,Bernarda Fink, Christopher Maltman, Ailish Tynan,Christopher Glynn and Steven Osborne throughoutthe season.

Described by Songlines Magazine as one of the20th century’s greatest masters of the sarod andacclaimed by the Dalai Lama as a performer with adeep human spirit, Amjad Ali Khan, who has takenthe unique sound of Indian classical music throughoutthe world, joins us for a four concert residency.

Steven Isserlis is celebrated for his imaginativeexploration of the chamber music repertoire touncover neglected masterpieces for all possiblecombinations of instruments. For his series of threeconcerts he draws on the singing voice to createa varied and wide-ranging programme. Alongsidevocal works with cello obbligato from the Baroqueand Romantic periods, we will hear a Russiancanzona accompanied by piano trio, settings for themagical combination of soprano, flute and piano,as well as music of our time by Sir John Tavener,Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and James Francis Brown.Please join the sopranos Isabel Bayrakdarian and

Lucy Crowe, tenor Mark Padmore, violinist AnthonyMarwood, flautist Emily Beynon and pianistsDénes Várjon and Connie Shih for this series.

Antonín Dvorák was born near Prague on8 September 1841, so to mark his 170th anniversarywe present a series of eight concerts celebratinghis life and music, in company with music by othercomposers who were important to him. Two of theleading Czech string quartets – the Skampa and thePavel Haas Quartets – and the Gould Piano Trioexplore his chamber music, while mezzo BernardaFink is joined by pianist Roger Vignoles.

We launch a unique series exploring the music ofWilliam Byrd – the largest ever celebration of theEnglish Renaissance master’s music in London.In six concerts over two seasons, The Cardinall’sMusick and Stile Antico present a range of musicby England’s first truly great composer, who foundhimself caught between his own beliefs and acontinually changing religious landscape. Rangingfrom the Latin sacred music of the recusant Catholiccomposer to his vernacular works, composed as theTudors gave way to the Stuarts, the dark intensityof this music is perfectly suited to the vivid choralcolours which Andrew Carwood will draw from hisspecialist singers during the 2011–12 season, andStile Antico continue our survey the following season.

We celebrate Liszt’s bicentenary with piano and songrecitals throughout the autumn, and as we approachthe actual date of his birth (22 October) we presenta Liszt Discovery Day on Saturday 8 October.

Debuts and return visits to watch out for includesingers Sophie Karthäuser, Anthony Dean Griffey,Thomas Oliemans and Henk Neven, harpistXavier de Maistre and the iconic percussionistEvelyn Glennie who will visit us in June of nextyear. Cellist Colin Carr brings us Bach’s CelloSuites and we also welcome Daniel Müller-Schott,Alban Gerhardt and Sol Gabetta.

I look forward to welcoming you to the Hall duringthis exciting season.

John Gilhooly Director

AT A GLANCE SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2011

See pages 5 to 69 for full details of these concerts and pages 111 to 112 for subscription savingsand how to book.

Early Music and Baroque SeriesMon 19 Sep Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr 10

Wed 21 Sep Classical Opera Company/Ian Page 12

Lawrence ZazzoMon 26 Sep The English Concert/Harry Bicket 17

Katharina Spreckelsen/Ian BostridgeWed 28 Sep The English Concert/Harry Bicket 19

Katharina Spreckelsen/Ian BostridgeFri 7 Oct The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood 25

Wed 2 Nov Academy of Ancient Music 38

Rebecca Bottone/Pavlo BeznosiukWed 16 Nov Retrospect Ensemble/Matthew Halls 45

Tue 22 Nov Stile Antico: Victoria Anniversary 47

Thu 24 Nov Florilegium/Dame Emma Kirkby 50

Elin Manahan Thomas/Ashley SolomonWed 30 Nov The English Concert/Laurence Cummings 53

Elizabeth WattsSat 31 Dec Retrospect Ensemble/Matthew Halls 66

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Series and Events to look out for ...WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATION Page 5INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION

DVORÁK PLUS SERIES 7, 8, 34, 64

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER SCHUBERT SONG CYCLES 11, 12, 13

ANDREAS STAIER ‘PERSPECTIVES’ 13, 63

NASH ENSEMBLE: ECHOES OF 14–15, 30, 45, 59

ROMANTICISM

THE BOSTRIDGE PROJECT: ‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’ 16–17, 65

LISZT ANNIVERSARY SERIES 18, 26, 29, 40, 54, 58

BEETHOVEN CHAMBER AND 20–21, 34, 46, 53

INSTRUMENTAL SERIES

AMJAD ALI KHAN: INDIAN MUSIC SERIES 22

WILLIAM BYRD SACRED MUSIC SERIES 24–25

LISZT DISCOVERY DAY 26

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE 28

JANINE JANSEN RESIDENCY 32

TAVENER CELEBRATION 33

STEVEN ISSERLIS: VOICE AND CELLO SERIES 37, 38, 41

VIENNA PIANO TRIO SERIES 40

COMPOSER FOCUS ON THOMAS LARCHER 42

PAUL LEWIS – SCHUBERT SERIES 44, 45

THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER 48–49

ANGELA HEWITT: FRENCH SERIES 50

RAVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY 53, 56–57

STEPHEN HOUGH: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 64

London Pianoforte SeriesSun 25 Sep Andreas Staier Page 13

Tue 27 Sep Nelson Goerner 18

Tue 11 Oct Cédric Tiberghien 27

Tue 18 Oct John O’Conor 31

Mon 31 Oct Christian Zacharias 36

Wed 9 Nov Andreas Haefliger 40

Tue 15 Nov Paul Lewis 44

Thu 17 Nov Paul Lewis 45

Fri 25 Nov Angela Hewitt 50

Tue 29 Nov Garrick Ohlsson 52

Sun 4 Dec Louis Lortie 54

Tue 6 Dec Khatia Buniatishvili 55

Sun 18 Dec Andreas Staier 63

Sunday Morning Coffee ConcertsSun 11 Sep Fauré Quartet 4

Sun 18 Sep Elias String Quartet 9

Sun 25 Sep Nash Ensemble 14

Sun 2 Oct Kungsbacka Piano Trio 19

Sun 9 Oct Dante Quartet 27

Sun 16 Oct Guy Johnston/Melvyn Tan 30

Sun 23 Oct Modigliani Quartet 31

Sun 30 Oct Pavel Haas Quartet 35

Sun 6 Nov Quatuor Diotima 39

Sun 13 Nov Parker Quartet 43

Sun 20 Nov Thomas Carroll/Llyr Williams 46

Sun 27 Nov Kuss Quartet 51

Sun 4 Dec Finzi Quartet 54

Sun 11 Dec Philip Moore & Simon Crawford-Phillips 60

Sun 18 Dec Guarneri Trio Prague 63

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime ConcertsMon 12 Sep Lise de la Salle 6

Mon 19 Sep Till Fellner 10

Mon 26 Sep Daniel Hope/Sebastian Knauer 13

Mon 3 Oct Ben Johnson/James Baillieu 19

Mon 10 Oct Nicola Benedetti/Alexei Grynyuk 27

Mon 17 Oct Renata Pokupic/Roger Vignoles 30

Mon 24 Oct Veronika Eberle/Shai Wosner 33

Mon 31 Oct Melanie Diener/Marcelo Amaral 36

Mon 7 Nov Vienna Piano Trio 40

Mon 14 Nov Emerson String Quartet 43

Mon 21 Nov Jerusalem Quartet 47

Mon 28 Nov Colin Carr/Thomas Sauer 52

Mon 5 Dec Anna Caterina Antonacci/Donald Sulzen 55

Mon 12 Dec Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff 60

Mon 19 Dec Nicolas Altstaedt/José Gallardo 63

Jazz SeriesFri 16 Sep Chris Thile/Brad Mehldau 9

Fri 2 Dec Joe Henry/Brad Mehldau 54

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Tue 1 Nov Isabel Bayrakdarian Page 37

Anthony Marwood/Steven IsserlisConnie Shih

Thu 3 Nov Lucy Crowe/Emily Beynon 38

Steven Isserlis/Dénes VárjonTue 8 Nov Vienna Piano Trio 40

Thu 10 Nov Martin Fröst/Roland Pöntinen 41

Fri 11 Nov Mark Padmore/Steven Isserlis 41

Dénes Várjon/Maggie ColeSat 12 Nov Composer Focus on Thomas Larcher 42

Sun 13 Nov Emerson String Quartet 43

Mon 14 Nov Minetti Quartet/Till Fellner 44

Wed 16 Nov Britten Sinfonia 44

Sat 19 Nov Nash Ensemble 45

Sat 19 Nov Nash Ensemble/Wolfgang Holzmair 45

Sun 20 Nov Renaud Capuçon/Gautier Capuçon 46

Frank BraleyWed 23 Nov CMS of Lincoln Center 49

Sat 26 Nov CMS of Lincoln Center 49

Sun 27 Nov CMS of Lincoln Center 49

Thu 1 Dec Belcea Quartet 53

Sat 3 Dec Artemis Quartet 57

Wed 7 Dec Arcanto Quartet 58

Sat 10 Dec Nash Ensemble 59

Sun 11 Dec Emmanuel Pahud/Yefim Bronfman 60

Mon 12 Dec Quatuor Ebène 61

Tue 13 Dec Razumovsky Young Artists Recital 61

Tue 13 Dec Razumovsky Ensemble 61

Fri 16 Dec Elias String Quartet 62

Tue 20 Dec Stephen Hough/Skampa Quartet 64

Thu 29 Dec Baiba Skride/Lauma Skride 65

Fri 30 Dec Heath Quartet 66

Song Recital SeriesSun 4 Sep Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation

International Song CompetitionPreliminary Stage 1 5

Mon 5 Sep Song Competition: Preliminary Stage 2 5

Tue 6 Sep Song Competition: Semi-Final Stage 5

Thu 8 Sep Song Competition: Final Stage and 5

Prize-GivingSat 10 Sep Soile Isokoski/Marita Viitasalo 4

Sun 11 Sep Thomas Quasthoff/Justus Zeyen 6

Tue 13 Sep Michael Schade/Thomas Quasthoff 7

Justus ZeyenTue 20 Sep Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 11

Thu 22 Sep Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 12

Sat 24 Sep Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber 13

Thu 29 Sep Gerald Finley/Julius Drake 19

Wed 5 Oct Ailish Tynan/Karen Cargill/Mark Padmore 23

Jacques Imbrailo/András SchiffWed 12 Oct Rebecca Evans/Andrew Kennedy 29

Matthew Rose/Iain BurnsideFri 28 Oct Christianne Stotijn/Mark Padmore 35

Julius DrakeTue 1 Nov Isabel Bayrakdarian/Anthony Marwood 37

Steven Isserlis/Connie ShihThu 3 Nov Lucy Crowe/Emily Beynon 38

Steven Isserlis/Dénes VárjonSat 5 Nov Simon Keenlyside/Malcolm Martineau 39

Fri 11 Nov Mark Padmore/Steven Isserlis 41

Dénes Várjon/Maggie ColeThu 8 Dec Anne Schwanewilms/Charles Spencer 58

Fri 9 Dec Samling Showcase 59

Wed 14 Dec Bernarda Fink/Christopher Glynn 57

Adam Walker/Marie BitllochThu 15 Dec Sally Matthews/Karen Cargill 62

Simon LepperWed 21 Dec Sophie Daneman, Madeleine Shaw 65

Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Adam WalkerNicholas Daniel, Heath Quartet,Elizabeth Kenny, Julius Drake

Chamber Music SeasonMon 12 Sep Fauré Quartet 6

Thu 15 Sep Skampa Quartet/Nobuko Imai 7

Sat 17 Sep Daniel Müller-Schott/Simon Trpceski 9

Fri 23 Sep Alina Ibragimova/Cédric Tiberghien 12

Mon 3 Oct Belcea Quartet 20

Tue 4 Oct Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series 22

Thu 6 Oct IMS Prussia Cove 23

Sat 8 Oct Liszt Day curated by Leslie Howard 26

Mon 10 Oct Pacifica Quartet 28

Thu 13 Oct Pacifica Quartet 28

Fri 14 Oct Pacifica Quartet/Menahem Pressler 28

Sat 15 Oct Nash Ensemble/Bernarda Fink 30

Thu 20 Oct Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan 32

Sat 22 Oct Carolin Widmann/Simon Lepper 31

Sun 23 Oct Tavener Celebration 33

Tue 25 Oct Pavel Haas Quartet 34

Wed 26 Oct Leonidas Kavakos/Emanuel Ax 34

Thu 27 Oct The Endellion String Quartet 34

Sat 29 Oct Ralph Kirshbaum/Shai Wosner 35

Sun 30 Oct Scottish Ensemble/Morton/Beatson 36

Wigmore Hall LearningSat 17 Sep Open House Day 67

Mon 19 Sep Pre-Concert Talk 10

Sat 24 Sep Come and Sing: Byrd 67

Mon 26 Sep Pre-Concert Talk 17

Sat 1 Oct Family Day: Giants, Lyrics and Lions 67

Sat 8 Oct Pre-Concert Talks (10 am, 1 pm, 6 pm) 26

Mon 10 Oct Artists in Conversation 28

Fri 14 Oct Abracadabra Schools’ Concert 29, 68

Sat 15 Oct Abracadabra Family Concert 29, 68

Wed 26 Oct Half-Term Course: Art as Music 68

Thu 27 Oct Half-Term Course: Art as Music 68

Wed 2 Nov Pre-Concert Talk 38

Sat 5 Nov Family Day: A Tempestuous Voyage 69

Sat 12 Nov Pre-Concert Talk 42

Wed 16 Nov Pre-Concert Talk 44

Thu 24 Nov Stile Antico Schools’ Concert 50, 69

Sat 26 Nov Sacconi String Quartet: 51, 69

CAVATINA Family ConcertFri 2 Dec Wigmore Study Group 53

Thu 8 Dec Wigmore Study Group 53

Wed 14 Dec Wigmore Study Group 53

Sat 17 Dec Steven Isserlis Legends Interview Series 63

Wed 21 Dec Pre-Concert Talk 65

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2011 WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITIONSee opposite page for full details

Saturday 10 September 7.30 pm

SOILE ISOKOSKI soprano

MARITA VIITASALO piano

WOLF From Italienisches Liederbuch: Auch kleine Dinge;Man sagt mir, deine Mutter; O wär dein Haus durchsichtig;Mein Liebster singt am Haus; Wenn du, mein LiebsterBERLIOZ Les nuits d’été STRAUSS Drei Lieder der Ophelia IVES On the counter; The side show; Berceuse;Memories: a. Very pleasant, b. Rather sadSALLINEN Neljä laulua unesta (4 Dream Songs)

The season opens with a recital by internationally renownedFinnish soprano Soile Isokoski, who takes Berlioz’s greatsong-cycle Les nuits d’été as the centrepiece of a programmewhich also explores repertoire from the fin-de-siècle in Austriaand America. Wolf ’s Italian Songbook is a treasure trove of thepiquant and the passionate, while Charles Ives touches uponan equally wide range of emotions. Veteran Finnish composerAulis Sallinen is represented by his Dream Songs.

£18 £25 £30 £35

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Song Recital Series/Opening Concert of the 2011/12 Season

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Sunday 11 September 11.30 am

FAURÉ QUARTETMENDELSSOHN Piano Quartet No. 3 inB minor Op. 3SAINT-SAËNS Piano Quartet in Bb Op. 41

Taking its name from the composer of someof the greatest piano quartets ever written,the Fauré Quartet presents a pair of concertsexploring some other masterworks of thegenre. (See 12 September for the secondconcert.) Both concerts feature early examplesof the form by the teenage Mendelssohn, andtheir Coffee Concert also offers a deliciouswork by Fauré’s mentor, Saint-Saëns, whosechamber music is one of the best-kept secretsof the repertoire.

£12 concs £10 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice

Coffee ConcertSOILE ISOKOSKI Heikki Tuuli

FAURÉ QUARTET KASSKARA

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2011 WIGMORE HALL/KOHN FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITIONThe 7th Biennial Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation InternationalSong Competition will take place in Wigmore Hall from4 – 8 September 2011.

This competition recognises the song tradition as a whole andrequires contestants to sing in at least three languages. At thesame time it honours the Lied’s place at the heart of the songrepertoire and celebrates the Shakespearean stature ofSchubert in the genre.

Audiences are invited to attend the Preliminary and Semi-Finalrounds, as well as the grand finale and Prize-giving on Thursday8 September which will include an interval supper.

Sunday 4 September 11.00 am & 3.00 pm

PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 1Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme

All day £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Monday 5 September 11.00 am & 3.00 pm

PRELIMINARY STAGE – DAY 2Candidates will each perform a 15-minute programme

All day £12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)Free to Friends of Wigmore Hall and Mailing List Subscribers

Tuesday 6 September 3.00 pm & 7.30 pm

SEMI-FINAL STAGE10 semi-finalists will each perform a 20-minute programme

All day £15 concs £12 (not part of subscription scheme)Please note that there will be an Interval Supper from 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm.Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper reservation.

Book for the first three stages at the same time for £30 concs £25

Thursday 8 September 6.00 pm

FINAL STAGE AND PRIZE-GIVINGFour singers will each give a recital of 30 minutes

£12 £14 £18 £22

Please note that there will be an Interval Supper from approx. 8.20 pm to 9.30 pm.Please contact the Wigmore Restaurant to make your supper reservation..

Song Recital Series

Photo by Benjamin Ealovega5

JURYJohn Gilhooly Chair; Bernarda Fink, Jeremy Geffen, Matthew Gurewitsch, Soile Isokoski,Graham Johnson, Sir Ralph Kohn (non-voting), William Lyne, Malcolm Martineau,Thomas Quasthoff, Richard Stokes, Sarah Walker

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Sunday 11 September 7.30 pm

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone

JUSTUS ZEYEN piano

LOEWE Der Nöck; Prinz Eugen, der edle Ritter; Edward;Tom der ReimerSTRAUSS Vom künftigen Alter; Erschaffen und Beleben;Und dann nicht mehr; Im Sonnenschein; Allerseelen;Die Nacht; Morgen; Heimliche Aufforderung WOLF Der Genesene an die Hoffnung; Gebet; Fußreise;Storchenbotschaft

Thomas Quasthoff has established an enviable reputationas one of the finest baritones in the world. His voice has beendescribed as being ‘like honey and steel’, while his intensemusicality and his charisma both on and off stage have wonhim armies of followers on all continents. Tickets for his pairof Wigmore Hall concerts are sure to be snapped up eagerly!(Please see 13 September for the second concert.)

£18 £25 £30 £35

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THOMAS QUASTHOFF Jim Rakete/Deutsche Grammophon

LISE DE LA SALLE Stéphane Gallois

Monday 12 September 1.00 pm

LISE DE LA SALLE piano

CHOPIN 4 BalladesLISZT Dante Sonata

Still only in her early twenties, Lise de la Sallehas an enviable reputation in concert and ondisc. For this recital she performs two peaksof the Romantic virtuoso repertoire.

£12 concs £10

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert


FAURÉ QUARTETMAHLER Piano Quartet in A minorMENDELSSOHN Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minorOp. 2 BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Op. 26

The Fauré Quartet’s second concert (see11 September for first concert) moves to Viennawith the largest of Brahms’s three piano quartets,a work overflowing with melodic generosity, andthe solitary early chamber work by Mahler,written by the student composer during hisperiod at the Austrian capital’s conservatoire.This concert is given in celebration of the 20thanniversary of the Parkhouse Award, foundedin memory of the renowned chamber musicianDavid Parkhouse, and of which the FauréQuartet was a popular winner in 2003.

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Tuesday 13 September 7.30 pm

MICHAEL SCHADE tenor

THOMAS QUASTHOFF baritone

JUSTUS ZEYEN piano

MENDELSSOHN Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich;Abschiedslied der Zugvögel; Herbstlied MOZART Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Komm, liebe Zither, komm;Abendempfindung SCHUBERT Heidenröslein; Im Frühling; Auf der Brücke;Normans Gesang SCHUMANN Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär; Schön Blümelein;Herbstlied; Intermezzo from Spanisches Liederspiel; BlaueAugen hat das Mädchen MOZART Secondate aurette amiche and Al fatto dal leggefrom Così fan tutteSCHUMANN Mein schöner Stern!; Dein Angesicht;Waldesgespräch; Mondnacht BRAHMS Wie rafft ich mich auf; Sapphische Ode; Wie bist du,meine Königin; Unüberwindlich SIECZYNSKI Wien, Wien nur du alleinPICK FiakerliedSTOLZ Im Prater blüh’n wieder die BäumeKREUTZER Hobellied (from Der Verschwender)

For the second of his two concerts (see 11 September for thefirst concert) Thomas Quasthoff is joined by the distinguishedtenor Michael Schade, whose lyrical tone and intelligence offocus will illuminate a treasury of German Lied.

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SKAMPA QUARTET NOBUKO IMAI viola

HAYDN String Quartet in D minor Op. 103

(unfinished)BRAHMS String Quintet in G Op. 111

DVORÁK String Quintet in Eb Op. 97

Dvorák’s early fame was greatly helped by theadvocacy of Brahms, who sensed in the youngercomposer a kindred spirit. The G major StringQuintet was announced as Brahms’s retirementfrom composition in 1890 (but that’s anotherstory!), while Dvorák’s Eb Quintet was one ofthe late harvest of works produced during hispioneering sojourn in America. Joining theSkampas for the quintets is distinguishedviola player Nobuko Imai – and Haydn actuallydid retire with his two-movement Quartet,Op. 103, announcing that he was too weak towrite any more.

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Chamber Music Season/Dvorák Plus Series

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SKAMPA QUARTET Jakub Ludvik

MICHAEL SCHADE Deanne McKee

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NOBUKO IMAI Marco Borggreve

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Antonín Dvorák was born near Prague on 8 September1841, so September 2011 marks his 170th anniversary.Starting this month, Wigmore Hall presents a series ofeight concerts celebrating the life and music of thisstill-underrated 19th-century master in company withmusic by other composers who were important to him.Two of the leading Czech string quartets – the Skampaand the Pavel Haas quartets – and the Gould Piano Trioexplore his chamber music, while mezzo Bernarda Finkis joined by pianist Roger Vignoles in song recitals.With other artists including pianist Stephen Houghand viola player Nobuko Imai, why not join us for thisfeast of melodic richness, rhythmic energy and sheerjoie de vivre?


SKAMPA QUARTET NOBUKO IMAI viola

See page 7 for full details

Tuesday 25 October 7.30 pm

PAVEL HAAS QUARTETSee page 34 for full details

Tuesday 20 December 7.30 pm

SKAMPA QUARTET STEPHEN HOUGH piano


Forthcoming concerts in this series

Thursday 2 February 7.30 pm

Soprano to be announced

BERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano

ROGER VIGNOLES piano

Friday 23 March 7.30 pmTuesday 3 April 7.30 pm

GOULD PIANO TRIO

Friday 13 April 7.30 pm



Wednesday 18 July 7.30 pm

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Friday 16 September 7.30 pm

CHRIS THILE mandolin

BRAD MEHLDAU piano

Acclaimed jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and mandolin virtuosoChris Thile (Punch Brothers) perform as a duo in a very specialengagement for Wigmore Hall. Mutual admirers of musicranging from Bach to Radiohead, as a duo, the musiciansplan to display their admiration of form and the wondermentof improvisation.

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is one of the most exciting musiciansin his field today, touring and recording extensively with greatsuccess. Having been invited by John Gilhooly to curateWigmore Hall’s jazz series, he continues this project, invitingfriends from across the musical spectrum to participate in avariety of duo performances which will explore the limits ofimprovisatory and experimental contemporary composition,in addition to more conventional work in the jazz tradition.This concert will see him in partnership with the versatileAmerican mandolin player Chris Thile.

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DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT cello

SIMON TRPCESKI piano

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Op. 99

RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

Sparks should fly as dynamic cellist DanielMüller-Schott joins forces with exceptionalvirtuoso pianist Simon Trpceski. While theircombined resources will predictably setRachmaninov’s romantic masterpiece aflame,they are sure to bring complementary insight tothe spare and gnomic utterances of Beethoven’spenultimate cello sonata and the autumnal fireof Brahms’s Second.

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ELIAS STRING QUARTET JANÁCEK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135

Fresh from its recording triumphs on the WigmoreHall Live label and a highly acclaimed disc ofBritten quartets, the Elias turns its attention tothe visceral passion of Janácek’s Tolstoy-inspiredFirst Quartet, and then tackles the enigma whichis Beethoven’s last quartet and one of his verylast musical statements of all.


WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TALE N T

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust

Coffee Concert

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BRAD MEHLDAU Michael Wilson

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT Christine Schneider

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TILL FELLNER piano

HAYDN Piano Sonata in C HXVI:50

SCHUMANN Kinderscenen Op. 15

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, Italie S161

(excerpts)

Renowned for his interpretations of the masterpieces of thecentral European repertoire, Viennese pianist Till Fellner openshis lunchtime recital with one of the sonatas Haydn composedduring his second visit to London, and continues with worksby two of the 19th-century’s greatest piano composers.Schumann’s reminiscences of childhood will set the scene forthe vividness and sense of wonder of Liszt’s portraits of his‘pilgrimage’ to Italy.

£12 concs £10


ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Marco Borggreve

TILL FELLNER Benjamin Ealovega


PRE-CONCERT TALKWith RICHARD EGARR

Free (ticket required)

Wigmore Hall Learning Event


ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSICRICHARD EGARR director, harpsichord

MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: BIRTH OF THESYMPHONY

HANDEL Sinfonia from SaulRICHTER Symphony No. 4 in CMOZART Symphony No. 1 in Eb K16

BACH Sinfonia from Cantata BWV42 ‘Am Abendaber desselbigen Sabbats’STAMITZ Sinfonia à 4 in DHAYDN Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La passione’

From Handel’s Sinfonias to Haydn’s Symphonies,the AAM kickstarts its Musical Revolutionsseries with an exploration of a 50-year periodof extraordinary musical development. Theinfluences, adaptations and innovations of sixcomposers, including the eight-year-old Mozartand the neglected Franz Richter, gave birth toone of the most significant of all musical forms— as well as producing some of the genre’sfinest works.

£18 £24 £28 £32

Early Music and Baroque Series

CHRISTIAN GERHAHER

SCHUBERT SONG CYCLES

Having made his well-received Royal Opera House debut in late2010 as Wolfram in Tim Albery’s new production of Wagner’sTannhäuser, Christian Gerhaher is consolidating a reputation asone of the finest baritones of his generation. There could be nobetter showcase for his mellifluous and lyrical timbre, coupledwith rare poetic insight, than the two great song-cycles Schubertwrote to poems by Wilhelm Müller and, as a rich final evening,the collection of Schwanengesang, which was compiled justafter his death and which poignantly became his literalswansong. Joining Gerhaher is German pianist Gerold Huber,among the most in-demand piano accompanists on the concertcircuit today, who is sure to bring a similar sensitivity andsensibility to his crucially important role.


CHRISTIAN GERHAHER baritone

GEROLD HUBER piano

SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin is now so familiar a landmark in the songrepertoire that it is all too easy to forget how groundbreaking it was in1824 when it was the first hour-long song narrative to have been presented to the public in any form. Müller himself had constructed thecycle of poems as if with a view to musical presentation and the simplicityof poetic utterance was matched to music of divine transparency yet endearing human love and loss.

£18 £25 £30 £35



GEROLD HUBER piano

SCHUBERT Winterreise

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GEROLD HUBER piano

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang


Supported by the Christian Gerhaher/ Gerold HuberSchubert Song Cycle Syndicate

Song Recital Series/Christian Gerhaher Schubert Song Cycles

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Wednesday 21 September 7.30 pm

CLASSICAL OPERA COMPANYIAN PAGE conductor

LAWRENCE ZAZZO countertenor

OMBRA FELICE – MOZART’S ARIAS FOR COUNTERTENOR

MOZART Intrada and ‘Jam pastor Apollo custodio greges’ fromApollo et Hyacinthus; ‘Ombra felice ... Io ti lascio’; SymphonyNo. 10 in G K74; ‘Venga pur, minacci e frema’ from Mitridate,re di Ponto; ‘Perchè tacer degg’io and ‘Al mio ben mi veggioavanti’ from Ascanio in Alba; Symphony in D K81; ‘Vadasi ...Già dagli occhi il velo è tolto’ from Mitridate, re di Ponto

Ian Page and his Classical Opera Company return to WigmoreHall with the exciting American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo,recently acclaimed for his performance in the title-role inHandel’s Radamisto at ENO, in an intriguing programme ofMozart opera and concert arias from the 1770s. The concertalso features two of the composer’s most delightful andvivacious early symphonies.

£16 £22 £26 £30




GEROLD HUBER piano


Following the great success of Die schöne Müllerin in 1824, it wasperhaps hardly surprising that Schubert should have followed inWilhelm Müller’s footsteps by setting his Winterreise to musicof heartfelt pathos and passion. Even though countlesscomposers have sought to emulate Schubert’s example, it cansurely be said that none has matched the relentless vision andtortured expression of this unique masterpiece.

£18 £25 £30 £35

Supported by the Christian Gerhaher/ Gerold Huber Schubert SongCycle Syndicate


LAWRENCE ZAZZO

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA Eva Vermandel

Friday 23 September 7.30 pm

ALINA IBRAGIMOVA violin

CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN piano

DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minorLEKEU Violin Sonata in GSZYMANOWSKI Myths Op. 30

RAVEL Violin Sonata in G

Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien haveformed one of the most exciting musicalpartnerships of recent years. Having successfullycompleted a Beethoven violin sonata cycle, thisWigmore programme whets the appetite with arefreshing combination of late works by Debussyand Ravel, together with the exotically perfumedMyths by Szymanowski and the sonata whichGuillaume Lekeu wrote for the great EugèneYsaÿe before the composer died at the tragicallyearly age of 24.

£15 £20 £25 £30




GEROLD HUBER piano

SCHUBERT SchwanengesangSCHUBERT Drang in die Ferne; Der Winterabend; Des FischersLiebesglück

When we look back at the mystery of Schubert’s last year ittakes on a quite mythical significance. How on earth could anailing 30-year-old complete three magisterial piano sonatas,the kaleidoscopic String Quintet, the monumental Mass in Eb,Auf dem Strom (voice with horn) and Der Hirt auf dem Felsen(voice with clarinet), not to mention the immortal F minorpiano-duet Fantasy and the great C major violin Fantasy … the list is literally mind-boggling. Add to this a collection of14 songs, unblemished in their lyrical richness and poeticimagination. These were gathered together after the composer’sdeath on 19 November 1828 and published posthumously ashis Schwanengesang. For us today they are an inexpressiblypoignant reminder not so much of what might have been butof the marvels that actually were.

£18 £25 £30 £35

Supported by the Christian Gerhaher/ Gerold Huber Schubert SongCycle Syndicate



Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence

NASH ENSEMBLESee page overleaf for full detals

Sunday 25 September 7.30 pm

ANDREAS STAIER fortepiano

SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899; Piano Sonatain G D894; Piano Sonata in Bb D960

Andreas Staier has brought the fortepianoout of the shadows into the forefront of theinternational concert platform. He has establishednew parameters of appreciation when it comesto performing the masterpieces of what we wouldtend to take as the modern piano repertoire.This concert is a perfect case in point, blendingas it does some of Schubert’s most popularpiano pieces, the four Impromptus D899, withtwo of his most lyrically memorable sonatas.Schubert’s ‘heavenly length’ will here beexperienced in a dimension close to one withwhich he might have been familiar himself.

£15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Andreas Staier‘Perspectives’


Sunday 18 December 7.30 pm

Thursday 21 June 7.30 pm


DANIEL HOPE violin

SEBASTIAN KNAUER piano

CELEBRATION OF JOSEPH JOACHIM

GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45

JOACHIM Hebrew Melody Op. 9 No. 1 (arr. violinand piano)BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100

BRAHMS/JOACHIM Hungarian Dance No. 5 inG minor

Daniel Hope has recently been exploring themilieu of Joseph Joachim and his friends andcolleagues. Alongside Joachim’s own music,Hope presents Brahms’s lyrical A major ViolinSonata and Grieg’s troubled Third Sonata.

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ANDREAS STAIER

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ANDREAS STAIER‘PERSPECTIVES’

NASH ENSEMBLE

ECHOES OF ROMANTICISM

The Romantic period in Germanand Austrian music is usuallydefined as the later 19th century.But the formal freedom ofRomanticism, its love of nature,its indebtedness to literature andabove all its emphasis on intenseself-expression, are prefigured inthe Viennese Classical period, andechoes of Romanticism resoundthroughout the first half of the20th century. In its 2011/12 series,the Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’sacclaimed chamber ensemble inresidence, traces the Romantic spiritfrom Mozart, Beethoven and Schubertby way of Mendelssohn, Schumannand Brahms to Schoenberg and RichardStrauss. Leading singers join theEnsemble in song-cycles by Mahler, tomark the centenary of his death.


NASH ENSEMBLERICHARD HOSFORD clarinet MARIANNE THORSEN violin

LAURA SAMUEL violin LAWRENCE POWER viola

PAUL WATKINS cello IAN BROWN piano

MAHLER Piano Quartet movement in A minor BRUCH String Quintet in EbBRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

The Nash Ensemble launches its 2011/12 series ‘Echoes ofRomanticism’ with a prophetic student piece by Mahler, a recentlyrediscovered string quintet from Max Bruch’s last years and Brahms’slate, much-loved Quintet for clarinet and strings.


Coffee Concert/Echoes of Romanticism


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Saturday 15 October 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE BERNARDA FINK mezz0-soprano

MARTYN BRABBINS conductor

MOZART, ZEMLINSKY, BRUCKNER, MAHLER


Saturday 19 November 6.00 pm

NASH ENSEMBLECLARA & ROBERT SCHUMANN,FANNY MENDELSSOHN



NASH ENSEMBLE WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone

SCHUBERT, WEBERN, MAHLER, BRAHMS


Saturday 10 December 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE MENDELSSOHN, SCHOENBERG, SCHUBERT



Saturday 14 January 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano


BEETHOVEN, MAHLER, SCHUBERT


Sunday 22 January 11.30 am

NASH ENSEMBLESTEPHANIE GONLEY violin

SIMON CRAWFORD PHILLIPS piano

RICHARD WATKINS horn

MOZART, MENDELSSOHN, BRAHMS


Saturday 11 February 7.30 pm

NASH ENSEMBLE DAME FELICITY LOTT soprano

PAUL WATKINS conductor

WAGNER, MOZART, RICHARD STRAUSS


Saturday 3 March 6.00 pm

NASH ENSEMBLESCHUBERT, BERG, ZEMLINSKY



NASH ENSEMBLE SCHUMANN, KORNGOLDJOHANN STRAUSS IISCHUBERT


Gustav Klimt ‘Die Musik’ 1895

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THE BOSTRIDGE PROJECT:

‘ANCIENT AND MODERN’

‘When I was a choirboy in deepest SouthLondon (St Leonard’s, Streatham) wealternated two hymnbooks, one green (theEnglish Hymnal), one red (Hymns Ancientand Modern). That last phrase, Ancient andModern, part of the bric-a-brac of childhood,forced its way to the front of my mind whenasked to plan a series for Wigmore Hall, acherished musical home to me for the pastfifteen years. The idea has been to gathertogether period instruments and moderninstruments in a single concert; to showvoices operating in both modes (the betterto demonstrate that there’s really nodifference); to take a look at musical visionsof the past (the historian in me dies hard);and, occasionally to show the influence thatold music had upon modern composers. The rubric covers a multitude of pieces,and in the end it is as broad as it is long.It allows us to play and sing a lot of verybeautiful music, to have the pieces reflectupon each other, and have the performersand audiences in turn reflect upon the waysin which we all colonise and remodel thepast in our own image.’

Ian Bostridge

Since first appearing at Wigmore Hall in themid 1990s, Ian Bostridge has pursued anextraordinary and varied career in recital,opera and concert all over the world. Whethersinging Britten’s Aschenbach at the ENO,Schubert songs in Vienna or Monteverdi’sNero in Munich, he has brought his trademarkqualities of fierce intelligence and passionatecommitment to the singing of the music offour centuries. Now John Gilhooly has invitedhim to return home to the Wigmore and plana special season-long residency, whichincludes notable colleagues from a singingcareer of almost two decades.

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PRE-CONCERT TALKTalk by the author JONATHAN KEATES

£3 (not part of subscription scheme)


Monday 26 September 7.30 pm(repeated Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm)

THE ENGLISH CONCERTHARRY BICKET director, harpsichord

KATHARINA SPRECKELSEN oboe

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

SCARLATTI Sinfonia ‘Clori, Dorino e Amore’SCARLATTI Sinfonia in CVIVALDI Concerto in D minor for oboe RV454

SCARLATTI Cantata: Dall’oscura magiondell’arsa Dite (L’Orfeo)VENTURINI Sonata No. 9 in G minorHANDEL Silete venti HWV242

The English Concert teams up with Ian Bostridgefor what will be the first concert in his 2011–12

series, with an exquisite programme of Italiancantatas, sinfonias and concertos. AlessandroScarlatti and Antonio Vivaldi provide the realItalian components, while two Germans, Handeland the improbably-named Venturini, show howubiquitous the Italian style had become in theearly years of the 18th century.

£18 £25 £30 £35


Early Music and Baroque Series/The BostridgeProject: ‘Ancient and Modern’

Wednesday 21 December 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALKYeats and the Celtic Revival with PROFESSOR ROY FOSTER




SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano

MADELEINE SHAW mezzo-soprano

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor NEAL DAVIES bass baritone

ADAM WALKER flute NICHOLAS DANIEL cor anglais

HEATH QUARTETELIZABETH KENNY lute JULIUS DRAKE piano

Programme to include DOWLAND lute songs and consorts,and WARLOCK The Curlew

Song Recital Series/The Bostridge Project: ‘Ancient and Modern’



Monday 20 February 7.30 pm

ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER mezzo-soprano

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

AURORA ORCHESTRANICHOLAS COLLON conductor

THE ENGLISH CONCERTLAURENCE CUMMINGS director, harpsichord

Programme to include BRITTEN Phaedra andHANDEL Cantata: O numi eterni (La Lucrezia)

Friday 11 May 7.30 pm

SOPHIE DANEMAN soprano IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

ELIZABETH KENNY lute GRAHAM JOHNSON piano

Programme to include French Airs de Cour, and Melodiés byDEBUSSY and FAURÉ

Saturday 7 July 7.30 pm


IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor


Programme to include MONTEVERDI duets andSTRAVINSKY Cantata


IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

XUEFEI YANG guitar JULIUS DRAKE piano

Programme to include songs by BRITTEN, HENZE and KNUSSEN

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THE ENGLISH CONCERT Richard Haughton

LISZT ANNIVERSARY SERIES

The music of Liszt has always been a cornerstone of the pianist’sRomantic repertoire and, as we celebrate the bicentenary of hisbirth, Wigmore Hall offers the opportunity to explore his prolificœuvre in depth. Five concerts concentrating on his output not onlyof piano music but also of songs, alongside a special Liszt DiscoveryDay (see page 26) curated by Leslie Howard (the pianist who hasarguably done more than any other to reveal the full breadth of thisprolific and versatile master’s music for the instrument), will placethe justly famous monuments of his work-list alongside somehidden gems and show how Liszt, arguably among music’s earliestmegastars, is so much more than merely the purveyor of virtuosokeyboard showpieces he is so often mistaken for.


NELSON GOERNER piano

LISZT Ballade No. 2 S171; Nos. 1 & 2 from Quatre valses oubliéesS215; Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Mephisto Waltz No. 1;Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Following the huge acclaim accorded his Wigmore Hall Live Chopinrecital, tickets are sure to be scarce for Nelson Goerner’s excitingLiszt programme. Alongside such undisputed masterpieces as theB minor Sonata and First Mephisto Waltz, Goerner will exploresome of the more mysterious and linguistically experimental worksof Liszt’s late period.

£15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Liszt Anniversary Series

Saturday 8 October

LISZT DISCOVERY DAYSee page 26 for details

Wednesday 12 October 7.30 pm

REBECCA EVANS soprano ANDREW KENNEDY tenor

MATTHEW ROSE bass baritone IAIN BURNSIDE piano


Wednesday 9 November 7.30 pm

ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano



LOUIS LORTIE piano


Thursday 8 December 7.30 pm

ANNE SCHWANEWILMS soprano

CHARLES SPENCER piano

See page 58 for detailsPortrait of Liszt by Henri Lehmann

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Sunday 2 October 11.30 am

KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIOBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3New Work to be announcedBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2

The Kungsbacka Trio has developed an enviablereputation for exploring a wide-ranging repertoire,which will be exemplified in this Coffee Concertin coupling a brand-new work with two ofBeethoven’s most impressive in the piano triogenre. Beethoven’s Op. 1 lifted the form for thefirst time into a four-movement pattern, thusgiving it greater heft and stature, while theEb Trio, Op. 70 No. 2, is the gentler lyrical foil tothe rather more famous ‘Ghost’ Trio.


Coffee Concert

Wednesday 28 September 7.30 pm



IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

Repeat of concert on 26 September


£18 £25 £30 £35 (not part of subscription scheme)

Early Music and Baroque Series/The Bostridge Project:‘Ancient and Modern’


GERALD FINLEY baritone

JULIUS DRAKE piano

SCHUMANN Zwei Balladen, declamations; Der Schatzgräber;Die Löwenbraut; Liederkreis Op. 39

HUW WATKINS Lunar cycle; Three English BalladsSTANFORD La Belle Dame sans merciSCOTT Lord RandallSULLIVAN The lost Chord

Gerald Finley is one of the most sought-after baritones of ourtime and this evening contrasts Schumann’s EichendorffLiederkreis with a trio of British ballads, providing a richframework for a recent work by Huw Watkins, one of themost exciting of the young generation of composers to haveemerged from these isles in recent years.

£18 £25 £30 £35

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BEN JOHNSON Chris Gloag

GERALD FINLEY Sim Canetty-Clarke

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Monday 3 October 1.00 pm

BEN JOHNSON tenor

JAMES BAILLIEU piano

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang

Now a BBC New Generation Artist, in 2008

tenor Ben Johnson was the first male singerfor 13 years to win the Kathleen Ferrier Prizeoutright, and has since been making a splashon the opera, oratorio and recital stage.

£12 concs £10

Ben Johnson is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme

BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert/New Generation Artist

BEETHOVEN CHAMBER AND

INSTRUMENTAL SERIES


BELCEA QUARTET BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E b Op. 74 ‘Harp’;String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3; String Quartet in BbOp. 130 with Grosse Fuge Op. 133

As part of Wigmore Hall’s Beethoven focus, the BelceaQuartet presents the complete string quartet cycle acrossthe season. This opening concert reveals the many facetsof Beethoven’s string quartet output, from the Haydnesquefun and games of the early D major work, Op. 18 No. 3,through the lyrical effulgence of the ‘Harp’, Op. 74, tothe work often regarded as the greatest of all, the Bb,Op. 130, here played with the astonishing Grosse Fuge asthe finale Beethoven originally intended.

£12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/ Beethoven Chamber andInstrumental Series

Beethoven is arguably the most Janus-faced of allgreat composers, looking back to the Classicism ofthe 18th century and on into the Romanticism of the19th. His own music is often mistakenly taken to bea revolutionary upheaval, whereas in fact his mostfar-reaching changes to the musical landscapeevolved organically from within a deep and practicalunderstanding of the parameters of Classicism.These tendencies are nowhere better found than in hisprotean contribution to the chamber music repertoireand this special Wigmore Hall focus will enablelisteners to trace his enriching of forms as diverse asthe string quartet, piano trio and sonatas for violinand cello with piano.

To match this remarkable canon of works, WigmoreHall has assembled a veritable galaxy of today’schamber performers, who will include the BelceaQuartet, the Capuçon brothers with Frank Braley,Leonidas Kavakos with Emanuel Ax, the Florestan Trio,and Pieter Wispelwey with Kristian Bezuidenhout.

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LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin

EMANUEL AX piano


Sunday 20 November 7.30 pm

RENAUD CAPUÇON violin

GAUTIER CAPUÇON cello

FRANK BRALEY piano



BELCEA QUARTETSee page 53 for details


Saturday 7 January 7.30 pmWednesday 11 January 7.30 pmFriday 13 January 7.30 pm

FLORESTAN TRIO

Thursday 19 January 7.30 pmFriday 20 January 7.30 pm

PIETER WISPELWEY cello

KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT piano

Saturday 21 January 7.30 pmThursday 22 March 7.30 pmMonday 14 May 7.30 pmWednesday 13 June 7.30 pm

BELCEA QUARTET

Wednesday 1 February 7.30 pmTuesday 24 April 7.30 pm


EMANUEL AX piano

PIETER WISPELWEY

EMANUEL AXLEONIDAS KAVAKOS

BELCEA QUARTET

FRANK BRALEY FLORESTAN TRIO

KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT

RENAUD CAPUÇON GAUTIER CAPUÇON

AMJAD ALI KHAN:INDIAN MUSIC SERIES


YAMINI REDDY Kuchipudi dancer

AMJAD ALI KHAN sarod

AMAAN ALI KHAN sarod

AYAAN ALI KHAN sarod

With tabla accompaniment

INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC IMPROVISATIONS

Described by Songlines magazine as ‘one of the 20th-century’s greatestmasters of the sarod’ and acclaimed by the Dalai Lama as a performerwith ‘a deep human spirit, a warm feeling and a sense of caring’, UstadAmjad Ali Khan has brought the unique sound of Indian classical musicto concert halls throughout the world, collaborating with leadingmusicians across all the disciplines. Performing with his sons AmaanAli Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan, both sarod virtuosos in their own right, this concert of Indian classical music improvisations promises totransport listeners to a world in which time is measured differently andcan simultaneously seem to stand still while in fact whizzing past withélan and exuberance. This concert launches a major residency forAmjad Ali Khan throughout the season at Wigmore Hall.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: Indian Music Series


Friday 9 March 7.30 pm

SUDHA RAGHUNATHAN South Indian (Carnatic) vocalist


With tabla accompaniment

Friday 15 June 7.00 pm

SUNIL SAXENA, SMITA NAGDEV sitar duo

SUNANDA SHARMA North Indian (Hindustani) vocalist



Ensemble to be announced

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AILISH TYNAN soprano

KAREN CARGILL mezzo-soprano

MARK PADMORE tenor

JACQUES IMBRAILO baritone

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano

HAYDN The Mermaid’s song; Recollection; A Pastoral Song;An die Frauen; Der Augenblick; Alles hat seine Zeit; Despair;Pleasing Pain; Fidelity; An den Vetter; Die Harmonie in der Ehe;Daphnens einziger Fehler; Der Greis; Sailor’s song;The Wanderer; Sympathy; Betrachtung des Todes;Die Beredsamkeit; Die Warnung; She never told her love;Piercing Eyes; Content; Danklied zu Gott; Abendlied zu Gott;Wider den Übermut

Haydn specialist András Schiff will preside at the piano with aquartet of today’s finest singers. Haydn is not often creditedas a major composer of songs but during his two visits toLondon in the 1790s he found himself moved to set severalEnglish poems and poets, and these canzonettas immediatelyestablished themselves in the domestic repertoire, where theyhave remained for centuries. Nevertheless, their subtle blendof memorable tunes and often quite dramatic emotion amplydeserves this luxury treatment.

£18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

Thursday 6 October 7.30 pm

IMS PRUSSIA COVEWILLIAM BENNETT flute

ESTHER HOPPE violin

BOGDAN BOZOVIC violin

MARIKO HARA violaViola to be announced

GUY JOHNSTON cello

ALASDAIR BEATSON piano

HAYDN Trio No. 31 for flute, cello and pianoRIES Flute Quintet in B minor Op. 107

MOZART String Quintet in D K593

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

IMS Prussia Cove returns to Wigmore Hall with ahighly distinguished ensemble, specially invitedby its artistic director Steven Isserlis. The groupwill have been preparing at Open Chamber Music,a seminar with a famously unique atmosphereset up in a remote part of Cornwall by Hungarianviolinist Sándor Végh.

£10 £14 £18 £22


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ANDRÁS SCHIFF Yutaka Suzuki

ESTHER HOPPE

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WILLIAM BYRD

SACRED MUSIC SERIES

Wigmore Hall launches a unique seriesexploring the music of William Byrd –the largest ever celebration of theEnglish Renaissance master’s musicin London. In six concerts over twoseasons, The Cardinall’s Musick andStile Antico present a range of musicby England’s first truly great composer,who found himself caught between hisown beliefs and a continually changingreligious landscape. Ranging from theLatin sacred music of this recusantCatholic composer to his vernacularworks, composed as the Tudors gaveway to the Stuarts, the dark intensityof this music is perfectly suited to thevivid choral colours which AndrewCarwood draws from his specialistsingers during the 2011–12 season,with Stile Antico continuing our surveythe following season.

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THE CARDINALL’S MUSICK STILE ANTICO

Friday 7 October 7.30 pm

THE CARDINALL’S MUSICKANDREW CARWOOD director

BYRD: THE POPISH ORGANIST

BYRD Christe qui lux es et dies TALLIS O salutaris hostiaBYRD O salutaris hostia TALLIS Lamentations IBYRD Lamentations MONTE Super flumina Babylonis BYRD Quomodo cantabimus? PARSONS Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna BYRD Libera me, Domine, de morte aeternaSHEPPARD In exitu Israel BYRD Similes illis fiant MUNDY Benedixit omnibus BYRD Tribue, Domine

In 2010 The Cardinall’s Musick became only thesecond early music ensemble to win Gramophonemagazine’s coveted Disc of the Year award for theculmination of its Byrd Latin church music series.The Byrd series begins with a typically inventiveconcert from The Cardinall’s Musick, fascinatinglypresenting a series of penitential works by Byrdalongside settings of the same texts by Englishcontemporaries Tallis and Parsons. The programmealso extends its scope to works by Sheppard,Mundy and Philippe de Monte.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made a majorcontribution to the 2011/ 12 Season

Monday 5 March 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALKwith ANDREW CARWOOD




BYRD: THE ENGLISHMAN

BYRD Venite from The Great Service; O Lord makethy servant Elizabeth our Queen; Te Deum fromThe Great Service; Prevent us, O Lord; Benedictusfrom The Great Service; Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles;Magnificat from The Great Service; Turn our captivity,O Lord; Sing ye to our Lord; Come, let us rejoice untoour Lord; Nunc dimittis from The Great Service

£15 £20 £25 £30

Thursday 17 May 7.30 pm


BYRD: THE HIDDEN CATHOLIC

BYRD Mass for Five Voices with Propers for theFeast of Corpus Christi; Venite, exultemus Domino;Haec dicit Dominus; Visita quaesumus, Domine;Cantate Domino; Infelix ego

£15 £20 £25 £30

Thursday 10 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pmTuesday 15 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pmThursday 17 May 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUPHosted by composer JULIAN PHILIPS with contributionsfrom distinguished musicologists and visiting musicians,this series of three study sessions explores the breadthof music by William Byrd and the context in which itwas written.

£53 including three study sessions and a ticket for the eveningconcert on 17 May


Thursday 20 December 2012

STILE ANTICOPUER NATUS EST – MUSIC BY BYRD AND TALLISFOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS

£15 £20 £25 £30

Tuesday 26 March 2013

STILE ANTICOMISERERE – PENITENTIAL MUSIC BY BYRD ANDHIS CONTEMPORARIES

£15 £20 £25 £30

Thursday 30 May 2013

STILE ANTICOO SACRED BANQUET – WILLIAM BYRD ANDTHE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI

Programme to include BYRD Mass in Four Parts

£15 £20 £25 £30

Early Music and Baroque Series/William ByrdSacred Music Series

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Booking for this series (excluding the Pre-Concert Talk and Wigmore Study Group) opens to Friends on 28 April,to Mailing List Subscribers on 12 May and to the General Public on 19 May.

LISZT DISCOVERY DAYAs we approach the actual day of the bicentenary of Liszt’s birth on 22 October 1811, sowe reach the climax of Wigmore Hall’s celebration of this multifaceted Romantic master.During his lifetime, Liszt was arguably the most famous musician in the world and yethis fame rested almost as much upon myth and legend as it did upon reality. What is notin doubt is his unrivalled fame as a pianist – if Chopin was envious of Liszt’s pianisticprowess, that about says it all! As a composer himself, Liszt was remarkably selfless indevoting so much of his time to the promotion of works by such friends as Wagner andBerlioz, whose music he frequently conducted at Weimar. Even today his output is butsparsely appreciated and this special Liszt Discovery Day at Wigmore Hall will do muchto open our eyes and ears to surprising aspects of this astonishing master-musician.

Leslie Howard has done more than any living pianist to explore the quite breathtakingtotality of Liszt’s output for the instrument, which encompasses all of 99+ CDs. Togetherwith several equally enthusiastic friends, Leslie will curate this day of pianistic delight,punctuated with a special appearance by the versatile BBC Singers and their ChiefConductor David Hill, in a rare exploration of Liszt’s sacred choral music. But then hewas, after all, the Abbé Liszt as much as he was Mephistopheles!

10.00 am

TALKDR LESLIE HOWARD on Liszt the manand musician



11.30 am

EVA THORARINSDOTTIR violin

JORIS VAN DEN BERG cello

TRISTAN LEE piano

LISZT Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth S382;La lugubre gondola S134;Die drei Zigeuner S383; La notte S377a;Tristia from Vallée d’Obermann;Le carnaval de Pesth (Rhapsodiehongroise No. 9) S379

£12 concs £10


Chamber Music Season/Liszt Discovery Day

1.00 pm

TALKDR MEIRON HUGHES on Liszt thepublic introvert, the secular priest,the nationalist cosmopolitan



2.30 pm

BBC SINGERSDAVID HILL conductor

COADY GREEN piano

LISZT Pax vobiscum! S64; Cinq Choeurs;Salve Regina S66; Psalm; Das deutscheVaterland II (Was ist das deutscheVaterland?) S74; Es war einmal ein KönigS73; Magyar király-dal S93; Weimar’sVolkslied S87/5

£12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme)


6.00 pm

TALKMICHAEL SHORT on Liszt’s heritage



7.30 pm

LESLIE HOWARD piano

BOBBY CHEN piano

LISZT Hungarian Rhapsodies;Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust S599;Hungarian Rhapsodies;Rákóczi-Marsch S608



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ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET £20

(not part of subscription scheme)(tickets for the talks to be purchased separately)


DANTE STRING QUARTETFAURÉ String Quartet in E minor Op. 121

RAVEL String Quartet in F

The Dante Quartet has been winning awards and accolades forits exploration of French repertoire on disc and in the concerthall, and in this concert pairs one of the best-loved Frenchstring quartets with one of the most enigmatic. Ravel’s earlywork was dedicated to his teacher and friend, Fauré, whoseelusive, rarefied Quartet was to be his last work.


Coffee Concert


NICOLA BENEDETTI violin

ALEXEI GRYNYUK piano

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2

BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Op. 78

Nicola Benedetti has been one of the most recognisable andsuccessful of young violinists since her victory at the BBCYoung Musician competition in 2004. For this lunchtimerecital she pairs the two ‘big beasts’ of the 19th century,coupling Brahms’s songful First Sonata with music byBeethoven, whose ten violin sonatas form the basis of theviolin virtuoso’s chamber repertoire.

£12 concs £10



ARTISTS IN CONVERSATIONSee page overleaf for full details


PACIFICA QUARTETSee page overleaf for full details



DEBUSSY Préludes Books I & II

Alongside his appearances as a concerto soloistand chamber musician, Cédric Tiberghienmaintains a busy schedule as a soloist. Hereturns to Wigmore Hall for a recital consistingof the two books of Debussy’s Préludes, hispictorial but poetically ambiguous explorationsof piano technique and timbre ranging from thecalm of the sunken cathedral of Ys to theBastille Day fireworks of the cycle’s finale.

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CÉDRIC TIBERGHIEN Benjamin Ealovega

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NICOLA BENEDETTI Kevin Westenberg

Garlanded with awards and admired for the range of its repertoire,the Pacifica Quartet is renowned in concert halls throughout the worldfor its exuberant performance style in music ranging from Mendelssohnand Janácek to its recorded cycle of the quartets of Elliott Carter.On 10 October the quartet launches its survey of Shostakovich’sstring quartets at Wigmore Hall with the first of three concerts thismonth, to be complemented by a further three next March.

Shostakovich’s cycle of 15 symphonies has increasingly beenrecognised as the natural 20th-century successor to the epicsymphonies of Mahler; he also completed 15 string quartets butthese were only begun towards the middle of his career, after hehad endured humiliation at the hands of Stalin and experienced thehorrors of war and siege, during which he managed the extraordinaryfeat of emerging as popular hero and musical spokesman.

The quartets retrospectively cast a light on many of these turbulentevents and they inexorably move into a shadowy world of nightmareand desolation. In this sense they mirror the 20th-century’s declinewith uncanny realism.

PACIFICA QUARTET SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE


ARTISTS IN CONVERSATIONThe PACIFICA QUARTET in conversationwith the writer and broadcasterDAVID NICE




PACIFICA QUARTETSHOSTAKOVICH String QuartetsNo. 1 in C Op. 49; No. 2 in A Op. 68;

No. 3 in F Op. 73

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Chamber Music Season/Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle


PACIFICA QUARTETSHOSTAKOVICH String QuartetsNo. 4 in D Op. 83; No. 5 in Bb Op. 92;

No. 6 in G Op. 101

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PACIFICA QUARTETMENAHEM PRESSLER piano

SHOSTAKOVICH String QuartetsNo. 7 in F# minor Op. 108; No. 8 inC minor Op. 110; Piano Quintet inG minor Op. 57

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Monday 26 March 7.30 pmWednesday 28 March 7.30 pmThursday 29 March 7.30 pm

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REBECCA EVANS soprano

ANDREW KENNEDY tenor

MATTHEW ROSE bass baritone

IAIN BURNSIDE piano

LISZT Enfant, si j’étais roi GOUNOD SérénadeSAINT-SAËNS La cloche BIZET La CoccinelleLISZT Oh! quand je dors; Die LoreleySCHUMANN Im Rhein, im heiligen StromeLISZT Im Rhein, im schönen Strome; Du bist wie eine BlumeSCHUMANN Morgens steh’ ich auf und frageLISZT Morgens steh’ ich auf und frage; Die Vätergruft;3 Petrarch Sonnets; GastibelzaBIZET Guitare LISZT Comment, disaient-ilsRACHMANINOV They answered LISZT Blume und DuftWOLF Zitronenfalter im AprilLISZT Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam; Wie singt die Lerche schönMAHLER Frühlingsmorgen LISZT Ihr Glocken von MarlingBERG Schließe mir die Augen beideLISZT Und wir dachten der Toten; Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh

Amid all his acclaim as a composer of some of the 19th-century’smost challenging piano music and his creation of the symphonicpoem, Liszt’s output as a song composer is often overlooked.Recreating their much-admired ‘Liszt Abroad’ CD, pianist IainBurnside and singers Rebecca Evans, Andrew Kennedy andMatthew Rose present a vivid exploration of Liszt’s attractionto the 19th-century literature and poetry of the countries hevisited as a touring virtuoso.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Liszt Anniversary Series


PACIFICA QUARTETSee opposite page for full details

Friday 14 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

ABRACADABRA: KEY STAGE 2

SCHOOLS’ CONCERTJoin musicians from the fabulous AURORAORCHESTRA and special guests for this magicalconcert of live music, illusion and trickery.You won’t believe your eyes!

Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme)

Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel SebbaCharitable Trust



PACIFICA QUARTETSee opposite page for full details

Saturday 15 October 2.30 – 3.30 pm

ABRACADABRA: FAMILY CONCERTFor age 5 plus

A repeat of the concert on 14 October for families.

Adults £7 Children £5 (not part of subscription scheme)

Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust and The AndorCharitable Trust


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IAIN BURNSIDE Andrew Mellor

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NASH ENSEMBLE Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL


RENATA POKUPIC mezzo-soprano


SCHUBERT An Silvia; Suleika I; Im Frühling;Im Abendrot; Die junge Nonne ENESCU Sept chansons de Clément MarotOp. 15

DVORÁK Gypsy Songs

Croatian mezzo-soprano Renata Pokupic isknown internationally through her notableperformances of Baroque, Classical andcoloratura repertoire. Well known to Londonaudiences following acclaimed appearanceson the operatic and concert stage, she returnsto Wigmore Hall to give a programme that issure to be enhanced by her velvety timbre andintense musicianship.

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NASH ENSEMBLEBERNARDA FINK mezzo-soprano


MOZART Piano Quartet in G minor K478

ZEMLINSKY Two Songs from the Maeterlinck cycle (arr. Stein)BRUCKNER String Quintet in F (Adagio) MAHLER Kindertotenlieder (arr. de Leeuw)

The Nash Ensemble welcomes back the Argentineanmezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink for a programme which displaysthe dawn of Romanticism in a Mozart piano quartet, itszenith in the profound Adagio of Bruckner’s String Quintet,and its sunset in song-cycles by Mahler and his youngercontemporary Zemlinsky.

£18 £24 £28 £32

Chamber Music Season/Echoes of Romanticism


GUY JOHNSTON cello

MELVYN TAN piano

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58

RUBINSTEIN Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 18

A former BBC Young Musician of the Year, cellist Guy Johnstonteams up with pianist Melvyn Tan for a Coffee Concert couplingtwo Romantic sonatas. Anton Rubinstein’s youthful First Sonatamarries the poise of Mendelssohn with the bravura Russianvirtuoso school, while Mendelssohn’s own Second Sonatareflects his profound involvement with the music of Bach.


Coffee Concert

GUY JOHNSTON Olivia Shaw


JOHN O’CONOR piano

HAYDN Piano Sonata in F HXVI:23

FIELD 3 Nocturnes: No. 5 in Bb; No. 6 in F; No. 18 in E ‘Le Midi’BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C minor D958

John O’Conor’s programme offers a rare opportunity to heara selection of nocturnes by John Field, who first developed theform which became such an influence on Chopin. The pathosof the F minor slow movement of Haydn’s F major Sonata fromthe 1770s finds its foil in a pair of C minor works from the nextcentury, the Sturm und Drang of Beethoven’s much-loved‘Pathétique’ Sonata being reflected in the anguished Totentanzthat closes the first of Schubert’s three final sonatas.

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JANINE JANSEN violin

ITAMAR GOLAN piano

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CAROLIN WIDMANN violin

SIMON LEPPER piano

XENAKIS DikhthasBACH Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin BWV1004

CHRISTIAN MASON Sonata for violin and pianoSTRAVINSKY Divertimento

Bach’s D minor Partita, which contains the Chaconne, thegreatest of all works for solo violin, forms the centrepieceof this recital by Carolin Widmann. With pianist Simon Lepper,she finds contemporary and 20th-century complements toBach’s austere masterpiece, opening with the avant-gardeprocesses of Iannis Xenakis and closing with the DivertimentoStravinsky fashioned for Samuel Dushkin from his balletThe Fairy’s Kiss.

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MODIGLIANI QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 2 inA minor Op. 13

Founded as recently as 2003, the ModiglianiQuartet has enjoyed a rapid rise and thisseason has been selected for the ECHO RisingStar tour of Europe’s most prestigious halls.For its Coffee Concert the ensemble pairs alate quartet by Haydn with an early one by theteenage Mendelssohn.


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CAROLIN WIDMANN Marco Borggreve

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MODIGLIANI QUARTET Andrew French

Janine Jansen has rapidly become one of the mostcompelling presences on the international violinscene, renowned for her penetrating interpretations,both in concert and on disc, of music ranging fromthe Baroque right up to the present day. Alongsideher career as a much-in-demand concerto soloist,she ranks chamber music as one of her first loves,working with a stellar array of the finest musicians ofour time and curating her own annual chamber festivalin Utrecht. She embarks on a three-concert residencyhere at Wigmore Hall, opening with a duo programmefor which she is joined by pianist Itamar Golan.Successive concerts will feature Stravinsky’s TheSoldier’s Tale (also to be performed in a familyconcert) and Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht coupledwith Schubert’s evergreen Quintet.

JANINE JANSEN RESIDENCYThursday 20 October 7.30 pm


ITAMAR GOLAN piano

GRIEG Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor Op. 45

MESSIAEN Theme and VariationsRAVEL Violin Sonata in G

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Chamber Music Season/Janine Jansen Residency


Friday 3 February 7.30 pm


STACEY WATTON double bass

LARS WOUTERS VAN DENOUDENWEIJER clarinet

FREDERIK EKDAHL bassoon

REINHOLD FRIEDRICH trumpet

JÖRGEN VAN RIJEN trombone

GUSTAVO GIMENO percussionNarrator to be announced

STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale


Saturday 4 February 11.00 am

JANINE JANSEN FAMILY CONCERTWigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 16 May 7.30 pm


BORIS BROVTSYN violin

AMIHAI GROSZ viola

MAXIM RYSANOV viola

TORLEIF THEDÉEN cello

JENS PETER MAINTZ cello

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956


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Sunday 23 October 7.30 pm

CLOTHS OF HEAVEN – THE CHAMBER MUSIC OFJOHN TAVENER

PATRICIA ROZARIO soprano

NICK CARTLEDGE flute

IEUAN JONES harp

JULIUS DRAKE piano

SUZIE MÉSZÁROS viola

ROBERT COHEN celloChoir to be announced

TAVENER The Lamb; The Tiger; Svyati; Akhmatova Songs;Ypakoë; Schuon Lieder; Thrinos; To a Child Dancing in the Wind

A recital celebrating the music of Sir John Tavener, given byPatricia Rozario and friends – Julius Drake, Robert Cohen andIeuan Jones. This chamber music retrospective, the first atWigmore Hall, includes vocal music with piano, cello and harp.We are delighted that the composer, having recovered from aserious illness, will be present.

£12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Tavener Celebration

SIR JOHN TAVENER Richard Haughton

VERONIKA EBERLE Bernd Noelle


VERONIKA EBERLE violin

SHAI WOSNER piano

DEBUSSY Violin Sonata in G minorBARTÓK Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz75

German violinist Veronika Eberle was still ateenager when her international career waslaunched by Simon Rattle at the 2006 SalzburgFestival. She returns to Wigmore Hall as a BBCNew Generation Artist with pianist Shai Wosner,himself a graduate of the scheme, to performDebussy’s tantalising final work and therhapsodic first of Bartók’s sonatas composedfor Hungarian violinist Jelly d’Arányi.

£12 concs £10

Veronika Eberle is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme


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PAVEL HAAS QUARTETTCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 7 in F# minor Op. 108

DVORÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

The Czech Republic’s brilliant young Pavel Haas Quartet makesa welcome return to Wigmore Hall in a programme that richlyreflects its musical origins. Tchaikovsky’s First Quartet isarguably the first Russian chamber work of significance and itsfamous Andante cantabile was said to have reduced Tolstoy totears. Dvorák’s ‘American’ Quartet is easily the most famous ofhis many essays in the genre, partly because it is imbued withthe singable melodies he picked up during his sojourn in theStates. Shostakovich’s Seventh Quartet is one of the mosttautly integrated scores.

£12 £16 £22 £26




EMANUEL AX piano

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23; Violin SonataNo. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96

British audiences have warmed over the past decade to thecharismatic violin playing of Leonidas Kavakos, who first leaptto fame with his recording of the original version of Sibelius’sViolin Concerto. In partnership with leading American pianistEmanuel Ax, they combine the two sides of Beethoven’s earlymaturity – the pithy A minor Sonata and the evergreen ‘Spring’– and then turn to the richly philosophical G major Sonatawhich was sadly to be his last.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber andInstrumental Series

PAVEL HAAS QUARTET Marco Borggreve

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS Yannis Bournias


THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in G minor Op. 74 No. 3‘Rider’TIPPETT String Quartet No. 2BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132

The Endellions’ series of three concerts thisyear each centre round an English 20th-centurymasterpiece. Tippett’s Second Quartet owes itshighly inventive rhythmic textures to Madrigalstyle, whilst its profound slow movement waswritten in sorrowful anticipation of war. Thispiece is set between Haydn’s thrilling ‘Rider’Quartet (written for a London audience) andBeethoven’s sublime Op. 132 – written when thegenius and spirituality of his late period were infull flower.

£12 £16 £22 £26


THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTET Eric Richmond


CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano

MARK PADMORE tenor

JULIUS DRAKE piano

SCHUMANN Myrthen Op. 25

JANÁCEK Diary of one who disappeared

Mark Padmore is among the UK’s most sought-after Liedersingers, while Dutch mezzo Christianne Stotijn is renownedfor the dramatic urgency she brings to all her performances.While Janácek’s seductive song-cycle is a work of an almostoperatic intensity, Schumann’s Myrtles come from hismagnificent ‘Liederjahr’ of 1840, when the emotions ofhis long-yearned-for and hard-won marriage to Clara Wieckspilled over in a delirious outpouring of song.

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Song Recital Series


RALPH KIRSHBAUM cello

SHAI WOSNER piano

BEETHOVEN 12 Variations on a Theme fromHandel’s Judas Maccabaeus WoO45

JANÁCEK PohádkaBRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38

SCHUMANN 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

Framing their recital with masterworks byBeethoven, Ralph Kirshbaum and pianist ShaiWosner otherwise inhabit a world of folksongsand fairy tales. At the centre of their programmeis a work of high German Romanticism by Brahms,the natural successor to Beethoven andSchumann, whose idioms he metamorphosedto create his own unique sound-world.

£15 £20 £25 £30



PAVEL HAAS QUARTETHAAS String Quartet No. 1 Op. 3BEETHOVEN String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 withGrosse Fuge Op. 133

The Pavel Haas Quartet returns with the FirstString Quartet by its namesake and Beethoven’sgreat Bb Quartet, which they play according tothe composer’s original intention. The Grosse Fugefrightened its original players and audiencesbut it can be argued that when given its properplace as the finale, this quartet achieves aloftiness of purpose unique before and since.


Coffee Concert

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RALPH KIRSHBAUM J Henry Fair

SHAI WOSNER Marco Borggreve

MARK PADMORE Marco Borggreve

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Sunday 30 October 7.30 pm

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLEJONATHAN MORTON violin, director


STRAVINSKY Concerto in DMENDELSSOHN Capriccio in E minor Op. 81 No. 3 (arr. Morton)MENDELSSOHN Fugue in Eb Op. 81 No. 4 (arr. Morton)STRAVINSKY Concertino (arr. Morton)MENDELSSOHN Concerto for violin, piano and strings in D minor

One of the country’s most innovative and ambitious groups,the Scottish Ensemble under its director Jonathan Mortonlaunches its new season at Wigmore Hall with the distinguishedyoung Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson, in a contrastingprogramme of works by Stravinsky and Mendelssohn.

£15 £20 £25 £30



MELANIE DIENER soprano

MARCELO AMARAL piano

Songs by MAHLER and LISZT

Highly regarded for her interpretations of the soprano operaroles of Mozart and Strauss, in this lunchtime recital MelanieDiener pays tribute to two of this year’s anniversarycomposers, travelling further into central Europe to couplesongs by Hungarian Liszt and Bohemian-born Mahler.

£12 concs £10


CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS Nicole Chuard

JONATHAN MORTON Joanne Green


CHRISTIAN ZACHARIAS piano

CPE BACH Sonata in A minor Wq. 57;Rondo in C minor Wq. 59

BRAHMS 4 Klavierstücke Op. 119

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor Op. 5

A highlight of the season’s London PianoforteSeries is sure to be this appearance byChristian Zacharias. His characteristicallythoughtful programme has a historical threadrunning from two groundbreaking pieces byCPE Bach, through one of Beethoven’s lastthree fantasy-like sonatas, on to Brahms’syouthful, Beethovenian Third Sonata and thenceto his final collection, Op. 119, a concentratedsonata in all but name.

£15 £20 £25 £30


STEVEN ISSERLISVOICE & CELLO SERIES

Tuesday 1 November 7.30 pm

ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN soprano

ANTHONY MARWOOD violin

STEVEN ISSERLIS cello

CONNIE SHIH piano

BORODIN Songs with cello obbligato and pianoTAVENER Akhmatova Songs PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119

TANEYEV Canzone for voice and piano trioSHOSTAKOVICH Seven Poems of Alexander Blok Op. 127

The first programme in this mini-series is Russian and willlead naturally from a set of Borodin songs with cello obbligatoto a canzone by Taneyev and Shostakovich’s late masterpiecesetting poems by Alexander Blok. In such a context, Sir JohnTavener’s Akhmatova Songs will fit in perfectly, while thecentrepiece of the programme is the Cello Sonata Prokofievcomposed for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich.

£15 £20 £25 £30


Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Steven Isserlis: Voice and Cello Series

Thursday 3 November 7.30 pm

LUCY CROWE soprano

EMILY BEYNON flute


DÉNES VÁRJON piano

FRENCH PROGRAMME


Friday 11 November 7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor



MAGGIE COLE harpsichord

PURCELL, HANDEL, BOCCHERINI, BENNETT, SCHUBERT


Steven Isserlis is renowned for hisimaginative exploration of the chambermusic repertoire to uncover neglectedmasterpieces for all possible combinationsof instruments. For this series of threeconcerts he adds the singing voice tocreate a group of programmes as variedand wide-ranging as they are infinitelyfascinating. Alongside vocal works withcello obbligato from the Baroque andRomantic periods, we will hear a Russiancanzona accompanied by piano trio, settingsfor the magical combination of soprano,flute and piano, as well as music of our timeby Sir John Tavener, Sir Richard RodneyBennett and James Francis Brown. StevenIsserlis is joined by the sopranos IsabelBayrakdarian and Lucy Crowe and tenorMark Padmore, and he will welcome as hisinstrumental guests the Florestan Trio’sviolinist Anthony Marwood, ConcertgebouwOrchestra flautist Emily Beynon, andpianists Dénes Várjon and Connie Shih.

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PRE-CONCERT TALKwith PAVLO BEZNOSIUK

Free (ticket required)



ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSICPAVLO BEZNOSIUK director, violin

REBECCA BOTTONE soprano

WITCHES AND DEVILS

TELEMANN Concerto in A ‘The Frogs’HANDEL Vocal and instrumental excerpts from AlcinaTARTINI Sonata in G minor ‘The Devil’s Trill’ for violin andbasso continuoCHARPENTIER Scenes from Act 3 of Médée

‘One night in the year 1713, I dreamt I had made a pact withthe devil for my soul.’ So begins Tartini’s account of thecomposition of his Devil’s Trill Sonata, one of four musicaldepictions of the occult in the Academy of Ancient Music’sHalloween concert. The sorceress Alcina and the crazed Medeaare conjured up by soprano Rebecca Bottone, while violinsevoke croaking frogs in Telemann’s extraordinary concerto.

£18 £24 £28 £32


PAVLO BEZNOSIUK Marco Borggreve

EMILY BEYNON Jonas Sacks


LUCY CROWE soprano

EMILY BEYNON flute



Songs by FAURÉSAINT-SAËNS Une flûte invisibleCAPLET Viens! Une flûte invisible soupire ...POULENC Cello SonataJAMES FRANCIS BROWN New Work* (worldpremière)BERLIOZ, FRANCK, MASSENET Songs withcello obbligatoRAVEL Chansons madécasses* Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the supportof André Hoffmann, President of the FondationHoffmann, a Swiss grant making foundation.

Isserlis’s French programme centres uponPoulenc’s neglected masterpiece of 1948

dedicated to Pierre Fournier. On this occasionthe programmatic connection stretches backto Berlioz and subsequent French mastersincluding Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Massenet,Caplet and Ravel – a sensuous vein of eroticlyricism, sure to captivate and entrance.


Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made amajor contribution to the 2011/ 12 Season

Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Steven Isserlis: Voice and Cello Series


SIMON KEENLYSIDE baritone

MALCOLM MARTINEAU piano

MAHLER Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn;Lieder eines fahrenden GesellenSongs by DEBUSSYPOULENC Tel jour, telle nuit

Admired equally for his work on the recital stage as for hispenetrating portrayal onstage of characters ranging fromDon Giovanni to Wozzeck, Simon Keenlyside presents aconcert pairing the exquisite songs of Debussy and Poulencwith a selection of Wunderhorn songs by Mahler, along withthe early Songs of a wayfaring lad, on which they exertedsuch a telling influence.

£18 £25 £30 £35

Song Recital Series

Sunday 6 November 11.30 am

QUATUOR DIOTIMASCHUBERT String Quartet in G minor D173

SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor‘From my life’

The up-and-coming young French QuatuorDiotima is no stranger to London, having wonthe Contemporary Award during the LondonQuartet Festival of 2000 (see also the quartet’sinvolvement in Wigmore Hall’s Thomas LarcherDay on 12 November). For this Coffee Concertthey couple an early but passionate quartetof Schubert’s with the tragic First Quartet ofSmetana. Entitled ‘From my life’, this searingwork concludes with an unbearable portrait insound of his encroaching deafness, which henevertheless integrates into a work ofastonishing mastery.


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SIMON KEENLYSIDE Uwe Arens

QUATUOR DIOTIMA Thibault Stipal

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The Vienna Piano Trio has established a regular Wigmore Hallfollowing and is familiar to Radio 3 audiences from broadcastsand festival appearances throughout the UK. Its special blendof tone colour seems especially suited to the intimacy of thechamber repertoire. Both programmes in this visit open with worksby the founding father of the piano trio: Haydn still astonisheswith his dazzling combination of high comedy and tragedy, andthese two examples of his mature art will not disappoint. Dvorákin many ways shares Haydn’s wide-ranging expression, whileboth Ravel and Shostakovich expand the genre to its naturallimits in terms of imaginative textures and emotional drama.

Monday 7 November 1.00 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIOHAYDN Piano Trio in Eb HXV:29

SCHUBERT Notturno in Eb D897

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

£12 concs £10

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VIENNA PIANO TRIOHAYDN Piano Trio in E minor HXV:12

RAVEL Piano Trio in A minorDVORÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65

£12 £16 £22 £26

Chamber Music Season/Vienna Piano Trio Series


Saturday 10 March 7.30 pmThursday 31 May 7.30 pm

VIENNA PIANO TRIO Nancy Horowitz

ANDREAS HAEFLIGER Marco Borggreve


ANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, première année,Suisse S160

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in G D894

As his contribution to the Liszt bicentenary,sensitive virtuoso Andreas Haefliger takesus on the famous first Year of Pilgrimage,which concentrated upon Switzerland – akaleidoscopic survey of landscape and legendwhich will surely dazzle as much as it delights.It is fitting that the second half moves back toSchubert, whose output Liszt did so much torehabilitate. The G major Sonata is perhapsthe most intimate and rarefied of Schubert’slater masterpieces.

£15 £20 £25 £30


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MARTIN FRÖST clarinet

ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano

CHAUSSON Andante and AllegroHILLBORG Tampere RawWEBER Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op. 48

BERG 4 Pieces for clarinet and piano Op. 5BARTÓK The Night’s Music and The Chase from Out ofDoors SuiteBRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2

Aficionados of great wind-playing will need no inducementto enjoy an evening of essential clarinet repertoire from oneof the instrument’s finest young exponents, Martin Fröst.Alongside standard works by Weber, Brahms and Berg, hewill introduce less familiar pieces and there are bound to besurprises aplenty along the way.

£15 £20 £25 £30



MARK PADMORE tenor



MAGGIE COLE harpsichord

HANDEL Cantata BOCCHERINI Sonata for cello and harpsichordBENNETT Tom O’Bedlam’s Song (for tenorand cello)SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821;Auf dem Strom D943

Songs by PURCELL and SCHUBERT

A third concert from Steven Isserlis during hismini-residency has a dual focus in the presenceof celebrated tenor Mark Padmore and themusical genius of Schubert. To jump from theBaroque to Richard Rodney Bennett is noproblem for Padmore, whose sensitivity to wordand line is now legendary. Similarly, Isserlis willrange from a sonata by Boccherini to Schubert’sonce-problematic sonata for the arpeggione,and will substitute cello for horn in the extendedsong Schubert composed as a tribute toBeethoven in 1828.


Chamber Music Season/ Song Recital Series/Steven Isserlis: Voice and Cello Series

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MARK PADMORE Marco Borggreve

ROLAND PÖNTINEN AND MARTIN FRÖST Mats Bäcker

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COMPOSER FOCUS ON THOMAS LARCHERThomas Larcher, whose ‘extraordinary, arresting,communicative’ music has been hailed by The Timesas ‘one of this century’s wonders’, is the focal pointof this special Wigmore Hall event at which heappears as pianist in two concerts. Hitherto largelyunknown in the UK, the Austrian composer hasleapt to international prominence thanks to thesuccess of his recent CD recording of ‘Madhares’for string quartet. To open Thomas Larcher Day,Quatuor Diotima will present the UK première notonly of this score but also of ‘IXXU’, while in theevening concert the Belcea Quartet is joined byMihaela Ursuleasa for the world première of hisPiano Quintet. Appearances from Pekka Kuusisto,Thomas Demenga, Christina Landshamer andMark Padmore complete a starry line-up whichshould make this special day an unmissable eventfor any devotees of contemporary music.

11.30 am

QUATUOR DIOTIMALARCHER IXXU (UK première)JANÁCEK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’LARCHER Madhares (UK première)


Chamber Music Season/Composer Focus onThomas Larcher

2.00 pm

CHRISTINA LANDSHAMER soprano

PEKKA KUUSISTO violin

THOMAS DEMENGA cello

THOMAS LARCHER piano

LARCHER Mumien; Sonata for cello; Kraken;My illness is the medicine I need



5.30 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALKwith THOMAS LARCHER



7.30 pm

MARK PADMORE tenor

BELCEA QUARTETTHOMAS LARCHER piano

MIHAELA URSULEASA piano

LARCHER Antennen – Requiem for HPiano Quintet (world première)What Becomes; Song cycle

£12 concs £10 (not part of subscription scheme


ALL DAY CONCERT TICKET £20 (not part of subscription scheme)(not including the Pre-Concert Talk)

Saturday 12 November

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PARKER QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 74 No. 1DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

Now in the tenth year of its professional touring career,the Boston-based Parker Quartet couples one of Haydn’s‘Apponyi’ Quartets, works in which he was beginning to bringa concert-hall dimension to this essentially intimate genre,with Debussy’s sole quartet, a heady, allusive work from nearthe beginning of his composing career.


Coffee Concert


EMERSON STRING QUARTET MOZART String Quartet in D K575

MOZART String Quartet in Bb K589 ‘Prussian’MOZART String Quartet in F K590

Over a career lasting three and a half decades, the EmersonQuartet has risen to become one of the most recorded,certainly one of the most recognisable and even one of themost garlanded of all string quartets, with a cabinet burstingwith awards for their performances and recordings. In a pairof concerts at Wigmore Hall they present music from two ofthe early masters of the quartet, Mozart and Beethoven.

£15 £20 £25 £30



EMERSON STRING QUARTET BACH/MOZART Fugue in E from TheWell-tempered Clavier K405

MOZART Adagio and Fugue in C minor K546

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

The Emerson Quartet’s lunchtime concertdemonstrates the influence of the Baroque onMozart, coupling the young Salzburger’sarrangement of one of Bach’s fugues with hisown personal response to the style, andconcludes with Beethoven’s great C sharp minorQuartet, in which he pushed the boundaries ofthe genre further than ever before.

£12 concs £10


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EMERSON STRING QUARTET Lisa Mazzucco

PARKER QUARTET Janette Beckman

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MINETTI QUARTETTILL FELLNER piano

SZYMANOWSKI String Quartet No. 2 Op. 56

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414 (for piano quintet)DVORÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81

An imaginative chamber programme brings to the intimacy ofWigmore Hall the quintet version of Mozart’s ‘little’ A majorPiano Concerto, which he arranged himself, followed by therumbustious energy of Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in the same key.The chamber music of Karol Szymanowski is currently enjoyingsomething of a rehabilitation, which has revealed its combinationof passionate rhetoric and a rich synthesis of styles blendingthe folk-like and the exotically impressionistic.

£15 £20 £25 £30


Tuesday 15 November 7.30 pm(repeated on 17 November 7.30 pm)

PAUL LEWIS piano

SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D935; 6 Moments Musicaux D780;Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’

In recent years, the glories of Schubert’s piano sonatas havebeen steadily revealed, and so far from being the raritiesthey once were, are now fully established in the repertoire.Somewhat ironically, therefore, his long-established reputationas a composer of miniatures for piano has almost beenreversed. Continuing his two-year Wigmore Hall residencyfocusing upon the music of Schubert, Paul Lewis’s solo recitalprovides the perfect rebalancing act, with a concentration onthe late set of Impromptus, followed by the irresistible‘Moments musicaux’. The recital culminates in the coruscatingvirtuosity of the Fantasy based on the song ‘Der Wanderer’.

£18 £25 £30 £35

London Pianoforte Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series

MINETTI QUARTET

CHARLIE PIPER


PRE-CONCERT TALKCHARLIE PIPER introduces his new work

Free to lunchtime concert ticket holders(separate ticket required)



BRITTEN SINFONIATHOMAS GOULD violin MIRANDA DALE violin

CAROLINE DEARNLEY cello

STEPHEN WILLIAMS double bass

JOY FARRALL clarinet SARAH BURNETT bassoon

STEPHEN BELL horn

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders(arr. Hasenöhrl)CHARLIE PIPER New Work (London première)*BRUCH Septet in Eb Op. posth.

*Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia andWigmore Hall

Each concert in the Britten Sinfonia’s acclaimed‘At Lunch’ series features a new workco-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and WigmoreHall. This time it is the turn of Royal College ofMusic graduate Charlie Piper, winner of the2006 Royal Philharmonic Society compositionprize. The centrepiece of the programme isBruch’s Septet. Although the composer is bestknown for his First Violin Concerto, his Septetalso includes powerful melodies and wonderfulstring writing, and with the addition of clarinet,bassoon and horn, Bruch creates an intensity oftimbre that rivals the concerto in richness.

£12 concs £10



RETROSPECT ENSEMBLEMATTHEW HALLS director, harpsichord

BACH Trio Sonata in C BWV1037; Viola da gamba SonataNo. 1 in G BWV1027; Trio Sonata in D (arr. BWV1028);English Suite No. 3 in G minor BWV808; Trio Sonata in G(arr. BWV530)

An evening of intimate chamber music by the great JohannSebastian Bach featuring a distinguished array of soloistsfrom Retrospect Ensemble. Included alongside timelessfavourites are several new arrangements of well-knownpieces. This concert also marks the release of RetrospectTrio’s new CD of Purcell sonatas on the Linn label.

£12 £16 £22 £24



PAUL LEWIS piano

Repeat of concert on 15 November

£18 £25 £30 £35




NASH ENSEMBLERICHARD HOSFORD clarinet

MARIANNE THORSEN violin

RICHARD LESTER cello IAN BROWN piano

CLARA SCHUMANN 3 Romances for violin andpiano Op. 22

ROBERT SCHUMANN 3 Fantasiestücke forclarinet and piano Op. 73

FANNY MENDELSSOHN Movements from PianoTrio in D Op. 11

£6 or £3 with evening concert (separate ticket required)(not part of subscription scheme)




NASH ENSEMBLEWOLFGANG HOLZMAIR baritone

SCHUBERT Quartettsatz in C minor D703

WEBERN Piano Quintet in CMAHLER/SCHOENBERG Lieder eines fahrendenGesellen (for baritone and ensemble)MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:Rheinlegendchen; Revelge; UrlichtBRAHMS Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 60

This two-tier instalment of the Nash Ensemble’sseries Echoes of Romanticism begins with small-scale pieces by Schumann and his wife Clara andby Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny. The main concertranges chronologically from Schubert to earlyWebern, includes Mahler’s Songs of a wayfaringlad sung by Wolfgang Holzmair, and ends withBrahms’s stormy C minor Piano Quartet.

£18 £24 £28 £32


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WOLFGANG HOLZMAIR Ernest W Gruber

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PAUL LEWIS Jack Liebeck

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THOMAS CARROLL cello

LLY^R WILLIAMS piano

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2FRANCK Sonata in A for cello and piano

Two young Welsh artists who have enjoyed remarkablesuccess join forces to give a Wigmore Hall Coffee Concert.Thomas Carroll and Lly^r Williams were both YCAT artists andhave subsequently enjoyed varied careers. It is easy to forgetthat Beethoven brought the cello sonata to prominence, andhis G minor Sonata is a favourite with both pianists and cellistsalike. Nobody needs an introduction to César Franck’s famousA major Sonata – almost as popular now in its transcriptionfor cello as in its original version for violin.


Coffee Concert

RENAUD AND GAUTIER CAPUÇON Marc Ribes

THOMAS CARROLL Hanya ChlalaLLY^R WILLIAMS John Ferro Simms


RENAUD CAPUÇON violin


FRANK BRALEY piano

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1;Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2;Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

As part of Wigmore Hall’s focus on Beethoven’schamber music, brilliant French brothersGautier and Renaud Capuçon team up withtheir regular pianist Frank Braley to explore arich range of music, from the early F majorCello Sonata, through the tempestuousC minor Violin Sonata, to the sublime andserene lyricism of the last piano trio, which wasdedicated to the composer’s friend, pupil andpatron Archduke Rudolph.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamberand Instrumental Series


JERUSALEM QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in D minor K421

DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

One of the most exciting of the younger generation of stringquartets and with a string of recording awards to its name,the Jerusalem Quartet goes from strength to strength andfrom continent to continent, performing at the world’s leadingchamber music venues. Wigmore Hall is pleased to welcomethe ensemble back for a lunchtime concert that is sure todemonstrate what makes this young quartet so exciting.

£12 concs £10



St Cecilia’s Day Concert

Victoria Anniversary Concert

STILE ANTICOTHE IMMORTAL GLORY OF SPAIN

VICTORIA O Quam gloriosamMORALES Jubilate DeoVICTORIA Missa Gaudeamus: Kyrie; MissaGaudeamus: GloriaJANEQUIN La guerreVICTORIA Missa Pro Victoria: Credo; AscendensChristus; O magnum mysteriumPALESTRINA Surge ProperaVICTORIA Missa Surge Propera: Sanctus;Missa Surge Propera: BenedictusGUERRERO Simile Est RegnumVICTORIA Missa Simile Est Regnum: Agnus Dei;Laetatus Sum

In this programme, devised to mark the 400thanniversary of his death in 1611, Stile Anticooffers a fascinating portrait of Tomás Luis deVictoria, the pre-eminent composer of theSpanish Renaissance. Victoria’s dazzlingtechnique and imagination are nowhere clearerthan in his ‘parody’ masses based on the musicof other composers; Stile Antico performsmovements from four of his most celebratedsettings, side-by-side with their parent works –motets by Morales, Guerrero and Palestrina andan energetic chanson by Janequin. Framingthese are some of Victoria’s finest motets.

£15 £20 £25 £30


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JERUSALEM QUARTET Vera Reider

STILE ANTICO Marco Borggreve

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Wigmore Hall and New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) embark ona new cultural partnership with a series of evening recitals taking place over the periodof a week. The programmes are examples of the Society’s thematically organisedpresentations. The first combines classic and modern German repertoire, with works byBeethoven, Schumann and the young composer Jörg Widmann (b. 1973), while thesecond presents a range of music by Russian-born composers, from the Romantic musicof Arensky and Rachmaninov to Shostakovich and a work by Lera Auerbach (b. 1973),written for and dedicated to David Finckel and Wu Han, CMS’s prime movers. The finalprogramme has a woodwind focus, with classics for clarinet surrounding the worldpremière of the Clarinet Trio, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and CMS from the youngAmerican composer Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) especially for this residency.

About this new relationship, Wigmore Hall’s director John Gilhooly stated, ‘We aredelighted to establish a cross-Atlantic partnership with one of the leading venues in theUnited States, and a Chamber Music Society whose mission is so directly aligned to thatof Wigmore Hall. We hope in the future to be able to continue to collaborate creativelywith CMS on the performance, composition and championing of chamber music at thevery highest level.’

This important cultural partnership is made possible by the generous support of American Friends of Wigmore Hall

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A M E R I C A N F R I E N D S O F


ANI KAVAFIAN violin

ARNAUD SUSSMANN violin

PAUL NEUBAUER viola

NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT cello

WU HAN piano

BEETHOVEN String Trio in G Op. 9 No. 1JÖRG WIDMANN String Quartet No. 3 ‘Jagdquartett’SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E b Op. 44

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/ The Chamber MusicSociety of Lincoln Center

ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT

ANI KAVAFIAN ARNAUD SUSSMANN PAUL NEUBAUER

NICOLAS ALSTAEDT WU HAN DAVID FINCKEL

DAVID SHIFRIN



PAUL NEUBAUER viola

DAVID FINCKEL cello


ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT piano

WU HAN piano

ARENSKY String Quartet No. 2 in A minorOp. 35 for violin, viola and 2 cellosLERA AUERBACH Sonata for cello and piano Op. 69

SHOSTAKOVICH Concertino Op. 94

RACHMANINOV Suite No. 2 Op. 17

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/The Chamber MusicSociety of Lincoln Center


DAVID SHIFRIN clarinet

ANI KAVAFIAN violin


PAUL NEUBAUER viola

DAVID FINCKEL cello

WU HAN piano


BRUCH Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola andpiano Op. 83 (selection)PIERRE JALBERT Trio for violin, clarinet and piano(co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall)BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

£15 £20 £25 £30

Chamber Music Season/The Chamber MusicSociety of Lincoln Center

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Thursday 24 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

STILE ANTICOKEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT

Join dynamic presenter ISABELLE ADAMS and the excitingvocal group STILE ANTICO for this concert of inspiring musicfrom the Tudor period. Accompanied by a teachers’ pack fullof related Tudor music activities.

Tickets £2.50 (not part of subscription scheme)

Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust



FLORILEGIUMDAME EMMA KIRKBY soprano

ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS soprano

ASHLEY SOLOMON director

COUPERIN Sonata from Premier Ordre: La Françoise ‘LesNations’; Première Leçon de ténèbres pour le mercredi Saint;Deuxième Leçon de ténèbres pour le mercredi Saint; Suitefrom Premier Ordre: La Françoise ‘Les Nations’; Sonata fromPremier Ordre: L’impériale ‘Les Nations’; Troisième Leçons detenébres pour le Mercredi Saint; Suite from Premier Ordre:L’impériale ‘Les Nations’

In this programme of music by French Baroque master FrançoisCouperin, Florilegium presents two of Les Nations, the earliestof the ordres composed for chamber consort – La Françoise andthe last in the collection, L’Impériale. They will also be joinedby sopranos Dame Emma Kirkby and Elin Manahan Thomas inCouperin’s captivating and delicately scored Leçons de Ténèbres.

£16 £22 £26 £30



ANGELA HEWITT piano

DEBUSSY Children’s CornerFAURÉ Ballade in F# Op. 19

DEBUSSY Pour le piano; Suite bergamasqueROUSSEL L’accueil des muses (in memoriamDebussy)DUKAS La plainte, au loin, du faune (hommageà Debussy)DEBUSSY Masques; L’isle joyeuse

Admirers of Angela Hewitt’s carefully carvedniche within the piano world will rejoice inthis programme largely devoted to the earlymasterworks of Claude Debussy. It is refreshingto find the three early suites given suchprominence and for this concert they are placedalongside a contemporaneous masterpiece byFauré – the great Ballade Op. 19 in its solopiano version – and two later Debussyshowpieces, which will in turn be heard afterrarely performed works written in tribute tohim by Roussel and Dukas.

£15 £20 £25 £30

London Pianoforte Series/Angela Hewitt:French Series


Sunday 12 February 7.30 pm


ANGELA HEWITT Eric Richmond

FLORILEGIUM Amit Lennon

ANGELA HEWITT:FRENCH SERIES

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FAMILY CONCERT Benjamin Harte

KUSS QUARTET Boris Streubel


KUSS QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887

The Kuss Quartet has received numerousplaudits and is a regular guest at the mostrenowned international concert halls. For thisCoffee concert the quartet brings its freshapproach to works by Mozart and Schubert.


Coffee Concert


DAVID SHIFRIN clarinet

ANI KAVAFIAN violin


PAUL NEUBAUER viola

DAVID FINCKEL cello

WU HAN piano


See pages 48– 49 for full details

Saturday 26 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

SACCONI STRING QUARTETCAVATINA FAMILY CONCERT

For age 5 plus

Join the Sacconi Quartet as it plays music from across thecenturies including pieces by Beethoven, Haydn and Janácek.Be inspired, take part in musical games and meet themusicians in this interactive concert full of family fun.


CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, renowned for bringing chamber musicto young people and young people to chamber music, is delighted topresent this concert in association with Wigmore Hall.




PAUL NEUBAUER viola

DAVID FINCKEL cello



WU HAN piano

See pages 48– 49 for full details

CAVATINAChamber Music Trustwww.cavatina.net

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COLIN CARR cello

THOMAS SAUER piano

BEETHOVEN Variations in Eb WoO46 on ‘Bei Männern, welcheLiebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s Die ZauberflöteBEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in D Op. 102 No. 2

For their BBC Lunchtime Concert, British cellist Colin Carrand pianist Thomas Sauer begin with Beethoven’saffectionate set of variations on a well-known tune fromMozart’s The Magic Flute and then couple the singlemiddle-period A major Sonata Op. 69 with the last of all,the second sonata from Op. 102.

£12 concs £10



GARRICK OHLSSON piano

HANDEL Suite No. 2 in F HWV:427

BRAHMS Variations and Fugue on a Theme ofHandel Op. 24

LISZT Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitudeSKRYABIN Trois études Op. 65 and otherworks to be announced

American virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson has recentlyenjoyed critical acclaim for his recording ofthe complete piano variations by Brahms.His welcome return to Wigmore Hall featuresthe most celebrated of these works, the‘Handel’ Variations Op. 24, which were soadmired by Wagner. For the second half heturns to Wagner’s son-in-law Liszt, with theglorious Bénédiction, and will then makeaudible the link between Lisztian virtuosityand the keyboard wizardry of Russianpianist-composer Skryabin.

£15 £20 £25 £30


GARRICK OHLSSON Paul Body

COLIN CARR Jo Schofield


BELCEA QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor Op. 95

‘Serioso’; String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6;String Quartet in Eb Op. 127

The Belcea Quartet returns with its secondcontribution of the season to the BeethovenChamber Music Focus. As before, they span thethree broad groups of Beethoven’s quartets,with the serendipity of the early B flat work ofOp. 18 acting as a foil to the terse tragedy ofOp. 95. The Belceas then focus on the first ofthe late quartets, Op. 127, the work with whichBeethoven embarked upon one of the greatestartistic achievements of Western civilisation.

£12 £16 £22 £26


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ELIZABETH WATTS soprano

VIVALDI Concerto in G minor for strings RV156

SCARLATTI AriasVIVALDI Concerto all’inglese in A for violin and cello RV546

VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for viola d’amore RV394

SCARLATTI AriasVIVALDI Concerto in B minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 10 fromL’estro armonico RV580

The English Concert is joined by Laurence Cummings andElizabeth Watts for the second Italian programme of theirseason. Arias from Alessandro Scarlatti’s numerous butlargely neglected operas reveal a vast array of emotion, fromexuberance to introspection, demanding a technical rangefrom virtuosity to lyrical calm. The English Concert shows offits own virtuosity with a selection of Vivaldi concerti rangingfrom the rarity of the viola d’amore to the fireworks of theL’estro armonico concerto for four violins.

£15 £20 £25 £30


ELIZABETH WATTS Dylan Thomas/SONY Classics

WIGMORE STUDY GROUPFriday 2 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pmThursday 8 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pmWednesday 14 December 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm

THE MUSIC OF MAURICE RAVEL

Shadowing the themes of the Ravel75th Anniversary concert series, this firstWigmore Study Group of the season exploresthe music of Maurice Ravel. Hosted bycomposer JULIAN PHILIPS, the three afternoonswill offer three approaches: a masterclass onRavel’s string quartet, a performance-analysis ofhis piano music and, finally, an explorationof his song settings and the historical contextin which they were written. With contributionsfrom distinguished musicologists andpostgraduate musicians from the GuildhallSchool of Music & Drama. Linked to the eveningconcert Une Rare Émotion with Bernarda Finkon 14 December.

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Friday 2 December 7.30 pm

JOE HENRY singer

BRAD MEHLDAU piano

American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Joe Henry’sdistinctive ability to weave characters and narratives in song,coloured by renowned pianist Brad Mehldau’s penchant for jazzimprovisation and classical counterpoint, will be on display inthe most intimate of settings. Renditions of the contemporarysongbook and some of Henry’s own catalogue will be reworkedfor a special evening of piano, guitar, and voice.

This concert represents the culmination of Brad Mehldau’stwo-year jazz series at Wigmore Hall, in which he hasdemonstrated what a remarkable confluence of inspiration andoriginality is to be found when jazz musicians come together.On this occasion, he teams up with American singer Joe Henryfor what is sure to be a scintillating send off to the series.


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ARTEMIS QUARTETSee pages 56 – 57 for full details

FINZI QUARTET Sussie Ahlburg

JOE HENRY

LOUIS LORTIE Elias

Sunday 4 December 11.30 am

FINZI QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in Bb Op. 50 No. 1BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

The Finzi Quartet came together at the RoyalNorthern College of Music and made its Londondebut only two years ago. They pair the firstof Haydn’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets, composed forthe cello-playing King Frederick William II, withthe orchestral breadth of the first of Brahms’sthree quartets.


Coffee Concert


LOUIS LORTIE piano

LISZT Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année,Italie S161; La lugubre gondola; R.W. – VeneziaS201; Venezia e Napoli S162

Fresh from his much-admired recordings ofBeethoven and Chopin, Lisztians will relish thisopportunity to hear Canadian pianist Louis Lortiein a carefully chosen compendium of Liszt’sItalian masterworks, culminating in his memorialtribute to son-in-law Richard Wagner, whosedeath in Venice in 1883 was a severe blow to hisslightly older colleague, friend and champion.

£15 £20 £25 £30


Monday 5 December 1.00 pm

ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI soprano

DONALD SULZEN piano

VIVALDI Sposa son disprezzataGLUCK O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed ElenaCESTI Intorno all’idol mioMARCELLO Quella fiamma che m’accendeRESPIGHI Sopra un’ aria anticaDONAUDY Freschi luoghi, prati aulenti; Vaghissima sembianza;Or che le rèdole; O del mio amato beneCILEA Serenata; Nel ridestarmi; Non ti voglio amarCATALANI Senza baciMASCAGNI La tua stella; SerenataREFICE Ombra di nube

The unique voice of Anna Caterina Antonacci has a darknessand flexibility that she has put to thrilling use in the operas ofRossini and his Italian followers. Her lunchtime recital alsocovers Italian repertoire, ranging from the Baroque figurationsof Vivaldi to the Romantic richness of later composers such asMascagni, Cilea and Respighi.

‘Anna Caterina Antonacci: the name itself is almost a song.Antonacci may be a soprano but her rich vibrato allows herinto mezzo-soprano repertoire … The voice is big and operatic,with a hint of wildness’ Evening Standard

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KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano

BACH/LISZT Prelude and FugueLISZT Liebesträume S541; Lieder von SchubertS558

CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op. 52; PianoSonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 7 in Bb Op. 83

Khatia Buniatishvili is quickly establishing arunaway reputation as one of the most excitingpianistic talents of the younger generation.Mentored by Martha Argerich and StephenKovacevich, she appeared at the latter’s 70thbirthday concert at Wigmore Hall in 2010,performing Liszt’s Piano Sonata to enormousacclaim. This recital opens with Liszt in popularvein before she turns to two of Chopin’s mostdarkly coloured and dramatic works. She thenputs the piano through its paces in Prokofiev’swartime Seventh Sonata, premièred by thegreat Sviatoslav Richter.

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KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI Julia Wesely

ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI Serge Derossi/Naïve

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To commemorate 75 years in 2012 since thedeath of Maurice Ravel, Wigmore Hallpresents a series of concerts of his songsand piano music, as well as his only stringquartet. The enigmatic, dandyish composerwas at the same time a consummatecraftsman, described by Stravinsky as‘the Swiss watchmaker’ of music for hisfastidious attention to detail, and many ofhis works breathe an exotic, impressionisticair. For Wigmore Hall, pianist ChristopherGlynn curates three recitals exploringRavel’s songs alongside music by hisfriends and contemporaries, while StevenOsborne performs works from Ravel’s smallbut perfectly formed output for the piano.

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Friday 2 December 3.00 pmThursday 8 December 3.00 pmWednesday 14 December 3.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUPSee page 53 for details


ARTEMIS QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5BARTÓK String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7RAVEL String Quartet in F

The Berlin-based Artemis Quartet has recently beenfocusing on the music of Beethoven but for this concertturns to three richly contrasting contributions to thestring quartet literature. In Haydn’s hands the quartetdeveloped from lightweight pieces to take on asymphonic breadth in later works such as this fromhis last completed set of six, while Bartók rose to thechallenge as he embarked on what would becomethe pre-eminent cycle of quartets of the last century.Ravel’s sole String Quartet was rejected by itsdedicatee, Gabriel Fauré, but admired by Debussy andsoon became one of Ravel’s most popular works.

£12 £16 £22 £26

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CHRISTOPHER GLYNN piano

ADAM WALKER flute

MARIE BITLLOCH cello

UNE RARE ÉMOTION –THE SONGS OF MAURICE RAVEL AND HIS CIRCLE

RAVEL Cinq mélodies populaires grecquesRAVEL TripatosSAINT-SAËNS Tournoiement from Mélodies persanesSAINT-SAËNS Une flûte invisibleFAURÉ Les roses d’IspahanFAURÉ Arpège; Le parfum impérissableFAURÉ Fleur jetéeRAVEL ShéhérazadeMASSENET ElégieRAVEL Chansons madécassesDEBUSSY Trois mélodiesRAVEL Trois chansons

The celebrated mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, in thefirst of a series of three concerts devised by ChristopherGlynn, presents songs by Ravel alongside music bycomposers he knew and admired. This concert opensthe series in style, featuring the evocative song-cycleShéhérazade, with which Bernarda Fink is closelyassociated, next to songs by Ravel’s teacher Fauré, andhis older friend Debussy.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary


Sunday 15 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone



STEVEN OSBORNE piano

Saturday 16 June 7.30 pm


Tuesday 26 June 7.30 pm



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ARTEMIS QUARTET

BERNARDA FINK CHRISTOPHER GLYNN

ANNE SCHWANEWILMS Johanna Peine

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ARCANTO QUARTETBERG Lyric SuiteSCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887

The Arcanto Quartet, comprising a stellar array of soloists –Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras – makes this return to Wigmore Hall a nightto remember with two classics of Viennese chamber music.Alban Berg is arguably the greatest of the Second VienneseSchool of composers, a group triggered by teacher ArnoldSchoenberg and completed by fellow pupil Webern. Despiteits renown as a work of intricate technical complexity, theLyric Suite remains an emotionally fervent highlight of early-20th-century music. Schubert’s last string quartet was writtenin 1826 and has a breadth of inspiration which went on toinfluence composers as different in outlook as Bruckner andBrahms, thus providing a natural link from First to SecondViennese Schools.

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ARCANTO QUARTET Marco Borggreve


ANNE SCHWANEWILMS soprano

CHARLES SPENCER piano

MAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen;Verlorne Müh; Ablösung im Sommer;Ich ging mit Lust LISZT Oh! quand je dors; Lieder aus Schillers‘Wilhelm Tell’; Die LoreleyMAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:Das himmlische Leben; Scheiden und Meiden;Lob des hohen Verstandes; Rheinlegendchen;Wo die schönen Trompeten blasenMAHLER Five Rückert Lieder

The electrifying soprano voice of AnneSchwanewilms has made her one of the leadingStrauss singers of our time. In this recital sheturns to Mahler, presenting a sequence of histimeless Wunderhorn songs along with theintimate Rückert Lieder, framing a selection ofsongs by Liszt, as his bicentenary year drawsto a close.

£15 £20 £25 £30

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SIR THOMAS ALLEN baritone


and SAMLING SCHOLARSLISA MILNE soprano

KITTY WHATELY mezzo-soprano

NJABULO MADLALA baritone

WILLIAM VANN piano

SAMLING SHOWCASE

Programme to include:STRAUSS Drei Lieder der Ophelia MAHLER Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Songs by DUPARCDuets by MENDELSSOHNOpera arias and ensembles by BEETHOVEN, ROSSINIand MOZART

This annual Showcase will celebrate fifteen years of Samling’swork with outstanding young singers and pianists through itsinternationally recognised Masterclass Programme. Led by SirThomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau, who have been involvedfrom the beginning, the concert will feature Samling’s Scholarsfrom the earliest days to its most recent graduates.

‘These young singers ... represent the bright hopes of ouropera houses and recital halls, and I can’t be alone in feelingcomforted that Allen’s legacy is already securing their future’The Arts Desk 11.12.2010

£15 £20 £25 £30

There are a limited number of tickets which include a three-course dinner,wine and coffee with the artists after the concert in the Bechstein Room.These are priced £125 and are available exclusively from Samling on01434 602885 or by email to [email protected]

Song Recital Series



NASH ENSEMBLEMARIANNE THORSEN violinLAURA SAMUEL violinLAWRENCE POWER violaPHILIP DUKES violaPAUL WATKINS celloTIM HUGH cello

MENDELSSOHN Theme and Variations in E andScherzo in A minor for string quartet Op. 81

Nos. 1 and 2SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht for stringsextet Op. 4SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956

The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string playerspresent a pair of quartet movements byMendelssohn, Schoenberg’s early, ultra-Romantic tone poem for sextet, TransfiguredNight, and one of the all-time masterpieces ofchamber music, the String Quintet written bySchubert in the last months of his short life.

£15 £20 £25 £30


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LISA MILNE Clive Barda

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MALCOLM MARTINEAU Russell Duncan

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EMMANUEL PAHUD Sheila Rock

VÉRONIQUE GENS M. Ribes & A. Vo Van Tao


VÉRONIQUE GENS soprano

SUSAN MANOFF piano

Songs by MASSENET, GOUNOD and HAHN

Véronique Gens has built a strong reputationas a Baroque specialist but has madesuccessful forays into later music, scoringnotable successes not only in the operas ofMozart but especially as an interpreter of theFrench Romantic vocal masterpieces of Berlioz,Debussy and Canteloube. This lunchtimeconcert offers an opportunity to hear herunique voice in a selection of the repertoireshe loves.

£12 concs £10



PHILIP MOORE piano

SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS piano

RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances Op. 45

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring (for piano duo)

It would be difficult to imagine a greater Christmas treat thanthis feast of Russian dance-inspired music. It used to bethought that Rachmaninov and Stravinsky were poles apartbut, as the two leading Russian exiles who refused to embracethe Soviet Union as residents, they had far more in commonthan might be apparent. The Rite of Spring and the SymphonicDances are familiar in their inimitable orchestral colours butthese versions for two pianists have astonishing visceral powerand propulsive rhythmic energy.


Coffee Concert


EMMANUEL PAHUD flute

YEFIM BRONFMAN piano

SCHUMANN 3 Romances Op. 94

BRAHMS Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2 (arr. for flute and piano)MOZART Flute Sonata in E minorPROKOFIEV Flute Sonata in D Op. 94

Emmanuel Pahud is today’s celebrity flautist, occupying, likehis great predecessor James Galway, the principal chair in theBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His partnership with YefimBronfman is emphatically one of equals. Original repertoire forflute and piano is rather thin on the ground, however, so onthis occasion Pahud will lend his virtuosity to works by Mozart,Schumann and Brahms originally conceived for violin, oboeand clarinet respectively. The tables were turned, however,when Prokofiev’s Flute Sonata Op. 94 was transcribed for violinby the great David Oistrakh!

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QUATUOR EBÈNEPROKOFIEV String Quartet No. 1 in B minor Op. 50

DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor Op. 10

BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

British audiences can’t get enough of Quatuor Ebène followingits triumph at the 2009 Gramophone Awards! That winningdisc featured Debussy’s sadly single G minor Quartet, whichwill also form the centrepiece of this Wigmore Hall programme.Prokofiev’s quartets are still too little known and so thewelcome airing of his First will be nicely complemented bythe second of Brahms’s three essays in the form.

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PRE-CONCERT EVENTRAZUMOVSKY ACADEMY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL

The Razumovsky Academy provides an environment whereexceptionally gifted young musicians work with some of theworld’s finest artists and teachers. This concert is anopportunity to hear potential stars of the future at an earlystage in their careers.


or free with evening concert (separate ticket required)



RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLEBRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50

‘... they open a world of music-makingfabulously rich in tone colours, ensembleprecision, and lyrical sweep of a kind rarelymet this side of paradise ... Each Razumovskymember may be king of their choseninstrument, but they scale the heavens as ateam. England’s sport teams could learn agreat deal’ The Times

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ADAM WALKER flute

MARIE BITLLOCH cello

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BERNARDA FINK Klemen Breitfuss

QUATUOR EBÈNE Julien Mignot

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SALLY MATTHEWS soprano

KAREN CARGILL mezzo-soprano

SIMON LEPPER piano

PURCELL/BRITTEN Sound the trumpet; Fairest isle; Lost is myquiet; Music for a while; What can we poor females do?MENDELSSOHN Ich wollt’ meine Lieb’ ergöße sich;Abschiedslied der Zugvögel; Gruß; Auf Flügeln des Gesanges;Nachtlied; Herbstlied; Neue Liebe; Volkslied; Maiglöckchenund die Blümelein BRAHMS Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuer; Klosterfräulein;Die Schwestern; Phänomen; Dein blaues Auge hält so still;Die Boten der Liebe GOUNOD D’un cœur qui t’aimeCHAUSSON La nuitSAINT-SAËNS El DesdichadoMASSENET Rêvons, c’est l’heureFAURÉ Tarentelle

Young British singers Sally Matthews and Karen Cargill joinforces with one of the leading accompanists of the youngergeneration, Simon Lepper, for a programme that will coverthree languages and as many centuries. Without BenjaminBritten, the songs of Purcell would have remained in relativeobscurity. Mendelssohn is still less celebrated as a Liedercomposer than he deserves and a rich selection from therepertoire of French mélodie and chanson will bring a smileto the coldest of winter faces.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Song Recital Series

SALLY MATTHEWS Johan Persson

KAREN CARGILL Ken Dundas

ELIAS STRING QUARTET Benjamin Ealovega


ELIAS STRING QUARTETBACH 3 Fugues from The Art of FugueHAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2BEETHOVEN String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 withGrosse Fuge Op. 133

Making a welcome second appearance thisseason, the brilliant young Elias Quartet conjuresa programme connected by the intimacy andmagic of the fugue. Bach’s Art of Fugue was onhis desk when he died and, although notspecified as such, is admirably suited to thestring quartet as definitively established somedecades later by Joseph Haydn. His Op. 20 ‘Sun’Quartets are a compendium of contrapuntaldexterity and it would be difficult to imagine agreater fugal Everest than Beethoven’s GrosseFuge, with which he always intended to concludehis Bb Quartet Op. 130.

£12 £16 £22 £26




Saturday 17 December 11.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLISLEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIESSTEVEN ISSERLIS IN CONVERSATION WITH IVRY GITLIS

In this ‘Artists in Conversation’ series, the prodigious StevenIsserlis talks to three legendary musicians who have had amajor influence on him, about their lives and artistry.

The first of these conversations is with the legendary violinistIvry Gitlis, who has a long association with Wigmore Hallhaving made a triumphant return to the London stage in 1996,after a long absence, to mark the 50th anniversary of hisWigmore Hall debut. More recently he has performed here asa chamber musician with IMS Prussia Cove and Steven Isserlis.

For the other two conversations in the series, Steven Isserliswill be joined by Ida Haendel and Marta Casals Istomin.

All seats £15 (not part of subscription scheme)



GUARNERI TRIO PRAGUEBRAHMS Piano Trio No. 2 in C Op. 87

SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor Op. 15

Guarneri Trio Prague comes to Wigmore Hall with the only pianotrio by its celebrated compatriot Bedrich Smetana. This earlywork is brimful with folk-like melody and enchanting textures.Brahms’s Second Trio, on the other hand, is a work of his richmaturity and a peak of the 19th-century chamber repertoire.


Coffee Concert



BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988

For his second appearance this season atWigmore Hall, Andreas Staier returns with afortepiano on which he will essay one of thegreatest works ever written for keyboard.Even if its origins as an attempted cure foraristocratic insomnia are apocryphal, thereis no denying the sheer ingenuity with whichBach weaves 30 astonishingly contrastedvariations from an aria of deceptively simplecountenance. For a work which is mostfrequently heard on the harpsichord or themodern piano – let alone by string trio or evenharp! – it should be equally fascinating to hearhow it fares on the fortepiano, an instrumentwith which Bach was just about familiar.

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JOSÉ GALLARDO piano

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata to be announcedPROKOFIEV Cello Sonata in C Op. 119

BOULANGER Trois piècesPIAZZOLLA Le Grand Tango (for cello and piano)

BBC New Generation Artist Nicolas Altstaedt wasone of the last pupils of Boris Pergamenschikowand creates something of a splash wherever heperforms. He demonstrates his unassailabletechnique in an eclectic programme rangingfrom the Classicism of Beethoven to the cooltango of Piazzolla, via the French poise ofBoulanger and the paradoxically melodioussonata of Prokofiev, composed for Rostropovichduring one of the Soviet composer’s darkest andmost challenging times.

£12 concs £10

Nicolas Altstaedt is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme


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NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT Marco Borggreve

‘The most perfect piano playing conceivable’The Guardian

With an artistic vision that transcends fashions and trends, StephenHough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctivepianists of his generation. In recognition of his achievements, he wasawarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining prominent scientists,writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporarylife. Hough has appeared with most of the major European and Americanorchestras and plays recitals regularly in the major halls and concertseries around the world. John Gilhooly has invited him for a specialseason-long residency, with an emphasis on piano quintets.

‘String quartets and solo pianists have by far the greatest repertoire,both in terms of size and quality. It is no surprise then that when theyjoin forces they form the grandest of chamber music groups – truly anorchestra in miniature. Each concert has a national theme, and theseries as a whole shares a common structure: before the interval, solopiano pieces and a string quartet; after the interval, the five playersunited in four contrasting masterpieces’ Stephen Hough

STEPHEN HOUGH: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE


STEPHEN HOUGH piano

SKAMPA QUARTETJANÁCEK Piano Sonata I.X.1905 ‘From the Street’ SMETANA StringQuartet No. 2 in D minor DVORÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81

Wigmore Hall’s Dvorák Plus series continues with this concert in whichpianist Stephen Hough is joined by the enterprising Skampa Quartet forthat ever-popular party piece, Dvorák’s Piano Quintet in A. Less bucolicand benign are Janácek’s solitary Piano Sonata celebrating gruesomeevents in 1905, while Smetana’s late last string quartet is a portrait insound of his crumbling mental stability.

£15 £20 £25 £30

Supported by the Season Patrons – who have made a major contribution to the2011/12 Season

Chamber Music Season/Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence/Dvorák Plus Series


Tuesday 24 January 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano & JUILLIARD QUARTET

Wednesday 7 March 10.00 am

STEPHEN HOUGH MASTERCLASS

Thursday 8 March 7.30 pm

STEPHEN HOUGH piano & HEATH QUARTET


STEPHEN HOUGH piano & ENDELLION QUARTET

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PRE-CONCERT TALKTalk on Yeats and the Celtic Revival withPROFESSOR ROY FOSTER





MADELEINE SHAW mezzo-soprano

IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

NEAL DAVIES bass baritone

ADAM WALKER flute

NICHOLAS DANIEL cor anglais

HEATH QUARTETELIZABETH KENNY lute

JULIUS DRAKE piano

OLD AND NEW ELIZABETHANS

DOWLAND Lute songs and consortsWARLOCK Elizabethan songs; The curlew; Songs with piano




BAIBA SKRIDE violin

LAUMA SKRIDE piano

MOZART Violin Sonata in Bb K454

MENDELSSOHN Violin Sonata in FVĪTOLS RomancePROKOFIEV Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80

Latvian sisters Baiba and Lauma Skride bringto London the music of their compatriot JazepsVītols, and couple it with violin sonatas fromthe 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Mozart’s andMendelssohn’s sonatas remain among theirleast-known works but demonstrate all themastery of their finest. Prokofiev’s sonata, hisonly major work conceived for violin and piano,was composed for the great David Oistrakh.

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BAIBA AND LAUMA SKRIDE Marco Borggreve

SOPHIE DANEMAN Sandra Lousada

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HEATH QUARTET Sussie Ahlburg

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HEATH QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in Eb Op. 74 ‘Harp’LUKE BEDFORD String Quartet (world première)*SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’*Commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of AndréHoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grantmaking foundation.

The Heath Quartet is one of Britain’s boldest young chamberensembles, with a reputation for diverse and challengingprogramming, exemplified here by the world première of anew string quartet by Wigmore Hall composer in residenceLuke Bedford. Beethoven’s ‘Harp’ Quartet is so-called becausea proliferation of pizzicato writing suggested to many theethereal sounds of the eponymous instrument. Schubert’sA minor Quartet is one of his most lyrical chamber works andone of its movements elaborates upon his incidental music forRosamunde in a manner inimitably his own.

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RETROSPECT ENSEMBLE Stephen Page

JOANNE LUNN Andrew Redpath


RETROSPECT ENSEMBLEMATTHEW HALLS director, harpsichord

JOANNE LUNN soprano

CHRISTOPHER AINSLIE countertenor

CHARLES DANIELS tenor

PETER HARVEY bass

BACH Cantata BWV110 ‘Unser Mund sei vollLachens’; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 inD BWV1050; Magnificat BWV243

An evening of Baroque musical fireworks toround off the year in fitting style. The singersand players of Retrospect Ensemble will beraising the roof in this explosive programmeof Bach’s greatest hits. With a line up ofinternational vocal superstars and a batteryof trumpets and drums, this is a New Year’sEve concert not to be missed!

£12 £18 £22 £25


Saturday 17 September 11.30 am – 3.00 pm

OPEN HOUSE DAYVisit Wigmore Hall between 11.30 am and 3.00 pm; join in withcreative music workshops at 12.00 noon, 1.00 pm and 2.00 pmled by RUS PEARSON, and hear performances by IGNITE at12.30 pm, 1.30 pm and 2.30 pm.

Admission free (no booking required)

Saturday 24 September 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

COME AND SING: BYRDFor adults – no singing experience required

ISABELLE ADAMS leads a day of singing workshops for adults,inspired by the William Byrd Festival at Wigmore Hall. Learnsome new songs, join in with fun vocal warm-ups and finishthe day with a performance on the Wigmore Hall stage.Open to everyone – all activities will be inclusive and musicwill be taught by ear.


Linked to the The Cardinall’s Musick concert on 7 October, concerttickets to be purchased separately

Saturday 1 October 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

GIANTS, LYRICS AND LIONSFAMILY DAY

For age 7 plus

Discover the story of Hercules and his battleswith lions, giants and bulls found in sculpturesand armour at the Wallace Collection. Usethis as your inspiration to write songs with apublished author and professional musician,and perform these on the Wigmore Hall stageat the end of the day.

Adults £12 Children £8


In partnership with the Wallace Collection

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Events on pages 67 – 69 will open for booking on 1 July, with the exception of the events on 24 September,15 October and 26 November, which will go on sale alongside the other concerts in the September –December Wigmore series.

EVENTS FOR FAMILIES,YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS

Family Events are supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust andThe Andor Charitable Trust

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Friday 14 October 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

ABRACADABRAKEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT

Join musicians from the fabulous AURORA ORCHESTRA andspecial guests for this magical concert of live music, illusionand trickery. You won’t believe your eyes!

Tickets £2.50


Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust

Saturday 15 October 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm

ABRACADABRAFAMILY CONCERT

For age 5 plus

A repeat of the concert on 14 October for families.


Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 October10.00 am – 3.30 pm

ART AS MUSICHALF TERM COURSE

For ages 11 – 16 years

Join creative ensemble IGNITE to explore anew sound world inspired by art. Find out howcomposers such as Björk, John Cage and MortonFeldman have used abstract art in exciting newways; design your own graphic scores anddiscover the music of chance! You will even getto perform your new pieces on the WigmoreHall stage at the end of this half-term course.For instrumentalists grade 3 and up.

£40 per ticket

Supported by Arts Council England and Mayfield ValleyArts Trust



Saturday 5 November 10.30 am – 3.30 pm

A TEMPESTUOUS VOYAGEFAMILY DAY

For age 5 plus

Join composer JAMES REDWOOD and director HAZEL GOULDfor a stormy voyage and discover the music and madness ofShakespeare’s The Tempest. Explore the shipwrecks andmagic in the story, be inspired by songs by Vaughan Williamsand even write your own music to bring the story to life.



Thursday 24 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

STILE ANTICOKEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS’ CONCERT

Join dynamic presenter ISABELLE ADAMS and exciting vocalgroup STILE ANTICO for this concert of inspiring music fromthe Tudor period. Accompanied by a teachers’ pack full ofrelated Tudor music activities.

Tickets £2.50


Supported by John Lyon’s Charity and The Samuel SebbaCharitable Trust

Saturday 26 November 11.00 am – 12.00 noon

CAVATINA FAMILY CONCERTFor age 5 plus

Join the SACCONI QUARTET as it plays musicfrom across the centuries including pieces byBeethoven, Haydn and Janacék – be inspired,take part in musical games and meet themusicians in this interactive concert full offamily fun.



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

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Wednesday 4 January 7.30 pm

CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano

MATTHEW WADSWORTH theorbo

ECHOES OF VENICE

Programme to include:STROZZI Udite, amantiCACCINI Lasciatemi morireMONTEVERDI Lamento d’Arianna from Arianna


CAROLYN SAMPSON Annelies van der Vegt

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW Herbie Knott

Thursday 5 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIANE IVEN mezzo-soprano

HARIOLF SCHLICHTIG viola

ANDRÁS SCHIFF piano

SCHUBERT Der Fischer; Meeres Stille; Der Zwerg;Die Liebe hat gelogen; Du liebst mich nicht;Atys; Rastlose LiebeBRAHMS Meine Liebe ist grün; Die Mainacht;Unbewegte laue Luft; Auf dem Kirchhofe;Von ewiger LiebeBRAHMS 2 Songs with viola Op. 91

SCHUMANN Fünf Lieder Op. 40

SCHUMANN Märchenbilder Op. 113

SCHUMANN Frauenliebe und -leben

Song Recital Series

Friday 6 January 7.30 pm

CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano

MOZART Piano Sonata in C K279; Piano Sonatain F K280; Piano Sonata in D K311; Piano Sonatain Bb K570; Piano Sonata in A minor K310


PREVIEW JANUARY – MARCH 2012

These concerts (except the 7.30 pm concert on 5 March) are not bookable on this brochure. Bookingdates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure availablefrom late September 2011.



FLORESTAN TRIOBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3; Variationsin Eb on an Original Theme Op. 44; Piano Trio in D Op. 70

No. 1 ‘Ghost’



AVIV STRING QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in D K499 ‘Hoffmeister’TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 3 in Eb minor Op. 30

Coffee Concert


RAPHAEL WALLFISCH cello

JOHN YORK piano

Programme to include:DELIUS Romance; Caprice and Elegy; Cello SonataGRIEG Cello Sonata in A minor Op. 36


Monday 9 January 1.00 pm

LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLEPOULENC Sextet for piano and windMOZART Adagio and Rondo in C minor K617

BEETHOVEN Quintet in Eb for piano and windOp. 16



PRE-CONCERT EVENTRAZUMOVSKY YOUNG ARTISTS RECITAL



RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLE Programme to be announced


RAPHAEL WALLFISCH

AVIV STRING QUARTET

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LONDON CONCHORD ENSEMBLE Patrick Allen, Opera Omnia



JULIA KLEITER soprano

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor

JULIUS DRAKE piano

THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS

WOLF Mörike: Der Knabe und das Immlein; Nixe Binsefuss;Elfenlied; Begegnung; Der Gärtner; An die Geliebte;Der FeuerreiterWOLF Goethe: Ganymed; Die Spröde; Gleich und gleich;Die Bekehrte; Ritter Kurts Brautfahrt; Der neue Amadis;Genialisch Treiben; St Nepomuks VorabendWOLF Mörike Geistliche Lieder: Neue Liebe; Zum neuen Jahr;Karwoche; Auf ein altes Bild; Gebet; Seufzer; Wo find ichTrost?; Denk’ es, o Seele!; Schlafendes Jesuskind

Song Recital Series


FLORESTAN TRIOBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Bb Op. 11; Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2;Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2



EARLY OPERA COMPANYCHRISTIAN CURNYN director

CHARPENTIER ActéonPURCELL Dido and Aeneas



FLORESTAN TRIOBEETHOVEN Variations in G Op. 121a ‘Ich binder Schneider Kakadu’; Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1No. 1; Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’




NASH ENSEMBLEALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano


BEETHOVEN Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 16

MAHLER Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews)SCHUBERT Octet in F D803



BORCIANI STRING QUARTETCOMPETITION PRIZEWINNER’SCONCERT Artists and programme to be announced

Coffee Concert

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JULIA KLEITER

ALICE COOTE Anne Marie Le Blé



CHRISTOPHER MALTMAN baritone


UNE RARE ÉMOTION – THE SONGS OF MAURICE RAVELAND HIS CIRCLE

RAVEL D’Anne qui me jecta de la neige; D’Anne jouant del’espinette; Ronsard à son âme; Manteau de fleurs; SainteCHABRIER Lied; L’île heureuse; Chanson pour Jeanne;Villanelle des petits canardsRAVEL Histoires naturelles; Deux mélodies hébraïques;Chanson hébraïque from Chants populairesVAUGHAN WILLIAMS Let beauty awake from Songs of Travel;The water mill; Silent noon from The House of LifeRAVEL Si morne!; Un grand sommeil noir; Les grands ventsvenus d’outremer; Don Quichotte à Dulcinée



HANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN bass baritone

HENDRIK HEILMANN piano

Programme to be announced



ZEHETMAIR QUARTETHINDEMITH String Quartet No. 5SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887



CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BASELJULIA SCHRÖDER conductor

MARK PADMORE tenor

OLIVIER DARBELLAY horn

PURCELL Thou wakeful shepherd (A MorningHymn); Now that the sun hath veiled its light(An Evening Hymn); Let the night perish( Job’s Curse)BRITTEN Serenade Op. 31 for tenor, horn andstrings MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A

Song Recital SeriesHANNO MÜLLER-BRACHMANN Monika Rittershaus

ZEHETMAIR QUARTET Keith Pattison

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BASEL

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KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT fortepiano

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in F Op. 5 No. 1; Cello Sonata in COp. 102 No. 1; 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel’s JudasMaccabaeus WoO45; Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 5 No. 2


ECMA SHOWCASEFriday 20 January 1.00 pmSaturday 21 January 11.00 am – MasterclassSaturday 21 January 4.00 pmSunday 22 January 4.00 pm

TRIO ATANASSOVQUATUOR ZAÏDETRIO GASPARDProgramme to include:SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 67

BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’




KRISTIAN BEZUIDENHOUT fortepiano

BEETHOVEN 7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern,welche Liebe fühlen’ from Mozart’s DieZauberflöte WoO46; Cello Sonata in D Op. 102

No. 2; 12 Variations in F on ‘Ein Mädchen oderWeibchen’ from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Op. 66;Cello Sonata in A Op. 69



BELCEA QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2;String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in C# minor Op. 131

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamber and Instrumental Series



NASH ENSEMBLESTEPHANIE GONLEY violin

SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS piano

RICHARD WATKINS horn

MOZART Serenade in C minor K388 (arr. Rechtmanfor wind quintet)MENDELSSOHN Concert Piece in F Op. 113

BRAHMS Horn Trio in Eb Op. 40

Coffee Concert/Echoes of Romanticism

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PIETER WISPELWEY Hang-Jin Cho

NASH ENSEMBLE Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL



TAKÁCS QUARTET HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 64 No. 5 ‘The Lark’DVORÁK String Quartet in Eb Op. 51



NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO piano

SCHUBERT 4 Impromptus D899; Drei Klavierstücke D946;Piano Sonata in C minor D958



STEPHEN HOUGH piano

JUILLIARD STRING QUARTETFELDMAN VariationsCARTER String Quartet No. 5 (1995)LIEBERMANN Quintet

Chamber Music Season/Stephen Hough: Artist in Residence


BRITTEN SINFONIANICHOLAS DANIEL oboe

SARAH BURNETT bassoon

HUW WATKINS piano

HANDEL Trio Sonata ANDRÉ PREVIN Trio for piano, oboe and bassoonELSPETH BROOKE New Work (London première)POULENC Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano



JAMES EHNES violin

ANDREW ARMSTRONG piano

TARTINI/KREISLER Violin Sonata in G minor‘Devil’s Trill’BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24

‘Spring’PAGANINI 4 Caprices from 24 Caprices Op. 1FRANCK Sonata in A for violin and piano


Thursday 26 January 3.00 – 6.00 pmTuesday 31 January 3.00 – 6.00 pmThursday 2 February 3.00 – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUPTHE SOLDIER’S TALE

This second Wigmore Study Group of the seasonexplores the story of The Soldier’s Tale andStravinsky’s setting of the text, linked to theevening concert performance of the work on3 February with Janine Jansen.


TAKÁCS QUARTET Ellen Appel

NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO Kirill Bachkirov

JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET Steve J Sherman



ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano

JULIUS DRAKE piano


Song Recital Series


MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet

LONDON WINDSMICHAEL COLLINS BIRTHDAY CONCERT

MOZART Parto, parto from La clemenza di Tito; ClarinetConcerto in A K622; Serenade in Bb for 13 wind instrumentsK361 ‘Gran Partita’




JULIUS DRAKE piano

Repeat of concert on 26 January

Song Recital Series


ZEMLINSKY QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6SUK Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale(St Wenceslas) Op. 35aMENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minorOp. 44 No. 2

Coffee Concert


ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSICSONG CIRCLEA Schubertiade devoted to songs inspired bythe poetry of his friends. The recital will containsettings of Bruchmann, Collin, Mayrhofer,Schlechta, Schober, Seidl, Senn, von Spaun andSchubert himself.

Song Recital Series


SOL GABETTA cello

BERTRAND CHAMAYOU piano

SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op. 73

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in A Op. 69

MENDELSSOHN Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 58

SERVAIS Fantaisie sur deux Airs Russes Op. 13


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MICHAEL COLLINS Eric Richmond

SOL GABETTA Marco Borggreve



ELIAS STRING QUARTETProgramme to be announced



CLASSICAL OPERA COMPANYIAN PAGE conductor

Programme to include:MOZART Ah, lo previdi ... Ah, t’invola agl’occhi miei;E Susanna non vien ... Dove sono i bei momenti fromLe nozze di Figaro; Bella mia fiamma ... Resta, o cara;Symphony No. 40 in G minor K550



WERNER GÜRA tenor


SCHUBERT SchwanengesangSongs by SCHUBERT

Song Recital Series

Wednesday 1 February 7.30 pm


EMANUEL AX piano

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12

No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 3 in Eb Op. 12 No. 3;Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1; ViolinSonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2



Soprano to be announced



DVORÁK Duets

Song Recital Series/Dvorák Plus Series



STACEY WATTON double bass

LARS WOUTERS VAN DENOUDENWEIJER clarinet

FREDERIK EKDAHL bassoon

REINHOLD FRIEDRICH trumpet

JÖRGEN VAN RIJEN trombone

GUSTAVO GIMENO percussionNarrator to be announced

STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale


LEONIDAS KAVAKOS Yannis Bournias

WERNER GÜRA Monika Rittershaus



JANINE JANSEN FAMILY CONCERTSTRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale



BENNEWITZ QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in Eb Op. 33 No. 2 ‘The Joke’SCHNITTKE String Quartet No. 3DVORÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106


Sunday 5 February 11.30 am

ANTHONY HEWITT piano

SCHUBERT Impromptu in Eb D899 No. 2; Impromptu No. 2in Ab D935

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Op. 109

SKRYABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F# Op. 30

CHOPIN Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Polonaise-fantaisie in AbOp. 61; Polonaise in Ab Op. 53 ‘Heroic’

Coffee Concert


MALIN CHRISTENSSON soprano

SIMON LEPPER piano


Song Recital Series


ALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano

BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 2 in F# minor Op. 2;Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann inF# minor Op. 9



MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano

HAYDN Piano Sonata in E minor HXVI:34

STOCKHAUSEN Klavierstücke IXVILLA-LOBOS RudepoemaLISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178


Tuesday 7 February 7.30 pm

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in Eb Op. 71 No. 3WALTON String Quartet in A minorBEETHOVEN String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3‘Razumovsky’


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MALIN CHRISTENSSON Sussie Ahlburg

MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN Fran Kaufman



JOHN MARK AINSLEY tenor


MENDELSSOHN Neue Liebe; Gruß; Allnächtlich im Traume;Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; ReiseliedBRAHMS Sommerabend; Mondenschein; Es schauen dieBlumen; Meerfahrt; Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht;Es liebt sich so lieblich im Lenze SCHUMANN Dichterliebe

Song Recital Series



NASH ENSEMBLEDAME FELICITY LOTT soprano

PAUL WATKINS conductor

WAGNER Siegfried Idyll (original version)MOZART String Quintet in C K515

R STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio Op. 85; Last scene fromCapriccio for voice and ensemble (arr. D Matthews)



PRAZAK QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in D K575

BRAHMS String Quartet in Bb Op. 67

Coffee Concert


BEN JOHNSON tenor

GRAHAM JOHNSON piano

Programme to include:POULENC Tel jour, telle nuit

Song Recital Series


KARINA GAUVIN soprano

ANDREA OLIVA flute

ANGELA HEWITT piano

HAHN Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Si mes versavaient des ailes; A Chloris; Le printemps DEBUSSY Chansons de BilitisJOLIVET Chant de LinosPOULENC Sonata for flute and pianoFAURÉ Sérénade toscane; Automne; Après unrêve; Nell; En sourdine; Notre amour RAVEL La flûte enchantée from ShéhérazadeBIZET Adieux de l’hôtesse arabe; Guitare;La coccinelle; Ouvre ton cœur

Song Recital Series/Angela Hewitt: French Series

PRAZAK QUARTET

DAME FELICITY LOTT Trevor Leighton

KARINA GAUVIN Michael Slobodian



ESCHER QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5BARTÓK String Quartet No. 5

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



MARK PADMORE tenor

PAUL LEWIS piano


Song Recital Series/Paul Lewis – Schubert Series


ALEXANDRE THARAUD piano

SCARLATTI SonatasLISZT Funérailles S173 No. 7

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’



MARK PADMORE tenor

PAUL LEWIS piano

Repeat of concert on 14 February



CECILIA QUARTETWINNER OF THE 2010 BANFF INTERNATIONALSTRING QUARTET COMPETITION

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 135

BERG Lyric Suite

Coffee Concert


SOPHIE KARTHÄUSER soprano


Songs by FAURÉ, MERNIER, DEBUSSY,FOCCROULLE and HAHN

Song Recital Series


ALEXANDRA SOUMM violin

PLAMENA MANGOVA piano


Alexandra Soumm is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme


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ESCHER QUARTET J. Henry Fair

ALEXANDRE THARAUD Marco Borggreve

CECILIA QUARTET Meilssa Sung/The Banff Centre




IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

AURORA ORCHESTRANICHOLAS COLLON conductor


FIGURES FROM THE ANCIENT

BRITTEN Phaedra Op. 93

SATIE The Death of Socrates from SocrateHANDEL Cantata: O numi eterni (La Lucrezia) HWV145

SCARLATTI Cantata: Io son Neron, l’imperator del mondo



LUCY CROWE soprano


BERG Sieben frühe LiederWALTON A Song for the Lord Mayor’s TableSongs by PURCELL, SCHUBERT, STRAUSS and DEBUSSYTRAD. Folksongs

Song Recital Series



RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit; Pavane pour uninfante défunte; Minuet on the name of Haydn;A la manière de … Chabrier; A la manière de …Borodine; Sérénade grotesque; Menuet inC# minor; Jeux d’eau; Prélude; La valse

London Pianoforte Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary


SCOTTISH ENSEMBLELAWRENCE POWER viola

HAYDN Symphony No. 44 in E minor ‘Trauer’LUKE BEDFORD New WorkALWYN Pastorial FantasiaMOZART Sinfonia concertante in Eb K364



STEVEN ISSERLISLEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIESSTEVEN ISSERLIS in conversation withIDA HAENDEL


ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER Nikolaus Karlinsky

STEVEN OSBORNE Benjamin Ealovega



RONALD BRAUTIGAM fortepiano

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor Op. 13

‘Pathétique’; 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Themein Eb ‘Eroica Variations’ Op. 35; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minorOp. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’; Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57

‘Appassionata’



PANOCHA QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in D minor K421

DVORÁK String Quartet in F Op. 96 ‘American’

Coffee Concert


EKATERINA SEMENCHUK mezzo-sopranoPianist to be announced

TCHAIKOVSKY My genius, my angel, my friend TCHAIKOVSKY Six mélodies Op. 65

TCHAIKOVSKY Do not believe, my friend; Why?; A Tear Trembles;None but the lonely heart; The Fearful Moment; It was in theearly spring; Amid the din of the ball; On the golden cornfields;The mild stars shone for us; Frenzied nights; The first meeting;The fires in the room were already out; Does the day reign?

Song Recital Series


CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 76 No. 5RAVEL String Quartet in FBRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2



NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY piano



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RONALD BRAUTIGAM Marco Borggreve

EKATERINA SEMENCHUK Sheila Rock


NIKOLAÏ LUGANSKY James McMillan/Onyx


ROBERT HOLL baritone


SCHUMANN From Myrthen: Freisinn; Dein Angesicht; Du bistwie eine Blume; Aus den östlichen Rosen; Was will die einsameTräne? Zum SchlußSCHUBERT Totengräbers Heimweh; Der Jüngling und der Tod;Der Tod und das Mädchen; Die Mutter Erde; AuflösungSCHUMANN Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß; Wer sich derEinsamkeit ergibt; An die Türen will ich schleichen; NachtliedMUSORGSKY Songs and Dances of Death

Song Recital Series


PRE-CONCERT TALKWith ALINA IBRAGIMOVA



ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC ALINA IBRAGIMOVA director, violin

MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: RISE OF THE CONCERTO

BIBER Passacaglia from the ‘Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas’BACH Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016; Concerto in A minorfor violin BWV1041 VIVALDI Concerto in D for violin RV234

‘L’inquietudine’; Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and celloOp. 3 No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565 BIBER BattaliaBACH Concerto in E for violin BWV1042



ELIAS STRING QUARTET JONATHAN BISS piano

HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2SIBELIUS String Quartet in D minor Op. 56

‘Voces Intimae’DVORÁK Piano Quintet in A Op. 81



LLY^R WILLIAMS piano

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in C D840 ‘Reliquie’BRAHMS 7 Fantasien Op. 116

WEBERN Variations Op. 27

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A minor D845




NASH ENSEMBLERICHARD HOSFORD clarinet

MARIANNE THORSEN violin

LAWRENCE POWER viola

PAUL WATKINS cello IAN BROWN piano

SCHUBERT String Trio in Bb D471

BERG Adagio from Chamber ConcertoZEMLINSKY Clarinet Trio in D minor Op. 3(Andante and Allegro)




NASH ENSEMBLESCHUMANN Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales)Op. 132

KORNGOLD Piano Quintet in E Op. 15

JOHANN STRAUSS II Schatzwalzer (TreasureWaltz) (arr. Webern) for piano, harmonium andstring quartetSCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘Trout’


JONATHAN BISS Benjamin Ealovega


Sunday 4 March 11.30 am

TRIO DI PARMABEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Op. 8

Coffee Concert

Sunday 4 March 4.00 pm

ANNA PROHASKA soprano

ERIC SCHNEIDER piano

DEBUSSY La mer est plus belleHAYDN The Mermaid’s songH LAWES Slide soft you silver floodsSCHUBERT Der Fischer; Am SeeSZYMANOWSKI Three Songs from Songs of a Fairy PrincessMAHLER Phantasie aus Don JuanWOLF Nixe BinsefussSCHUMANN Die MeerfeeMENDELSSOHN SchlifliedSCHUBERT Des Fischers LiebesglückFAURÉ La fleur qui va sur l’eauHONEGGER Chanson des Sirènes; Berceuse de la SirèneDOWLAND Sorrow, stay, lend true repentant tearsDVORÁK Song to the Moon from Rusalka

Song Recital Series


NATALIE DESSAY soprano

PHILIPPE CASSARD piano


Song Recital Series


TRULS MØRK cello


BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 102 No. 1RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19


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ANNA PROHASKA Monika Rittershaus


NATALIE DESSAY

TRULS MØRK Stéphane de Bourgies/Virgin Classics


PRE-CONCERT TALKFor details see William Byrd Sacred Music Series on pages 24–25



For details see William Byrd Sacred Music Series on pages 24–25

Wednesday 7 March 10.00 am

STEPHEN HOUGH MASTERCLASSWigmore Hall Learning Event

Wednesday 7 March 7.30 pm

RETROSPECT ENSEMBLEHANDEL Amadigi



STEPHEN HOUGH piano

HEATH QUARTETKIRCHNER Selected piecesSCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34



SUDHA RAGHUNATHAN South Indian(Carnatic) vocalist


with tabla accompaniment

INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC

Chamber Music Season/Amjad Ali Khan: IndianMusic Series

Saturday 10 March 11.00 am

SING A STORYFAMILY CONCERT



VIENNA PIANO TRIOHAYDN Piano Trio to be announcedSCHOENBERG/STEUERMANN Verklärte Nachtarr. for piano trioBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’



MILOS KARADAGLIC guitar


Coffee Concert

HEATH QUARTET Sussie Ahlburg

MILOS KARADAGLIC



SYLVIA SCHWARTZ soprano

WOLFRAM RIEGER piano

SCHUBERT Die Sterne; Du bist die Ruh; Heimliches Lieben;Versunken; Sei mir gegrüßt; Auf dem Wasser zu singenWOLF From Spanisches Liederbuch: Wer tat deinemFüsslein weh?; In dem Schatten meiner Locken; Köpfchen,Köpfchen, nicht gewimmert; Bedeckt mich mit Blumen;Mögen alle bösen ZungenRODRIGO 4 Madrigales amatoriosFALLA 7 Canciones populares españolas

Song Recital Series


BORIS GILTBURG piano

RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 36

SCHUMANN Papillons Op. 2PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor Op. 29


Tuesday 13 March 6.00 pm

PRE-CONCERT TALKCOMPOSERS IN FOCUS

Composers in discussion about the works to beperformed in the evening concert.




NASH ENSEMBLECLAIRE BOOTH soprano

LIONEL FRIEND conductor

NASH INVENTIONS

TURNAGE Returning for string sextetHARVEY New Work for piano, flute, clarinet andstring quartetGOEHR Clarinet QuintetMAXWELL DAVIES The Last Island for string sextetBIRTWISTLE New Work for flute, clarinet, stringquartet and harp (world première)MATTHEWS The Island for soprano, flute, clarinet,horn, piano, viola and cello



KUSS QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in D K575

TCHAIKOVSKY From Album pour enfants Op. 39

(arr. for string quartet): Chanson russe;Mélodie antique française; La poupée malade;Chanson populaire (Kamarinskaya)TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11

STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for string quartet;Concertino for string quartet


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SYLVIA SCHWARTZ Enrico Nawrath

KUSS QUARTET Neda Navaee






RAZUMOVSKY ENSEMBLEProgramme to be announced




ANDREW KENNEDY tenor

IAIN BURNSIDE piano

ST PATRICK’S DAY CONCERT

QUILTER Believe me, if all those endearing young charmsMENDELSSOHN Der BlumenkranzSCHUMANN Zwei Venetianische Lieder from MyrthenBERLIOZ Le coucher du soleil IVES A Night ThoughtMENDELSSOHN Venetianisches GondelliedHUGHES Oh breathe not his name DUPARC ElégieJENSEN Wenn durch die PiazzettaBRITTEN The last rose of summer BARBER Hermit SongsSZYMANOWSKI Four songs to poems by James JoyceIRELAND Tutto è sciolto HOWELLS FloodORR Bahnhofstrasse BARBER I hear an army; NuvolettaCAGE The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen SpringsMARTIN This is just to say BELL New WorkWALSHE G.L.O.R.I. BARRY The Importance of Being Earnest

Song Recital Series


BELCEA QUARTET MICHAEL COLLINS clarinet

MOZART Clarinet Quintet in A K581

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115

Coffee Concert


SIMON TRPCESKI piano

BACH/LISZT Prelude and Fugue in A minorBWV543

LISZT Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104 from Annéesde pèlerinage S161; Les jeux d’eaux à la Villad’Este from Années de pèlerinage S163;Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor S244;Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C# minor S244

SCHUBERT 16 German Dances D783; Fantasyin C D760 ‘Wanderer’



META4

FAURÉ String Quartet in E minor Op. 121

SCHUMANN String Quartet in A Op. 41 No. 3


META4 Antti Hannuniemi


ANDREW KENNEDY Benjamin Ealovega


MARTIN HELMCHEN piano

BACH Partita No. 5 in G BWV829

SCHOENBERG 6 Little Piano Pieces Op. 19

LISZT Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen ‘Präludium nach JS Bach’S179; Au bord d’une source from Années de pèlerinage S160;Transcendental Study No. 2 in A minor S139; Nuages gris S199;Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a; Vexilla regis prodeunt S185

SCHUMANN Études symphoniques Op. 13 (with posthumousÉtudes)



BRITTEN SINFONIATHOMAS GOULD violin

MIRANDA DALE violin

MARTIN OUTRAM viola


HUW WATKINS piano

LUKE BEDFORD New Work (London première)FRANCK Piano Quintet in F minor



FLORIAN BOESCH baritone


SCHUBERT Die schöne Müllerin

Song Recital Series


BELCEA QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1;String Quartet in C Op. 59 No. 3 ‘Razumovsky’;String Quartet in A minor Op. 132



GOULD PIANO TRIODVORÁK Piano Trio in Bb Op. 21

MARTINU Piano Trio No. 1 ‘5 pièces brèves’DVORÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65



HEATH QUARTETMENDELSSOHN String Quartet in Eb Op. 12

JANÁCEK String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Coffee Concert


THE PRINCE CONSORT PHILIP FOWKE piano

ALISDAIR HOGARTH piano

BRAHMS Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 52

STEPHEN HOUGH Other Love SongsBRAHMS Neue Liebeslieder, Waltzes Op. 65

Song Recital Series

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THE PRINCE CONSORT Richard Ecclestone

FLORIAN BOESCH Stephan von der Decken



Artists and programme to be announced



PACIFICA QUARTETSHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 9 in Eb Op. 117

SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartet No. 10 in Ab Op. 118



ALBAN GERHARDT cello

THOMAS LARCHER piano

SCHUMANN 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102

DEBUSSY Cello Sonata in D minorSCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro in Ab Op. 70 (for cello and piano)THOMAS LARCHER New Work for cello and pianoSCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821



PACIFICA QUARTETSHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 11 inF minor Op. 122; No. 12 in Db Op. 133;No. 13 in Bb minor Op. 138

Chamber Music Season/Pacifica QuartetShostakovich Cycle


PACIFICA QUARTETSHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets No. 14 inF# Op. 142; No. 15 in Eb minor Op. 144

Chamber Music Season/Pacifica QuartetShostakovich Cycle

Saturday 31 March 2:00 pm & 7.00 pm

LONDON INTERNATIONAL STRINGQUARTET COMPETITION 2012

SEMI-FINALS

Finals will be held on Sunday 1 April –see page 90


PACIFICA QUARTET Robin Holland


ALBAN GERHARDT

Sunday 1 April 11.30 am

DORIC STRING QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5BRAHMS String Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2

Coffee Concert

Sunday 1 April 6.00 pm

LONDON INTERNATIONAL STRINGQUARTET COMPETITION 2012

FINALS


Monday 2 April 1.00 pm

Artists and programme to be announced



JOAN RODGERS soprano

RODERICK WILLIAMS baritone


SCHUMANN Er ist’s; Lied der Suleika;Das verlassne Mägdelein; Die Kartenlegerin BRAHMS Geheimnis; Nachtigall; Feldeinsamkeit;BotschaftMAHLER From Des Knaben Wunderhorn:Rheinlegendchen; Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz;Das irdische Leben; Des Antonius von PaduaFischpredigt; Wo die schönen Trompetenblasen; Lob des hohen VerstandesWOLF Songs from Italienisches Liederbuch

Song Recital Series

Tuesday 3 April 7.30 pm

GOULD PIANO TRIODVORÁK Piano Trio in G minor Op. 26

JANÁCEK String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’(arr. Korber)DVORÁK Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 ‘Dumky’


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DORIC STRING QUARTET George Garnier

RODERICK WILLIAMS Benjamin Ealovega

PREVIEW APRIL – JULY 2012


These concerts (except the 7.30 pm concert on 17 May) are not bookable on this brochure. Bookingdates and full details of artists and programmes will be published in a separate brochure availablefrom late December 2011.

Wednesday 4 April 7.30 pm

HENK NEVEN baritone

HANS EIJSACKERS piano


Song Recital Series


STILE ANTICOGIBBONS Hosanna to the son of DavidTALLIS O Sacrum conviviumSHEPPARD I give you a new commandmentBROWNE Jesu, mercy, how may this be?VICTORIA O vos omnesTALLIS Salvator mundiDE LASSUS Vide homoTAVERNER Dum transisset sabbatumBYRD In resurrectione tuaGIBBONS I am the resurrectionLHÉRITIER Surrexit pastor bonusWEELKES Gloria in excelsis Deo

Coffee Concert


TOKYO STRING QUARTETProgramme to includeBEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132



TOKYO STRING QUARTETANDREAS HAEFLIGER piano




SANDRINE PIAU soprano


FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau;Après un rêve; Le secret; Les berceaux LISZT Der Fischerknabe; Oh! quand je dors;Die LoreleyCHAUSSON Amour d’antan; Dans la forêt ducharme et de l’enchantement; Les heures;Les papillonsDEBUSSY Ariettes oubliéesZEMLINSKY Liebe und Frühling; DasRosenband; Frühlingslied; Wandl’ ich in demWald des AbendsSTRAUSS Mädchenblumen POULENC Deux poèmes de GuillaumeApollinaire; Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon

Song Recital Series

TOKYO STRING QUARTET Christian Ducasse

SANDRINE PIAU Antoine Le Grand/Naïve

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Thursday 12 April 7.30 pm

HONG XU piano

Programme to include:ROCHBERG Nach BachBACH Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV830

LISZT Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude





DVORÁK Songs from the Dvur Králové Manuscript Op. 7BRAHMS Deutsche VolksliederDVORÁK Biblical Songs Op. 99 (a selection)Songs by Slovenian composersDVORÁK Folk Songs Op. 73

Song Recital Series/Dvorák Plus Series

Saturday 14 April 7.30 pm

SOLOISTS OF THE LONDONPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRARAVEL Introduction and AllegroBLISS Clarinet QuintetTCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D minor Op. 70 ‘Souvenir deFlorence’



KELLER QUARTETMOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’BRAHMS String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1

Coffee Concert


MARTIN FRÖST clarinet

ROLAND PÖNTINEN piano

SKRYABIN Prelude in B (arr. for clarinet and piano)BRAHMS Hungarian Dance (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst)TRADITIONAL Klezmer medley (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) FALLA Nana from 7 canciones popularesespañolas (arr. Fröst/Pöntinen)BRAHMS Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. forclarinet and piano)HILLBORG Påfågelsögonblick (The PeacockMoment) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Flight of theBumble-Bee (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) TRADITIONAL Catalan FolksongFRÖST CadenzaMESSAGER Solo de concoursBACH/GOUNOD Ave MariaAHBEZ Nature Boy (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst) MONTI Csárdás (arr. Pöntinen/Fröst)


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HONG XU Chad Johnston

KELLER QUARTET Peter Miller



PAUL LEWIS piano

SCHUBERT 16 German Dances D783; Piano Sonata in A minorD784; Allegretto in C minor D915; Piano Sonata in A minor D845



CALEFAXABRAHAMSEN WaldenSHLOMOWITZ Line and lengthBACH Die Kunst der Fuge BWV1080

MUHLY New Work (UK première)REICH New York Counterpoint



PAUL LEWIS piano

Repeat of concert on 17 April



LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRAProgramme to include works byHANDEL, GEMINIANI, STANLEY, CORELLI



FORMOSA QUARTETProgramme to be announced

Coffee Concert

Sunday 22 April 7.30 pm

HILARY HAHN violinPianist to be announced

BACH Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violinBWV1001

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 12 No. 2BRAHMS Scherzo from F.A.E. Sonata(Sonatensatz)Interspersed with selected new short pieces bycontemporary composers



SALLY MATTHEWS soprano

SIMON LEPPER piano




HILARY HAHN Peter Miller

CALEFAX









EMANUEL AX piano

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 1 in D Op. 12

No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Op. 30 No. 3;Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer’



ANTHONY DEAN GRIFFEY tenor

WARREN JONES piano

An evening of American and English Song

Song Recital Series


PRE-CONCERT TALKWith JONATHAN COHEN



ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC JONATHAN COHEN director, keyboards

ANNA PROHASKA soprano

JAMES GILCHRIST tenor

ROBERT MURRAY tenor

MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: DAWN OF THECANTATA

Programme to include:MONTEVERDI Il Combattimento di Tancredi eClorinda and works by FALCONIERI, CASTELLO,ZANETTI and MARINI.


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JONATHAN COHEN Pascal Gély


KATHLEEN FERRIERAWARD 2012

CENTENARY YEAR


SEMI-FINAL


FINAL


HAN-NA CHANG cello

FINGHIN COLLINS piano

RACHMANINOV VocaliseRACHMANINOV Cello Sonata in G minor Op. 19

FALLA 7 canciones populares españolas (for cello and piano)PIAZZOLLA Le Grand Tango (for cello and piano)



SUNWOOK KIM piano

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A D959

LISZT Piano Sonata in B minor S178

Coffee Concert


CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenorPianist to be announced


BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime ConcertTuesday 1 May 7.30 pm

QUATUOR EBÈNEMOZART String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’SCHUBERT String Quartet in A minor D804

‘Rosamunde’TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11



BRITTEN SINFONIAJACQUELINE SHAVE violin

MIRANDA DALE violin

CLARE FINNIMORE viola


EMER MCDONOUGH flute

NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe

MARK PADMORE tenor

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 10 Blake SongsNew Work to be announcedWARLOCK The Curlew

Chamber Music SeasonCHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN Marco Borggreve

HAN-NA CHANG Sheila Rock



GIL SHAHAM violin

AKIRA EGUCHI piano

WALTON Sonata for violin and pianoBACH Sonata No. 3 in C for solo violin BWV1005

MILONE New Work (world première)SARASATE Zortzico Op. 39; Adiós montañas mias Op. 37;Malagueña from Spanish Dances Op. 21

RODRIGO Sonata pimpante


Saturday 5 May

COLIN CARR cello

BACH SUITES FOR SOLO CELLO

1.00 pm

BACH Cello Suite No. 1 in G BWV1007; Cello Suite No. 3 in CBWV1009; Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor BWV1011

7.30 pm

BACH Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV1008; Cello Suite No. 4in Eb BWV1010; Cello Suite No. 6 in D BWV1012


Sunday 6 May 11.30 am

CUARTETO CASALSHAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 54 No. 2SCHUBERT String Quartet in G D887

Coffee Concert

Monday 7 May 1.00 pm

JANINA FIALKOWSKA piano

CHOPIN Polonaise in Eb minor Op. 26 No. 2;Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54; Waltz in Ab Op. 64

No. 3; Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38; Nocturne inEb Op. 55 No. 2; Mazurka in Bb Op. 7 No. 1;Mazurka in C minor Op. 30 No. 1; Mazurkain C# minor Op. 50 No. 3; Scherzo No. 1 inB minor Op. 20


Sunday 6 May 4.00 pm

EKATERINA SCHERBACHENKOsoprano

ANNA TILBROOK piano


Song Recital Series

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CUARTETO CASALS Felix Broede


JANINA FIALKOWSKA Michael Schilhansl

EKATERINA SCHERBACHENKO


IESTYN DAVIES countertenorOther artists to be announced


Song Recital Series

Tuesday 8 May 7.30 pm


MOZART Piano Sonata in F K332

FAURÉ 9 Préludes Op. 103

RAVEL SonatineSCHUBERT Fantasy in C D760 ‘Wanderer’



JERUSALEM QUARTETALEXANDER MELNIKOV piano

SCHUMANN Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47

SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in Eb Op. 44


Thursday 10 May 3.00 – 6.00 pmTuesday 15 May 3.00 – 6.00 pmThursday 17 May 3.00 – 6.00 pm

WIGMORE STUDY GROUPBYRD FESTIVAL

This final Wigmore Study Group of the season explores the musicof William Byrd, linked to the William Byrd Sacred Music Series.



VÉRONIQUE GENS soprano

SUSAN MANOFF piano

FAURÉ Le papillon et la fleur; Au bord de l’eau;Après un rêve; Les berceaux; Lydia; MandolineDUPARC L’invitation au voyage; Romance deMignon; Chanson triste DEBUSSY Fleur des blés;Nuit d’étoiles CHAUSSON Les papillons; Le colibri;Le temps de lilas; La chanson bien douceHAHN Quand je fus pris au pavillon; Trois joursde vendange; Lydé; Tyndaris; Pholoé; A Chloris;Le printemps

Song Recital Series



IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

ELIZABETH KENNY lute

GRAHAM JOHNSON piano

FÊTES GALANTES

LE CAMUS Fuyons cette rive charmanteMOULINIÉ Objét le plus beau DE VISÉE PréludeLAMBERT Ombre de mon amant; Par mes chantsDE VISÉE Chaconne LAMBERT Vos mesprischaque jour me causent des alarmes from Livred’Airs de cour CHARPENTIER Tristes déserts,sombre retraite; Sans frayeur dans ce boisCORBETTA Chaconne CHARPENTIER Charmantesfleurs naissez LULLY Scene of Atys and Sangaridefrom Act IV of Atys DEBUSSY Fêtes galantesBooks I & II FAURÉ Clair de lune; Tristesse;Au bord de l’eau; Lydia; Prison; Notre amour;Les berceaux; Mandoline; Nell; Le parfumimpérissable; Fleur jetée; Le papillon et la fleur;Puisqu’ici-bas

Song Recital Series/Ian Bostridge Project:‘Ancient and Modern’

ELIZABETH KENNY Benjamin Ealovega


IESTYN DAVIES Marco Borggreve

Saturday 12 May 7.30 pm

STEPHEN BEUS piano

BACH/BUSONI Chaconne in D minor from Violin Partita No. 2BWV1004

GRIFFES The Fountain of the Acqua Paola Op. 7 No. 3;The Lake at Evening Op. 5 No. 1; Scherzo Op. 6 No. 3 fromFantasy PiecesMEDTNER Fairy Tale Op. 51 No. 6; Fairy Tale Op. 20 No. 2

MOZART Variations on Gluck’s ‘Unser dummer Pöbel meint’ K455

STEVENS Fantasia on Giles Farnaby’s Dreame Op. 22

LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C# minor




JÉRÔME DUCROS piano

BRIDGE Cello Sonata in D minorSHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonata in D minor Op. 40

Coffee Concert


ALLAN CLAYTON tenorPianist to be announced




BELCEA QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1‘Razumovsky’; String Quartet in C minor Op. 18

No. 4; String Quartet in F Op. 135




BORIS BROVTSYN violin

AMIHAI GROSZ viola

MAXIM RYSANOV viola

TORLEIF THEDÉEN viola

JENS PETER MAINTZ cello

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht Op. 4SCHUBERT String Quintet in C D956


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STEPHEN BEUS Christian Steiner

ALLAN CLAYTON Jack Liebeck




For details see William Byrd Sacred Music Series on pages 24–25


MAGDALENA KOZENÁ mezzo-soprano

MITSUKO UCHIDA piano

Programme to include:DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis; Ariettes oubliéesMESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi (a selection from Book II)

Song Recital Series

Saturday 19 May 7.30 pm

JERUSALEM QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in G Op. 18 No. 2KOPYTMAN String Quartet No. 4BRAHMS String Quartet in Bb Op. 67



CHLOË HANSLIP violin

CHARLES OWEN piano

PÄRT Fratres for violin and piano SCHUBERT Fantasy in C D934

STRAUSS Violin Sonata in Eb Op. 18

Coffee Concert

Sunday 20 May 7.30 pm

MAGDALENA KOZENÁ mezzo-soprano

MITSUKO UCHIDA piano

Repeat of concert on 18 May

Song Recital Series


JOHANNES MOSER cello

Pianist to be announced

BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38

BRITTEN Cello Sonata in C Op. 65


MAGDALENA KOZENÁ Mathias Bothor/Deutsche Grammophon


MITSUKO UCHIDA Roger Mastroianni

CHLOË HANSLIP Benjamin Ealovega


ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC BAROQUE ORCHESTRARACHEL PODGER director, violin

EXOTIC BAROQUE

VIVALDI Concerto in E minor for 4 violins Op. 3 No. 4CPE BACH Concerto in D minor for harpsichord Wq. 23

VIVALDI Concerto in D ‘Il Grosso Mogul’ RV208

LOCATELLI Concerto Grosso in Eb ‘Il Pianto d’Arianna’VIVALDI Concerto in D minor for 2 violins Op. 3 No. 11

LOCATELLI Concerto in F for 4 violins Op. 4 No. 12



CHRISTIAN BLACKSHAW piano

MOZART Piano Sonata in Bb K281; Piano Sonata in Eb K282;Piano Sonata in G K283; Piano Sonata in C K330;Piano Sonata in Bb K333



FLORILEGIUMA CELEBRATION OF FREDERICK THE GREAT

CPE BACH Trio Sonata in C for flute, violin and continuoFREDERICK THE GREAT Sonata in C for flute and continuoBACH Ricercar a 3 from The Musical Offering BWV1079

QUANTZ Trio Sonata in C minor for flute, viola d’amore andcontinuoBENDA Sonata in A for violin and continuoBACH Trio Sonata in C minor from The Musical Offering


Friday 25 May 3.00 pm & 7.00 pm

YCAT FINALS 2012



THE SITKOVETSKY TRIOHAYDN Piano Trio in G HXV:25 ‘Gypsy Rondo’DVORÁK Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65

Coffee Concert


JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET piano

DEBUSSY Images oubliées; Images, Series 1LISZT La Notte; Grosses Konzertsolo S176


Tuesday 29 May 7.30 pm



Other artists to be announced

HANDEL Arias from Ariodante, Alcina andGiulio Cesare


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RACHEL PODGER Jonas Sacks

JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET Paul Mitchell



ELIAS STRING QUARTET PASCAL MORAGUÈS clarinet

MOZART String Quartet in A K464

KURTÁG Officium breve Op. 28

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115



VIENNA PIANO TRIOBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2FUCHS New Work (UK première)SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb D898



RICHARD GOODE piano

MOZART Piano Sonata in Bb K281; Fantasia in C minor K475

BRAHMS 7 Fantasien Op. 116

CHOPIN Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Funeral March’



LONDON HAYDN QUARTETSTEVEN DANN viola

HAYDN String Quartet in C Op. 20 No. 2MOZART String Quintet in Bb K174

MOZART String Quintet in Eb K614



LONDON HAYDN QUARTETSTEVEN DANN viola

HAYDN String Quartet in A Op. 20 No. 6HAYDN String Quartet in Eb Op. 20 No. 1MOZART String Quintet in D K593


Sunday 3 June 11.30 am

EUGENE UGORSKI violin

KONSTANTIN LIFSCHITZ piano

BRAHMS Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor Op. 108

BARTÓK Rhapsody No. 2FRANCK Violin Sonata in A

Coffee Concert

Sunday 3 June 4.00 pm

LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola

HAYDN String Quartet in D Op. 20 No. 4;String Quartet in G minor Op. 20 No. 3MOZART String Quintet in G minor K516



LONDON HAYDN QUARTET STEVEN DANN viola

MOZART String Quintet in C minor K406

HAYDN String Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5MOZART String Quintet in C K515


LONDON HAYDN QUARTET Benjamin Harte


RICHARD GOODE Sasha Gusov

Monday 4 June 1.00 pm

LOUIS LORTIE piano




KIRILL GERSTEIN piano

BACH English Suite No. 6 in D minor BWV811

MOZART/BUSONI Gigue, Bolero and VariationsKNUSSEN Ophelia’s Last Dance (UK première)WEBER Invitation to the Dance: Rondo brillant in DbSCHUMANN Carnaval Op. 9SCHUBERT/LISZT Soirées de Vienna No. 6 from Valsescaprices d’après Schubert S427



STEPHEN HOUGH piano

THE ENDELLION STRING QUARTETBYRD The Galliard Jig; Callino casturame; Hugh Aston’s GroundBRITTEN String Quartet No. 3 Op. 94

ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84


Wednesday 6 June 7.30 pm


DAVID DANIELS countertenor

NADJA ZWIENER violin


VIVALDI Sinfonia in G RV149; Sinfonia al SantoSepolcro RV169

BACH Concerto in D minor for oboe and stringsBWV1059

SCARLATTI Cantata: Perche taceteBACH Concerto in C minor BWV1060 for oboeand violin VIVALDI Stabat Mater RV621



ANGELA HEWITT piano

COUPERIN Pièces de clavecin (extracts)FAURÉ Thème et Variations in C# minor Op. 73;Nocturne No. 5 in Bb Op. 37; Nocturne No. 6 inDb Op. 63; Nocturne No. 13 in B minor Op. 119

RAMEAU Suite in A minor from Nouvelles suitesde pièces de clavecin

London Pianoforte Series/Angela Hewitt:French Series

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DAVID DANIELS Robert Recker/Virgin Classics

KIRILL GERSTEIN Marco Borggreve



CHRISTINE BREWER soprano



Song Recital Series


KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIOBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1New Work to be announcedBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

Coffee Concert


JONAS KAUFMANN tenor

HELMUT DEUTSCH piano


Song Recital Series


FRANÇOIS LELEUX oboe

EMMANUEL STROSSE piano




MARK PADMORE tenor

PAUL LEWIS piano

BEETHOVEN Mailied; Neue Liebe, neues Leben;Adelaide; An die ferne Geliebte SCHUBERT Schwanengesang



BELCEA QUARTETBEETHOVEN String Quartet in A Op. 18 No. 5;String Quartet in Bb Op. 130 with Grosse FugeOp. 133

Chamber Music Season/Beethoven Chamberand Instrumental Music


MARK PADMORE tenor

PAUL LEWIS piano

Repeat of concert on 12 June


KUNGSBACKA PIANO TRIO Birgitta Tingdal

JONAS KAUFMANN



SUNIL SAXENA, SMITA NAGDEV sitar duo

SUNANDA SHARMA North Indian (Hindustani) vocalist




Ensemble to be announced

Programme to include new work for sarod and string ensemble.


Saturday 16 June 11.00 am

STEVEN ISSERLISLEGENDS INTERVIEW SERIESSTEVEN ISSERLIS in conversation with MARTA CASALS ISTOMIN




RAVEL Menuet antique; Miroirs; Valses nobles et sentimentales;Le tombeau de Couperin

London Pianoforte Series/Ravel 75th Anniversary


NATALIE CLEIN cello

Programme to include:KODÁLY Sonata for solo cello Op. 8

Coffee Concert


RENATA POKUPIC mezzo-soprano

ANTOINE TAMESTIT viola


SCHUMANN Myrthen (excerpts)BRAHMS Viola Sonata in Eb Op. 120 No. 2

BRIDGE Three songs with violaBRIDGE/BRITTEN There is a willow growsaslant a brookBRAHMS 2 Songs with viola Op. 91

Song Recital Series


FLORIAN BOESCH baritone

Pianist to be announced



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NATALIE CLEIN Sussie Ahlburg

RENATA POKUPIC Chris Gloag









MIAH PERSSON soprano


Programme to include:Songs by TCHAIKOVSKY, RACHMANINOV, POULENCand HAHN

Song Recital Series


MARTIN ROSCOE piano

Other artists to be announced





A Selection of Diabelli Variations from theVaterländischer KünstlervereinBEETHOVEN 6 Bagatelles Op. 126; 33 Variationsin C on a waltz by Diabelli Op. 120



EVELYN GLENNIE percussion



EVELYN GLENNIE Jim Callaghan


MIAH PERSSON Mina artistbilder


TRIO WANDERERBEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2

Coffee Concert


TRIO WANDERERProgramme to include:TURINA Círculo Op. 91

SCHUBERT Notturno in Eb D897





UNE RARE ÉMOTION – THE SONGS OFMAURICE RAVEL AND HIS CIRCLE

RAVEL Chanson du rouet; Vocalise-étude enforme de habaneraRAVEL From Chants populaires: Chansonfrançaise; Chanson italienne; Chanson écossaise;Chanson espagnoleFALLA From 7 Canciones populares españolas:El paño moruno; Asturiana; Jota; CanciónRAVEL Ballade de la reine morte d’aimerSTRAVINSKY Three little songs (Recollections ofmy childhood)RAVEL Rêves; Noël des jouetsDEBUSSY ApparitionRAVEL Trois poèmes de Stéphane MallarméSTRAUSS Nichts; Ständchen; Die Nacht; MorgenGERSHWIN The man I love; Nice work if you canget it; SummertimeRAVEL Sur l’herbeMARCHETTI Fascination


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TRIO WANDERER Marco Borggreve

AILISH TYNAN Sussie Ahlburg



PRE-CONCERT TALK With RICHARD EGARR



ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSICCHOIR OF THE AAMRICHARD EGARR director, keyboards

MUSICAL REVOLUTIONS: AGE OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE

LULLY De profundisCHARPENTIER Sonate à huitLULLY Regina coeli; Salve reginaMARAIS Suite from Sonatas pour le Coucher du RoyLULLY Dies irae



SUSAN GRAHAM mezzo-soprano


Programme to include:SCHUBERT Vedi quanto adoroBERLIOZ La mort d’Ophélie Mignon’s songs by SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, LISZT,TCHAIKOVSKY, DUPARC and WOLFHOROVITZ Lady Macbeth – a ScenaPOULENC Fiançailles pour rireSongs by SONDHEIM and COWARD

Song Recital Series


SOLOISTS OF THE LONDONPHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRASCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘The Trout’SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57


Sunday 1 July 11.30 am

LEIPZIG STRING QUARTETMENDELSSOHN String Quartet in E minorOp. 44 No. 2BEETHOVEN String Quartet in Eb Op. 127

Coffee Concert

Monday 2 July 1.00 pm

STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano


Programme to include:FIRSOVA Three Georgian Dances



BERTRAND CHAMAYOU piano



SUSAN GRAHAM Dario Acosta

LEIPZIG STRING QUARTET



JOYCE DIDONATO mezzo-soprano

DAVID ZOBEL piano

Songs by ROSSINI, VIVALDI, FAURÉ, HAHN and HEAD

Song Recital Series

Thursday 5 July 7.30 pm

INGRID FLITER piano

KALEIDO ENSEMBLERAVEL Piano Concerto in GCHOPIN Piano Concerto in F minor No. 2 Op. 21


Friday 6 July 7.30 pm

JOYCE DIDONATO mezzo-soprano

DAVID ZOBEL piano

Repeat of concert on 4 July

Song Recital Series



IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET director, harpsichord

MONTEVERDI Tempro la cetra; Il Combattimento di Tancredie Clorinda; Pur ti miro from L’incoronazione di PoppeaGESUALDO 3 madrigals from Book 5STRAVINSKY Cantata



AURORA ORCHESTRAProgramme to be announced

Coffee Concert

Sunday 8 July 7.30 pm

LEOPOLD STRING TRIO STEVEN OSBORNE piano

FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor Op. 15;Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45



PAVEL HAAS QUARTETProgramme to be announced


Tuesday 10 July 7.30 pm

XAVIER DE MAISTRE harp



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JOYCE DIDONATO Sheila Rock

XAVIER DE MAISTRE Marco Borggreve



THOMAS OLIEMANS baritone


MAHLER Frühlingsmorgen; Hans und Grethe; Erinnerung;Scheiden und MeidenSTRAUSS Nachtgang; Traum durch die Dämmerung; Befreit DUPARC Chanson triste; L’invitation au voyage; Extase; Le galopDEBUSSY Trois ballades de VillonMAHLER Five Rückert Lieder

Song Recital Series


WIHAN QUARTETWOLF Italian Serenade in GMOZART String Quartet in G K387

DVORÁK String Quartet No. 13 in G Op. 106



JULIANE BANSE soprano

ALEKSANDAR MADZAR piano

Songs by BRAHMS, FAURÉ, and STRAUSSSCHUMANN Liederkreis Op. 39

Song Recital Series


ENDYMIONBRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114;Horn Trio in Eb Op. 40

Coffee Concert


STEPHEN KOVACEVICH piano

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata in C minor Op. 10

No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110

SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in Bb D960


Tuesday 17 July 7.30 pm

CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN tenor

JULIUS DRAKE piano


Song Recital Series


SKAMPA QUARTET SUK Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale(St Wenceslas) Op. 35aDVORÁK String Quartet in D minor Op. 34

SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E minor‘From my life’



ARTIS QUARTET OF VIENNAProgramme to include:SCHUBERT String Quartet in D minor D810

‘Death and the Maiden’

Coffee Concert

THOMAS OLIEMANS Marco Borggreve


WIHAN QUARTET Sussie Ahlburg


CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN mezzo-soprano

MARK PADMORE tenor

JULIUS DRAKE piano

THE HUGO WOLF SONGBOOKS

WOLF Mörike: Gesang Weylas; Der Schäfer; An den Schlaf;Die Geister am Mummelsee; Der Tambour; Auftrag;Peregrina I & II; Auf eine Christblume I & II; Um MitternachtWOLF Goethe: Phänomen; Erschaffen und Beleben;So lang man nüchtern ist; Was in der Schenke waren heute;Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit; Trunken müssen wir allen sein!;Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit; Nicht Gelegenheit machtDiebe; Hochbeglückt in deiner Liebe; Erschaffen und Beleben;Als ich auf dem Euphrat schiffte; Dies zu deuten, bin erbötig;Hätt ich irgend wohl Bedenken; Komm, Liebchen, komm!;Wie sollt ich heiter bleiben; Wenn ich dein gedenke;Locken, haltet mich gefangen; Nimmer will ich dich verlieren

Song Recital Series


NOBUKO IMAI viola

YUKO INOUE viola

FRANÇOIS KILLIAN piano

BAX Sonata for viola and pianoBRITTEN Cello Suite No. 1 Op. 72 (arr. for viola by Nobuko Imai)BRIDGE Lament for two violasPROKOFIEV/BORISOVSKY 7 Pieces from the ballet Romeoand Juliet



IAN BOSTRIDGE tenor

XUEFEI YANG guitar

JULIUS DRAKE piano

BRITTEN Songs from the ChineseHENZE Three Auden SongsKNUSSEN Auden Haiku (world première)HENZE 6 Songs from the Arabian

Song Recital Series/Ian Bostridge Project:‘Ancient and Modern’


CARDUCCI STRING QUARTETHAYDN String Quartet in Bb Op. 76 No. 4 ‘Sunrise’BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1‘Razumovsky’

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JULIUS DRAKE Marco Borggreve

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET Andy Holdsworth Photography

XUEFEI YANG Neil Muir


Benjamin Ealovega

111BOOKING INFORMATION4 September – 31 December 2011

Booking Information

BOOKING DATES

BOOKING PERIOD 1

Sunday 4 September – Saturday 31 December 2011

Friends

Priority booking form to reach the Box Officeby 28 April

Mailing List

Priority booking form to reach the Box Officeby 12 May

General Public

By telephone/online from 19 May

SUBSCRIPTION BOOKINGS

WIGMORE SERIES SUBSCRIPTIONS(excludes Coffee Concerts, BBC LunchtimeConcerts and other events where stated)

Subscription I: Book 9 – 11 concerts at a5% discount

Subscription II: Book 12 or more concertsat a 10% discount

BBC LUNCHTIME CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONSBook 10 or more concerts at a 5% discountBook all concerts in any one booking period at a 10%

discount

COFFEE CONCERT SUBSCRIPTIONSBook 10 or more concerts at a 5% discountBook all concerts in any one booking period at a 10%

discount

To qualify for a subscription, the samenumber of tickets need to be booked for each event.

Any tickets bought in addition to asubscription series must be paid for atthe full rate.

Discounts cannot be combined.

WIGMORE HALL BOX OFFICE36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

Tel: 020 7935 2141

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

Email: (not for bookings)[email protected]

TICKETS

Unless otherwise stated, tickets are divided intofour 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

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BOX OFFICE HOURS

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

TELEPHONE BOOKINGS

7 days a week: 10.00am–7.00pm.Days without an evening concert10.00am–5.00pm. There is a non-refundable£2.00 administration charge for eachtransaction. This includes the return of yourtickets by post if time permits.

POSTAL BOOKINGS

Please make cheques payable to WigmoreHall with the amount left open but statingan upper limit, and add an administrationcharge of £2.00. Tickets will then be sentby post.

ONLINE BOOKINGS

Online booking is available 24 hours a day,7 days a week. There is a £1.00 administrationcharge online. You can select your own seatand make subscription bookings online.

TICKETS FOR CONCESSIONS

Where a concession (concs) ticket price islisted these are available to students,senior citizens and the unemployed.

GROUP BOOKINGS

Discounts of 10% are available for groupsof 12 or more, subject to availability.

WESTMINSTER RESCARD

Westminster ResCard holders may obtain a 10% discount on ticket purchases of £3 orabove. Two tickets per card (not applicableto subscription bookings).

TRANSPORT

Tubes: Bond Street (Central, Jubilee lines),Oxford Circus (Bakerloo, Central andVictoria lines).

Buses: A number of bus routes pass alongOxford Street.

Car Parking: There is limited street parking after6.30 pm Monday to Saturday and all day Sundayin permitted areas. Alternatively there are publiccar parks in Cavendish Square, Harley Streetand Marylebone Lane, all of which are less thana five minute walk from the hall.

RESTAURANT/BAR

Wigmore Hall has its own restaurant and barsserving pre-concert and interval refreshments.Visit www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/restaurantor call 020 7258 8292 for further information.

FACILITIES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

Full details from 020 7258 8210

BONDSTREET

OXFORDCIRCUS

OXFORDCIRCUS

This brochure is available in alternativeformats. Please contact the Box Officeif this would be of assistance to you.Telephone: 020 7935 2141

Email: [email protected]

Information in this brochure was correct at the time ofprinting. The right is reserved to substitute artists andto vary programmes if necessary.

Cover photos by Benjamin EalovegaCover design by akaBrochure design and production by Peter Williamson

BOOKING INFORMATION4 September – 31 December 2011

Wigmore Hall’s size brings an unparalleled sense of intimacy to every performance and is loved by audiences andmusicians alike. However, the limitation that this places on audience numbers means that ticket sales alonecannot meet all our costs. Additional support from individuals, companies and charitable foundations is vitalin order to ensure that the world’s finest musicians, together with promising young performers, can continue toappear at Wigmore Hall. If you would like to support the Hall by becoming a Friend, or by sponsoring a concertor Learning event, please call 020 7258 8230 or email [email protected] for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have madean investment in our concert, learning and community programmes this season:

Supporting Wigmore Hall

HONORARY PATRONS

Aubrey AdamsDonald Kahn OBESir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady KohnMr and Mrs Paul Morgan

SUPPORTERS AND SPONSORS

Eric Abraham*Mr Eric Abraham and Miss Natasha

Abraham*Aubrey Adams*†

Tony and Marion Allen*American Friends of Wigmore HallDavid and Jacqueline Ansell*Arts Council EnglandAnthony AustinAlan Bell-BerryMr Nicholas J BezIn memory of Martin Paul BlakeMrs Arline BlassKarl Otto Bonnier*†

David and Mary Bowerman*Alan Bradley*Nicolas and Hilary Browne-Wilkinson*Rainer and Doreen Burchett*Gwen and Stanley Burnton*Clive ButlerThe Charities Advisory TrustCafé de ColombiaCavatina Music TrustEdwin C Cohen*Sonia and Harvey ColeComplete CoffeeJohn Crisp*Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch*Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning*Anthony Davis*Pauline Del MarThe Dunard FundThe Ellerdale TrustAnnette Ellis*Vernon and Hazel EllisThe Elton Family

The Equitable Charitable TrustThe Fidelio Charitable TrustPeter and Sonia FieldJohn and Amy FordFoyle FoundationS E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3Friends of Wigmore HallJonathan Gaisman*John and Lauren Goldsmith*The Gordon FoundationThe Lucille Graham TrustCHG GreenThe Milton Grundy Foundation*Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour*The Hobson CharityAndré and Rosalie HoffmannGay Huey Evans*Graham and Amanda Hutton*Hutton Collins Partners LLPHyde Park Place Estate CharitySimone Hyman*Peter JervisJohn Lyon’s CharityMarc Jourdren*Donald and Jeanne Kahn*Jerome Karet*David and Louise Kaye*Sir Ralph Kohn FRS and Lady Kohn*The Kohn FoundationChristian Kwek and David Hodges*Joy and Geoffrey LawrenceMaryly La Follette*Lloyds TSB Private BankingSimon and Pamela MajaroStanley and Eithné MannMartin Randall Travel LtdMayfield Valley Arts TrustMilton Damerell TrustMr and Mrs Paul MorganAmyas and Louise Morse*Valerie O’Connor and Jeannette

McIntoshLionel and Lynn Persey*The Piano Fund

Dr Clive Potter*Oliver PrennNick and Claire Prettejohn*The Rayne FoundationDavid B Rockwell*†

Conchita Romero*Charles Rose*Rosenblatt RecitalsJackie Rosenfeld OBE, Hon. RCM*Ruth Rothbarth*N M Rothschild and Sons LimitedThe Rubinstein CircleThe Samuel Sebba Charitable TrustRichard Sennett and Saskia Sassen*Victoria and Richard Sharp*Lois Sieff OBEMartin and Elise Smith*Cita and Irwin StelzerJohn Stephens OBE, Hon. FTCL*Joshua Swidler*The Tertis FoundationAllen L Thomas and Jane Simpson’Scilla and Tony Thornton*†

John and Ann Tusa*Marina Vaizey*Kathleen Verelst*Robin Vousden*Marie-Luise WaldeckDavid and Frances Waters*Michael WatsonAnne and David Weizmann*City of Westminster Charitable TrustMrs Mary WestonTony WingateThe Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationThe Wolfson FoundationWorshipful Company of Information

TechnologistsSimon Yates and Kevin Roon*

and several anonymous supporters

* also Rubinstein Circle members†also Season Patron

The Wigmore Hall Trust, registered charity number 1024838

DIRECTOR JOHN GILHOOLY

36 WIGMORE STREET LONDON W1U 2BP

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