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February 2015
Box Office 020 7935 2141Online Booking www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Miloš KaradaglicINSIDE:Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin | Lisa Batiashvili & Paul LewisAlina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien | Birmingham Contemporary Music GroupEarly Opera Company | Imogen Cooper | Martin Fröst | Christiane KargSteven Osborne | Maria João Pires | and many more
How to BookWigmore Hall Box Office36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
In Person7 days a week: 10 am – 8.30 pm. Days without an evening concert10am – 5pm. No advance booking in the half hour prior to a concert.
By Telephone: 020 7935 21417 days a week: 10 am – 7 pm. Days without an evening concert 10 am – 5 pm.There is a non-refundable £3.00 administration fee for each transaction,which includes the return of your tickets by post if time permits.
Online: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk7 days a week; 24 hours a day. You can now select your own seat. There is anon-refundable £2.00 administration charge.
Standby TicketsStandby tickets for students, senior citizens and the unemployed are availablefrom one hour before the performance (subject to availability) with bestavailable seats sold at the lowest price.NB standby tickets are not available for Lunchtime and Coffee Concerts.
Group DiscountsDiscounts of 10% are available for groups of 12 or more, subject to availability.
LatecomersLatecomers will only be admitted during a suitable pause in the performance.
Facilities for Disabled PeopleFor full details please call 020 7258 8210
TICKETS
Unless otherwise stated, tickets aredivided into four prices ranges:
Stalls C – MHighest price
Stalls A – B, N – P2nd highest price
Balcony A – D2nd highest price
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This brochure is available in alternative formats. Please contactthe Box Office if this would be of assistance to you. Telephone:020 7935 2141, or Email: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk.
The right is reserved to substitute artists and vary programmes if necessary.
Wigmore Hall • John Gilhooly OBE DirectorThe Wigmore Hall Trust • Registered Charity No.1024838
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1Sunday 1 February 11.30 am
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemblein Residence
Nash EnsembleRichard Hosford clarinet
Marianne Thorsen violin
Laura Samuel violin
Lawrence Power viola
Adrian Brendel cello
Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 76No. 4 ‘Sunrise’Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115
The Nash Ensemble’s renowned string players present Haydn’smuch-loved ‘Sunrise’ Quartet, so called because of its gentlyrising opening theme, a work infused with the bold gesturesand effects he cultivated during his time in London. Theensemble is joined by its long-serving clarinettist RichardHosford in Brahms’s autumnal chamber masterwork.Brahms created his Clarinet Quintet in B minor to suit theburnished playing of Richard Mühlfeld, who first introducedthe composition to London audiences in the 1890s.
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Sunday Morning Coffee Concert /Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season
Sunday 1 February 3.00 pm
Royal Academy of MusicRichard Lewis Song CircleSCHUBERT’S HIDDEN GEMS
Schubert Am Flusse (D766); Am Flusse(D160); Das Lied vom Reifen; Der Fluss;Der Jüngling am Bache; Gondelfahrer;Des Mädchens Klage; Die Knabenzeit; Herbst; Herbstlied; Liane; Licht und Liebe;Nach einem Gewitter; Marie; Nur wer dieSehnsucht kennt; Rückweg; Vollendung;Winterlied; Die Erde; Heiss mich nicht reden
When Max Friedlaender was preparing thefinal volume of his Schubert Lieder Editionfor Peters, many songs (such as ‘Herbst’)were unknown to him. The Royal Academyof Music Song Circle presents twenty suchgems that are not included in the sevenLieder volumes of the Peters Editions andare still too rarely performed.
£15 concs £12.50
WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
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Sunday 1 February 7.30 pm
Robin Tritschler tenor
Graham Johnson piano
Schumann Kernerlieder Op. 35
SONGS FROM THE (BARD’S) SHOWS
Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his luteLeveridge Who is Silvia?Anon. (17th century) Jog on, jog on the footpath wayMoeran The sweet o’ the year Eisler Horatios MonologCastelnuovo-Tedesco The clown in the churchyardFinzi Songs of Hiems and VerCastelnuovo-Tedesco Caliban Tippett Songs for ArielGurney Under the greenwood treeKorngold Blow, blow thou winter wind Quilter It was a lover and his lass Castelnuovo-Tedesco The FoolDale O Mistress Mine Finzi Come away, come away, death Korngold Adieu, Good Man Devil
Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson present a treat for song-lovers with their captivating programme. Schumann’sKernerlieder, like so many of the songs he created in 1840, convey the strength of his fervent love for Clara Wieck.He completed his ‘song sequence’ soon after their marriage, a union contracted against her father’s wishes. For thesecond half, the duo performs settings of Shakespeare from a selection of his most celebrated plays.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
Monday 2 February 1.00 pm
Steven Osborne piano
Rachmaninov Études-tableaux (a selection)Musorgsky Pictures from an Exhibition
Poetic pianism, richly conceived in tonal and expressive nuance,distinguishes Steven Osborne’s interpretations of the great worksof the keyboard literature. His receptivity to the romantic depths ofthe Slavic soul invariably rises to the surface in his acclaimedinterpretations of Russian music. ‘This may well be the most lucidand musicianly Pictures on record,’ observed Gramophone followingthe release of his recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition.
£13 concs £11
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert Steven Osborne
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Monday 2 February 7.30 pm
Takács Quartet Lecture-RecitalLecture-Recital on Beethoven’s String Quartet in FOp. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’
The Takács Quartet presents a rare opportunity to hearits highly developed thoughts about a seminal work ofthe string quartet repertoire. This lecture-recital openswith a discussion of the String Quartet in F Op. 59 No. 1‘Razumovsky’, illustrated with excerpts from the work.The evening’s second half contains a completeperformance of Beethoven’s pioneering score.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Chamber Music Season/Takács Quartet: Associate Artists
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YCAT Lunchtime Series 2014/15
Trio IsimsizTakemitsu Between TidesBeethoven Piano Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’
Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School ofMusic & Drama, under the guidance of Louise Hopkins, CarolePresland and Alasdair Tait. Engagements this season includea residency in Aldeburgh and return visits to the Purcell Roomand Colston Hall Bristol.
£12.50 concs £10
Young Classical Artists Trust (Reg. Charity No. 326490)
YCAT is grateful for support for this series from the Paul WoodhouseFund, the Anthony Nesbitt Fund, the Goulding Murray Fund and thelegacy of Richard Oake.
Tuesday 3 February 7.30 pm
EXAUDIJames Weeks director
Leonin Organum Scelsi Tre Canti SacriHeinz Holliger nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts (excerpts) (UK première)Machaut La Messe de Nostre Dame (excerpts) Ciconia Le ray au soleylRodericus Angelorum psalat Michael Finnissy Kelir
Worlds collide in this scintillating programme, devised by Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence Julian Anderson andEXAUDI’s director James Weeks: medieval and modern, sacred and profane, European and Eastern. Twelfth-centuryParisian polyphony elides with the drone-rich imagination of Giacinto Scelsi; Heinz Holliger’s fascination withMachaut can be heard in the luminous Angelus Silesius settings of nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; and the intricaterhythmic world of the Ars Subtilior finds a parallel in the ardent, tangled vocality of Finnissy’s dramatic Kelir.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and The London Community Foundation
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Wednesday 4 February 12.15 pm
Pre-Concert TalkAn introduction to the lunchtime concert with Ben Comeau, the Winner of the Cambridge University Composers’ Workshop.
Free to concert ticket holders (separate ticket required)
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series
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Wednesday 4 February 1.00 pm
Britten Sinfonia Jacqueline Shave violin
Miranda Dale violin
Clare Finnimore viola
Catherine Musker viola
Caroline Dearnley cello
Beethoven String Quintet in C Op. 29Ben Comeau New work* (world première)Vaughan Williams Phantasy String Quintet
* Co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia with support fromdonors to the Musically Gifted campaign, and by WigmoreHall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation
Vaughan Williams’s Phantasy for string quintet was dedicated to William WilsonCobbett, whose celebrated competition encouraged young composers to writenew chamber works. Winner of Britten Sinfonia’s Cambridge UniversityComposers’ Workshop, Ben Comeau’s work receives its première in this concert,alongside Beethoven’s transitional tumultuous String Quintet of 1801, popularlyknown as ‘The Storm’.
£12.50 concs £10
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series
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Wednesday 4 February 7.30 pm
Christiane Karg soprano
Joseph Middleton piano
Mozart Das Veilchen; An Chloe; Als Luise die Briefeihres ungetreuen Liebhabers verbrannte; Der Zauberer;Dans un bois solitaireSchubert Gretchen am Spinnrade; Heiss mich nichtreden; So lasst mich scheinen; Kennst du das Land;Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Hoffnung; Der Jünglingam Bache; Des Mädchens Klage; Thekla; Strophe aus‘Die Götter Griechenlands’; Elysium
Christiane Karg’s vitality connects directly with theworks in her repertoire, sparking words and music tolife. The Bavarian soprano’s programme includessettings of verse by one of the titans of world literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, among them Mozart’s exquisitetreatment of ‘Das Veilchen’ and Mignon’s songs of yearning for her Italian homeland, ‘Kennst du das Land’ and‘Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt’.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Song Recital Series
Joseph Middleton
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Britten Sinfonia
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Thursday 5 February 1.00 pm
Lisa Peacock Presents Thursday Lunchtime Showcases
Lisa Friend flute
Mark Kinkaid piano
Reinecke Undine Sonata Op. 167 Andersen Romance ‘Le Calme’ from Trois MorceauxOp. 57 No. 1Gaubert Sonata No. 1Chaminade Concertino
British flautist, Lisa Friend, performs a captivatingprogramme of romantic works featured from herlatest album ‘Luminance’.
‘Beautiful playing’ BBC Music Magazine
‘Stand-out offerings elsewhere include Cécile Chaminade’s ravishing Concertino’ Classical Ear
£12.50 concs £10 20% discount when you book for all remaining concerts in this series (see dates below)
Tickets also on sale for Thursday Lunchtime Showcase Recitals on 19 March (Madeleine Mitchell & Nigel Clayton)and 16 April (Alexei Grynyuk )
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Friday 6 February 11.00 am –11.45 am Repeated 12.30 pm –1.15 pm
For Crying Out Loud!FOR PARENTS AND BABIES UP TO 1 YEAR OLD
A series of concerts with musicians from the Royal Academyof Music, presented in an accommodating environment forparents or carers and their babies. Although the music will beappropriate for babies, these concerts are not interactive.
£7.50 per adult – babies come free
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Thursday 5 February 7.30 pm
Anthony Marwood violin
Aleksandar Madžar piano
Janácek Violin SonataBeethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor Op. 30 No. 2Ravel Violin Sonata in A minor (Sonate Posthume)Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Op. 94bis
Beethoven’s Violin Sonata in C minor Op. 30 No. 2 waswritten in 1802, the fateful year when he firstexperienced the sharp despair of deafness. AnthonyMarwood and Aleksandar Madžar survey the equallypersonal emotions of Janácek’s Violin Sonata, composedin the early months of the First World War, together withthe classical elegance of works by Ravel and Prokofiev.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust,The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season/Anthony Marwood and Friends
Anthony Marwood and Aleksandar Madzar
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Friday 6 February 7.30 pm
Akademie für Alte Musik BerlinJean-Guihen Queyras cello
Xenia Löffler oboe
Vivaldi Sinfonia from Giustino RV717; Cello Concertoin G minor RV416; Concerto for strings in C RV114;Concerto in G minor for oboe, cello and strings RV812;Concerto in D minor for 2 violins and cello Op. 3No. 11 from L’estro armonico RV565; Sinfonia fromDorilla in Tempe RV709; Cello Concerto in F RV412Caldara Sinfonia No. 6 in G minor from San Elenaal CalvarioVivaldi Oboe Concerto in C RV450; Cello Concerto inA minor RV419
Period instrument performances have been raised to the highest levels of technical virtuosity and insight thanks tothe work of ensembles such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and artists of the calibre of Jean-Guihen Queyrasand Xenia Löffler. Their thrilling programme reflects Vivaldi’s passion for the cello, a comparative newcomer in thecomposer’s day, and the jaw-dropping virtuosity of his writing for solo oboe and strings.
£40 £35 £25 £15
Early Music and Baroque Series
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Saturday 7 February 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Come and Sing: Early OperaAs part of our Henry Purcell: A Retrospective series, comeand sing some of the composer’s operatic work and have ago at some of the movements and gestures which accompanythe words and music. Isabelle Adams leads this workshop dayfor adults, which includes the opportunity to perform on theWigmore Hall stage at the end of the day.
£24 concs £16
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Saturday 7 February 6.00 pm
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Nash EnsemblePhilippa Davies flute
Lawrence Power viola
Lucy Wakeford harp
Roderick Williams baritone
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Debussy SyrinxBennett Sonata after Syrinx for flute, viola and harpJulian Anderson Prayer for solo violaMaw Roman Canticle for baritone, flute, viola and harp
The works will be introduced from the stage by Julian Anderson.
Free (ticket required)
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season
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Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Nash EnsembleIan Brown conductor
Lawrence Power viola
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Mozart Quintet in Eb for piano and winds K452Mahler Rückert Lieder (arr. D Matthews for voice & ensemble)Brahms 2 Songs with viola Op. 91Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34
This programme is bookended by two contrasting works for five instrumentalists, Mozart’sperfectly finished Quintet for piano and winds and Brahms’s passionate Quintet for pianoand strings. Sarah Connolly also sings Mahler’s lyrical settings of poems by Rückertand Brahms’s eloquent songs with viola and piano, ‘Gestillte Sehnsucht’ (‘Stilled Desire’)and ‘Geistliches Wiegenlied’ (‘Sacred Lullaby’).
£35 £30 £25 £18
Chamber Music Season/Song Recital Series/Nash Ensemble 50th Anniversary Season
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Sunday 8 February 11.30 am
Valeriy Sokolov violin
Evgeny Izotov piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Op. 30 No. 1Bartók Violin Sonata No. 1 Sz. 75Ravel Tzigane
Valeriy Sokolov’s recent recording of violin concertos byTchaikovsky and Bartók received rave reviews, reinforcinghis status among the finest artists of his generation. Theyoung Ukrainian violinist, partnered by Evgeny Izotov, openshis recital with the Violin Sonata Op. 30 No. 1, Beethoven’sspiritually serene and noble response to encroaching deafness.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/ juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Eggner TrioMozart Piano Trio in C K548; Piano Trio in Bb K502Hummel Piano Trio in G Op. 65 Mozart Piano Trio in G K564
The Austrian Eggner Trio, a family ensemble of three brothers,performs works by Mozart which helped to define the pianotrio genre. The programme begins with the Piano Trio in C,simple in its design and harmony yet emotionally complex. The composer’s final piano trio is prefaced with a score bythe hugely gifted Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a child prodigywho became Mozart’s only full-time pupil in 1786.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/The Mozart Odyssey Eggner Trio
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Sunday 8 February 3.00 pm
Simon Bode tenor
Igor Levit* piano
Schubert Abendlied für die EntfernteBeethoven An die ferne Geliebte Wolfgang Rihm Das RotSchubert Dass sie hier gewesen Beethoven Adelaide;Wonne der Wehmut; Neue Liebe, neues Leben
Distant love and unfulfilled desires combine in this programme,projected with overwhelming fervour by Beethoven in the halfdozen songs of An die ferne Geliebte and focused with sustainedintrospection by Schubert in his ‘Abendlied für die Entfernte’.Wolfgang Rihm’s song cycle Das Rot (1990), a setting of six texts by the German Romantic poet Karoline vonGünderrode, explores the shifting borderlands between illusion and reality, darkness and light.
£15 concs £12.50
* WIGMORE HALL EMERGING TA L E N T
Supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust
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Monday 9 February 1.00 pm
Wigmore Hall Debut
Olena Tokar soprano
Igor Gryshyn piano
Brahms Botschaft; Sommerabend; Über die Heide;Es träumte mir, ich sei dir teuerStrauss Der Stern; Schlechtes Wetter; Allerseelen; MorgenRimsky-Korsakov Of what I dream in the quiet night; Cool andfragrant is thy garland; Not the wind, blowing from the heights;The lark sings louderDvorák Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs)
Ukrainian soprano Olena Tokar made her breakthrough in 2011 with the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project.She won the ARD International Music Competition in Munich the following year and went on to represent her homelandas a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. She makes her Wigmore Hall debut with anenchanting programme of German, Russian and Czech songs.
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Olena Tokar is a member of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Tuesday 10 February 7.30 pm
Rosenblatt Recital Series 2014/15
Saimir Pirgu tenor
Simon Lepper piano
Bononcini Per la gloria d’adorarvi from GriseldaGluck O del mio dolce ardor from Paride ed ElenaScarlatti Gia il sole dal GangeCilea È la solita storia del pastore from L'arlesianaMozart Dalla sua pace from Don Giovanni;Fuor del mar from IdomeneoVerdi Questa o quella from Rigoletto; Ah, la paternamano from MacbethGounod Ah! lève toi soleil from Roméo et JulietteMassenet Pourquoi me réveiller from WertherVerdi La mia letizia infondere from I Lombardi
Saimir Pirgu is ‘one of the world’s most important interpreters of lyrictenor roles’ Opera Today. Star of the Royal Opera House’s Rigoletto inSeptember 2014, Pirgu’s singing ‘sounds spontaneous and unforced,graced by an intuitive play of light and shade and a silken touch’New York Times
‘His technique is superb, and the lyric quality of his voice is so beautiful’Placido Domingo
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FlorilegiumAshley Solomon director, flute
Bojan Cicic violin
Reiko Ichise viola da gamba
Jennifer Morsches cello
Terence Charlston harpsichord
Telemann Quartet in D from the ‘ParisQuartets’ (1738 collection)Forqueray La Rameau; La Leclair Leclair Deuxième recréation demusique Op. 8Rebel Les caractères de la danseMarais Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont de ParisTelemann Quartet in E minor from the‘Paris Quartets’ (1738 collection)
Florilegium’s programme includes worksby some of the greatest French chamber music composers employed by the courts of Louis XIV and XV. Rebel’sLes caractères de la danse is one of the first choreographed ‘symphonies’, a popular genre in eighteenth-centuryFrance. Two of Telemann’s celebrated ‘Paris Quartets’ frame this concert and bear witness to the internationalreach of French musical fashions three centuries ago.
£30 £25 £20 £15
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Early Opera Company Christian Curnyn director, harpsichord
Joélle Harvey soprano
Mhairi Lawson soprano
Samuel Boden tenor
Nick Pritchard tenor
George Humphreys bass
Purcell King Arthur
John Dryden’s King Arthur was among the mostsuccessful of his ‘Dramatick Operas’, where play,ballet and music were combined much as theyare in present day West End musical theatre.Purcell’s exquisite music, the work’s chief glory,heightens the plot’s depictions of Druid sacrifices,drunken farmers, Evil Spirits and, in the shivering frost scene, a very chilly Cupid!
£40 £35 £30 £20
Early Music and Baroque Series/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Thursday 12 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
King ArthurKEY STAGE 2 SCHOOLS CONCERT
Join instrumentalists and singers from the Early Opera Company and presenterIsabelle Adams for a magical musical story featuring King Arthur, Merlin,Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint, George. Adapted from Purcell’s operaand using extracts of the original music, we tell an alternative tale of King Arthuron an adventure through golden fields, icy forests and epic battles.
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Wigmore Hall’s Schools Programme is supported by The Monument Trust,John Lyon’s Charity and The Loveday Charitable Trust
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Thursday 12 February 7.30 pm
Lawrence Power viola, violin
Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Britten Suite for violin and piano Op. 6Colin Matthews Four Moods for viola and pianoBowen Phantasy for viola and piano Op. 54Huw Watkins Fantasy for viola and pianoMark-Anthony Turnage Powerplay* (world première)
*Co-commissioned by De Doelen Rotterdam, and by Wigmore Hall withthe support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann,a Swiss grant-making foundation
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Powerplay, complete with punning title and vigorous virtuosity, receives its world première.The work was written to complement the phenomenal artistry of Lawrence Power and his regular duo partner SimonCrawford-Phillips.
£30 £25 £20 £15
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Friday 13 February 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Martin Fröst MasterclassThe relationship between music and movement fallswithin the spread of subjects on Martin Fröst’smasterclass agenda. He will work with postgraduatestudents from London’s four conservatoires andintroduce them to ideas already tested on outstandingyoung clarinettists in his home city of Stockholm.‘We must not lose the human connection or thephysical part of music-making’, he observes. ‘Thatconnection has existed forever. Now is the right timeto highlight its place in classical music.’
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Imogen Cooper piano
1836–1846 – PARALLEL PATHS
Chopin Barcarolle in F# Op. 60; Nocturne in Eb Op. 55 No. 2Schumann Humoreske in Bb Op. 20; Novellette in F# minorOp. 21 No. 8; Novellette in D Op. 21 No. 2Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E Op. 62 No. 2;Fantaisie in F minor Op. 49; Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23
A regular guest at Wigmore Hall since her acclaimed debut at the BBCProms forty years ago, Imogen Cooper explores the parallel paths ofChopin and Schumann, who were both born in 1810. Her programmeembraces the fleeting moods and wit of Schumann’s Humoreske, thedelicate shadings of Chopin’s Op. 62 Nocturnes and the wistful nostalgiaof the Polish composer’s youthful Ballade in G minor.
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London Pianoforte Series
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Saturday 14 February 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Study Afternoonwith Andrew PinnockPURCELL’S KING ARTHUR – THE ORIGINAL ROYAL OPERA
Interest in royal opera increased towards the end of King Charles II’sreign, as the 25th anniversary of the Restoration approached. A numberof ambitious works were commissioned, King Arthur among them, butCharles’s unexpected death in February 1685 threw plans for a nationalcelebration off course, and King Arthur had to wait until 1691 to receiveits première. By then, the political climate had changed radically, and toensure its acceptability to the new regime, King Arthur needed a politicalmakeover. Andrew Pinnock, Professor of Music at the University ofSouthampton and a much-published Purcellian, presents this studyafternoon which draws on recent research to explore the opera’s masqueprecursors, its complicated production history and its hidden message –prophesying endless British prosperity under Stuart rule.
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Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Saturday 14 February 7.30 pm
Doric String Quartet Andreas Haefliger piano
Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 76 No. 1Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Op. 36Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57
Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger joins the DoricString Quartet for a performance of one of the lastcentury’s most powerful and uplifting chambermusic compositions. While Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor includes irony and melancholy, it stands above allfor optimism in an age of bloodshed and brutality, as meaningful today as it was at the time of its composition in 1940.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust,The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season
Sunday 15 February 7.30 pm
Academy of St Martin in the FieldsMartin Fröst clarinet
Mozart Serenade in G K525 ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’;Clarinet Concerto in A K622 Grieg Two Elegiac MelodiesOp. 34 Schumann 5 Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 (Nos. 1,2 & 5) (arr. for clarinet and strings by Rolf Martinsson)Brahms Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 12, 13 & 21(arr. for clarinet and strings by Göran Fröst) Traditional 3 Klezmer Dances (arr. for clarinet and stringsby Göran Fröst)
Martin Fröst’s mature vision of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto evokes mystical imagery withits hypnotic lyricism and joyful spontaneity. He has performed the piece many times withthe Academy of St Martin in the Fields, establishing an artistic relationship based on mutualrespect and emotional engagement. Their programme also includes works arranged byFröst’s brother Göran, crowned by his evocative treatment of three Klezmer dances.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Supported by the Season Patrons who have made a major contribution to the 2014/15 Wigmore Series
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Andreas Ottensamer clarinet
José Gallardo piano
Weber Grand Duo Concertant in Eb Op. 48A selection of Hungarian and Romanian dances and folk songsBrahms Clarinet Sonata in F minor Op. 120 No. 1
Known for his beautiful sound and beguiling artistry, AndreasOttensamer became the first clarinettist to sign an exclusiverecording contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2013. TheAustrian musician’s programme touches on the folk allegiancesof his instrument before closing with the tonal radiance and tender melancholy of Brahms’s F minor Clarinet Sonata.
£13 concs £11 incl. programme and coffee/sherry/juice
Sunday Morning Coffee Concert
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Monday 16 February 1.00 pm
Giuliano Carmignola violin
Kristian Bezuidenhout fortepiano
Bach Violin Sonata No. 2 in A BWV1015Bach Violin Sonata No. 3 in E BWV1016Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526
Over the course of a career spanning more than fourdecades, Giuliano Carmignola has given poetic expressionto the full range of human emotions on modern and periodinstruments. He is partnered by Kristian Bezuidenhout fora recital rooted in the soundworld of the eighteenth centuryyet alive to the spirit of the present moment.
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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
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Monday 16 February 7.30 pm
Susan Tomes piano
Erich Höbarth violin
Schubert Sonata in A minor (Sonatina) for piano andviolin D385; Sonata in A (Duo) for piano and violin D574Schubert Moments Musicaux D780: No. 1 in C;No. 2 in Ab; No. 3 in F minorSchubert Fantasy in C for piano and violin D934
Two seasoned chamber music artists and close friendsturn to the works of Schubert. Susan Tomes and ErichHöbarth, who received ovations for their Mozart recitalsat Wigmore Hall two years ago, begin with the strikingrhetoric and pathos of Schubert’s ‘Sonatina’. Tomesoccupies centre stage as soloist in three of the composer’s Moments Musicaux before partnering Höbarth in themajestic Fantasy in C.
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Tuesday 17 February 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Too Hot to HandelFAMILY DAY
For ages 6 plus
Travel back to the year 1749 to explore the great composerGeorge Frideric Handel’s home, where he is busy writinghis Music for the Royal Fireworks. After our morningvisit to Handel House Museum, join workshop leaderKate Mapp to discover your inner composer, and createsome explosive music of your own to perform on stage atthe end of the day.
Adults £15 Children £10
In partnership with Handel House Museum
Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield ValleyArts Trust and The Monument Trust
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Wednesday 18 February 7.30 pm
Pavel Haas Quartet Colin Currie percussion
Dvorák Miniatures Op. 75aJanácek String Quartet No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’Jirí Gemrot Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and marimba (UK première)Haas String Quartet No. 2 Op. 7 ‘From the Monkey Mountains’ with percussion
Jirí Gemrot, Prague-based Director in Chief of Czech Radio, composed his Quintetfor the Pavel Haas Quartet and Colin Currie in 2014. They place the score’sindividual sounds and lyrical melodies at the heart of a programme of works byCzech composers, complete with the white-hot creative energy of Janácek’s ‘KreutzerSonata’ and Pavel Haas’s innovative and atmospheric ‘From the Monkey Mountains’.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Chamber Music Season/Contemporary Music Series/BohemiaColin Currie
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Tuesday 17 February 7.30 pm
Michala Petri recorder
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Corelli Sonata in G (transcription of Violin Sonatain F Op. 5 No. 10); Sonata in G minor (transcriptionof Violin Sonata in D minor Op. 5 No. 12 ‘La Folia’) Bach Flute Sonata in B minor BWV1030;Sonata in G minor (transcription of Flute Sonatain E minor BWV1034) Borup-Jørgensen FantasiaDaniel Kidane TourbillionJacob Sonatina
Music both ancient and modern appeals to MichalaPetri and Mahan Esfahani, virtuoso artists ever readyto bring new works to life and challenge receivedwisdom about the repertoires of their respectiveinstruments. Their programme explores the baroqueart of transcription in company with twentieth-centuryworks for recorder and harpsichord. It also includes Tourbillion by 28-year-old British composer Daniel Kidane,whose music has been described by the Financial Times as ‘quietly impressive’.
£30 £25 £20 £15
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Thursday 19 February 7.30 pm
Dante QuartetHaydn String Quartet in B minor Op. 33 No. 1Bartók String Quartet No. 4Debussy String Quartet in G minor Op. 10
Bartók’s synthesis of folk and art music went further and deeperthan anything attempted before. His Fourth String Quartetencapsulates the composer’s experiments in form and content,texture and timbre. The Dante Quartet frames Bartók’s work withthe pathos and dark wit of Haydn’s Op. 33 No. 1 and Debussy’siconoclastic String Quartet in G minor.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust,The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
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Saturday 21 February 11.00 am – 12.00 noon
King ArthurFAMILY CONCERTFor ages 5 plus
Join instrumentalists and singers from the Early Opera Company and presenterIsabelle Adams for a magical musical story featuring King Arthur, Merlin,Guinevere and England’s Patron Saint, George. Adapted from Purcell’s operaand using extracts of the original music, we tell an alternative tale of King Arthuron an adventure through golden fields, icy forests and epic battles.
Adults £9 Children £7
Wigmore Hall’s Family Programme is supported by Mayfield Valley Arts Trust andThe Monument Trust
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Henry Purcell: A Retrospective
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Maria João Pires piano
Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Schubert 6 Moments Musicaux D780 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in Ab Op. 110Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor Op. 111Schubert Fantasy in F minor D940
Late masterworks by Beethoven and Schubert form the core ofthis recital. Pavel Kolesnikov performs Schubert’s 6 Moments Musicaux before offering up the stage to his teacher, Maria JoãoPires, for Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 110. Kolesnikov’sWigmore Hall debut in January 2014, greeted by five-star reviews, set the seal on the remarkable opening phase ofthe young Russian-born pianist’s career. He opens the recital’s second half with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111before the pair unite to perform Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for piano four-hands.
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Pavel Kolesnikov is a soloist of the Music Chapel and this concert forms part of thePartitura Project. Initiated by Maria João Pires, the aim of this project is to createan altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations and to offer analternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. www.musicchapel.org
London Pianoforte Series/Maria João Pires Portrait Series
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Saturday 21 February 7.30 pm
Pavel Haas QuartetSchulhoff String Quartet No. 1Dvorák String Quartet in Eb Op. 51Smetana String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’
The Pavel Haas Quartet’s programme features worksinfluenced by the composers’ personal circumstancesand shared concerns. Smetana, whose autobiographicalquartet presents scenes ‘From my life’, wrote that its fourplayers ‘should converse together in an intimate circleabout the things which so deeply trouble me’. ErwinSchulhoff’s String Quartet No. 1, meanwhile, dates fromthe short-lived Czechoslovak Republic’s hugely creativeinterwar years.
£30 £25 £20 £15
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust,The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity.
To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
Chamber Music Season/Bohemia
Sunday 22 February 11.30 am
Calidore String QuartetMendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op.13Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 ‘Razumovsky’
Felix Mendelssohn wrote his first complete string quartet within months of Beethoven’s death in 1827. The work,later published as the prodigiously gifted young composer’s Second String Quartet, was inspired by the example ofBeethoven’s string quartets, which Mendelssohn knew well. The Calidore String Quartet’s Coffee Concert concludeswith Beethoven’s emotionally complex Second ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet, in which silence serves to articulate andintensify the musical argument.
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Sunday 22 February 7.30 pm
Miloš Karadaglic guitar
Sor Variations on a Theme of Mozart; Regondi Rêverie nocturne Op. 19Granados Danza española No. 2: OrientaleBach Chaconne in D minor BWV1004 (arr. for guitar)Falla Danza del Molinero (arr. Michael Lewin); Homenaje: pièce de guitareécrite pour ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’; Danza española No.1(arr. Michael Lewin) Rodrigo Invocación y danzaVelázquez Bésame Mucho (arr. Assad) Jorge Ben Jor Mas Que nadaGinastera Sonata for solo guitar Op. 47
Since moving to London from Montenegro in his late teens to study at theRoyal Academy of Music, Miloš Karadaglic has emerged as one of the finestclassical guitarists of our time. He returns to Wigmore Hall with a typicallyzestful programme, which includes Fernando Sor’s eternally delightfulVariations on a Theme of Mozart, first published in London in 1821.
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Monday 23 February 1.00 pm
Louis Schwizgebel piano
Haydn Piano Sonata in Eb HXVI:49 Chopin Ballade No. 3 in Ab Op. 47; Étude in C# minor Op. 25 No. 7;Waltz in C# minor Op. 64 No. 2; Fantaisie-impromptu in C# minor Op. 66Liszt Consolation No. 3 in Db S172; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in Db S244
Born in Geneva in 1987, Swiss-Chinese pianist Louis Schwizgebel has beendescribed by the Guardian as ‘a pianist with a profound gift’, a view consistentlyunderlined by the refinement and searching intelligence of his performances.His BBC Lunchtime programme spans the gamut from Classical Haydn to theexpressive extremes and technical challenges of Liszt’s virtuosic art.
£13 concs £11
Louis Schwizgebel is a member of BBC Radio 3’sNew Generation Artists scheme
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 23 February 7.30 pm
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Paul Lewis piano
Schubert Violin Sonata (Duo) in A D574 Schubert Rondoin B minor D895 Bach Violin Sonata in E minor BWV1023Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96
Following the artistic success of their collaboration in 2013,Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis formed a duo partnershipthat has flourished with a succession of recital tours. Theirlatest project opens with Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A,posthumously dubbed ‘Duo’ by its publisher to signify theequal status of the work’s violin and piano parts.
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Chamber Music Season/Paul Lewis: A Celebration
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Wednesday 25 February 7.30 pm
Llyr Williams piano
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Op. 14 No. 1; Piano SonataNo. 10 in G Op. 14 No. 2; 6 Variations on an Original Theme in FOp. 34; Fantasia in G minor Op. 77; Piano Sonata No. 13 in EbOp. 27 No. 1 ‘Quasi una fantasia’; Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# minorOp. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
Llyr Williams charts the evolution of Beethoven’s music in thisrecital, opening with the strikingly different characters of thecomposer’s early Op. 14 piano sonatas, the former full of bolddramatic contrasts, the latter praised by the critic and scholarDonald Tovey as ‘an exquisite little work’. The improvisatory Fantasiain G minor, perhaps inspired by Bach, prepares the atmosphere for Beethoven’s radical Op. 27 piano sonatas.
The next concert in Llyr Williams’s Beethoven piano sonata cycle is on 30 May 2015.
£35 £30 £25 £18
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Artists in ConversationMembers of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in conversation before the evening concert.
£4
Wigmore Hall Learning Event/Contemporary Music Series
Tuesday 24 February 7.30 pm
Birmingham Contemporary Music GroupGillian Keith soprano
Rebecca von Lipinski soprano
Jonathan Berman conductor
Harvey You Babbitt QuatrainsGerald Barry New work (BCMG commission) (world première)Thomas Adès Life Story Op. 8 Kurt Schwertsik Human Existence; Der Herr weis was der Wil;Singt meine SchwäneSir Harrison Birtwistle Three Settings of Celan: White and Light;Night; Tenebrae Olga Neuwirth The Cartographer SongPoul Ruders Alone Osvaldo Golijov SarajevoDetlev Glanert Contemplated by a Portrait of a DivineCastiglioni Vallis clausa Salvatore Sciarrino Due risvegli e il ventoA Clementi Wiegenlied Donatoni An Angel within my Heart
Since its foundation in 1987, Birmingham Contemporary MusicGroup has premièred over 150 works. The chamber ensemble’spioneering Sound Investment commissioning scheme, admiredand emulated worldwide, has funded the creation of many newscores by emerging talents and established composers. Thisprogramme includes the world première of the BCMG’s fourthcommission from Irish composer Gerald Barry, alongside aselection of songs from the remarkable collection commissionedby John Woolrich for Mary Wiegold’s Songbook.
£30 £25 £20 £15
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Gillian Keith Rebecca von Lipinski
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Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto
Roger Vignoles piano
Fauré Cinq mélodies ‘de Venise’ Op. 58 Lekeu Trois PoèmesHahn Offrande; D’une prison; L’heure exquise; Fêtes galantesKoechlin Menuet; La pêche; La lune; L’hiver; Si tu le veuxDebussy From Fêtes galantes Book II: Les ingénus; Le faune;Colloque sentimental Duparc L’invitation au voyage;La vie antérieure; Sérénade florentine; Phidylé
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, a native of Québec, made her mark in2000 as winner of the Prix de la Reine Fabiola and Prix du Liedat the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Belgium. The unique colours of her sonorous contralto voice and probing artistry, indemand worldwide, are directed in this recital to an exquisite programme of chansons from the golden age of French song.
£35 £30 £25 £18
Free tickets for 8–25 year olds at selected concerts, supported by The Monument Trust and John Lyon’s Charity. To book this concert as part of Wigmore Hall’s young people’s programme, please contact the Box Office and quote ‘CHAMBER ZONE’.
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Thursday 26 February 5.00 pm – 6.15 pm
Introduction to Music 1HOW MUSIC WORKS
Aimed at music-lovers who do not possess an intimate knowledge of the ‘nuts and bolts’of music and would like to know a little more. Listening to music is greatly enrichedby understanding, and many aspects of the construction of music are easily explainedgiven a little time and the assistance of musical examples to put the ideas in context.Harmony, melody and rhythm are among the fundamental elements of music, buthow do they work and what are the rules that govern their use? These four lectures(26 February, 5, 12 & 19 March) with Roy Stratford demystify what can be anintimidating subject, and help you to gain a better understanding of these key areas.
Series ticket price £30
Wigmore Hall Learning Event
Thursday 26 February 7.30 pm
Scottish EnsembleJonathan Morton leader
Amy Dickson saxophone
Glazunov Saxophone Concerto Op. 109 Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a Giya Kancheli Night PrayersTchaikovsky Serenade in C for strings Op. 48
Amy Dickson, the young Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist,joins the Scottish Ensemble in two powerful pieces for classicalsaxophone – Glazunov’s lyrical yet scintillatingly virtuosic SaxophoneConcerto, and the profound spirituality of Georgian composer GiyaKancheli’s captivating Night Prayers. The programme’s transformativejourney from darkness to light contrasts Shostakovich’s deeply personalChamber Symphony, a transcription by Rudolf Barshai of the composer’smonument to ‘the victims of fascism and war’, his autobiographicalString Quartet No. 8, with Tchaikovsky’s radiant Serenade for Strings.
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Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus DayIn the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movement to restore expressivity to contemporaryGerman music and open a modern dialogue with the past. While his strikingly original works often connect withthe aesthetics of Romanticism, they do so without trace of nostalgia or sentimental yearning for styles overturnedby the cataclysmic upheavals of the last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, featuring performances byartists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches on the myriad ways in which his art draws pulsating life fromthe abiding energy of music and poetic images of an earlier age.
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Quatuor DanelJörg Widmann clarinet
Bruno Schneider horn
Wolfgang Rihm Sextet* (UK première); Vier Male forclarinet in A; 4 Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett
*Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdamwith the support of the AMMODO Foundation; Wigmore Hallwith the support of André Hoffmann, President of theFondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, andThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes induration, without an interval
£12.50 concs £10
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Christoph Prégardien tenor
Ulrich Eisenlohr piano
Schubert Songs on poems by Ernst SchulzeWolfgang Rihm Songs from Ende der HandschriftWolfgang Rihm Das RotSchubert Heine Lieder from Schwanengesang
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, with an interval
£12.50 concs £10
6.00pm
Artists in ConversationJoin composer Wolfgang Rihm as he discusseshis life and works.
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Wigmore Hall Learning Event
7.30pm
Arditti QuartetTanja Tetzlaff cello
Teodoro Anzellotti accordion
Wolfgang Rihm Grave in memoriam ThomasKakuska; Fetzen for accordion and string quartet;String Quartet No. 10; Epilog for string quintet
This concert will be approximately 2 hours induration, with an interval
£30 £25 £20 £15
All Day Ticket £30
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Today, Wigmore Hall remains the recital venue of choice for many of the world’s greatest artists and is universally recognised as the international custodian of chamber music and song. It is through nurturing and supporting artists that the Hall is able to remain a venue much loved by audiences and performers alike. Wigmore Hall is increasingly dependent on voluntary donations. It is only with your help that the Hall can develop emerging talent and support the most distinguished artists in the world today and for many years to come.
If Wigmore Hall holds a special place in your heart, please help us secure the Hall’s future with a gift in your Will.
To find out more, please contact Marie-Hélène Osterweil, Director of Development, on 020 7258 8229
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How to get to Wigmore HallWigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BPBox Office Tel: 020 7935 2141
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Tubes Bond Street (Central & Jubilee lines) and OxfordCircus (Bakerloo, Central & Victoria lines) tube stationsare both close by.
Buses A large number of buses travel along OxfordStreet, which is approximately five minutes walk fromWigmore Hall.
Car Parking There is limited street parking after 6.30pm(Mon – Sat) and all day Sunday in permitted areas.Alternatively there are public car parks in CavendishSquare, Harley Street and Marylebone Lane, all ofwhich are less than a five minute walk from the Hall.Wigmore Hall participates in the Theatreland ParkingScheme which gives all Wigmore concert-goers 50%discount on their parking. Please contact the box officefor further details or visit our website.
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