Classical and Jazz: Latest Listings > December 9
Published: 9 December, 2010
FRIDAY DECEMBER 10
St Martin-in-the-Fields: 6pm, Christmas carols by Candelight led by Vivace Chorus, £18, 8pm, Christmas carols by Candelight led by English Baroque Choir, from £8
Vocality: Christmas songs, St George’s, Bloomsbury Way, WC1, 07985 094 322, 7.30pm, £5
City Chorus: Mozart’s Missa Brevis/carols singalong, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn Viaduct, EC1, Info: 07949 073 523, Tickets: www.london citychorus.com, 7.30pm, £12 inc wine
Cello/piano duo: Vashti Hunter/Veronika Kopjova, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, 020 7435 7556, 7.30pm, £10/cons £8
Kings Place hall one: Folkfest/ Alistair Anderson plays concertina & Northumbrian pipes, 7.30pm, online £9.50
SATURDAY DECEMBER 11
Classical
Family Concert for age 5 plus: Carducci Quartet, Wigmore Hall, 11am, £7/children £5
Islington Choral Society/ Camden Chamber Orchestra: Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, St Alban the Martyr, Brooke Street, Holborn, EC1, 020 7359 6461, 6.30pm, £12/cons £8
St Martin-in-the-Fields: 4pm, Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf/ LMA Orchestra, £16/under-16s £12.7.30pm, Christmas Carols by Candelight led by Vivamus Choir, 7.30pm, from £8
Royal Free Music Society: Christmas music, St Mark’s, Church, St Mark’s Sq, NW1, 07801 278 365, 7.30pm, £10
Nash Ensemble play Rachmaninov/ Musorgsky/Beethoven, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £12
Jazz/folk
Afrobeat jazz: Bukky Leo Band, Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, NW5, 0207 916 0544, 7pm, £10
Kings Place:
Hall one: Folkfest/pianist June Tabor, 7.45pm, online £9.50
Hall two: super-jazz/ Sam Leak’s Aquarium, 8pm, online £9.50
Jazz veteran Stan Sulzmann/ Cervantes’s ensemble, The Forge, Delancey Street, NW1, 020 7383 7808, www.forgevenue.org, 8pm, online £10
SUNDAY DECEMBER 12
Classical
Family friendly: Galeazzi Ensemble/flute & strings, Swiss Cottage Library, 88 Avenue Road, NW3, 020 7974 4001, 2.30pm, free
Family Carol Concert: singalong led by Hampstead Consort, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, 07984 449 937, 3.30pm, £10/children £8
Stunning Sacconi Quartet plus pianist Simon Callaghan: Suk, Smetena & Dvorak, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1, 07732 040 615, 6.30pm, £8/students & under-18s £4
Jazz
Jazz veteran Stan Robinson joins Pete Chapman Trio, Princess of Wales, 22 Chalcot Rd, NW1, 0207 722 0345, 2pm, free
Jazz & jam: Christian Brewer Quartet/ pianist Leon Greening/ special guest Michael Mwenso, Solo Bar, 20 Inverness Street, Camden Town, 020 7482 4611, 7.30pm, free
MONDAY DECEMBER 13
Chopin bicentenary piano recital: Phillip Gammon, Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 1pm, free/ seats ROH box office 10am Dramatic soprano Susan Bullock sings Grieg/Rimsky-Korsakov/ Brahms, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £18
TUESDAY DECEMBER 14
Handel’s Messiah: Hogan Ensemble/ chamber choir of young singers, St George’s Bloomsbury, 020 7242 1979, 7.30pm, £12/cons £8
Elegant hard-bop trumpeter Steve Fishwick, Lower Ground Bar, 269a West End Land, NW6, 020 7431 2211, 9.30pm, £5
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15
Ethereal Midori plays Bruch’s violin concerto with LSO, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £8
Henry Armburg Jennings/Martin Shaw Quartet, Green Man, 383 Euston Red, NW1, www.wcomjazz.co.uk, 7.45pm, £8/students £5
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16
The Messiah/The Sixteen, Barbican, 7pm, from £11
Thrilling Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair plays Bach partitas and sonatas, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £15
St Martin-in-the-Fields: Spirit of Christmas by Candelight/ Tallis Chamber Choir, 7.30pm, from £8
Venues
Barbican, Silk Street, EC1, 0845 7500, www.barbican.org.uk
Kings Place, York Way, King’s Cross, box office: 0207 520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, 0207 766 1100, www.smitf.org
Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, W1, 020 7935 2141, www.wigmore-hall.org.uk