Classical and Jazz: Latest Listings > December 16
Published: 16 December, 2010
FRIDAY DECEMBER 17
Hard-bop Killer Shrimp led by Camden Town trumpeter Damon Brown, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, WC2, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free
100 Years of German Song series: soprano Dorothea Roschmann sings 1840-50, songs by Schumann & Mendelssohn, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £18
Kings Place:
Hall one: York Early Music-fest: Xmas Renaissance Revels, 7.30pm, online £9.50
Hall two: Arctic Circle Xmas concert, 8pm online, £9.50
SATURDAY DECEMBER 18
Christmas Concert: Highgate Choral Society, St Michael’s, Pond Square, Highgate, 020 8883 5631, 6pm £5/under-16s free, retiring collection for Motor Neurone Disease Association
Christmas Swingtime, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £16.50
North London Hospice fundraiser: Florin plays delectable Beethoven/Mozartpieces, St John’s, Downshire Hill, Hampstead, 0845 052 7557, 7.30pm, £10
Kings Place:
Hall one: Sacred Songs of East & West, 7.30pm, online £9.50
SUNDAY DECEMBER 19
Classical
Album launch: pianist Warren Mailley-Smith dubbed “Great Artist of Tomorrow” plays Mozart sonatas, Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead, 07949 321 142, 3pm, £15
Christmas Gala, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £16.50
Top tenor Mark Padmore sings with Aronowitz Ensemble, The Forge, Delancey Street, NW1, 020 7383 7808, www.forgevenue.org, 8pm, online £10
Jazz
Be-pop guitarist Dave Cliff joins Pete Chapman Trio, Princess of Wales, 22 Chalcot Road, NW1, 0207 722 0345, 2pm, free
Jazz & jam: Christian Brewer Quartet plus Jim Mullen et al, Solo Bar, 20 Inverness Street, Camden Town, 020 7482 4611, 7.30pm, free
Trio Pena’s Afro-Cuban Jam, Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden Town, 020 7485 9899, 8pm, £7
Jazz pianist Al Scott’s trio, Round Midnight, 13 Liverpool Road, N1, 020 7837 8758, 8.30pm, free
MONDAY DECEMBER 20
Just delightful recital: mezzo Clare McCaldin sings McNeff, Maw & Debussy pieces accompanied by flute, harp & viola, Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 1pm, free/tickets 10am ROH box office
Candlelight Christmas, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £16.50
Consortium5: outstanding recorder quintet play festive music, St George’s, Bloomsbury Way, WC1, 029 7242 1979, 7.30pm, £10/cons £6
Swinging jazz: Dan Spanner Big Band, King’s Cross Social Club, 2 Brittania Street, WC1, 202 7278 4252, 8.30pm, free
TUESDAY DECEMBER 21
Fabulous Viktoria Mullova plays Beethoven’s violin concerto with LSO conducted by John Elliot Gardiner, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £8
WH debut: French coloratura soprano Petricia Petibon, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £18|
Kings Place:
Hall one: Messiah/Orchestra of St John’s, 7.30pm, online £9.50
Jazz pianist/vocalist Benet McLean & Quartet, Lower Ground Bar, 269a West End Land, NW6, 020 7431 2211, 9.30pm, £5
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 22
Christmas Wishes: Hayley Westenra, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £16.50
Multi-reeds virtuoso: Alan Barnes Quartet, Green Man, 383 Euston Road, NW1, www.wcomjazz.co.uk, 7.45pm, £8/students £5
THURSDAY DECEMBER 23
Carols & Classics, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £16.50
Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 7.30pm, from £5(seven more perfs till Jan 7)
Venues
Barbican, Silk Street, EC1, 0845 120 7500, www.barbican.org.uk
Kings Place, York Way, King’s Cross, box office: 0207 520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk
Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, W1, 020 7935 2141, www.wigmore-hall.org.uk