{"title": "Arthur Keegan, Bach and Dowland", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£18 (concessions £16)", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/guitar"], "description": "A lunchtime guitar recital lasting about an hour without an interval, given by Samrat Majumder. The programme celebrates the lute legacy of John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach that the guitar has inherited, with works including Dowland's The Earl of Essex Galliard, Lachrimae Pavan and The Frog Galliard, Bach's Suite in E minor BWV996, a YCAT Composer Fellow commission by Arthur Keegan, and a selection of Scottish lute manuscripts. 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The concert lasts approximately one hour without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samrat-majumder-guitar-65989/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af63879accf3b475ad4ea55a6fb02a29ef4e4d191ff16021c71cdbfdea75d3d8-600.webp"}, {"title": "John Dowland: Another Retrospective", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£50 £43 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A concert titled 'John Dowland: Another Retrospective' performed at Wigmore Hall. It features the Jupiter Ensemble under artistic director and lutenist Thomas Dunford, joined by soprano Melissa Petit, four singers and five viola da gamba players. Marking the 400th anniversary of John Dowland's death in 2026, the programme presents excerpts from his songbooks and Lachrimae, spanning music that is joyful, playful, mysterious, introspective, meditative and amorous. The concert runs approximately two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-dowland-another-retrospective-81027/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9fbd1d0d408f2b27017df11c1365315162a8bb25d9785cba3a657dac938622ae-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Dunford artistic director, lute; Jupiter Ensemble", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£50, £43, £33, £27, £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A concert of music by the Elizabethan composer John Dowland, given as 'John Dowland: Another Retrospective' by Jupiter Ensemble. Lutenist Thomas Dunford directs an ensemble of four singers — soprano Melissa Petit, mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, countertenor Hugh Cutting, tenor Thomas Hobbs and bass Florian Störtz — plus five viola da gamba players. The programme, lasting about two hours with an interval, draws on Dowland's songbooks and his Lachrimae pieces for viol consort, marking the 400th anniversary of the composer's death. Dunford, whose ensemble recorded Songs of Passion for Warner Classics in 2025, calls Dowland 'the John Lennon of the 16th Century.'", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thomas-dunford-artistic-director-lute-jupiter-ensemble-65991/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74be64c7119b1599a4b85b32fd98883babff13e92690f6cb661f63128f2e6dfb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Classical Guitar by Candlelight", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "St Mary le Strand", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1ES London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/63c82ca274fb184f4eebf902/e/6a8e794c7ebd53f4117f568c?lang=en", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/guitar"], "description": "An evening recital of classical guitar music performed by candlelight inside the baroque church St Mary Le Strand in the heart of London. The concert is played by the acclaimed guitarist Amanda Cook. Her programme spans works by Weiss, Tárrega, Dowland, Broca and Schubert, alongside Spanish masterpieces and Scottish and Peruvian traditional music, ending with The Parting Glass. Each piece is chosen to show a different facet of the guitar's colour, character and emotional depth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/classical-guitar-by-candlelight-47732/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/classical-guitar-by-candlelight-6/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5b5b618f946052f291902a7d57298f20f772e4d7308e6a75738187389e307796-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: Nigel North", "start": "2026-11-12T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£25 / £15 u21s/full-time students", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5197", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A 60-minute lute recital, part of the London International Festival of Early Music, given in a church. The performer is Nigel North, a London-born lutenist of over 50 years who taught at Indiana University until 2024 and now lives in Belgium. His programme, The Beginning of the World: Dances, Dumps and Divisions, offers short Tudor-era pieces on an 8-course lute, including works by William Byrd, John Johnson and Peter Philips alongside anonymous dances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-nigel-north-78548/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-nigel-north/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2546d93ff571d751378a9c4070f4c7c959f590328911c850bd37fef70fff739d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: Phantasm & Elizabeth Kenny", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£35 / £25 Students & U21s", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5198", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A concert at the London International Festival of Early Music in which the viol consort Phantasm and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny reunite to perform their award-winning interpretation of John Dowland's Lachrimae or Seven Tears in the composer's anniversary year. Phantasm, founded in 1994 by Laurence Dreyfus, is an acclaimed viol consort whose recording of this programme won the 2017 Gramophone Award and the 2017 Diapason d'or de l'année. The programme of dance music for viols and lute centres on the seven variants of the Lachrimae theme and sums up the Renaissance preoccupation with melancholy, including Dowland's signature piece Semper Dowland Semper Dolens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-phantasm-elizabeth-kenny-78549/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-phantasm-elizabeth-kenny/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/666bdee6b543f02ef1389cba9aaaa13daeabda867444ad6b440d0bea5cd068d9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Guildhall Cantata Project", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Milton Court Concert Hall", "address": "Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "The Guildhall Cantata Project is a free evening performance of early-eighteenth-century cantata music. Harpsichordist James Johnstone directs Guildhall singers, keyboard players and lutenists from the Historical Performance department. The programme pairs voice and continuo in works by composers such as Johann Hermann Schein, Johann Rosenmüller, Franz Tunder, Dietrich Buxtehude and Adam Krieger. It takes place in the Milton Court Concert Hall and no tickets are required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/guildhall-cantata-project-80625/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/guildhall-cantata-project-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47af27ab70caa9e6222d07315c6f90e08bb2b2b78721e11bf6c72bac6d19d923-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: L’Artefice", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£30 / £20 U21s & Students", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5196", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "A concert by the early music ensemble L’Artefice exploring the playful virtuosity and artful inventiveness of 16th- and 17th-century instrumental music. It features ornamented vocal pieces, variations on popular melodies, and works in genres such as the Canzona, Ricercar, Toccata and Sonata. The ensemble adapts, arranges and creates music for their own instruments to foster connections with each other and their audience. They are Filip Rekieć on nyckelharpa and baroque violin, Leonardo Bortolotto on bass viol and Vincent Kibildis on harp.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-lartefice-78553/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-lartefice/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Thursday Lunchtime Concert – Aron Tian, Michelle Téibo, Yuyao Qu", "start": "2026-11-12T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T14:00:00Z", "place": "St Mary le Strand", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1ES London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "A lunchtime classical concert at St Mary le Strand, part of the church's Lunchtime Concerts series, lasting one hour. It features young musicians Aaron Tian on violin and piano, soprano Michelle Téibo and pianist Yuyao Qu. The programme spans Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin, songs by Fauré, Quilter, Mahler and Handel, Szymanowski's La fontaine d'Aréthuse and Milstein's Paganiniana. Aaron Tian and Michelle Téibo both study at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and are pupils at Eltham College.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thursday-lunchtime-concert-aron-tian-michelle-teibo-yuyao-qu-65316/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/thursday-lunchtime-concert-violin-soprano-piano/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd848ca55775433be63438f83db4c3de5c32a2da77c9401a908752e11eafff88-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Samling Showcase", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£40 £37 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611061930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/vocal"], "description": "A recital evening at Wigmore Hall celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Samling Institute, which trains young voices and pianists. The programme of Schubert, Purcell, Monteverdi, Schumann, Dvořák, Granados and Vaughan Williams, including 'Serenade to Music', is performed by Samling alumni such as Nardus Williams, Cláudia Ribas, Euan McDonald, Felix Gygli with pianists Jonathan Ware and Alfred Fardell, clarinettist Eliott Berdugo, the Samling Academy Quartet and speaker Adrian Lester. It lasts about two hours including an interval. Under-35 discounted and free tickets for young people are available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samling-showcase-65994/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611061930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1b079f3a7800cf9a53cbb2b4fb4d3abb72b33fc540ef821e9b79103bb2dbd927-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lunchtime Recital - Will Jowett (voice ) and Lucy Barratt (piano)", "start": "2026-11-12T13:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Pancras Church", "address": "London", "price": "free entry with a suggested donation", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/lieder"], "description": "A lunchtime recital for voice and piano with works by Schubert, Stravinsky, Ravel, Saint-Säens and Ireland. It is presented by the GSMD. Will Jowett sings, with Lucy Barratt at the piano.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lunchtime-recital-will-jowett-voice-and-lucy-barratt-piano-47778/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Bach Concertos by Candlelight", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "place": "St Mary le Strand", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1ES London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/63c82ca274fb184f4eebf902/e/6a09d725f8f7694166a25d97?lang=en", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "An evening concert of J.S. Bach's concertos performed by candlelight in the church of St Mary le Strand. The acclaimed Piccadilly Sinfonietta, with guest virtuoso soloists and pianist Warren Mailley-Smith, plays a selection of Bach's sublime concertos. The programme includes a Partita and two of Bach's keyboard concertos, performed with invention, emotional depth and vibrant interplay between soloist and ensemble. The architectural beauty of St Mary le Strand is said to be the perfect setting for Bach's music to shine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bach-concertos-by-candlelight-47731/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/bach-concertos-by-candlelight-9/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0299f672e8ddeba6a5bdd37be2c633f32145d927d00617828c01d76c0ce65e06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lunchtime Recital: MozART in London", "start": "2026-11-04T13:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5485", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "Lunchtime Recital: MozART in London is a one-hour lunchtime chamber concert celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It brings together pianist Jiacheng Zhu with the Rosebud Ensemble's string players — Elif Cansever and Mimi Huang on violin, Joseph Lowe on viola and Santiago Lowe on cello. The programme spans Mozart's chamber music from the lively Divertimento in D major, K.136 and the Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K.454 to the Duo in G major, K.423, ending with Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525. Admission is free and advanced booking is advised.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lunchtime-recital-mozart-in-london-69560/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lunchtime-recital-mozart-in-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eae14be92c741f8898da034cc1e4ed7ca7998bba09729e7f465c0dda9ff555b7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Evensong Recital", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "place": "Parish Church of the Holy Spirit", "address": "SW4 9JU London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/organ"], "description": "An organ recital given before Evensong at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Clapham. Organist Philip Balkan plays works by Johann Sebastian Bach alongside pieces by George Thalben-Ball, Arthur Sullivan and Edward Elgar, several in arrangements by other organists, ending with Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/evensong-recital-49305/", "official_url": "https://holyspiritclapham.churchsuite.com/events/4reqka4z", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e29ebd7da395ce96a08c059e1639c2dc50abf110c3e9280dc63756ed54960055-1200.webp"}]}