{"title": "Bach: Goldberg Variations", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "price": "£10-£25", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/book-online/101401", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "A concert presenting J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations BWV 988 in an orchestral reimagining, lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes without an interval. Arranger and conductor Robin O'Neill joins Sinfonia Smith Square to expand Bach's 30 variations on a single aria, originally conceived for keyboard, through a vivid spectrum of instrumental colour without altering Bach's design. The result is a compelling dialogue between Baroque brilliance and contemporary orchestral imagination, part of the London Festival of Baroque Music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bach-goldberg-variations-74813/", "official_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/goldbergs-reimagined/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66e1941b3bfe1c7b8dce6f1af5ae244a9aec348c0a8f8985ac7d2bfc38cc866d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Bach: Mass in B Minor", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "price": "£25-£45", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "45.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/book-online/100802", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral/sacred"], "description": "La Nuova Musica under David Bates performs J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor, one of the great landmarks of Baroque sacred music. The London Festival of Baroque Music 2026 closes with this work, which brings together virtuosic choruses and expressive arias in a piece of extraordinary spiritual and emotional range. The ensemble, praised for vivid and deeply expressive early music performances, aims to reveal the Mass as not only monumental, but vividly alive. The performance lasts two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bach-mass-in-b-minor-74817/", "official_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/bach-mass-in-b-minor/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4985a07e011f7f102fac7ea87821bff8c4a37486896e1b068d799e62d209060c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Steven Osborne piano – Beethoven and Steven Osborne", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00Z", "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": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/piano"], "description": "A lunchtime piano recital at Wigmore Hall. Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, praised for his musical intelligence, plays an improvisation on Keith Jarrett's Vienna Concert and Beethoven's mighty Diabelli Variations. He steps in as replacement for Richard Goode, who is unable to take part. The concert lasts about an hour without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/steven-osborne-piano-beethoven-and-steven-osborne-65987/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611021300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1f17b8fb033ffbff6f39ed61cd1afe4286580af7d37697e3f89e9f6f2d035c5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Arcangelo; Hilary Cronin soprano; Daisy Livesey soprano; James Hall countertenor; Jeremy Budd tenor; Hugo Brady tenor; Matthew Long tenor; Malachy Frame bass; William Gaunt bass; Jonathan Cohen director, harpsichord", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£18–£50", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "A choral concert called 'An English Baroque Journey I: Sacred Music – ‘The Music More Full Than It Was’' performed by the ensemble Arcangelo with a team of eight singers led by director and harpsichordist Jonathan Cohen. The programme explores sacred music from England’s Chapel Royal around the time of Oliver Cromwell’s Republic and the restoration of Charles II, with anthems by Christopher Gibbons, Matthew Locke, Pelham Humfrey, John Blow, Maurice Greene, Henry Purcell and a finale of Handel’s 'O praise the Lord with one consent'. The concert, dedicated to the memory of Greta Hemus, runs approximately two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcangelo-hilary-cronin-soprano-daisy-livesey-soprano-james-40316/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202610301930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f2273751396916d5ce54d1990ececbf4fdf99947f97e086dcac51cf376ce76cd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Brodsky Quartet: Bach, Britten and Bridge", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal College of Music Museum", "address": "", "price": "£11.50 (incl ticket fee)", "price_from": "11.50", "price_to": "11.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber concert by the Brodsky Quartet, joined by RCM string players, in the Performance Hall. The programme features arrangements of Bach solo sonatas for string quartet, Beethoven's String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4, Bridge's Second Idyll from Three Idylls H67, and Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge. Bridge dedicated his Three Idylls to Ethel Elmore Sinclair, whom he met while performing in the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, and Britten, his most notable pupil and fellow RCM alumnus, wrote his Variations inspired by the second Idyll. The performance hints at the personality of Britten's mentor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/brodsky-quartet-bach-britten-and-bridge-38292/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3823063", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9bf70f8e58d816fd0b1e37f238d98076386df4dbad82cc05ddbcbfd133430a3e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Pre-Concert Talk: An English Baroque Journey begins", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque", "history/early-modern"], "description": "A pre-concert talk held ahead of the opening concert of Arcangelo's English Baroque Journey series at Wigmore Hall. Nicholas Kenyon, Kirsten Gibson and Julian Forbes introduce a new illustrated companion book to the series, offering new perspectives and the latest research on one of the great periods of national creativity. Copies of the book will be on sale in the Foyer. The event lasts approximately 45 minutes and takes place in the David Wolf Kaye Room.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pre-concert-talk-an-english-baroque-journey-begins-40315/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202610301800", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3d70f60513174f70840c02449922104af1c85838ef0eb216e1f24ce7125fa9c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mozart Requiem", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "price": "£25-£55", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "55.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/book-online/113201", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral"], "description": "A choral and orchestral concert built around Mozart's Requiem, a final masterwork left unfinished at his death, lasting 1 hour and 45 minutes without an interval. It is performed by The Parliament Choir with the orchestra Istante Collective and soloists Ana Beard Fernàndez, Emma Lewis, Hugo Brady and Neal Davies. The choir, founded in 2000 by Lord Filkin and Simon Over for people working in Parliament, also sings Nicholas O'Neill's 'Of All Persons and Estates' and Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mozart-requiem-74808/", "official_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/mozart-requiem-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f72b8a5398d7aae7671ed40fac08d18e0128f06aeaeb5afd92afb177393309a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hannes Minnaar piano – Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "Free live stream", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://bachtrack.com/handler/listing/click/447553/Portal", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/piano"], "description": "A piano recital by the Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar at Wigmore Hall. He performs Dmitry Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87, one of the great keyboard works of the last century. Gramophone praised Minnaar's recording of the cycle for the adroitness of his virtuoso playing and his patient expressivity in the more brooding pieces, drawing out the work's astonishing inventive wealth. The concert lasts approximately three hours, including an interval between Nos. 12 and 13.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hannes-minnaar-piano-shostakovich-preludes-and-fugues-65990/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031900", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1a5dd117c1f91e0912fe065c55a336bfb55260943ccb09cde0aafecb3ac68a1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Shut the Gate Against My Thoughts", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "price": "£15-£20", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/book-online/101601", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "\"Shut the Gate Against My Thoughts\" is a one-hour concert of songs for voice and theorbo tracing the musical expression of melancholy in 16th- and 17th-century Europe, with works by composers including John Dowland, Francesca Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi. It is performed by soprano Nardus Williams, winner of the Rising Star award at the 2022 International Opera Awards, with Liz Kenny, one of Europe's leading lute and theorbo specialists, as part of the London Festival of Baroque Music. The programme explores the many shades of melancholy—introspective, romantic, forlorn and deeply expressive—lifting moments of profound lament with flashes of wit and light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/shut-the-gate-against-my-thoughts-74816/", "official_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/shut-the-gate-against-my-thoughts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/73fbe42e283877b9b685f47386038c355bb83a251b5da357693557ddb5a7952c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rímur", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "price": "£20-£35", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/book-online/101801", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/medieval"], "description": "A concert titled Rímur, part of the London Festival of Baroque Music, lasting one hour and forty minutes including an interval. It is a collaboration between the Norwegian vocal trio Trio Mediæval and celebrated jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen. The programme reimagines ancient Nordic songs through a blend of medieval chant, folk traditions and contemporary improvisation, inspired by the connection between Rivedal in Norway and Reykjavík. It weaves together sacred hymns, 17th-century Icelandic music, the storytelling rhythms of Icelandic rímur and the wordless vocal art of Scandinavian tralling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rimur-74814/", "official_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/rimur/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9399e0839b9a9d4e36095c67137077e02ad29ab97154b42958716853ec8c445-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight (6pm and 8pm)", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "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/69f0d32e835d741f659a00e3?lang=en", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "A candlelit evening concert in a historic baroque church in central London, with performances at 6pm and 8pm. The programme features Vivaldi's iconic masterpiece The Four Seasons, described as a vivid and revolutionary work capturing the essence of nature, alongside other much-loved works including Mozart's Eine Kleine Nacht Musik. It is performed by the Piccadilly Sinfonietta, an acclaimed ensemble with over 200 performances annually, under the artistic direction of concert pianist Warren Mailley-Smith. The church's ornate ceilings, historic charm and stunning acoustics are said to offer the perfect candlelit setting for the music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vivaldi-four-seasons-by-candlelight-6pm-and-8pm-47722/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/vivaldi-four-seasons-by-candlelight-6pm-and-8pm-31/2026-10-31/1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c8e51a9620a92b27e90f9e481dd954c33a11686c70fe7314fc3dcc146ab6060-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Classical Coffee Mornings at the Royal Albert Hall: Emme Hensel", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Albert", "address": "New Cross Road 460, SE14 6TJ London", "price": "£14 (including booking fee)", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber music recital held in the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Classical Coffee Mornings series. It features Royal College of Music musician Emme Hensel on flute, performing a varied programme spanning Romantic, Baroque and 20th-century works by Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Bach and Morlacchi, ending with the showpiece The Swiss Shepherd. A hot drink and a pastry are included in the ticket price.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/classical-coffee-mornings-at-the-royal-albert-hall-emme-hens-38300/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3872277", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f613d7fb1bdc26d42878af9450a46f118f723a31c620200304b374cbf2d56bc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Samrat Majumder guitar – 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": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "A lunchtime guitar recital by Samrat Majumder. Promoted by the Young Classical Artists Trust, the programme celebrates the lute legacy of John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach inherited by the guitar, with works by Dowland, Bach's Suite in E minor, a commission from YCAT Composer Fellow Arthur Keegan, and a selection of Scottish lute manuscripts. The concert lasts approximately one hour without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samrat-majumder-guitar-arthur-keegan-bach-and-dowland-65989/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af63879accf3b475ad4ea55a6fb02a29ef4e4d191ff16021c71cdbfdea75d3d8-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mariam Batsashvili piano — Haydn, Liszt, Mozart and Schubert", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "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": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/piano"], "description": "A solo piano recital at Wigmore Hall. The charismatic Georgian pianist Mariam Batsashvili performs Haydn's Piano Sonata in D, Liszt's monumental Sonata in B minor, Mozart's Fantasia in D minor, Schubert's Impromptu in F minor, and Liszt's Fantasy on Themes from Mozart's Figaro and Don Giovanni. Her interpretations of the great landmarks of the piano repertoire have garnered rave reviews, as has her ability to construct revelatory combinations of works. The concert lasts approximately two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mariam-batsashvili-piano-haydn-liszt-mozart-and-schubert-66002/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611101930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7cb363940312d19171f928b6b84a6ac45d9448a44c30eb51dbfa71475e26f0a-600.webp"}]}