{"title": "Discord to Harmony: Renaissance music of war and peace", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£18–£40", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611111930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "This is a choral concert of Renaissance music titled \"Discord to Harmony: Renaissance music of war and peace\". It is performed by the vocal ensemble Stile Antico, a group of twelve singers led by sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. The programme explores how composers from Du Fay to Schütz responded to the wars, religious conflicts and diplomatic peacemaking of the Renaissance, spanning nearly two centuries of music. It features works such as Clément Janequin's chanson \"La guerre\" and Tomás Luis de Victoria's \"Missa pro victoria\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/discord-to-harmony-renaissance-music-of-war-and-peace-81030/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611111930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1fa56e0d4927d3c5d54d507797ae00e7c3619b00fede09731acbeb761d76135-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Stile Antico", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "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/early-music"], "description": "Stile Antico brings 'Discord to Harmony: Renaissance music of war and peace' to Wigmore Hall, a choral concert lasting about two hours with an interval. The vocal ensemble Stile Antico performs works by composers from Dufay to Schütz exploring how music responded to Renaissance Europe's wars, alliances and peace treaties. The programme ranges from Janequin's battle chanson La guerre to laments for fallen cities and serene motets welcoming longed-for peace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stile-antico-66004/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611111930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1fa56e0d4927d3c5d54d507797ae00e7c3619b00fede09731acbeb761d76135-600.webp"}, {"title": "A Concert for Remembrance Day – Dona nobis pacem", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£52.50, £42.50, £34.50, £24.50", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "48.00", "tickets_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/a-concert-for-remembrance-day/book/1354434", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/world-war/world-war-i", "music/classical/choral", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "A Remembrance Day concert at Cadogan Hall centred on Vaughan Williams' Dona nobis pacem, together with Finzi's Requiem da camera and Judith Weir's O sweet spontaneous earth. The City of London Choir presents two British war requiems to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918, joined by Britten Sinfonia, soprano Hilary Cronin, baritone Gareth Brynmor John and conductor Daniel Hyde. Vaughan Williams' powerful work decries the cruelty of war and cries for peace, while Finzi's secular Requiem laments lost youth and a rural way of life changed by war. Weir's setting of American poetry reflects on our place on Earth today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-concert-for-remembrance-day-dona-nobis-pacem-35209/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/a-concert-for-remembrance-day/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a894e2cd689ffd96c77f2fce6b8b2a502bf061f2b0855af11648805507600aa-1200.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": "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": "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": "All Saints' Choral Eucharist", "start": "2026-11-01T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T11:00:00Z", "place": "St Brides", "address": "St. Bride's Avenue, EC4Y 8AU London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/christian/all-saints-day"], "description": "A service of Holy Communion with choral music, held on All Saints' Day, celebrating the inspirational figures in the Church's history and giving thanks for God's grace working through them. It is hosted by St Bride's church, where the music is performed by the professional St Bride's Choir and organist, with music including a setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria and an anthem by William Byrd. The sermon is given by the Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's, and refreshments are served after the service. All are welcome to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-saints-choral-eucharist-49402/", "official_url": "https://www.stbrides.com/events/all-saints-day/", "image": ""}, {"title": "WIMF - SACRED SPLENDOUR Music from Venice and Madrid", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St John the Baptist", "address": "Spencer Hill, SW19 4NZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral"], "description": "A concert of sacred music from Venice and Madrid, part of the Wimbledon Music Festival. 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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: Ensemble Inventio", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£30 / £20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/book/?bookevent=5179", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A 75-minute concert of motets, chansons, dances and improvisations from the court of Marguerite of Austria, one of the most powerful women of her age, who kept her own court in Mechelen with a chapel choir of leading composers. It is performed by Ensemble Inventio, an improvising renaissance wind ensemble directed by Ian Harrison, a virtuoso player of the shawm, cornett and bagpipes. The programme draws on Marguerite's library, including manuscripts of polyphonic music and one of the first surviving collections of dance music with choreographies. The concert is included in the LIFEM Festival Pass.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-ensemble-inventio-69565/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-ensemble-inventio/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7332aedc54dac4e93db9cc223828232d07ec64df81f488a9c7fb832a5aa2d82e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Giammateo Asola, Missa Pro Defunctis", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Alban the Martyr", "address": "London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral", "occasion/all-souls-day"], "description": "A solemn requiem Mass on All Souls Day with choral music in a church service. The music includes Giammateo Asola's Missa Pro Defunctis and Tye's In pace, performed at St Alban the Martyr.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/giammateo-asola-missa-pro-defunctis-49369/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Choral Classics: Fireworks", "start": "2026-11-08T15:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Martin-in-the-Fields", "address": "St Martin's Place 5, WC2N 4JH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral"], "description": "Choral Classics: Fireworks is a 30-minute sequence of words and music exploring much-loved choral works in the beautiful surroundings of St Martin-in-the-Fields. It is led by the St Martin-in-the-Fields Choral Scholars, with each week's programme introduced by a different member of the choir offering insight into the music and the stories behind it. This week's programme includes works by Croft, Byrd, Weelkes, Dering, Phillips and Gibbons.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/choral-classics-fireworks-80861/", "official_url": "https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whats-on/choral-classics-fireworks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35170d6cd48469bb5518915d37ff7b68f252ffc73649995bad7986ee451ed866-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace by Candlelight", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T19:40:00Z", "place": "St Mary le Strand", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1ES London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eventim-2Dlight.com_uk_a_67d307f2b75740239cc71169_e_692ef9db5e496e1e62813fb1&d=DwMFAw&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=FwlfuK-5HWf4zza_EpA4q6YmCX5RTl9UJP24YdMcn28&m=zFFzhzfQR0c9Q9V-1o97jnKqWI5RVooMWoy4Tsn9kO9aYVbgh70jKlcGu-ZG9M5y&s=cCdWBWKXBw0iQW2hWNeFhWhyiKvS91Gm6gsNoBZ-YUo&e=", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral"], "description": "A candlelit performance of Karl Jenkins' ground-breaking and inspiring Mass, written in reflection of the passing of 'the most war-torn and destructive century in human history'. The evening's performance will be given by The L'Inviti Singers, accompanied by Alexander Pott (organ) and directed by David Guest, and lasts about 65 minutes without interval. Jenkins is a contemporary Welsh composer whose breakthrough came with the crossover project Adiemus; the work has achieved '1000 Weeks' in the UK Classical chart and ranked fifth in the Classic FM Hall of Fame. St Mary le Strand, James Gibbs' baroque masterpiece, is arguably the most beautiful of the Queen Anne Churches.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/karl-jenkins-the-armed-man-a-mass-for-peace-by-candlelight-47728/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/karl-jenkins-the-armed-man-a-mass-for-peace-by-candlelight/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b2c6a29b57dec9975d7a296ac69c5d2493668a610c1209c9d2b7f7e1d64e393-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tye, In pace", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Alban the Martyr", "address": "London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral", "occasion/all-souls-day"], "description": "A Solemn Mass of requiem is sung on All Souls Day at St Alban the Martyr, with the musical setting of Giammateo Asola's Missa Pro Defunctis and Christopher Tye's motet In pace. The church of St Alban the Martyr in London holds this service of remembrance for the dead as part of its programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tye-in-pace-49370/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Great Sacred Music: Remember, remember the Fifth of November", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Martin-in-the-Fields", "address": "St Martin's Place 5, WC2N 4JH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/sacred-music"], "description": "Great Sacred Music: Remember, remember the Fifth of November is a 35-minute lunchtime programme of words and sacred choral music, part of a series held every Thursday at 1.00pm in the church. It is led by St Martin's Voices and directed by Andrew Earis, with Rev Dr Sam Wells, exploring the richness of the sacred musical heritage through choral works and thoughtfully chosen readings. This programme features music by William Byrd, Richard Dering, Thomas Weelkes and Peter Philips, alongside hymns. Each performance is also livestreamed on St Martin's Digital, YouTube and Facebook.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/great-sacred-music-remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november-80856/", "official_url": "https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whats-on/great-sacred-music-remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Choral Classics: All Saints", "start": "2026-11-01T15:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Martin-in-the-Fields", "address": "St Martin's Place 5, WC2N 4JH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/booking?event-id=52059&instances-id=473803", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral"], "description": "Choral Classics: All Saints is a 30-minute sequence of words and music exploring much-loved choral works in the surroundings of St Martin-in-the-Fields. It is led by the St Martin-in-the-Fields Choral Scholars as part of their weekly Choral Classics series. Each programme is introduced by a different member of the choir, offering insight into the music and the stories behind it. This edition features works including Victoria's O Quam Gloriosum, Stanford's Justorum Anime and Rutter's O When the Saints.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/choral-classics-all-saints-80854/", "official_url": "https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whats-on/choral-classics-all-saints/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35170d6cd48469bb5518915d37ff7b68f252ffc73649995bad7986ee451ed866-1200.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"}]}