{"title": "Donald Grant, R Schumann and Sally Beamish", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "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/202611051930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "The Elias String Quartet gives a concert of string quartets and folk songs. The programme marks Sally Beamish's 70th birthday year with two of the three quartets she wrote for the group, each taking a Robert Schumann string quartet as its point of creative departure, alongside a Schumann quartet and a selection of folk songs arranged by the quartet's violinist Donald Grant, a master of the Scottish fiddle tradition. The concert lasts about two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/donald-grant-r-schumann-and-sally-beamish-81029/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611051930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e0be34b9cfe6b4cd1211c30196df474807068ba3e4f3dd637c5f46ef347dfa-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Elias String Quartet", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "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/202611051930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber music concert by the Elias String Quartet at Wigmore Hall. The quartet — Sara Bitlloch and Donald Grant on violin, Simone van der Giessen on viola and Marie Bitlloch on cello — marks Sally Beamish's 70th birthday year with two of the three quartets she wrote for them, each taking a Robert Schumann string quartet as its point of departure. The programme also includes Schumann's String Quartet in A minor Op. 41 No. 1 and a selection of folk songs arranged by Donald Grant, a master of the Scottish fiddle tradition. The concert lasts approximately 2 hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/elias-string-quartet-65993/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611051930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a3319c0fcc703b59cc2d9ee8b1b4a00bde54d71d8bf8078076835bf784b1ca2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Steven Isserlis cello; Connie Shih piano", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00Z", "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/202611091300", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A lunchtime chamber concert of cello and piano music lasting about an hour without an interval. Cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Connie Shih play works by William Sterndale Bennett, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. The programme recalls Leipzig in the mid-1800s, where Bennett's melodic gift so impressed Mendelssohn that he invited him to the city, and where Bennett met and befriended Schumann. Two pieces are arranged by Steven Isserlis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/steven-isserlis-cello-connie-shih-piano-65999/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611091300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a21e09ca02f2841826b969cdfaf7fbc827426a82b2be2132afe9d0eebec27aa1-1200.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": "", "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": "Ernst, Felix Mendelssohn, Rózsa, Schubert and Zarzycki", "start": "2026-11-12T13:00:00Z", "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/chamber-music"], "description": "A lunchtime chamber concert at Wigmore Hall by Hina & Fiona, a violin duo of New York-born sisters, joined by pianist Maximilian Maisky. Their programme spans works by Felix Mendelssohn, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Franz Schubert, Aleksander Zarzycki and Miklós Rózsa, including Schubert's Fantasie in F minor arranged for two violins and piano and Rózsa's Sonata for Two Violins. The concert lasts about an hour without an interval and forms part of the Pentatone 25th Anniversary Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ernst-felix-mendelssohn-rozsa-schubert-and-zarzycki-81031/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611121300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c19fefc3f5bf8f1d0f3eb6664891ce4676ae502a8124010ecd2cad7ea6bae578-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Purcell School Chamber Soloists; Alex Redington director", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "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/202611051300", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber concert of about one hour, without interval, featuring works by Grażyna Bacewicz and George Enescu. Internationally acclaimed British violinist Alex Redington, Head of Strings at The Purcell School of Music and founding first violinist of the Doric String Quartet, leads The Purcell School Chamber Soloists in Enescu's monumental Octet and Bacewicz's Quartet for Four Violins.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-purcell-school-chamber-soloists-alex-redington-director-65992/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611051300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c2e83f8163f7901b17857dd422f6721a6a28c2e69f89e8ce65d4e00592e7bc20-600.webp"}, {"title": "Bacewicz and Enescu", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "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/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber music concert titled 'Bacewicz and Enescu' at Wigmore Hall. The Purcell School Chamber Soloists, directed by internationally acclaimed British violinist Alex Redington, perform Grażyna Bacewicz's Quartet for Four Violins and George Enescu's String Octet in C Op. 7. Redington, Head of Strings at The Purcell School of Music and founding first violinist of the Doric String Quartet, leads the ensemble in Enescu's monumental Octet. The concert lasts approximately one hour without an interval and is promoted by The Purcell School.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bacewicz-and-enescu-81028/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611051300", "image": ""}, {"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": "Hina & Fiona violin duo; Maximilian Maisky piano", "start": "2026-11-12T13:00:00Z", "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/chamber-music"], "description": "A one-hour chamber concert without an interval, given at Wigmore Hall as part of the Pentatone 25th Anniversary Festival. The violin duo Hina & Fiona — New York-born sisters — are joined by pianist Maximilian Maisky for works by Ernst, Felix Mendelssohn, Rózsa, Schubert and Zarzycki, including Schubert's Fantasie in F minor D940 arranged for two violins and piano. Their playing reflects a profound connection shaped by lifelong collaboration, honest artistic dialogue, and complementary interpretations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hina-fiona-violin-duo-maximilian-maisky-piano-66005/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611121300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c19fefc3f5bf8f1d0f3eb6664891ce4676ae502a8124010ecd2cad7ea6bae578-600.webp"}, {"title": "Strings at Six", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Milton Court Concert Hall", "address": "Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH", "price": "Free, no tickets required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "Strings at Six is a classical concert in the Milton Court Concert Hall. Guildhall string students perform a programme of varied repertoire, with works by Bach and Prokofiev. It is part of the School's at Six series. Entry is free with no tickets required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/strings-at-six-80626/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/strings-at-six-1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c848e587afc425f5aa8218dc4a886c2839c7a9dd941c17f060073e6a0d565b8a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Postgraduate Strings Concert", "start": "2026-11-05T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "The Postgraduate Strings Concert is an informal classical music performance in Silk Street Music Hall. Students from the Strings department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama share a varied programme showcasing developing artistry across the year group. Performers include harpist Bethany Caswell, violinists Anna Perl, Helen Rutledge and Ayaka Hisa, violist Isobel Neary-Adams and pianists Jen Carter and Riho Akagi, playing works by Rosetti, Fauré, Szymanowski, Bach and Franck. Admission is free and no tickets are required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/postgraduate-strings-concert-80624/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/postgraduate-strings-concert-4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1772eb868121c534cf52e24c406b62f0c11dafc5d050719b267da43b67f74cf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Benjamin Appl baritone; Jerusalem Quartet", "start": "2026-11-08T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£45 £38 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "45.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611081930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber concert bringing together baritone Benjamin Appl and the Jerusalem Quartet at Wigmore Hall, titled \"World and Dreams\". Appl, counted among the finest baritones of his generation and a student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, is known as a thoughtful programme builder. The evening opens with Schumann's melodramatic Belsatzar, a spine-tingling ballad recalling Belshazzar's feast from the Book of Daniel, and ventures into the world, past and present, and beyond into the infinite cosmos of dreams. The programme features music by Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Barber, Webern and Weill.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/benjamin-appl-baritone-jerusalem-quartet-65998/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611081930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82451091170325b87977db82171ed1bdc08c35addf24812abb7084a67afa5bcc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wilton's Music Hall", "address": "Graces Alley 1, E1 8JB London", "price": "£13.50 – £28.00 full price | £11.00 – £25.50 concession", "price_from": "13.50", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/booking?event-id=7173&instances-id=340148", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral", "society/migration"], "description": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True is a 75-minute evening of orchestral music, words and stories at Wilton's Music Hall, with no interval. The concert was born from a year of conversations in a community kitchen between musicians and people seeking asylum in the UK, and explores what home means, how we hold onto it and how we carry it with us when we have to leave. The programme moves across continents and centuries with music by Reena Esmail, Bushra el-Turk, Lembit Beecher, Piazzolla, Vaughan Williams and Copland, and forms part of City of London Sinfonia's wider season exploring asylum and migration in the UK. The orchestra was founded in 1971 by Richard Hickox, and the evening features Alexandra Wood, CLS Creative Director and Leader, with projection design by visual artist Majid Adin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true-40343/", "official_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c928c52d2c79db515bf1118b6cba39d2f5366d85b79017f2b3e131976c57fcd-1200.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": "Samrat Majumder guitar", "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-65989/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af63879accf3b475ad4ea55a6fb02a29ef4e4d191ff16021c71cdbfdea75d3d8-600.webp"}, {"title": "Flanders Symphony Orchestra with Alexandra Soumm, violin", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "From £22.50 (including a £4.50 transaction fee per booking)", "price_from": "22.50", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/zios-flanders-symphony-orchestra/book/1316434", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "An evening of orchestral music built around nature, played by the Flanders Symphony Orchestra under conductor Duncan Ward, with violinist Alexandra Soumm as soloist. The programme pairs George Butterworth's 'A Shropshire Lad' rhapsody and Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending', both inspired by English poetry, with Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto and Dvořák's genial Eighth Symphony. The concert runs for about two hours including an interval and forms part of the Zurich International Orchestra Series 2026-27 at the hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flanders-symphony-orchestra-with-alexandra-soumm-violin-35203/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/zios-2026-27-flanders-symphony-orchestra-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c0a270e867c454dea27365b6233b53216ad39c10775df76a357fbf331b1d385-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Music and Poetry from the Burlingtons’ Chiswick", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chiswick House", "address": "", "price": "£25 (Concession £15)", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://chiswickhouseandgardens.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/83157?catID=37763&", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/local-history", "music/classical"], "description": "An evening of words and music inspired by the history and people of Chiswick House & Gardens. Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved is joined by speaker Malene Sheppard Skærved, flautist Anna Wolstenholme and the Kreutzer Quartet in a programme moving between the 18th century and today. It includes music written for the Burlingtons by Geminiani, Rousseau's Consolations, Haydn's \"Lark\" Quartet, new works including a world premiere by David Hackbridge Johnson and Sadie Harrison's A House of Countless Rooms, and poetry by Pope and Malene Sheppard Skærved. The evening also features an 18th century violin made for this very space and carved by John Boson, who was responsible for much of the decoration of Chiswick House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/music-and-poetry-from-the-burlingtons-chiswick-35306/", "official_url": "https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/event/music-and-poetry-from-the-burlingtons-chiswick/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f0a9cd5e7384348547688f2b731f80b954d42dc2e1a11df7429a7920c6b7abd-1200.webp"}]}