{"title": "Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: Hannah Kendall, Shostakovich & Sibelius", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "price": "£14-£25 (£12 concessions)", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.barbican.org.uk/your-visit/getting-here/car-parking-", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "A symphony orchestra concert playing Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers, Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No 2 and Sibelius's Symphony No 1. It is given by the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra with pianist Ryan Sheng, conductor Antoine Veillerette leading the Kendall work, and guest conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen directing the rest of the programme. The pieces move from an electrifying, socially resonant work inspired by a poem about the 1888 Bow Matchgirls' Strike, to a playful yet tender concerto written for the composer's son's piano exam, to a brooding yet romantic symphony.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/guildhall-symphony-orchestra-hannah-kendall-shostakovich-sib-36325/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/guildhall-symphony-orchestra-hannah-kendall-shostakovich-sibelius", "image": "https://noky.io/images/615e166f60343fa746c744a26f5eb626aac3bb1b65a3df45f39099dded8af62b-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Guildhall Symphony Orchestra: Hannah Kendall, Shostakovich & Sibelius", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music & Drama", "address": "", "price": "from £14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "The Guildhall Symphony Orchestra performs a programme spanning three centuries of works at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Guest conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Artistic and General Director of Bergen National Opera and Chief Conductor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest, leads Shostakovich's tender Piano Concerto No 2 and Sibelius' brooding First Symphony. Before he takes to the podium, Guildhall conductor Antoine Veillerette leads Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers, inspired by a poem about the 1888 Bow Matchgirls' Strike. 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The programme has Stravinsky's Suite from The Firebird (1919 version), his Violin Concerto played by RCM Concerto Competition winner Sasha Parker, and Beethoven's Mass in C op 86 with four vocal soloists and chorus. It is billed as two of the season's heavyweights going head to head in a concert bristling with energy and innovation. It takes place at the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rcm-symphony-orchestra-and-chorus-the-firebird-38279/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3363744", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1c8e2f1f9d6d1709b2742119aedf4cbe5d6a90a4d386aebb79b8b83736e5b35-1200.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": "18.00", "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": "Orchestral Masterworks with Martyn Brabbins", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal College of Music Museum", "address": "", "price": "From £9.50 (incl ticket fee), Under 35 discount available", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "An orchestral concert in the Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall at the Royal College of Music. The RCM Philharmonic is conducted by Martyn Brabbins, Chair of Conducting, with clarinettist Reynold Yang, winner of the RCM Concerto Competition, as soloist. The programme pairs Nielsen's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra op 57, praised for liberating the soul of the clarinet, with Schoenberg's enigmatically beautiful Variations for Orchestra op 31. The concert sheds light on Schoenberg, still considered an enfant terrible of classical music.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/orchestral-masterworks-with-martyn-brabbins-74709/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3723735", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bae781bc460d0e782f10832e42803dac54c1d4dce6b40e58e6d1f70a37dc2c0f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thames Philharmonia", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Landmark Arts Centre", "address": "Ferry Road, TW11 9NN Teddington", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "An evening of classical music by the Thames Philharmonia, conducted by Byung-Yun Yu. The programme centres on Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, with Yuri Inoshita as piano soloist, alongside Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre, Mussorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain, and extracts from Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Fittingly for Halloween, the works promise romance, drama and the supernatural.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thames-philharmonia-36884/", "official_url": "https://www.landmarkartscentre.org/shows/thames-philharmonia-aut26/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3a431f12d40dd87d44b6c2505d812cf9c55fd37160681257b790b01182840b54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "RCM at St Mary Abbots Church", "start": "2026-11-06T13:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal College of Music Museum", "address": "", "price": "Free, no ticket required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A lunchtime concert of chamber music performed by Royal College of Music musicians at St Mary Abbots Church in Kensington. The varied programme includes Rebecca Clarke's Two pieces for viola and cello, Debussy's Estampes L108, Kenji Sakai's Piano Sonata no 1 'quinta essentia', and Prokofiev's Flute Sonata op 94. Admission is free and no ticket is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rcm-at-st-mary-abbots-church-38283/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3848128", "image": "https://noky.io/images/007c872276856f2f3e86f5c30ec0505a91fe2734e0f3f6ebcb1f6d038d9f8e5d-1200.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": "", "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": "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": "", "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": "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": "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": "National Symphony Orchestra – Variations and Virtuosity", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£39.50, £29.50, £19.50 (prices from £18.00, £13.50 + £4.50 transaction fee)", "price_from": "19.50", "price_to": "39.50", "tickets_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/national-symphony-orchestra-williams-mendelssohn-and-elgar/book/1265434", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "A symphony concert titled 'Variations and Virtuosity', the grand finale of the National Symphony Orchestra's 2026 season. It is led by conductor Rimma Sushanskaya and features acclaimed violinist Mathilde Milwidsky as soloist. The programme opens with Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Greensleeves, continues with Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, and concludes with Elgar's Enigma Variations, whose ninth variation, Nimrod, became a feature of the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph in 1920. The concert lasts approximately 1 hour 45 minutes including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/national-symphony-orchestra-variations-and-virtuosity-35207/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/national-symphony-orchestra-vaughan-williams-mendelssohn-and-elgar/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/649590895fc1bf2214350684c2879045a41b06f374fb8da21119d6768e21049b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "London Philharmonic Orchestra", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Festival Hall", "address": "SE1 8XX London", "price": "", "price_from": "19.50", "price_to": "19.50", "tickets_url": "https://bachtrack.com/handler/listing/click/440060/SearchMobile", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral/symphony"], "description": "The London Philharmonic Orchestra gives a symphony concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Conductor Karina Canellakis leads the orchestra with violinist Christian Tetzlaff. The programme features Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61, a new work by Fujikura receiving its UK premiere, and Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-philharmonic-orchestra-61297/", "official_url": "https://bachtrack.com/concert-event/karina-canellakis-conducts-beethoven-london-philharmonic-orchestra-southbank-centre-royal-festival-hall-4-november-2026/440060", "image": "https://noky.io/images/544ab763d3a341975c03f5b604dc4edbff71cd9bd60a492ac5934b695655b44a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lunchtime Recital - Cheuk Yee Ulani (piano)", "start": "2026-11-03T13:10:00Z", "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/piano"], "description": "A lunchtime recital of solo piano music at St Pancras Church, a church on Euston Road in central London. It features pianist Cheuk Yee Ulani Lo, a Hong Kong-born Master's student in Piano Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The recital is presented by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and lasts 40 minutes. She performs Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana Op. 16 and Enrique Granados' Goyescas No. 4 \"La maja y el ruiseñor\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lunchtime-recital-cheuk-yee-ulani-piano-47775/", "official_url": "https://www.stpancraschurch.org/events/lunchtime-recital-cheuk-yee-ulani-piano", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d18258c0e92523524aa96e2234e4933d3764e8fd239a3f488908b0662561627e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thursday Lunchtime Concert – violinist David Hanesworth/ pianist Patricia Romero", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T14:00:00Z", "place": "St Mary le Strand", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1ES London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A lunchtime concert of classical music for violin and piano, given by violinist David Hanesworth and pianist Patricia Romero at St Mary le Strand as part of the venue's Lunchtime Concerts series. The programme features Beethoven's Sonata in F Major, Op. 24 (Spring), G. Pugnani-Kreisler's Praeludium und Allegro, and Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano Op. 94a.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thursday-lunchtime-concert-violinist-david-hanesworth-pianis-47725/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/thursday-lunchtime-concert-david-hanesworth-patricia-romero-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37dcbae6a4eb15a4f12ac0e33d019ebedfa88863c2eec2690351d74044a2845c-1200.webp"}]}