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St John's Smith Square

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    Opera 

    Handel's Messiah: the key to Christmas music

    Handel's Messiah: the key to Christmas music

    Messiah makes an impact however it is sung. But what's so special about an oratorio written in a rush and using recycled material? Claudia Pritchard explains

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    Opera 

    Messiah: London Christmas performances

    Messiah: London Christmas performances of Handel's oratorio

    The Christmas story is told in grand choruses and virtuosic solos, sung by the finest artists and with thrilling instrumental playing

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  • We love

    Classical Music 

    St John's Smith Square live: autumn concerts

    St John's Smith Square live concerts: autumn dates

    01 Oct 20 – 31 Oct 20

    Soloists and instrumental ensembles take to the stage once more in music familiar and unfamiliar

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  • Essential

    Classical Music 

    Howard Goodall interview: Brexit dims the music

    Howard Goodall interview: how Brexit turns the music down

    Composer of film, TV soundtracks and concert works talks to Claudia Pritchard about music in schools, a brand new work, and the cost to creativity of leaving the EU

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  • In the Know

    Classical Music 

    Pearl of Freedom, St John's Smith Square

    Pearl of Freedom, St John's Smith Square

    On 31 Jan 18

    Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison is celebrated in song, in a new piece by Joanna Marsh, performed with Beethoven and Vaughan Williams

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  • Essential

    Classical Music 

    Hear the great oratorio Messiah as Handel intended

    Handel's Messiah, St John's Smith Square

    On 08 Dec 17

    Handel made London his home, and not so far from where he lived his music is still played in the manner he would have known

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  • Preview

    Festival 

    Three weeks of classical music, opera and jazz fusing Chinese and British culture

    Hong Kong Music Series, London

    07 Jul 17 – 28 Jul 17

    Get to know an important Chinese scholar, spend a night at the Chinese opera, or get inside the life of the German pianist and composer Clara Schumann

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  • Book Now

    Classical Music 

    Bach's finest work is sung with one of Britain's leading soloists

    St Matthew Passion, St John's Smith Square

    On 05 Apr 17

    The most moving music ever written, the most atmospheric classical music venue in London... this is an event to catch

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  • In the Know

    Classical Music 

    Nine days, 13 events, and some of the finest early music ever written

    London Festival of Baroque Music, St John's Smith Square

    12 May 17 – 20 May 17

    Monteverdi's atmospheric Vespers, Handel opera and heavenly music by JS Bach dominate this year's programme

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  • In the Know

    Classical Music 

    Newly discovered lyrics by Henry VIII's surviving wife, Katherine Parr

    Songs of Reformation, St John's Smith Square

    On 14 Apr 17

    The first performance in modern times of words which were intended to encourage the faithful

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  • In the Know

    Classical Music 

    Spiritual, exultant and uplifting music for Easter

    Holy Week Festival, St John's Smith Square

    09 Apr 17 – 15 Apr 17

    Easter music begins with a week of spiritual and contemplative works

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  • In the Know

    Classical Music 

    Music from South Africa meets the classics in three concerts

    I Musicanti, St John's Smith Square

    08 Jan 17 – 28 May 17

    There is a whole world of chamber music beyond Mozart and Schubert, as this enterprising series illustrates, with the best of both

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  • Preview

    Classical Music 

    Sixteen concerts over two weeks featuring the best Christmas and sacred music over the ages

    31st Christmas Festival, St John's Smith Square

    09 Dec 16 – 23 Dec 16

    Christmas music in London means two weeks of ethereal and earthier song at one of the capital's most atmospheric venues

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  • Preview

    Classical Music 

    What's so special about the Mozart piano concertos? Just about everything, as the London Mozart Players explain ...

    Mozart Explored, St John's Smith Square

    21 Sep 16 – 22 Mar 17

    A fascinating insight into the mind of the prodigious composer through six of his piano concertos, explained and performed

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    Classical Music 

    A weekend of song and instrumentals dominated by the cream of early 20th English music

    Vaughan Williams and Friends Festival, St John's Smith Square

    07 Oct 16 – 09 Oct 16

    The 20th century was a golden age for English music, as this three-day festival devoted to its leading lights demonstrates, in quintessentially English surroundings

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  • In the Know

    Classical Music 

    Travel Italy in music with La Serenissima, and hear works that changed music for ever

    The Grand Tour, St John's Smith Square

    14 Sep 16 – 15 Feb 17

    While the wealthy were travelling throughout Europe, composers and musicians were kept busy entertaining them. Their legacy is at the core of a new series of concerts

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  • Sold Out

    Classical Music 

    Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio, St John's Smith Square

    Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio, St John's Smith Square

    On 11 Feb 16

    Sensational violinist Nicola Benedetti and her trio perform masterpieces by Schubert and Tchaikovsky

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  • Sold Out

    Classical Music 

    Ian Bostridge with the OAE, St John's Smith Square

    Ian Bostridge with the OAE, St John's Smith Square

    On 14 Oct 15

    Tenor Ian Bostridge joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the first concert of their 30th anniversary season, performing Handel and Telemann

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