Concert venues in London 🎶🏛💂🏼‍♂️

My top 5 music venues in London

As a lover of classical music I do love attending live concerts, as much as I can, whichever city I happen to be in, at my favourite venues, which are always a guarantee of quality performances. London is a premier city in the offer of world-class concerts.

d7547-image1-751141 — Sudbin @ Wigmore Hall

London has a marvellous concentration of venues with great acoustics for classical music performances of all kinds. My favourites are the more intimate ones, like Wigmore Hall, perfect for chamber music, with a varied programme of world class performances every day of the week. Originally named Bechstein Hall, from the piano manufacturer which had a showroom next door and commissioned the venue at the end of the XIX century, Wigmore Hall reopened after the First World War under its new name and a new ownership. Since then it has hosted many great composers and interpreters who loved this concert hall, including Benjamin Britten, Arthur Rubinstein and Andres Segovia.

One of the most iconic operatic stages in the world, the Royal Opera House in London, was almost reconstructed and refurbished in the 1990s to make it fit to modern productions and spectators comfort. these days it features one of the most prestigious operatic and ballet programmes in the world, casting world class artists both in traditional repertoire and contemporary productions.

e1f16-image1-746275 — St James Piccadilly

Built on a design by Christopher Wren, St James’s Piccadilly is an Anglican church in central London that features a vibrant and intense community programme, including also a regular high-quality series of concerts. These are normally free at lunchtime and require a ticket in the evenings. Always a very enjoyable experience to attend a concert at this church, with high quality performances by young musicians and talented artists.

St Martin-in-the-Field is a recently renovated church in central London offering a wide programme of music, with free lunchtime concerts, candlellight concerts in the evening and jazz concert in the crypt. The church is also hosting the famous chamber orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Field, specialising in baroque music.

Built in 1909, the BBC Maida Vale Studios were orginally the home of the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club. In the 1930s it became home to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but was also a standby centre of the BBC radio news service during the Second World War. The Studios are now used for a variety of live performances and recordings of the BBC Orchestras and other classical music programmes. These sometimes also require invited audience for which tickets are provided through an application and random draw through the BBC website.

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