Live in London: this week's classical music events

Check out our picks of what’s on this week - including free events, super informal performances, and the world’s first live drive-in opera…

Picnic in the park with a string quartet at the Bandstand Chamber Festival

Tuesday 15 September, 6.30pm

The Hill Quartet play Ravel and Haydn in a free performance at the Bandstand Chamber Festival in Battersea Park.

Romanian folk dances, Brahms and Mozart with violinist Tai Murray

Thursday 17 September, 1pm

Tai Murray performs Mozart’s beautiful E minor violin sonata alongside Brahms and music inspired by Romanian folk dances at the recently re-opened Wigmore Hall.

Roam around Southwark Cathedral while a string trio performs Bach

Friday 18 September, 2pm & 7.15pm

Explore Southwark’s stunning Gothic & Romanesque cathedral as a string trio from the City of London Sinfonia perform a version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Solo piano recital from Isata Kanneh-Mason in Peckham multi-storey

Friday 18 September, 7pm & 9.15pm

Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Beethoven, Gershwin & Barber at Bold Tendencies car park on the back of her debut album reaching No.1 last year.

Abel Selaocoe plays his new album Hae Ke Kae + Bach in King’s Cross

Saturday 19 September, 4pm

South African cellist, composer and vocalist Abel Selaocoe performs his new album Hae ke kae? (Where is home?) at Kings Place.

Double piano performance in Peckham’s Bold Tendencies

Saturday 19 September, 7pm & 9.15pm

Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy return to the Bold Tendencies multi-storey car park after a first visit which garnered five-star reviews last month.

English National Opera bring live opera drive-in to Ally Pally

Multiple events 19-27 September

The world’s first drive-in opera will take place at Alexandra Palace this September, with English National Opera presenting Puccini’s La bohème.

Anime film scores performed by piano and string quintet

Sunday 20 September, 7pm

Stompy's Playground String Ensemble return to the Jazz Cafe with a live immersive experience paying tribute to Studio Ghibli’s Joe Hisaishi.

Rare performance of the uplifting and meditative music of Julius Eastman

Sunday 20 September, 7.30pm

The amazing Apartment House ensemble perform the jazz infused music of American composer Julius Eastman.

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