Our classical music highlights this week

Check out our picks of things to go to this week:

Pavel Kolesnikov plays virtuosic and Romantic piano works

Monday 26 October, 7.30pm

The young piano star plays some of the most challenging and thrilling piano repertoire, in a programme called ‘The Tempest’.

Free foyer concert in the Barbican Centre

Wednesday 28 October, 1pm

Cara Doyle (clarinet) + John Flinders (piano) present a lunchtime performance of music by Kovacs, Brahms, Rachmaninov & Benjamin.

Brompton String Quartet play free lunchtime concert

Wednesday 28 October, 1.10pm

The Park Lane Group Music Trust series present the Brompton String Quartet performing Mendelssohn & Beethoven at St James’s, Piccadilly.

Flautist Nina Robertson performs at Bishopsgate Institute

Friday 30 October, 1pm

Robertson will present a programme that includes music by Schubert and Françaix, as well as a newly written piece by LA-based film composer Jeff Atmajian.

Violin + piano duo play Beethoven and

Enescu in Piccadilly

Friday 30 October, 1.10pm

Preston Yeo (violin) + Leona Crasi (piano) perform a free lunchtime concert at St James’s Church, Picadilly.

Piano Quintet perform music by two classic Czech composers

Friday 30 October, 6pm

Christian Tetzlaff, one of the most in-demand international violinists, assembles a piano quintet at LSO St Luke’s for two pieces by Dvorak and his pupil, Josef Suk.

Chineke! Chamber Ensemble play in St John’s Smith Square

Saturday 31 October, 2pm & 7.30pm

Chineke! present Coleridge-Taylor & Schubert / Vaughan Williams pieces written for piano quintet at the recently re-opened St John’s Smith Square.

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