St Martin-in-the-Fields
Join St Martin’s Voices and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for a festive spectacular for choir and orchestra, including Sleigh Ride, Jingle Bells and The Twelve Days of Christmas alongside audience carols and orchestral favourites.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
The Monteverdi Choir sings Handel’s Messiah – with Sarah Connolly heading an all-star cast.
Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah is so much more than just a British seasonal fixture – and there’s more than one way to perform it, too. In this intimately-scaled, historically-informed performance from the Monteverdi Choir it’ll sound as fresh as the day it was written. The Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists have form with Handel – they were one of the very first “period” groups to record Messiah – but these are performers who always have something new to say. Add the vibrant Christophe Rousset, and a team of soloists that includes Dame Sarah Connolly, and this should be very special indeed.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
Celebrate the season in style with our Festive Family Carols concert, featuring our very own Junior Choir. Join us as we offer the chance for children and adults of all ages to come together in a short one-hour programme of popular carols and music, including a few favourites for you to sing along with.
The choir will sing uplifting Christmas classics including Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, Jingle Bells and The Twelve Days of Christmas alongside audience carols for all to join in with including Once in Royal David’s City, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and We Three Kings.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking our Christmas lunch and drink offer (hot chocolate for the kids!) or a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine; available when you book your tickets.
This concert lasts one hour with no interval.
Join St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Choir and St Martin’s Brass for a beautiful evening of carols and seasonal readings. Carols for all to sing include Hark! The Herald Angels’ Sing, Once in Royal David’s City and In the Bleak Midwinter, alongside favourites performed by our choir including Away in a Manger, Jingle Bells, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
Chamber choir Ex Cathedra presents a candlelit sequence of Christmas music: a quietly beautiful celebration of mystery, wonder and the deep, still heart of this magical season.
Imagine a carol concert with a difference. In the deep, still darkness of St Martin-in-the-Fields, only candles pierce the winter twilight. And then, upon the silence, comes the luminous sound of a choir in harmony: familiar melodies, wondrous discoveries and readings to make you smile as well as reflect. Ex Cathedra’s Christmas concerts are both an undiscovered secret and a cherished tradition, unmistakably seasonal but aimed – in these fast and noisy times – at the still, quiet heart of the season; the mystery as well as the merriment.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
Handel’s Messiah meets Harry Christophers and The Sixteen: a seasonal tradition from this world-famous chamber choir.
“We heard a realisation of Handel’s work that suggested it was written yesterday” wrote Bachtrack when Harry Christophers’ legendary chamber choir The Sixteen performed Handel’s Messiah at St Martin-in-the-Fields in December 2022 – adding that “invigorating freshness was the hallmark of the whole performance”. Now, following further sell-out performance in December 2023 and 2024, they’re bringing Messiah back again: an intimately scaled, historically informed interpretation, right here in the heart of the city that Handel called home. And with artists as fine as these (and a masterpiece as evergreen as Messiah) every note, every chorus and every beloved melody will sound more inspiring than ever.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
Join Zeb Soanes, St Martin’s Voices and St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble for this special lunchtime concert, in the beautiful surroundings of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Carols for all to sing include In the bleak midwinter, O little town of Bethlehem and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Joy to the World, alongside seasonal works for choir and strings by Lucy Walker, Ola Gjeilo and Elaine Hagenberg. The perfect way to celebrate the season!
Please note this concert is being recorded for future broadcast on Classic FM.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking our Christmas lunch and drink offer (hot chocolate for the kids!) or a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine; available when you book your tickets.
This concert lasts one hour with no interval.
Carols by Candlelight offers a full evening of music, carol singing and readings, with enchanting performances of festive music including a few favourites for you to join in with. You’ll leave full of the joys of the season and ready to start your celebrations with family, friends and loved ones.
The choir will sing much loved classics O Holy Night, In dulci jubilo and Carol of the Bells alongside audience carols for strings and organ for all including O come, all ye faithful, God rest ye merry, Gentlemen and Once in Royal David’s City.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
Celebrate the season in style with our Festive Family Carols concerts, offering the chance for children and adults of all ages to come together in a short one-hour programme of popular carols and music, including a few favourites for you to sing along with.
The choir will sing uplifting Christmas classics including Carol of the Bells, Jingle Bells, The Twelve Days of Christmas and We Wish You a Merry Christmas alongside audience carols for all to join in with including Once in Royal David’s City, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Silent Night.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking our Christmas lunch and drink offer (hot chocolate for the kids!) or a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine; available when you book your tickets.
This concert lasts one hour with no interval.
An irresistible mix of sumptuous Christmas polyphony and joyful folk influences from the sensual world of Renaissance Spain.
At Christmas time in renaissance Spain, they didn’t just sing – they danced, too, in celebrations that brought sacred ritual and everyday song into exuberant, life-affirming harmony. In a Christmas concert like no other, Stile Antico weaves a garland of sumptuous polyphony and infectiously joyful folk dances. Luminous devotional music by Victoria and Morales jostles with beautiful Christmas songs, a colourful retelling of the Epiphany, and classic villancicos – Spain’s answer to the traditional carol. “The singing is staggeringly beautiful” said the Sunday Times, and there’s a chance to meet the singers afterwards, too.
Make your visit extra special by pre-booking a mince pie and a warming glass of Mulled Wine (hot chocolate and popcorn for the kids!); available when you book your tickets.
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