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Friday May 16
L'Heure Exquise: The Exquisite Hour – A delicate evening of French song with Louisa Barry (mezzo-soprano) at Lauderdale House, Highgate. 07528 587 389. 7.30pm, £10.
LUFTHANSA Festival of Baroque Music – Collegium Vocale Gent perform A Bach Spring: Easter Oratorio, Cantata 68 and Ascension Oratorio BWV11. St John’s Smith Square. 7.30pm, £12-30.
Saturday May 17
Apollo String Quartet present a programme of string trio duo and solo repertoire in Bow Street Church, Bow Road, E3. 020 8503 7490. 7pm, £8 (£6 cons).
Venice to Little Venice – The Burney Players, ensemble-in-residence at Handel House, present a varied programme celebrating the Italian style and its wide reaching influence on composers working in London in the 18th-century. Handel House. 3pm, £13 (£11 concs).
Quatuor Ebène perfrom Haydn’s String Quartet in G minor Op. 74, Webern’s Langsamer Satz; 6 Bagatelles and Schubert’s String Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden. Wigmore Hall. 7.30pm, £12-22.
LUFTHANSA Festival of Baroque Music – Concordia, featuring Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), perform a selection of works by Lawes, Purcell, Jenkins and Gibbons, representing the work of composers active during the English Civil War. St John’s Smith Square.
4.30pm, £6-15.
Sunday May 18
Viv McLean (piano) performs Brahms’ 3 Intermezzos Op. 117 and 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79, Liszt’s 6 Consolations and Schubert’s Piano Sonata in Bb D. 960. Wigmore Hall. 7.30pm,
£10-18.
Monday May 19
Mark Padmore (tenor) is joined by Till Fellner (piano) in a performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. Wigmore Hall. 7.30pm, £15-30.
Tuesday May 20
Artemis Quartet perforom a collection of works by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Schubert. Wigmore Hall. 7.30pm, £12-24.
Wednesday May 21
Old Time Music Hall – the Lissenden Players take you back to Victorian England, with all the song-and-dance of the times. Lauderdale House, Highgate. 020 8348 8716. 8pm, £6
(£3.50 concs).
Thursday May 22
The Baroque Viola – Elena Artamonova (viola) and Bridget Cunningham (harpsichord) perform a selection of baroque works for the viola, including Bach’s Viola da Gamba sonatas, Handel’s Sonata in E major and Five Old French Dances by Marin Marais. Handel House. 6.30pm, £9 (£7.50 concs)
Handel House Museum, W1,
020 7399 1954
ST John’s Smith Square, SW1,
020 7222 1061.
WIGMORE Hall, Wigmore Street, W1,
020 7935 2141.
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