Londons Music Venues List
Wigmore Hall
1901
Built:
Seats:
500
36 Wigmore Street W1U 2BP
Difficult to get tickets for the best performances that sell out months in advance. Members, called Friends, within which there are several levels all of which get seat buying earleir opportunities at increasing expense leves, can get advance tickets about 2 months in advance. Top members, in the "Rubenstein Circle" are even more privileged in their access. Costs £3000!
The Bechstein Hall was built between 1899 and 1901 by C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik, the German piano manufacturer, whose showroom was next door. The showroom is still there selling grand pianos and they have there own guest appearance concerts as well. The British architect Thomas Edward Collcutt was commissioned to design the space. Collcutt was also responsible for the Savoy Hotel on The Strand (since modified) and the Palace Theatre on Cambridge Circus (originally the Royal English Opera House), with which the Hall shares pale terracotta ornamentation.
Serves:
Smaller meetings of top quality artists. It specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals, and hosts over five hundred concerts each year, as well as a weekly concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Royal Festival Hall
1951
Built:
Seats:
2700
It is a Grade I listed building, the first post-war building to become so protected (in 1981).[1] The London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Sinfonietta, Chineke! and Aurora are resident orchestras at Southbank Centre.[2]
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