25 November 2023, 16.00, 19.30
London Gay Men’s Chorus
£18.00-£40.00
An evocative programme of music on the cusp of the festive season including Shine, What a Wonderful World and the timeless Sound of Music. The programme also includes the world premiere of Richard Voyce‘s cantata for drag queen and chorus, Penguins, Penguins, Penguins!
27 November 2023, 19.00
Childline’s Merry Little Christmas Concert
£40.00-£130.00
Each December, the NSPCC celebrates the festive season by hosting its flagship Christmas concert in aid of Childline. In 2023, Childline’s Merry Little Christmas returns to celebrate its 15th year. All guests receive a welcome drink and mince pie on arrival and will enjoy an enchanting evening packed with spectacular musical performances, ever-popular carols, a children’s choir, and acts from celebrity special guests.
9 December 2023, 15.00, 19.30
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Christmas Cracker
£28.00-£58.00
December would not be the same without the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s much-loved Christmas Cracker concert. Filled with festive favourites and sing-along classics for all ages, it’s the perfect way to celebrate the magical Christmas season.
10 December 2023, 14.30, 18.30
West End Does: Christmas 2023
£17.00-£60.00
The annual West End Does: Christmas concerts are a spectacular festive treat not to be missed! Hosted by Line of Duty star, Vicky McClure, and featuring an exciting cast of West End stars (to be announced soon), they will be joined by special guests Our Dementia Choir.
11 December 2023, 19.00
Kate Rusby at Christmas
£32.00
With a brand new Christmas album, Kate rounds off 2023 and celebrates her 50th birthday in style with a Christmas tour full of warmth, sparkles and festive music from her new and previous Christmas albums. Hailed as “the start of Christmas” for many, a Kate Rusby Christmas concert perpetuates the tradition of Yorkshire carols, specific carols still sung in the pubs of South Yorkshire.
12 December 2023, 19.30
Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden’s Wassail
£21.00-£29.00
Before there was carolling, there was wassailing, where seasonal songs were exchanged for money, food and ale. In the countryside, trees were blessed, while in the towns wassailers went house to house with their songs and calls for Christmas treats. Coming from the Anglo-Saxon ‘waes hael’, ‘wassail’ is a toast wishing good health with a ‘be well’.
13 December 2023, 19.00
The Choir with No Name’s Big Christmas Singalong
£25.00
Cadogan Hall will be filled with festive cheer as The Choir with No Name, an organisation running choirs involving people impacted by homelessness, returns with its annual festive singalong! Expect all the Christmas classics as well as a chance to join in and be part of this unique, feel-good concert.
14-15 December 2023, 19.30
The Sixteen at Christmas
£15.00-£60.00
The Sixteen’s 2023 Christmas programme takes its inspiration from the story at the heart of the season: the nativity. Traditional and modern arrangements of festive favourites, including A Boy was Born in Bethlehem, and There is no rose, mix with the medieval sounds of Hildegard of Bingen and the familiar Renaissance voices of Sheppard, Lobo and Byrd.
16 December 2023, 14.30, 19.30
The Rat Pack at Christmas
£24.00-£42.00
Direct from the West End, the original London cast returns to Cadogan Hall in its 21st year of touring! Back by popular demand and following sell-out performances across the globe, The Definitive Rat Pack brings you an evening of festive classics, including ‘White Christmas’, ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’, ‘The Christmas Song’ and ‘Let It Snow’, plus all-time favourites including ‘Mack the Knife’, ‘That’s Amore’, ‘Mr Bojangles’ and ‘New York, New York’. What better way to get into the festive spirit!
17 December 2023, 14.00,17.00
The Snowman + The Gruffalo + The Gruffalo's Child
£18.00-£34.00
Now a regular highlight of Christmas in Chelsea, the Mozart Symphony Orchestra returns to Cadogan Hall for its annual performance of the timeless classic, The Snowman, for which the film is shown on the big screen with a live symphony orchestra providing the soundtrack. 14-year-old Alice Mackenzie sings the aria made so famous by Aled Jones: ‘Walking in the Air’.
Following the huge success of The Gruffalo (for narrator and orchestra) at Cadogan Hall last Christmas, it makes a welcome return alongside its sequel, The Gruffalo’s Child. Rather like Peter and the Wolf, each character in the tale is represented by a different instrument of the orchestra… what will the Gruffalo be?
19 December 2023, 19.30
Carols at Cadogan
£19.00-£43.00
Join The Bach Choir and special guests London City Brass for a magical evening of Christmas carols conducted by David Hill. Each year, the Choir treats Cadogan audiences to the perfect selection of carols, both traditional and new, including the winning entry in the annual Sir David Willcocks Carol Competition which supports and encourages composers of all ages.
21 December 2023, 19.30
Joy to the World!
£20.00-£42.00
A glorious celebration for choir and orchestra with carols for all the family. An evening of pure and unadulterated Christmas spirit in music for choir and orchestra, with plenty of audience participation. The City of London Choir and Orchestra will be joined by guest star soprano Camilla Kerslake for a programme of carols and seasonal music – both traditional and contemporary – perfect for all the family.
22 December 2023, 19.00
A Dickensian Christmas
£30.00-£55.00
Don’t be a Scrooge this winter! Come and toast the Christmas spirit with a selection of readings from Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, alongside your favourite carols and classics performed by a live brass band and choir.
23 December 2023, 14.30, 19.00
Candlelit Carols
£30.00-£50.00
A sublime concert of carols and seasonal classics, staged in an evocative candle-lit style setting.
27 December 2023, 19.30
Christmas at the Movies
£19.00-£45.00
Join London Concertante as it celebrates the festive season through the magical world of Christmas movies. Immerse yourself in snowy adventures, comical catastrophes, true love and the joy of family – relive all of your favourite cinematic moments and experience the Christmas spirit at its fullest!
28 December 2023, 15.00, 19.30
Swing Into Christmas
£24.00-£38.00
The Down for the Count Orchestra returns to Cadogan Hall for its annual Christmas spectacular – featuring the music of Nat “King” Cole, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald and many more, performed in a luscious 30-piece orchestral setting evoking the sounds of the great Capitol Studios recordings.
29 December 2023, 19.30
Viennese Christmas Spectacular
£19.00-£45.00
Tchaikovsky’s elegant Nutcracker Suite leads on from Brahms’ serious Hungarian Dance No. 5, before Johann Strauss II introduces us to the boundless exuberance of the Polish March in his Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka.