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Christmas 2025

“without music, life would be a blank to me” (Jane Austen, Emma)

Join VOCES8 and friends as they celebrate the season with a selection-box of beautifully sung carols and songs from across Europe and the USA.

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All festival concerts including Andrea's Farewell & Twenty @ Barbican (Best Value)

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Includes all concerts except Andrea's Farewell + Twenty @ Barbican

Andrea’s Farewell + Twenty @ Barbican

Andrea’s Farewell + Twenty Andrea’s Farewell + Twenty

Double anniversary celebration in one ticket

VOCES8

VOCES8

Live from Sinfonia Smith Square, celebrate the season with ancient carols and festive favourites

Handel’s Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

The combined forces of the VOCES8 Foundation perform this perennial favourite at their London home

VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra

VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra

Rose Ever Blooming - a new Christmas oratorio with poetry by Patricia Monaghan and music by Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach

VOCES8 Scholars & The Mancunium Consort

VOCES8 Scholars & The Mancunium Consort

Two exciting young ensembles, conducted by Barnaby Smith, travel on a luminous journey from Advent to Christmas

Andrea’s Farewell

Andrea’s farewell

A celebration concert of an extraordinary voice and musical legacy that has helped shape VOCES8’s trademark clarity and warmth

St Martin’s Voices & Zeb Soanes

St Martin’s Voices & Zeb Soanes

Festival debutants combine to bring you an enchanting concert of words and carols for the Christmas season

VocalEssence

VocalEssence

A tour of Christmas music from around the world that is bound to bring you a new seasonal favourite

The Little Song Party

Penelope Appleyard & Jonathan Delbridge

'Jane Austen’s Christmas Gaiety' celebrates the author's 250th birthday in a programme of music and words, with Zeb Soanes narrating

Stile Antico

Stile Antico

Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, a mix of Christmas polyphony and joyful folk influences from the sensual world of Renaissance Spain


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Season Ticket Extra

Season Ticket Extra

All festival concerts including Andrea's Farewell & Twenty @ Barbican (Best Value)

Season Ticket - Standard

Season Ticket Standard

Includes all concerts except Andrea's Farewell + Twenty @ Barbican

Andrea’s Farewell + Twenty @ Barbican

Andrea’s Farewell + Twenty Andrea’s Farewell + Twenty

Double anniversary celebration in one ticket

VOCES8

VOCES8

Live from Sinfonia Smith Square, celebrate the season with ancient carols and festive favourites

Handel’s Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

The combined forces of the VOCES8 Foundation perform this perennial favourite at their London home

VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra

VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra

Rose Ever Blooming - a new Christmas oratorio with poetry by Patricia Monaghan and music by Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach

VOCES8 Scholars & The Mancunium Consort

VOCES8 Scholars & The Mancunium Consort

Two exciting young ensembles, conducted by Barnaby Smith, travel on a luminous journey from Advent to Christmas

Andrea’s Farewell

Andrea’s farewell

A celebration concert of an extraordinary voice and musical legacy that has helped shape VOCES8’s trademark clarity and warmth

St Martin’s Voices & Zeb Soanes

St Martin’s Voices & Zeb Soanes

Festival debutants combine to bring you an enchanting concert of words and carols for the Christmas season

VocalEssence

VocalEssence

A tour of Christmas music from around the world that is bound to bring you a new seasonal favourite

The Little Song Party

Penelope Appleyard & Jonathan Delbridge

'Jane Austen’s Christmas Gaiety' celebrates the author’s 250th birthday in a programme of music and words, with Zeb Soanes narrating

Stile Antico

Stile Antico

Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, a mix of Christmas polyphony and joyful folk influences from the sensual world of Renaissance Spain

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Festival Programme

In winter storytelling at its most atmospheric, VOCES8 goes a-carolling from the chandeliered splendour of London’s Smith Square in repertoire from Praetorius and Poston to Rutter and Reena Esmail. Renaissance music rings out from St Martin-in-the-Fields in ‘A Spanish Nativity’ sung by the award-winning Stile Antico. Soprano Penelope Appleyard and Pianist Jonathan Delbridge celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with their ensemble The Little Song Party in a programme of music and words (performed by Classic FM presenter Zeb Soanes), for ‘Jane Austen’s Christmas Gaiety’. Festival debutants The Mancunium Consort and the VOCES8 Scholars Ensemble perform under Barnaby Smith’s direction with music from Byrd and Bach to Sally Beamish and Lucy Walker. The combined forces of VOCES8, APOLLO5 and members of VOCES8’s Foundation Choir sing the perennial favourite Handel ‘Messiah’ from St Anne and St Agnes. St Martin’s Voices and Zeb Soanes bring you ‘This Christmas Life’, whilst super group VocalEssence deliver a tour of Christmas music from around the world. In a double celebration extra, we bid a fond farewell to VOCES8 soprano Andrea Haines and lend you a final opportunity to watch VOCES8's Twentieth anniversary concert from the Barbican, alongside the BBC Singers, Jack Liebeck and the VOCES8 Scholars. As ever supporting contemporary composers, a new Christmas oratorio is unveiled, performed by Jack Liebeck, the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra and conducted by Barnaby Smith. ‘Rose Ever Blooming’ tells the story of Mary through the poetry of Patricia Monaghan and music of Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy C. Takach. Come and warm your toes at the festive fire of LIVE From London Christmas 2025!

Looking for the perfect gift this Christmas? Save 25% on subscriptions to leading music magazines including Gramophone, Choir & Organ, Opera Now and International Piano.  CLICK HERE to take advantage.


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