Ludlow Arts: Classical
2025-26 Season
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Thursday 6 November 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
CONCERT POSTPONED
Rêverie — the Life and Loves of Debussy
Lucy Parham, piano
Simon Russell Beale, narrator
Ahead of a performance at London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall, Festival favourite, pianist Lucy Parham, returns with another of this country’s leading actors, Sir Simon Russell Beale, ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.
Saturday 8 November 2025
7:00pm
St Cuthbert, Clungunford
Strings, Still Lifes and Scenery
Eliza Nagle, violin, Zea Hunt, violin, Declan Hickey, guitar
Works by Oran Johnson, Jonty Lefroy Watt, Lili Boulanger and others.
A concert of new chamber music about art and nature written by Shropshire-bred composers Oran Johnson and Jonty Lefroy Watt ...read more...
Tickets: £10 from Anna Dreda annadreda@icloud.com or 07772 288077 and at the door.
Thursday 20 November 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
London Chamber Ensemble Quartet
This is the first of two concerts this season by the London Chamber Ensemble both with programmes including neglected works by British composers as well as concert hall favourites. Madeleine Mitchell will be returning on 12 March ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18s £7) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Saturday 22 November 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Ludlow Orchestra
Works by Haydn, Saint Saëns and Louise Ferrenc.
Haydn's ever-fresh Symphony No.100, gets its nickname Military from the allegretto second movement which prominently features trumpets and drums. The symphony is the second of Haydn's second set of 'London' Symphonies composed for his second visit in 1794. ...read more...
Tickets from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office soon.
Friday 28 November 2025
7:30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Mid Wales Opera
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti.
Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti bubbles with jazzy flair and biting satire. This one-act gem takes aim at suburban 'paradise', where cocktail hours and consumer bliss can’t mask the cracks in a picture-perfect marriage. ...read more...
Tickets: £22 (u21 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE
Sunday 14 December 2025
4:00pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Cinderella and other pantomime stories
Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
Works by Tchaikovsky, Rupert Cole, Nielsen and Prokofiev.
A lovely programme of music inspired by pantomime stories. Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Suite is music from the score of his famous ballet. Rupert Cole's 2023 composition Resonant Tale is music from the soundtrack of the PlayDate game of the same name. ...read more...
Tickets: £18; (under-25s: £8) available from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office and online HERE
Saturday 6 December 2025
7:30pm
St Laurence, Ludlow
Ludlow Choral Society
Handel in Italy
Works by Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Lotti and Corelli performed by Ludlow Choral Society and Ludlow Camerata.
Ludlow Choral Society’s December concert will take us to Italy, the birthplace of opera and oratorio, and back to the 18th Century. Handel, probably best known for Messiah, and other Baroque composers were drawn there in the early years of the century. ...read more...
Tickets £18 (18s and under free) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms HERE or at the door.
Thursday 12 March 2026
7:30pm
Ludlow Thursday Concert
London Chamber Ensemble Trio
Works by John Ireland, Clara Schumann and Brahms.
This is the second of two concerts this season by the London Chamber Ensemble both with programmes including neglected works by British composers, as well as concert hall favourites. ...read more...
Tickets £22 (u18s £7) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office soon