Vivaldi's Four Seasons at Christmas

Candlelight Concerts

Fri 20 Nov ’26 19:30 - 21:30

Fri 20 Nov ’26

19:30 - 21:30

Fri 20 Nov ’26

Doors open

18:45

Start

19:30

Approx. end

21:30

Bath Abbey, BA1 1LT

Tickets
Tickets from £29 (inc. ticket and order* fees)

*all orders include a £1.50 processing fee

London Concertante celebrate Christmas through the elegance and brilliance of the Baroque era, with a selection of beautifully crafted festive masterpieces.

Opening the programme is the overture from Handel’s Messiah, whose opening section centres on the prophecy and birth of Christ, making it one of the defining sounds of the Christmas repertoire. Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, written “for the night of Christmas”, and Torelli’s Christmas Concerto both capture the spirit of Christmas night, with music that suggests the shepherds of the Nativity and the stillness of the scene.

Completing the programme is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a dazzling set of concertos that remains one of the most famous and vivid works in all classical music. Each concerto paints a different season in sound, drawing on accompanying poems — possibly written by Vivaldi himself — to bring the natural world vividly to life. Across the four concertos, Vivaldi conjures birdsong and buzzing flies, harvest celebrations, barking dogs, summer storms and winter ice.

Programme
Handel – Overture to Messiah
Corelli – Christmas Concerto
Torelli – Christmas Concerto
Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

Artists
Emmanuel Webb - Soloist

Seating is unreserved within each ticket band and is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The only exception is VIP tickets, which include reserved seating.

VIP tickets include reserved seating in the front two rows of the main nave, a complimentary drink from the bar, and a CD of your choice to collect from the CD desk on the night of the concert.

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