The London Ensemble

Comprising some of the finest musicians in the United Kingdom, the London Ensemble is available for bookings in various chamber combinations up to a string and chamber orchestra.

London Ensemble musicians have performed at major international festivals including the Salzburg and Vienna Festivals in Austria, the Kultur Kreis, Baden-Baden, Mecklenburg and Beethoven Festivals in Germany, the Melle Festival in France as well as the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Southwark, Bath, Harrogate, Ligeti, Dulwich and Chichester Festivals in the UK.

Other highlights include a gala performance alongside José Carreras and Dame Kiri te

Kanawa at Hampton Court Palace as well as appearances at Barbican Hall, Fairfield Halls, Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings Aldeburgh, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Purcell Room and

Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank as well as at many prestigious concert clubs.

Recordings include broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM as well as for such labels as

Sony Classical, Naxos, Warner Chappell and Universal Music. Future plans include a new

series of recordings for Worldwide Artists under the name 'Chamber Music Classics' as well

as concerts in Norway, Serbia and the United Kingdom. For audio samples, please click here.

For rates, availability and bookings please call Catherine on 0844 357 5847 or email

Programmes can include compositions demanding variable numbers of players and repertoire encompasses baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century masterpieces:

Chamber Repertoire

Bartók String Quartets

Beethoven Piano Trios, String Quartets, Sextet for 2 Horns and Strings, Serenade for Flute, Violin,

and Viola, Septet

Boccherini Sonata for Cello and Bass

Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Clarinet Trio, Piano Quintet, Piano Quartets, Piano Trios, String Quartets,

String Sextets, String Quintets, Horn Trio

Bridge 'Phantasie' Piano Trio and String Quartet

Dvorák String Quartets (including the "American") Piano Quartets, Piano Quintets

Elgar String Quartet

Fauré Piano Trio

Haydn String Quartets, Piano Trios, String Trios

Henze String Quartets

Ives String Quartet No. 1

Janacek String Quartets

Kodály String Quartets, String Octet

Lachner Octet, Nonet, Serenade

Mahler Piano Quartet, Symphony no. 4 (chamber version arranged by Schönberg)

Martinu Nonet

Mendelssohn Octet, Piano Trios

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time

Mozart String Quartets, String Quintets, Piano Quartets, Piano Trios, Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Clarinet Quintet, 2 Duets for Violin and Viola

Novak Piano Quintets

Prokofiev String Quartets, Quintet

Ravel String Quartet, Introduction and Allegro

Rossini String sonatas

Saint-Saëns Septet, Piano Trios

Schönberg Verklärte Nacht (chamber version), Pierre Lunaire, String Quartets

Schubert String Quintet in C, "Die Forelle" (Trout) Piano Quintet, "Death and the Maiden" String Quartet, "Quartettsatz" String Quartet, Octet

Schumann Piano Quintet

Shostakovich Piano Quintet, Piano Trios, String Quartets

Spohr Nonet

Strauss Sextet from Capriccio

Stravinsky Octet

Tchaikovsky Piano Trio, Souvenir de Florence, String Quartets

Telemann Trio Sonatas

String / Chamber Orchestra Repertoire

Albinoni Adagio for Strings and Organ

Bach Brandenburg Concertos, Concerto for 2 Violins, Violin Concertos, Suites for Strings

Barber Adagio for Strings

Bartók Romanian Folk Dances, Divertimento, Music for Stringed Instruments, Percussion and Celesta

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Simple Symphony, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Les Illuminations

Copland Quiet City

Corelli Concerto Grossi

Dvorak Serenade for Strings

Elgar Introduction and Allegro, Serenade for Strings, Chanson do Matin, Chanson de Nuit, Salut d'Amour

Grieg Holberg Suite, Two Elegiac Melodies, Peer Gynt suites op. 46 and op. 55

Handel Concerto Grossi

Haydn Symphonies

Hindemith Trauermusik, Five Pieces

Holst St. Paul's Suite

Janacek Suite for Strings

Ligeti Ramifications for 2 string orchestras

Locatelli Concerti grossi

Lutoslawski Musique funèbre (Trauermusik für Bartók)

Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5

Mendelssohn String Symphonies

Mozart Divertimenti, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, Symphonies

Part Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten for Strings and Bell
Rossini String Sonatas

Schnittke Concerto Grossi

Schönberg Verklärte Nacht

Shostakovich Chamber Symphony

Strauss Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings

Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks, Histoire du Soldat

Suk Serenade for Strings

Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, Souvenir de Florence

Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending

Vivaldi Concerto Grossi, Four Seasons

Wagner Siegfried Idyll

Walton Music from Henry V for String Orchestra

Warlock Capriol Suite

Wiren, Dag Serenade for Strings

The London Ensemble can provide accompaniment for concertos by Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Strauss, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Vivaldi.