Free Classical Music in London

Maybe Time Out London would be helpful.

It's been years since I've been, or indeed visited London, but I imagine the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music still offer recitals (perhaps not "full" concerts), that are free or at least cheap.

In Greenwich the dance and music school Trinity Labon.
My favorite church because I love the adjacent and semi hidden park next to it, St James of Piccadilly. Also St Olaves church all host free classical music concerts.

You should also check to see what’s happening at Wilton’s Music Hall. Not free but it’s an interesting venue to enjoy a performance.

We loved the Monday lunchtime concert at Wigmore Hall this past January. Tickets were around GBP 15 if I recall correctly. Beautiful acoustics in a lovely small hall. We had front row of the balcony. Besides the Monday lunchtime concerts (which are carried live on BBC Radio), there are Sunday morning concerts at similarly reduced prices, plus the full roster of evening performances for which tickets cost a bit more.

https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/calendar?m=9&y=2018

St Matthew's Westminster has free lunchtime recitals every Wednesday, 1.05pm - 1.35pm
SEPTEMBER 5th - Hector Castro (Guitar) / SEPTEMBER 12th - George Hancock (Organ) / SEPTEMBER 19th - Simone Tavoni (Piano) / SEPTEMBER 26th - Augustin Irving (Lute)

http://www.stmw.org/recitals.html

Mike -

If you are here in London in the first week in September, you will catch the last week of the BBC's Promenade Concert season at the Royal Albert Hall. You can get 'Day Promming' tickets for £7 and change on line on the morning of the concert, or you can buy walk up tickets at the box office when it opens on the evening of the day's Prom - you'll need to get in the queue pretty early though as there are a maximum of 1350 tickets on sale on the day. These cost £6.00 per person (one ticket only per person) and are likely to be standing tickets in the floor of the hall. Pretty good value though!

Forget the unusually-riotous-for-a-classical-concert 'Last night of the Proms' as far as tickets go - they are impossible to get hold of unless you pre qualify by attendance at the Prom season. If desperate to wave Union flags and sound air horns during the Hornpipe section of Wood's 'Fantasia on Sea Songs' and bawl 'Rule Britannia' and 'Jerusalem' at the top of your lungs, then there's the Last Night 'Proms in the Park' in Hyde Park where you can join 40,000 others, linking to the Royal Albert Hall occasionally but otherwise it's the old favourites as played by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Or, like me you can watch it live on the TV!

Ian

Attended Westminster Abbey evensong and it was a great experience, even though we arrived in the nick of time because we had trouble making our way around the building to find the security kiosk. This was just an average day -- nothing special on the Church of England calendar -- yet the seating was very full. If you arrive early you probably won't have to sit way in the back, behind the screen.

Re the musical experience: be aware that as one of the congregation, you get to sing the hymns. The choir singers were excellent, and it was a treat to see them in their lovely robes. There is a voluntary offering, but no sense of obligation to contribute.

Royal Opera House also has free lunchtime concerts starting up in late September:
https://www.roh.org.uk/recitals/live-at-lunch