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Not as well-known as the Royal Albert Hall, the 'Wig', which opened in 1901, is one of London's main concert halls. It still mainly caters for a classical audience, and includes chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals. It hosts around 500 concerts each year.
Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street in west London, England. It was designed by T. E. Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good acoustics. It specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals, and hosts over five hundred concerts each year, as well as a weekly concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1966.
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The Wallace Collection is one of the world's finest private art collections, the best known of which is Frans Hals's work The Laughing Cavalier. Other artists on display include Rembrandt, Titian, Poussin, and Reynolds. This is well worth escaping to after the hustle and bustle of Oxford Street.
Handel House Museum
Home to the baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 until his death in 1759. Some of the greatest classical music ever composed was done so at this address. The museum charts Handel's life and works and offers recitals of music in the magnificent setting of the period rooms. By contrast, next door was home to Jimi Hendrix when he lived in London in 1969, and entry to this top-floor flat is included.
Located on St George's Street in Mayfair just south of Hanover Square, the parish church of Mayfair was completed in 1724 to a design by John James, featuring a portico in Palladian style.
Nicknamed Little America, it was the long-time home of the American Embassy (which in 2018 moved to Nine Elms across the river), and a statue of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The parish church of Marylebone was completed in 1827 to a design by Thomas Hardwick.
This enormous arch was built in front of Buckingham Palace. In 1851 the expansion of the palace meant the arch could no longer remain where it was, so it was moved to this point on Hyde Park. It now stands rather sadly on a large traffic island, but the subway beneath the roads means you can stop off at the Marble Arch on your way from Oxford St to Hyde Park.