This is quite like cheap opera, except the initial prices aren’t so frightening and there’s no West End ticket booth that I know of. The Evening Standard site may have classical music deals (presently 2-for-1 at the LPO, who certainly tend to have more interesting programming than the other London orchestras). As with opera, it’s always worthwhile signing up for everyone’s free email lists, which will produce bargains from time to time (the last one I recall was a series of £10 concerts at the Wigmore Hall–and Alina Ibragimova was already sold out of course).
Then there’s the stuff that is meant to be inherently cheap or free, as opposed to being so by accident. The Conway Hall Sunday Concerts are good value at £7 (£3 for under-eighteens), while the South Bank Sinfonia do some free rush-hour concerts in Waterloo. The Time Out website has a flag for free concerts, and there’s also a lot of free stuff goes on in churches, and also the LSE for instance.
Other possibilities may depend on where you live. In South East London for example, as well as the South Bank Sinfonia there are various events at Trinity College of Music or the Centre for Russian Music , not to mention St Paul’s Sinfonia.
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