Friday, November 24:

Christ Church Cathedral: Christ Church Festival Orchestra. Vaughan Williams, Overture The Wasps; Finzi, Clarinet Concerto; Vivaldi, Spring and Summer from the Four Seasons; Beethoven, Violin Concerto Romance No 2 in F; Monti, Czardas. 8pm. For Guideposts Trust. 01993 772886.

Railway Inn, Culham: Simon Thorpe's improPhobics. 8.30pm. 01367 710593

Holywell Music Room: John Christopher Adams. Schubert, Piano Sonata Cycle. Programme One. 8pm.

Jacqueline du Pr Music Building: Florestan Trio. Haydn, Faur, Schubert. 8pm. Part of Jacqueline du Pr Music Building's own third concert series. 01865 798600.

Oxford Folk Club, Port Mahon, St Clement's: Anniversary night. The Mill, Banbury: Steve Gibbons Band. 01295 279002.

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Saturday, November 25:

The Queen's College: lunchtime recital by William Dobbie (piano). 1.15pm. Admission free.

Oxford Town Hall: Oxford Symphony Orchestra. Nielsen, Helios Overture; Sibelius, Violin Concerto; Brahms, Symphony No 2. Conductor Leon Gee, leader Mariette Richter; soloist Miriam Teppich. 7.30pm. 01865 798600.

Port Mahon, St Clement's, Oxford: Tim Lyons. Irish singer-songwriter. 8.30pm. Presented by the Oxford Traditional Music Club. 01865 872161.

Peagaus Theatre: SoundArk. Gregorian, Middle Eastern and African voice with sitar, cello, tabla and violin. 8pm. 01865 204976.

St Peter's Church, Newlands Avenue, Didcot: Didcot Choral Society. Wallingford Children's Choir.7.30pm. 01235 813986.

St Helen's Church, Abingdon: Scratch Messiah. Conductor Andrew Tillett. Singers in by 6.30pm, 7pm performance.

Rose Revived, Newbridge: Melodic Jazz.

Fair Mile Sports and Social Club, Cholsey: B.O.K. Band. 8.30pm.

St Mary Magdalene Church, Woodstock: Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir. 7.30pm.01993 812090.

Deddington Church: Banbury Symphony Orchestra. Tchaikovsky, Symphony No 6. 7.30pm.

Garrison Theatre, Bicester: The Royal British Legion in The Band of the Light Division. Doors and bar open 6.30pm. 01865 553151. Corn Exchange, Newbury (01635 522733): Southern Sinfonia, with Steurat Bedford (piano and director).

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Sunday, November 26:

Apollo Theatre (0870 6063500): Jools Holland with his Rythm and Blues Orchestra. 7.30pm.

Holywell Music Room: Eroica String Quartet. Mendelssohn, string quartets. 11.15pm

Exeter Hall, Kidlington: Hart Male Voice Choir. Vocal Point jazz octet. For Sobell House. 3.30pm. 01993 843062.

St Michael's Church, Lonsdale Road, Summertown: Bonnici String Quaret. Mozart, Schubert, Shostakovich. 8pm. In aid of Iress Chilambwe Fund.

Amey Hall, Abingdon School: Abingdon & District Musical Society. Elgar, The Music Makers and In the South; Arnold, Scottish Dances. 8pm. Tickets: Modern Music, Abingdon.

Abbey Hall, Guildhall, Abingdon: Andrew Nix plays the Compton Theatre Organ. 3pm. 01235 521863.

Civic Centre, Aylesbury: Beethoven the Last Master John Suchet. 7.30pm. 01296 486009.

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Monday, November 27:

Fuggle 'n' Firkin, Gloucester Green, Oxford: Night Porters.

Oxford Folk Club, Port Mahon, St Clement's: John Kirkpatrick.

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Tuesday, November 28:

University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street: Oxford University Sinfonia. Mozart, Exsultate Jubilate (1773) (soloist soprano Sarah Jane Brown). Messaien, Trois Petites Liturgies de la Prsence Divine (1944). 8pm.

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Wednesday, November 29:

The Queen's College: lunchtime organ recital by George Parsons. 1.10pm. Admission free. Holywell Music Room: Oxford Contemporary Music Group. Webern, Knussen, Elliott Carter. 8pm.

Exeter College: Charivari Agrable. Telemann, Couperin and Mattheson. 8pm. 01865 798600.

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Thursday, November 30:

Sheldonian Theatre: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Thomas Zehetmair (violin). Vivaldi, Concertos for violin, strings, recorders, flutes and oboes. 8pm. 0870 7500659.

The Spin Jazz Club, Wheatsheaf, High Street, Oxford: John Etheridge. Guitarist.

Civic Centre, Aylesbury: Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band. 8pm. 01296 486009.

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Friday, November 1:

Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College: Carole Boyd (reader), Nicola and Alexandra Bibby (piano duo). Words by Siegfreid Sassoon, Wendy Cope, Aim Cesaire, Ben Okri; music by Ravel, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Milhaud. 7.30pm. 01865 798600. Corn Exchange, Newbury (01635 522733): Southern Sinfonia. Lunchtime concert. 1pm.

Sulgrave Manor, Banbury: Musica Domestica. A Regency Christmas entertainment. 7.30pm. 01295 760205. Also Dec 2.