Winchester Cathedral Choir

CHRISTMAS CHOIR Dorchester Abbey Tonight, 7.30pm Tickets: 01865 743444 Wendy Craig, Hannah Gordon, Michael Palin and Sir Tim Rice will feature in this special Christmas concert, which is being held to raise funds for Oxford Children’s Hospital. Headington Singers and Orchestra Heaven and Earth All Saints’ Church, Headington Friday, 7.30pm Tickets: 01865 248847 or on the door An evening of choral and operatic classics, including Verdi’s Stabat Mater and Te Deum, the villagers’ chorus from Guillaume Tell, the popular Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco and favourite operatic arias. With soprano Margaret Cooper and conductor Sally Mears.

Kennington United Choirs

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD Friday, 7.30pm at Witney Congregational Church Saturday, 7.30pm at Oxsrad, Marsh Lane, Oxford Admission free Costumed concert performances of Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular operetta set in the Tower of London. Paul Lewis and Imogen Cooper PIANO DUETS n Sheldonian Theatre n Saturday, 7.30pm n Tickets: 01865 244806 or musicatoxford.com This two-year Schubert series to a spectacular finale in this Music at Oxford event. Music by Schubert is interspersed with Brahms’ Hungarian Dances and Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances.

Blackbird Leys Choir

CHRISTMAS CONCERT SS Mary & John Church, Cowley Road Saturday, 7pm wegottickets.com A mixture of sacred and secular Christmas music, performed by the choir who came together during a Channel 5 TV show. Jubilate!

THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM

Keble College Chapel Saturday, 6pm jubilateoxford.com Candlelit concert of music for Christmas, conducted by Simon Whalley. Cherwell Singers AN ENGLISH CHRISTMAS Exeter College Chapel Sunday, 7.30pm wegottickets.com A special performance of Vaughan Williams’ much-loved Fantasia on Christmas Carols to mark its centenary, along with Holst’s Christmas Day, Finzi’s Magnificat and Geoffrey Bush’s little-known Christmas Cantata. Conductor James Brown.

Choir of Magdalen College

THE COMING OF CHRISTMAS Dorchester Abbey Tuesday, 8pm Tickets: 01525 376564 A candlelit evening of carols and readings, in aid of the Home Farm Trust. With readers Juliet Stevenson and Michael Pennington.