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This year the venue will be Holy Trinity Church in Sloane Street (7.15, Thursday, December 1st), and CML will be joined by Rowan Atkinson (pictured), Ronni ancona, Brian Blessed and a host of other top-line celebrities.

Meanwhile, preparations continue apace for the choir's winter concert of popular Russian music, on Saturday, December 3rd at St James's, Piccadilly. Tim Sidford (pictured below) will perform the original piano version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, followed by CML's rendition of Rachmaninov's famous Vespers.

Composed in 1874, Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists as well as a firm favourite with audiences all over the world.

A former BBC Young Musician of the Year semi-finaist, Timothy Sidford enjoys a flourishing career as a freelance pianist and music teacher. He has appeared extensively throughout the UK as well as concerts in Germany, Holland and the Czech Republic. In London he has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St Martins-in-the-Fields, St James’s, Piccadilly, and Leighton House.

Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil, or Vespers, was composed in less than two weeks in 1915, and was warmly received at its first performance in Moscow later that year. However, the rise of the Soviet Union led to a ban on all religious music, and in 1918 the Synodal Choir was replaced by a ‘People's Choir Academy’, leading to the observation that "no composition represents the end of an era so clearly as this liturgical work".

Heavily influenced by Russian Orthodox chant, this beguiling masterpiece showcases exactly why Collegium Musicum – under the inspired leadership of BBC award-winning conductor Russell du Plessis – has become one of London’s most exciting chamber choirs.

Why not meet your mates from the choir after the concert in the nearby Red Lion pub?

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above: CML performing This England - English choral music, with West London Children's choir, in Chiswick earlier this year.