Cadogan Hall /kəˈdʌɡən/ is a 950-seat capacity[1] concert hall in Sloane Terrace in Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.
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| Type | Concert hall |
| Architectural style | Byzantine Revival architecture |
| Address | Sloane Terrace, Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Completed | 1907 (as a church); 2004 (as a concert hall) |
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| Architect(s) | Robert Fellowes Chisholm (original building); Paul Davis and Partners Architects (2004 conversion) |
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The resident music ensemble at Cadogan Hall is the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), the first London orchestra to have a permanent home. Cadogan Estates offered the RPO the use of the hall as its principal venue in late 2001.[2] The RPO gave its first concert as the resident ensemble of Cadogan Hall in November 2004.[3] Since 2005, Cadogan Hall has also served as the venue for The Proms' chamber music concerts during Monday lunchtimes[4][5] and Proms Saturday matinees; it is also one of the two main London venues of the Orpheus Sinfonia.[6]
Cadogan Hall has also been used as a recording venue. In February 2006, a recording of Mozart symphonies with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists was produced and made available immediately after the performances.[7][8] In 2009, art rock band Marillion recorded a concert there which was released on the album Live from Cadogan in 2011.
Building
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The building is a former Church of Christ, Scientist church, completed in 1907 to designs in the Byzantine Revival style by architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm, who also designed the Napier Museum in Kerala, India.[9] The stained glass is by the Danish sculptor and stained-glass artist Arild Rosenkrantz.[10] The building was listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England in April 1969.[11]
Organ
editThe church had a three-manual pipe organ built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1907 and installed in 1911.[12] It was on a raised position on the platform. The organ was removed in 2004, and the pipes in 2006.[12] The original intention had been to install the organ in a church in the Midlands,[10] but instead, in 2009-10, it was installed in Christ the King Catholic Church in Gothenburg, Sweden.[12] Walker's organ case remains in place in the concert hall.[13]
Conversion to a concert hall
editBy 1996, the congregation had diminished dramatically and the building had fallen into disuse.[14] Mohamed Fayed, then owner of Harrods, had acquired the property, but was unable to secure permission to convert the building to a palatial luxury house on account of its status as a listed building. Cadogan Estates Ltd (the property company owned by Earl Cadogan, whose ancestors have been the main landowners in Chelsea since the 18th century; the nearby Cadogan Square and Cadogan Place are also named after them) purchased the building in 2000.[2] It was refurbished in 2004 by Paul Davis and Partners Architects at a cost of £7.5 million.[15] The changes included new lighting and sound systems and bespoke acoustic ceiling modules in the performance space.[14]
See also
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edit- ^ "About us". Cadogan Hall. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ a b Louise Jury (8 January 2002). "London Philharmonic gets a concert centre". The Independent. Retrieved 9 August 2008.[dead link]
- ^ Annette Moreau (5 November 2004). "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Bliss, Cadogan Hall, London". The Independent. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
- ^ "Proms Chamber Music at Cadogan Hall" (PDF) (Press release). BBC Proms. 27 April 2005. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
- ^ Duchen, Jessica (18 July 2008). "BBC Proms: Everything you wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)". The Independent. Retrieved 9 August 2008.
- ^ "Orpheus Sinfonia". Orpheus Foundation. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ Charlotte Higgins (7 February 2006). "Look sharp: chance to buy live CD straight after the concert". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
- ^ Andrew Clements (17 February 2006). "Mozart: Symphonies No 39 and 41, English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2010.
- ^ "Napier Museum". The Hindu. 12 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ a b "BBC: Cadogan Hall". Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ Historic England (15 April 1969). "First Church of Christ Scientist (1226700)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ a b c "National Pipe Organ Register Entry No N17971". Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ "Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Building Control News, No 3, 2004" (PDF). Retrieved 11 September 2021.
- ^ a b "Our History: A brief history of Cadogan Hall". Cadogan Hall. 2019. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
- ^ "Cadogan Hall". Paul Davis and Partners Architects. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
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