6: York Buildings and Carlisle House
York Buildings, close to the Strand, was one of the earliest concert rooms and for the half century from 1680 the location of many concerts, which included in 1683 Purcell's Ode for St Cecilia's Day, excerpts from which are included today.
Carlisle House in Soho Square was at the centre- of fashionable London life for a decade in the 1760s and was the home of several seasons of the Bach-Abel subscription concerts. These would have included such works as J. C. Bach's Concerto in c, Op 7 No 1, Six Canzonettas, Op 4, and Symphony in D, Op 3 No 1, all of which can be heard today. gramophone records