Cellist Gemma Rosenfield [Marco Borggreve]

CLIMATE crisis is so visible these days you’d think that those in power might actually do something meaningful about it. Sadly few musicians have much power to exercise beyond the raising of collective voices. But they try. And at Kings Place, the stylishly subterranean concert venue at King’s Cross, the broad theme running across this year’s programme bears the title Earth Unwrapped – an exploration of our relationship with the planet that hosts us, through words and music.

It’s already under way. And though your heart might sink to know that the opening weekend includes not one but two performances of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons – as if there weren’t enough already – these examples, both on Jan 18, have something to commend them.

Given by Manchester Camerata they feature the outstanding violinist Daniel Pioro who does things his own way, often unconventionally. The afternoon performance is “relaxed”, designed for families; the evening one has readings by Stephen Fry. So don’t dismiss this as routine: it won’t be. And for good measure, Jan 19 brings a morning concert where the Age of Enlightenment Orchestra and Choir illustrate the work of the Earth Space Sustainability Initiative with star-kissed music by Bach and Gibbons. kingsplace.co.uk

That said, environmentally minded concert-goers have an alternative on Jan 18 when the Barbican puts up a big screen and reruns moments from David Attenborough’s Wild Isles TV series – with George Fenton’s accompanying music played live by the BBC Symphony under the baton of the composer. An immersive experience on grander terms than you’ll have had on the sofa at home. barbican.org.uk

• Guitar enthusiasts will want to know that there’s a solo evening with world star of the instrument Miloš Karadaglić at Cadogan Hall, Jan 21: cadoganhall.com But hopefully they’ll be just as pleased to know that the following day, Jan 22, brings a free event at the Guildhall School in which a cohort of its guitar graduates strut their stuff: gsmd.ac.uk

• JW3, the Jewish arts centre in Finchley Road, continues its impressive top-league concert series with a visit from the Doric String Quartet on Jan 23. They play Haydn, Beethoven and Benjamin Britten’s set of 3 Divertimenti – which belong to this part of the world because they were completed in 1936 when the young Britten was living locally, starting in West Hampstead before moving the Finchley Road (a flat at No.559 if you want to go look, though there’s not much to see). jw3.org.uk

Nineteen thirty-six was a year when the Nazi authorities stepped up the use of concentration camps, leading to the creation four years later of the largest, maybe the most wretched: Auschwitz-Birkenau. With 130,000 prisoners, it functioned like a sprawling town in which some semblance of artistic and musical life survived. And on Jan 23 the cellist Gemma Rosefield pays tribute to the music of Auschwitz in a Wigmore Hall concert shared with students from the Royal Academy. wigmore-hall.org.uk

• Finally, the City Music Foundation decamps to Hampstead, Jan 22, with a keyboard duo called Piano Phase Project who respond, musically, to a film of Canadian forest life. It ought to be happening at Kings Place as part of Earth Unwrapped; but it’s actually in the atmospheric Craxton Studios, Kidderpore Avenue, NW3. A curiosity. citymusicfoundation.org