Cambridge Early Music Concerts 2012
2012 FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE
Following the great success of our Cambridge Handel Festival in October last year, we are delighted to announce our next short festival, on 18 - 20 May 2012. The weekend will include four celebrity concerts, in addition to other events. Rarely, if ever, would you get the chance elsewhere to hear three of Europe's top vocal groups in a single weekend.
Image: left panel from the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432 (oil on panel) by Hubert van Eyck (c.1370-1426) and Jan van Eyck (1390-1441), St. Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium; image from The Bridgeman Art Library
Online booking for the Festival is now closed.
Tickets are still available on the door of concert venues.
REQUIEM FOR KING HENRY VI (FOUNDER OF KING'S COLLEGE)
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
5.30pm, Friday 18 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Victoria's Missa pro defunctis (a6).
CANDLELIT VESPERS
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College dir. David Skinner
6.45pm, Friday 18 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Music by Lassus.
THE EARTH RESOUNDS - Choral Pilgrimage 2012
The Sixteen
8.00pm, Friday 18 May, 2012
Tickets: £25.00, £20.00, £15.00, £12.50
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Tickets still available on the door
Concert featuring arguably the three most celebrated composers from the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance,...
Concert generously supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Cambridge University Press.
GUIDED WALK: CAMBRIDGE'S CHORAL FOUNDATIONS
10.00am, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Tickets: £15.00, £12.00
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Booking now closed
Blue Badge Guide Ruth Lambert leads a walk taking in King's, St John's and Jesus Colleges.
Places on the walk restricted to 20, so booking early is advised.
ERIC WHITACRE & DAVID SKINNER IN CONVERSATION
12.00 midday, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Tickets: £10.00, £8.00, free to Festival Season Ticket holders
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Tickets still available on the door
The Grammy award-winning composer Eric Whitacre discusses his love of early music with Dr David Skinner, Director of Music at
Sidney Sussex College and Director of vocal group Alamire. The discussion will be illustrated with recordings.
CHORAL EVENSONG at KING'S
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
5.30pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Service in g minor, Purcell and O clap your hands together, Gibbons.
CHORAL EVENSONG at ST JOHN'S
The Choir of St John's College dir. Andrew Nethsingha
6.30pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Music by Orlando Gibbons.
PRE-CONCERT TALK: CULTURAL MEMORY
6.15pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Free to Trio Mediaeval ticket holders.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, speaks on Cultural memory and the resources
of the past: setting medieval texts to music.
MEDIAEVAL MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS
Trio Mediaeval
8.00pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Tickets: £25.00, £20.00, £15.00, £10.00
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Tickets still available on the door
The vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval will be joined by Norwegian trumpet player/singer Arve Henriksen for a
concert in which medieval, contemporary and improvised elements merge.
There is a pre-concert talk at 6.15pm, free to ticket-holders.
Music from the 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 21st centuries
MATINS AND SERMON BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
10.30am, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Te Deum from Great Service Byrd and Ascendit Deus Philips.
SUNDAY EUCHARIST
The Choir of St John's College dir. Andrew Nethsingha
10.30pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Mass for Five Voices, Byrd, with Byrd's Viri Galilaei as the introit.
ORPHEUS, I AM
Joel Frederiksen (bass, lute, archlute)
2.00pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Tickets: £15.00, £10.00
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Tickets still available on the door
The American basso profundo accompanies himself on the lute and archlute in songs by Dowland, Willaert, Marini, Johnson, Attaignant and Caccini.
The American basso profundo accompanies himself on the lute and archlute in songs by Dowland, Willaert, Marini,...
Joel Frederiksen: Requiem for a Pink Moon, CD review
Norman Lebrecht, reviewing Joel Frederiksen's latest CD, says "Captivating and sincere, Frederiksen never strays near to pastiche or kitsch.
Not to be missed."
-- 3 May 2012
EVENSONG SERVICE AT KING'S
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
3.30pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Admission free.
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Magnificat quarti toni Palestrina, Nunc dimittis tertii toni Victoria and
Omnes gentes plaudite manibus Tye.
TOUR OF TRINITY COLLEGE GARDENS
5.00pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Tickets: £10.00
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Booking now closed
Trinity's Head Gardener leads a group around the beautiful and extensive gardens, not normally open to the public.
Places on the tour restricted to 25, so booking early is advised.
STRIGGIO: Mass in Forty Parts; TALLIS: Spem in alium
I Fagiolini
8.00pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Tickets: £25.00, £20.00, £15.00, £10.00
Festival of the Voice Season tickets: £90.00, £62.50
Tickets still available on the door
I Fagiolini's Striggio Tour is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Striggio: Mass in Forty Parts; Tallis: Spem in alium; Gabrieli: Magnificat
Concert generously supported by Alpha CRC globalisation specialists and by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
All concert information is correct at 29 Feb 2012.
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