Concerts, Education & Musical Inspiration
Cambridge Early Music runs a lively education programme for all ages – central to which are our Summer Schools – and a series of concerts throughout the year in historic Cambridge venues.
Cambridge Early Music runs a lively education programme for all ages – central to which are our Summer Schools – and a series of concerts throughout the year in historic Cambridge venues.
NEXT EVENT
The Caius to a Baroque Christmas
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge | The Caius Consort
Thursday 6 December, 8pm
Great St Mary's Church
Gonville & Caius College Choir (dir. Geoffrey Webber) present Charpentier's rarely performed Messe de Minuit pour Noël with the Caius Consort (dir. Rachel Stroud).
Alongside the Charpentier which is based on beautiful French noëls, Caius College Choir promises sparkle with baubles by other Baroque masters including Weckmann’s dramatic dialogue for the Annunciation with recorders and violins, Buxtehude’s extended Christmas concerto with its charming refrain telling of the newborn child, and a magnificent Christmas Day motet by Schütz. Between these vocal works we hear some remarkable organ music by Weckmann and an anonymous virtuoso violin sonata on the chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern performed by Rachel Stroud.
Great St Mary's Church
Gonville & Caius College Choir (dir. Geoffrey Webber) present Charpentier's rarely performed Messe de Minuit pour Noël with the Caius Consort (dir. Rachel Stroud).
Alongside the Charpentier which is based on beautiful French noëls, Caius College Choir promises sparkle with baubles by other Baroque masters including Weckmann’s dramatic dialogue for the Annunciation with recorders and violins, Buxtehude’s extended Christmas concerto with its charming refrain telling of the newborn child, and a magnificent Christmas Day motet by Schütz. Between these vocal works we hear some remarkable organ music by Weckmann and an anonymous virtuoso violin sonata on the chorale Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern performed by Rachel Stroud.
“Superb sound, and singing burgeoning with colour and confidence” (BBC Music Magazine, A Caius Christmas)
"Sung with vivid assurance... the results are rich and engaging" (The Guardian)
“An excellent body of sound and extraordinarily agile voices” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
"Sung with vivid assurance... the results are rich and engaging" (The Guardian)
“An excellent body of sound and extraordinarily agile voices” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
