Thu 9 Dec 2021
The Joyful Mysteries
The Bach Players – Nicolette Moonen (violin) and Pawel Siwczak (harpsichord)
Little St Mary's Church
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644–1704) wrote 15 Rosary Sonatas, 5 of which make up the Joyful Mysteries…
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Bach, Handel and Telemann – masters of the high baroque
The Brook Street Band
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
The best of German and English baroque music, illustrating how the direct and indirect influence of these three great masters on each other's music left a firm imprint on their music.
Thu 4 Nov 2021 Cambridge Festival of the Voice
The Polish Court
Echo (conductor: Sarah Latto)
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
A concert exploring the work of composers living in Warsaw and Krakow in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Wed 3 Nov 2021 Cambridge Festival of the Voice
The Constant Heart
The Marian Consort
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
The Marian Consort explores loss and lament in sacred music by Tudor composers and new works by Ben Rowarth and Donna McKevitt.
Tue 2 Nov 2021 Cambridge Festival of the Voice
Fayrfax Quincentenary
Ensemble Pro Victoria
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
2021 will be 500 years since the death of Robert Fayrfax: arguably the most important composer of the Tudor era.
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Josquin’s 500th anniversary
The Gesualdo Six
The Church of Our Lady of The Assumption and The English Martyrs
The Gesualdo Six programme will feature an exhibition of some of the finest vocal consort works from renaissance and modern-day composers…
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Toward the Dawn – A Musical Journey from Sunset to Sunrise
Stile Antico
St Botolph's Church
Music from Wilbye, White, Ward, Byrd, Allegri, Lassus, Muhly, Tallis, Monteverdi & Taverner
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Gabriel's Message
Mediva Ensemble
Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge
Music for an English Advent Celebrating the Angel Gabriel’s visitation to the Virgin Mary.
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Eccles' Semele
Academy of Ancient Music & Cambridge Handel Opera Company singers
Trinity College Chapel
John Eccles' Semele CEM with AAM and CHOC Trinity College Chapel
Wed 13 Nov 2019
The Sense of Hearing
The Brook Street Band & Roots Baroque Ensemble
Recital Hall, Anglia Ruskin University
The brilliant Cambridgeshire-based Roots Baroque Ensemble…
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Bespoke for Broadwood: music for the divided sustaining pedal
David Owen Norris
Howard Theatre, Downing College
An intimate evening with David Owen Norris playing on his 1828 Broadwood Grand Pianoforte Mendelssohn’s Sonata…
Fri 13 Sep 2019 (to Sun 15 Sep 2019)
FOCEM workshop: Sisters of Ferrara
Sisters of Ferrara
Hughes Hall
A Weekend for thirty women singers to immerse themselves in the polyphonic choral music of convents in Italy in the 16th century
Sat 10 Aug 2019
Renaissance Summer School Showcase
The Summer School students
Girton College Great Hall
The Summer School students show their skills and perform the pieces that they have been studying.
Wed 7 Aug 2019
City voices, Courtly airs
The Courtiers of Grace
Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge
A journey through sixteenth-century France, from chanson to air de cour.
Sun 4 Aug 2019
Jouyssance vous donneray
The Courtiers of Grace
Girton College Chapel
French music found enthusiastic admirers and willing imitators across many countries.
Sat 3 Aug 2019
Baroque Summer School showcase
The Summer School Students
Girton College Great Hall
Our Baroque Summer School students perform the chamber and large-scale pieces they have worked on during the week.
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Marc-Antoine Charpentier & François Couperin
The Parley of Instruments, Claire Coleman, Daniel Auchincloss and Stuart O’Hara
Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge
A double musical portrait of the two greatest French composers of the reign of Louis XIV.
Sun 28 Jul 2019
La Boutade: French Chamber Music from Versailles to Paris
The Parley of Instruments
Girton College Chapel
A fascinating musical journey from the royal bedchamber at Versailles, to the bustling streets and the popular theatres of eighteenth-century Paris
Sun 12 May 2019
Choral Matins
Choir of King’s College, Stephen Cleobury director
King’s College Chapel
With music by Scarlatti and Monteverdi
Sat 11 May 2019
The Flower of the Italian Madrigal
The Gesualdo Six, Owain Park director
Trinity College Chapel
Music from and inspired by Italy’s Golden Age, featuring renaissance giants: Monteverdi, Lassus, Gesualdo, Palestrina and Byrd
Fri 10 May 2019
Spanish Glories of the 16th century
Tenebrae, Nigel Short director
King’s College Chapel
Tenebrae will present its BBC Music Magazine award-winning interpretation of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Requiem Mass for six voices, written in 1603 and published in 1605.
Fri 10 May 2019
The Blind Fiddlers
Sollazzo Ensemble
Little St Mary's Church
The Sollazzo Ensemble's second concert in the Cambridge Festival of the Voice features the music of the two blind fiddle players, Jehan Ferrandes and Jehan de Cordoval, whose amazing playing influenced Dufay and Binchois.
Thu 9 May 2019
Firenze circa 1350
Sollazzo Ensemble
Trinity College Chapel
Between 1350 and 1400, the city of Florence was the centre of a cultural blossoming which has influenced Italian culture to this day…
Tue 7 May 2019
A ‘Queen Anne’ Evensong
Choir of Gonville & Caius College
Gonville & Caius College Chapel
This Evensong will make you feel royal as listening to Jeremiah Clarke's piece composed for Queen Anne's coronation…
