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…
Sat 13 Apr 2019
"Un-plucked" – lute music from the Baroque to last month!
Daniele Caminiti & Mirko Arnone
Clough Hall, Newnham College
Star Sicilian lutenist Daniele Caminiti and duo partner Mirko Arnone present an exciting evening of music by Antonio Vivaldi…
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Sing Joyfully
Voces8
Trinity College Chapel
In praise of the European Day of Early Music, Bach’s birthday (‘Boureé’!) and showcasing of our joint education project ‘Roots’…
Sat 9 Feb 2019
From Virginals to Harpsichords
Dr Dan Tidhar
The Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall
This lecture-recital will focus on three distinguished members of this family of instruments: the virginals, the Italian single-manual harpsichord and the French double-manual harpsichord.
Thu 6 Dec 2018
The Caius to a Baroque Christmas
Gonville & Caius College Choir (dir. Geoffrey Webber) and the Caius Consort (dir. 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).
