Wed 16 Nov 2022
The Art of Conversation
El Gran Teatro del Mundo
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
Music by Vivaldi, Telemann, Fasch and Pla, focusing on the ‘concerto da camera’.
Sun 6 Nov 2022
Heinrich Schütz: A German in Venice
The Brook Street Band and David de Winter
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
Schütz's cantate and the brilliant virtuosic Venetian music of the time with a pre-concert talk with Professor Bettina Varwig at 18:30.
Fri 4 Nov 2022
Schütz Musikalische Exequien
Cambridge University Chamber Choir
Trinity College Chapel
Marking the 350th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Schütz.
Sun 24 Jul 2022 (to Sun 31 Jul 2022)
Baroque Summer School 2022
The Fairy Queen
Benslow Music, Hitchin
Henry Purcell’s Fairy Queen was composed in 1692 and takes Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sat 16 Jul 2022 (to Sat 23 Jul 2022)
Renaissance Summer School 2022
Mr Byrd’s Private Music
Benslow Music, Hitchin
Music for recreation and devotion in Byrd’s inner circle
Sun 26 Jun 2022 tickets available on the door
Bach's Doubles & Triples
Rachel Podger, Director & Violin | Irish Baroque Orchestra
Trinity College Chapel
The Irish Baroque Orchestra joins forces with the distinguished violinist Rachel Podger for a feast of double and triple concerti…
Fri 6 May 2022
The Silver Swan
ORA Singers conducted by Suzi Digby
Trinity College Chapel
Stories from Shakespeare retold in music from Byrd to Jonathan Dove
Wed 27 Apr 2022
Thomas Tomkins @ 450
TENET Vocal Artists
St Botolph's Church
TENET Vocal Artists is visiting England and Scotland for a two-week tour highlighting the music of celebrated Tudor composer…
Tue 19 Apr 2022
Her Infinite Variety: Women of Shakespeare in Words and Music
Elina Mustonen
Howard Theatre, Downing College
A dramatic solo piece, which brings Shakespeare’s text to life in combination with music from his age.
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Then and Now: The Changing Face of Historical Performance
A Round-Table Discussion
The Recital Room, Faculty of Music
Participatory discussion about the marketing and programming of early music; the interaction of scholarship and performance…
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.
