Thu 24 Apr 2025
Decameron Musicale
Rune
St Catharine's College Chapel
A mosaic of musical stories from early modern Europe
Thu 6 Mar 2025
The Prince of Music
Stile Antico
Trinity College Chapel
Palestrina in the Eternal City – The repertoire is sumptuous, including several of Palestrina’s most beloved and timeless motets, gems by other leading composers active in Rome.
Fri 7 Feb 2025
Time Stands Still: Songs of John Dowland and his contemporaries
Peter Croton and Ensemble L’Isola
St Catharine's College Chapel
'Time stands still', by John Dowland (1603), is emblematic of the sense of wonder we feel when encountering pure, often unattainable beauty.
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Schütz: The Christmas Story
Arcangelo
Trinity College Chapel
Schütz captures the freshness of the nativity story (the Bible only having been translated from Church Latin a few decades earlier) and gives it an expressive immediacy.
Thu 21 Nov 2024
A Birthday Party for a King
Apollo’s Cabinet
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
Berlin, 1758. It’s Frederick the Great’s birthday party, and Germany’s most gifted composers perform their latest works.
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Musikverein
The Revolutionary Drawing Room
St Catharine's College Chapel
The revolutions of Europe are raging outside the windows – and the musicians of the day are entertaining their employers in the drawing rooms of Vienna, Paris and London.
Wed 9 Oct 2024
Monteverdi Vespers
Solomon's Knot
West Road Concert Hall
The Vespers combines the exalted and the sensual in a dizzying array of soaring choruses, intricate duets and solos, and instrumental writing.
Sat 27 Jul 2024
L'Europe Galante by André Campra
Baroque Summer School Participants
Jesus College Chapel
An opéra-ballet combining solo songs, beautiful choruses and passionate baroque dance
Sun 26 May 2024
Bach & Telemann: A meeting of friends
El Gran Teatro del Mundo
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
Tue 14 May 2024
Farándula Castiza: Madrid, the melting pot
Forma Antiqva
Pembroke College Auditorium
Let the symphonies of Nebra, Conforto, and Corselli sweep you away, alongside unexpected surprises…
Fri 3 May 2024
The Early English Music Project – A Showcase Concert
The Cambridge Early Music Consort
The Round Church
A recital of English polyphony from the 14th to the 16th centuries, performed by Cambridge's specialist early music vocal ensemble. There will be a retiring collection.
Wed 10 Apr 2024
El Fuego
Cantoría
Jesus College Chapel
A programme of ‘ensaladas’ straight from the courtly traditions of the Iberian Renaissance.
Tue 5 Mar 2024
10th Anniversary Concert
The Gesualdo Six
Trinity College Chapel
Their all-time favourite repertoire, including highlights from the ensemble's first performances in Cambridge.
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Bella Donna
ApotropaïK
St Catharine's Chapel
Sublime woman, deadly flower: Monodies and polyphonic works of the 13th and 14th centuries.
Sat 10 Feb 2024
The Honour of William Byrd
Chelys Consort of Viols and Helen Charlston
St Catharine's College Chapel
Featuring pieces by William Byrd written in honour or memory of others.
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Solos, Duos & Trios
Orpheus Britannicus
St Catharine's Chapel
A beautiful selection of chamber works by three giants of the Baroque: J.S. Bach, Handel & Telemann
Wed 6 Dec 2023
Delighting the people: A Jacobean Christmas
The Marian Consort
Trinity College Chapel
Early English composers with music written for the famously festive Stuart court.
Wed 15 Nov 2023
The Madrigal Reimagined
Monteverdi String Band
St Catharine's Chapel
A celebration of the Italian madrigal and the creativity and virtuosity it inspired, illuminated by contemporary readings.
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Weldon’s The Judgment of Paris (1701)
Cambridge Handel Opera Company and Academy of Ancient Music
Trinity College Chapel
Sat 29 Jul 2023
Henry Purcell’s King Arthur
Baroque Summer School Showcase
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
The epic Arthurian tale is interwoven with masques made up of delicious dances, songs and choruses.
Fri 21 Apr 2023
Divorced, Beheaded, Died
Palisander
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
Music written for, inspired by and curated by the Queens of Henry VIII
Wed 12 Apr 2023
Bach’s St Matthew Passion
Solomon’s Knot
Trinity College Chapel
Solomon’s Knot bring Bach’s monumental masterpiece up-close and personal.
Tue 21 Mar 2023
Bach – Violin Sonatas
Adrian Butterfield, violin and Silas Wollston, harpsichord
St Catharine's Chapel
The concert includes the following sonatas: B minor BWV 1014, E major BWV 1016, E minor BWV 1023 and G major BWV 1019.
Thu 9 Mar 2023
16th Century German Love Songs – Inn Stetter Hut
James Gilchrist (tenor) and the Linarol Consort of Viols
Downing Place URC, CB2 3EL
Sixteenth-century song performed by one of its leading exponents and authentically accompanied on copies of the earliest surviving viol.
