• Thu 21 Nov 2024

    A Birthday Party for a King

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • Wed 25 Jan 2023

    Burns Night Concert -"Full of the Highland Humours"

    Burns Night Concert -"Full of the Highland Humours"

    Ensemble Hesperi

    St Catharine's Chapel

    This Burns Night, Hesperi celebrates the success that Scottish music enjoyed beyond Scottish borders.

  • Sat 14 Jan 2023

    “In the Frensce manere”: French Song in Medieval Europe

    “In the Frensce manere”: French Song in Medieval Europe

    Ensemble Leones

    The Round Church

    Twelfth and thirteenth century music, when French culture was all the rage across the courts of Europe.

  • Tue 13 Dec 2022

    In Winter’s House

    In Winter’s House

    Gesualdo Six

    Trinity College Chapel

    The Gesualdo Six take you on a magical musical journey through the ages.

  • Wed 16 Nov 2022

    The Art of Conversation

    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’.