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.
Wed 25 Jan 2023
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
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
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
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…
