Cambridge Early Music Concerts 2012
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GABRIEL'S MESSAGE: Festive Music from Medieval England
Mediva
7.30pm, Friday 6 January, 2012
The sweet harmonies of English polyphony are combined with foot-tapping instrumentals to liven up the winter season; including the anonymous Miri it is while summer ilast, Edi beo thu hevene quene, Robertsbridge Estampie and Angelus ad Virginem.
Mediva has been a fun loving, imaginative and successful medieval group for over ten years, performing a range of...
DIXIT DOMINUS: Settings by Handel and Vivaldi
La Nuova Musica dir. David Bates with Lucy Crowe (soprano)
7.30pm, Friday 9 March, 2012
Music by Handel and Vivaldi.
La Nuova Musica is a vocal and instrumental ensemble dedicated to the music of the European Renaissance and Baroque....
JACOBEAN LUTE MUSIC
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
3.00pm, Sunday 22 April, 2012
Works by John Dowland, Robert Johnson, Daniel Bacheler, Cuthbert Hely and others.
REQUIEM FOR KING HENRY VI (FOUNDER OF KING'S COLLEGE)
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
5.30pm, Friday 18 May, 2012
Victoria's Missa pro defunctis (a6).
CANDLELIT VESPERS
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College dir. David Skinner
6.45pm, Friday 18 May, 2012
Music by Lassus.
THE EARTH RESOUNDS - Choral Pilgrimage 2012
The Sixteen
8.00pm, Friday 18 May, 2012
Concert featuring arguably the three most celebrated composers from the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance,...
Concert generously supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Cambridge University Press.
GUIDED WALK: CAMBRIDGE'S CHORAL FOUNDATIONS
10.00am, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Blue Badge Guide Ruth Lambert leads a walk taking in King's, St John's and Jesus Colleges.
Places on the walk restricted to 20, so booking early is advised.
ERIC WHITACRE & DAVID SKINNER IN CONVERSATION
12.00 midday, Saturday 19 May, 2012
The Grammy award-winning composer Eric Whitacre discusses his love of early music with Dr David Skinner, Director of Music at
Sidney Sussex College and Director of vocal group Alamire. The discussion will be illustrated with recordings.
CHORAL EVENSONG at KING'S
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
5.30pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Service in g minor, Purcell and O clap your hands together, Gibbons.
CHORAL EVENSONG at ST JOHN'S
The Choir of St John's College dir. Andrew Nethsingha
6.30pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Music by Orlando Gibbons.
PRE-CONCERT TALK: CULTURAL MEMORY
6.15pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
Rosamond McKitterick, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, speaks on Cultural memory and the resources
of the past: setting medieval texts to music.
MEDIAEVAL MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS
Trio Mediaeval
8.00pm, Saturday 19 May, 2012
The vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval will be joined by Norwegian trumpet player/singer Arve Henriksen for a
concert in which medieval, contemporary and improvised elements merge.
There is a pre-concert talk at 6.15pm, free to ticket-holders.
Music from the 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 21st centuries
MATINS AND SERMON BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
10.30am, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Te Deum from Great Service Byrd and Ascendit Deus Philips.
SUNDAY EUCHARIST
The Choir of St John's College dir. Andrew Nethsingha
10.30pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Mass for Five Voices, Byrd, with Byrd's Viri Galilaei as the introit.
ORPHEUS, I AM
Joel Frederiksen (bass, lute, archlute)
2.00pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
The American basso profundo accompanies himself on the lute and archlute in songs by Dowland, Willaert, Marini, Johnson, Attaignant and Caccini.
The American basso profundo accompanies himself on the lute and archlute in songs by Dowland, Willaert, Marini,...
EVENSONG SERVICE AT KING'S
The Choir of King's College dir. Stephen Cleobury
3.30pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Magnificat quarti toni Palestrina, Nunc dimittis tertii toni Victoria and
Omnes gentes plaudite manibus Tye.
TOUR OF TRINITY COLLEGE GARDENS
5.00pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
Trinity's Head Gardener leads a group around the beautiful and extensive gardens, not normally open to the public.
Places on the tour restricted to 25, so booking early is advised.
STRIGGIO: Mass in Forty Parts; TALLIS: Spem in alium
I Fagiolini
8.00pm, Sunday 20 May, 2012
I Fagiolini's Striggio Tour is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Striggio: Mass in Forty Parts; Tallis: Spem in alium; Gabrieli: Magnificat
Concert generously supported by Alpha CRC globalisation specialists and by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
BACH'S LIBRARY
The Bach Players
8.00pm, Wednesday 27 June, 2012
The French influence on Telemann and Bach, through the French music that Bach had in his library.
The French influence on Telemann and Bach, through the French music that Bach had in his library.
The flute was...
MUSIC FOR THE DRESDEN COURT
The Parley of Instruments with Clare Wilkinson (alto)
8.00pm, Wednesday 8 August, 2012
Telemann, Hasse, Reichenauer, Handel, Zelenka
HOFCANTOREY: Music of the Dresden Court
Baroque Summer School Students
7.30pm, Saturday 11 August, 2012
Schütz, Hasse, Lotti and Fasch; Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Zelenka
IF MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY AGREE
Jacob Heringman (lute) and Faye Newton (soprano)
2.00pm, Sunday 12 August, 2012
C17th settings of Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry: Robert Johnson, Thomas Campion, John Danyel, John Dowland and others
Seventeenth-century settings of Elizabethan and Jacobean poetry.
SWEETER THAN THE SIRENS' SONG
The Intrepid Academy dir. Philip Thorby : Philip Thorby and friends
8.00pm, Wednesday 15 August, 2012
'Music from a Venetian ridotto'; will include music by Willaert, Tromboncino, Arcadelt, Cipriano de Rore, Attaignant.
The programme focuses on the work of Adrian Willaert and his 1559 publication Musica Nova,
the manuscript of which...
MUSIC FOR THE D'ESTE DYNASTY
Renaissance Summer School Students, Philip Thorby and friends
7.30pm, Friday 17 August, 2012
A glimpse into the world of Renaissance Italy's leading family. From Josquin's Missa Ercole Dux Ferrara,
written...
THE ROSE IN FLOWER: Masterpieces from the Tudor era
Stile Antico
7.30pm, Monday 20 August, 2012
Stile Antico is internationally admired as "an ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance..."
In this programme each of the five Tudor reigns, from Henry VII to Elizabeth I, is represented by a large-scale...
IN VENETIA: The Glories of the Most Serene Republic
QuintEssential Sackbut and Cornett Ensemble
with Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) ,
dir. Richard Thomas
8.00pm, Friday 28 September, 2012
The Glories of the Most Serene Republic...
A programme to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of
Giovanni Gabrieli (c1557 -1612), with music...
MUSEUM GUIDED TOUR: Cambridge's Italian Art
David Scrase, Assistant Director of Collections, Fitzwilliam Museum
10.00am, Saturday 29 September, 2012
Meet at the front entrance. Advance booking is essential, since the group size is limited to 20.
We are very privileged to have secured a private tour, lasting one hour, of the
museum's early Italian masterpieces,...
FERMATE IL PASSO
VivaBiancaLuna Biffi (soprano, viola d'arco)
12.00 noon, Saturday 29 September, 2012
A mini-drama about love, woven from enchanting frottole from late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy.
"The frottola repertoire, simple in appearance only, is an inexhaustible source
of artistic and conceptual inspiration,...
CLAVICHORD RECITAL
Julian Perkins (clavichord)
12.00 noon, Sunday 30 September, 2012
An hour-long recital of music by Girolamo Frescobaldi and Alessandro and
Domenico Scarlatti.
(Please use the entrance opposite Panton Street.)
An hour-long recital of music by Girolamo Frescobaldi and
Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti.
A CENTURY OF VIRTUOSO VIOLIN MUSIC
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin) , Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
3.00pm, Sunday 30 September, 2012
Sonatas spanning the early 17th to early 18th century.
Passionate music spanning the early 17th to early 18th
century, from the earliest solo sonatas by Marini, Fontana
and...
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Dr Ruth Smith, Jonathan Sells, Julian Forbes and James Halliday
6.00pm, Thursday 29 November,
Pre-concert event free to ticket-holders for A CHAMBER MESSIAH.
Solomon's Knot co-founders Jonny Sells and Julian
Forbes will engage in a discussion with renowned Handel expert Dr Ruth Smith
about the origin and raison d'être of the 'chamber Messiah', with reference
to the performance history of both Messiah and Solomon's Knot. The discussion will
be chaired by Associate Artistic Director of Solomon's Knot, James Halliday.
A CHAMBER MESSIAH
Solomon's Knot - Baroque Collective
7.00pm, Thursday 29 November, 2012
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF START TIME
Handel's masterpiece performed by Baroque orchestra and a crack choir of just eight singers.
Uniting musicians trained at Cambridge, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, William Christie's Jardin des...
CONCERTI FOR CHRISTMAS
The Musical and Amicable Society
7.30pm, Saturday 15 December, 2012
The original Musical and Amicable Society was founded in Birmingham in 1762, and its musicians would gather at Cooke's...
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