Cambridge Early Music Concerts 2013

THIS YEAR'S CONCERT SERIES AND ONLINE BOOKING

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME

Mediva

7.30pm, Saturday 5 January, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Mediaeval dance music from C12th England to C15th Italy.
Mediva is an outstanding mediaeval group of multi-instrumentalists drawn from the leading exponents in their fields throughout...

THE TUDORS AT PRAYER

Magnificat dir. Philip Cave

7.30pm, Friday 8 February, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Latin devotional music for Henry, Mary and Elizabeth.
The Tudors at Prayer explores Latin devotional music composed during the reigns of Tudor monarchs Henry VIII, Mary...

A MUSICAL BANQUET

Michael Chance and Nigel North

7.30pm, Friday 15 March, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Italia e Inghilterra tra Cinque et Seicento.
Michael Chance has established a worldwide reputation as one of the foremost exponents of the male alto voice. Despite...

THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

The Sixteen dir. Harry Christophers

7.30pm, Friday 12 April, 2013
Tickets:  £30.00,  £25.00,  £15.00
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Sacred music by Allegri, Palestrina and James MacMillan.
The Sixteen's Choral Pilgrimage visits Cambridge with music by Allegri, Palestrina and James MacMillan. Harry Christophers...

WOOD/WOULD

Encantar

12.00 noon, Saturday 13 April, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
Belgian 4-voice ensemble Encantar make their Cambridge debut with a brilliant programme called WOOD/WOULD, which...

CONDUCTUS - PRE-CONCERT TALK

John Potter

6.45pm, Saturday 13 April, 2013
Free entry to Conductus and Festival ticket holders
Tenor John Potter introduces his Conductus project.

CONDUCTUS

John Potter (tenor) and Christopher O'Gorman (tenor)

8.00pm, Saturday 13 April, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
The Conductus project aims to find a greater understanding of 12th and13th century music and poetry, and involves...

DEAR MARY, I GIVE THEE ROSES

Encantar

12.00 noon, Sunday 14 April, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
Our artists-in-residence perform their second concert in the Old Hall in Queens' College. Featuring Marian texts,...

FIRE: PASSION IN THE ART OF THE LUTE SONG

Joel Frederiksen (bass, lute, archlute)

3.00pm, Sunday 14 April, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
Joel Frederiksen's concert during the first Festival of the Voice caused a sensation. The American basso profundo...

DINNER CONCERT

Rachel Brown (baroque flute)Adrian Butterfield (baroque violin)

7.00pm, Friday 10 May, 2013
Tickets:  £75.00
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Tickets £75 per head including wine.
Cheques only, to Cambridge Early Music please.
Please apply by 14th April to ensure your place.
By very kind invitation of Lord and Lady Eatwell you are invited to a fund-raising dinner with music performed by...

MUSICUS FAMOSISSIMUS

La Morra

3.30pm, Sunday 16 June, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
A tribute to Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1370-1412).
Johannes Ciconia is regarded as one of the most intriguing musical personalities of the period immediately preceding...
La Morra perform Guillaume Du Fay and Gilles Binchois, live in St. Peter's Church, Basle, January 2011
La Morra perform virelai 'Quant je sui mis au retour' by Guillaume de Machaut
La Morra perform 'Sicut lilium inter spinas' by Antoine Brumel
(YouTube videos linked from La Morra's website.)
Unterstützt durch die Abteilung Kultur Basel Stadt; generously supported by Basel-Stadt Abteilung Kultur , kulturelles.bl and Schweizerische Interpretengenossenschaft SIG.
 

DOWLAND, PURCELL AND BACH

Jakob Lindberg

3.00pm, Sunday 7 July, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the birth of John Dowland (1563-1626).
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the birth of John Dowland (1563-1626), Jakob Lindberg plays a recital...

VIVALDI CHAMBER CONCERTOS

The Parley of Instruments

4.00pm, Sunday 4 August, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
Vivaldi chamber concertos for recorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo.
Vivaldi chamber concertos for recorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and continuo.

THE LION OF ST MARK'S

The Parley of Instruments with Philippa Hyde (soprano)

8.00pm, Wednesday 7 August, 2013
Tickets:  £25.00,  £20.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
Monteverdi and his followers at St Mark's, Venice.
In the 1620s and 30s Monteverdi and his colleagues at St Mark's in Venice created a new type of church music for...

FROM MONTEVERDI TO VIVALDI

Students of the Baroque Music Summer School and The Parley of Instruments

7.30pm, Saturday 10 August, 2013
Tickets:  £12.00,  £10.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
A presentation of some of the music which has been studied during this year's summer school.
A presentation of some of the music which has been studied during this year's summer school, including works for...

LUTE MUSIC BY JOHN JOHNSON

Stewart McCoy

2.00pm, Sunday 11 August, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
Lute music by John Johnson.
Johnson, born in 1540, was one of Elizabeth I's "musitians for the three lutes", and the earliest of the lutenist-composers...

SPEAKING IN TONGUES

The Intrepid Academy

8.00pm, Wednesday 14 August, 2013
Tickets:  £25.00,  £20.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
Music by the great polyglot of Renaissance music, Lassus.
Supple French chansons, passionate Italian madrigals and villanelle, earthy German Lieder, and the haunting Latin...

LESSONS WITH LASSUS

Students of the Renaissance Music Summer School, Philip Thorby and friends

7.30pm, Friday 16 August, 2013
Tickets:  £12.00,  £10.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
More music by the brilliant Lassus.
More music by the brilliant Lassus, ranging from powerful large-scale polychoral motets, embracing the full range...

WILLIAM BYRD, RECUSANT and REBEL

The Mercian Consort

12.00 noon, Saturday 17 August, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
A composer's legacy to England's covert Catholics.
This programme demonstrates William Byrd's mastery in writing for the voice (through a wide range of styles) whilst...

MASTERS OF EUROPE

Stile Antico

7.30pm, Monday 19 August, 2013
Tickets:  £25.00,  £20.00
Summer Season tickets:  £160.00,  £123.00
Music for the Hapsburg Rulers.
The remarkable Hapsburg dynasty, which at its peak ruled much of Europe and established the first truly global empire,...

THE ORPHEUS OF AMSTERDAM

Robert Woolley (organ)

7.30pm, Saturday 14 September, 2013
Tickets:  £15.00,  £12.00
Robert Woolley is well known as a harpsichordist, clavichordist and organist.
(Real Media samples from Robert Woolley's first Sweelinck CD, released on Chandos, linked from Robert Woolley's website with his permission.)

FORQUERAY: FALLEN ANGEL OR RISEN DEVIL?

Liam Byrne (viola da gamba) and Ricardo Barros (harpsichord)

7.30pm, Saturday 5 October, 2013
Tickets:  £20.00,  £15.00
Familiar artists in different guises! Liam Byrne usually appears as a member of the viol consort Fretwork, but here displays his virtuosity as a soloist in glorious French repertoire. Ricardo Barros was last seen by CEM audiences as the highly memorable baroque dancer with The Parley of Instruments; but his extraordinary talent as a harpsichordist equals that as a dancer.
Ricardo Barros (harpsichord) and Liam Byrne (viola da gamba) present a programme featuring some of Forqueray's pieces...

GESUALDO

La Nuova Musica dir. David Bates

7.30pm, Saturday 26 October, 2013
Tickets:  TBA
La Nuova Musica gave us an outstanding concert of Vivaldi and Handel in 2012, and we are thrilled to be having them back to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gesualdo, prince and composer, whose tormented madrigals make extraordinary harmonic shifts in music of dark beauty and power.

CONCERTI FOR CHRISTMAS

The Musical and Amicable Society

7.30pm, Saturday 14 December, 2013
Tickets:  TBA
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of our favourite baroque chamber orchestra's annual visit to Cambridge, we return to their programme of 2003, revisiting Vivaldi's I Quattro Stagioni in an innovative performance with each of the four violinists taking a solo 'season'.

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