Cambridge Early Music Concerts 2011

2011 SUMMER SEASON: BOOKING FOR FRIENDS

THE FRENCH BAROQUE VIOL

Mark Caudle (viol) and Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)

4.00pm, Sunday 31 July, 2011
Little St Mary's Church
Marais, Sainte-Colombe, Dollé, Forqueray, de Visée.
A tea-time concert by two superb virtuoso players. The programme will include pieces for solo viol by Marin Marais,...

LES CARACTÈRES DE LA DANSE

The Parley of Instruments with Ricardo Barros (baroque dance specialist)

8.00pm, Wednesday 3 August, 2011
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Charpentier, Rebel, Lully, Campra, Couperin.
Members of The Parley of Instruments perform instrumental works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully,...

LE GRAND SIÈCLE

Students of the Baroque Music Summer School and members of The Parley of Instruments , dir. Peter Holman and Philip Thorby

7.30pm, Saturday 6 August, 2011
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
French Baroque music from theatre, court and chapel.
Louis XIV did not quite live for a century, but his long reign, from 1643 to 1715, spanned a hugely creative period...

TASTAR DE CORDE: 100 YEARS OF THE ITALIAN LUTE FANTASIA

Jacob Heringman (lute)

2.00pm, Sunday 7 August, 2011
Little St Mary's Church
An early-afternoon recital of freely composed Italian music for solo Renaissance lute, encompassing recercars, preludes,...

THE ART OF THE MADRIGAL

Philip Thorby and friends

8.00pm, Wednesday 10 August, 2011
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Forget your fey hey-nonny-nonnies: this programme reveals all aspects of the passionate Italian madrigal form, from Banchieri's...

SHIPWRECK: Music of Henry VII and Philip the Handsome

The Border Waites

8.00pm, Wednesday 10 August, 2011
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Early 16th century music performed on shawms, viols, recorders, sackbuts, fiddles, crumhorns and bagpipes.
A programme exploring the splendour of the courts of England and Burgundy and the hazards of international travel...

MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE ITALY

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

7.30pm, Friday 12 August, 2011
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
A glimpse into the world of Renaissance Italy, with repertoire stretching from frottole to madrigals, motets to...

PASSION AND RESURRECTION

Stile Antico

7.30pm, Saturday 13 August, 2011
St John's College Chapel
Cornysh, Tallis, Taverner, Byrd, Gibbons, Victoria, Gombert.
Stile Antico is internationally admired as "an ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance...". They...

Analytic Art

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