A listing of early music in
Cambridge, UK,
with a few other selected items of note, with a page of
Musical links and
Where shall I eat?
Notes for this listing can be found at the bottom.
| 2026 | time | place | style | series | title | performer | details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 18 May Sat 23 May | Jesus Green | Beer | CAMRA | Cambridge Beer Festival | |||
| Sat 4 Jul | 19:30 | Catholic Church | Renaissance | CSM | Spem in Alium | Clare College Choir | Thomas Tallis plus choral works by Alessandro Striggio and Giovanni Gabrieli. |
| Fri 10 Jul | 19:30 | Trinity CC | Baroque | CSM | Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno | La Nuova Musica | Handel |
| Thu 16 Jul | 19:00 | St Clement's | Baroque | Bach+ Festival: Arias of the Bach Family | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | A public masterclass with distinguished voice teacher Ashley Stafford exploring interpretation, technique and performance practice in arias by JS Bach | |
| Fri 17 Jul | 18:00 | St John the Evangelist | Baroque | Bach+ Festival: Jacks and Hammers | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | Keyboard music by JS and CPE Bach, Frescobaldi, Duphly, F Couperin, Gibbons, Purcell and Mozart on harpsichord, organ and fortepiano. Keyboards Dan Tidhar | |
| Sat 18 Jul | 13:10 | St Botolph's | Baroque | CSM | A chi si dedica: Violin & Lute | Charlotte Spruit | Giovanni Bassano, Marco Uccellini, Biagio Marini, Isabella Leonarda, Castello, Kapsberger, Mealli and Giovanni Battista. With Sergio Bucheli lutenist |
| Wed 22 Jul | 19:00 | Ely Cathedral | Baroque | CSM | Handel: Saul | Gabrieli | Booking available via Ely Cathedral box offfice from 27 April. |
| Thu 23 Jul | 18:00 | St John the Evangelist | Baroque | Bach+ Festival: The Intimate Bach | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | A quiet recital of works for lute and clavichord by JS Bach, CPE Bach and Leopold Weiss. Baroque lute Yair Avidor, Clavichord Dan Tidhar | |
| Sat 25 Jul | 19:30 | St John the Evangelist | Baroque | Bach+ Festival: Jesu, meine Freude | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | Bach motets and Purcell anthems to include JS Bach Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227, Purcell Hear my prayer | |
| Tue 28 Jul | 18:00 | St John the Evangelist | Baroque | Bach+ Festival: JS Bach Works for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | JS Bach Sonata in G major BWV 1027, Air on the G string BWV 1068, Violin sonata in F major, BWV 1022. Viola da Gamba Ibrahim Aziz, Harpsichord Dan Tidhar | |
| Thu 30 Jul | 18:00 | St John the Evangelist | Baroque | Bach+ Festival: Perspectives on the Bach Suites | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | JS Bach Cello Suites. Cello Veronica Henderson | |
| Sat 1 Aug | Downing Place URC | Baroque | CEM | Dioclesian | Summer School Students | Henry Purcell’s semi-opera Dioclesian | |
| Thu 6 Aug | 13:00 | Ely Cathedral | Baroque | Erasmus Chamber Ensemble | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | Soprano Catherine White, Recorder Louise Strickland, Baroque oboe Belinda Paul, Chamber organ/harpsichord Dan Tidhar, Baroque bassoon Mathew Dart | |
| Wed 30 Sep | 19:30 | West Road | Classical | AAM | 1765: Times of Transition | AAM | Soprano Amanda Forsythe. Mozart, Haydn, Telemann & Philidor |
| Sat 3 Oct | 13:00 | St Clement's | Baroque | Pergolesi Stabat Mater | Erasmus Chamber Choir/Ensemble | Soprano Michelle Rigozzi, Alto Toby Wheatley, Piano Roger Lilley | |
| Sun 25 Oct | 02:00 | Britain | Summer Time | British Summer Time ends | Clocks go back an hour | ||
| Wed 2 Dec | 19:30 | West Road | Baroque | AAM | The Art of the Harpsichord | AAM | Harpsichordist Alastair Ross plays Bach, Handel, Laschanzky and their contemporaries |
| 2027 | time | place | style | series | title | performer | details |
| Sat 6 Feb | Movable Feast | 春节 | Chinese New Year - year of the Sheep | ||||
| Wed 10 Feb | 19:30 | West Road | Classical | AAM | Septet: Beethoven & Hummel | AAM | |
| Sun 28 Mar | Movable Feast | Easter Sunday | |||||
| Sun 28 Mar | 01:00 | Britain | Summer Time | British Summer Time begins | Clocks go forward an hour | ||
| Wed 21 Apr | 19:30 | West Road | Renaissance | AAM | The Royall Consort | AAM | King Charles I was at the cutting edge of 17th century music |
| Fri 7 May | 19:30 | Trinity CC | Baroque | AAM | Bach/Pärt: Eternal Beauty | AAM | with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform timeless testaments to faith. |
| Mon 24 May Sat 29 May | Jesus Green | Beer | CAMRA | Cambridge Beer Festival | |||
| Sun 31 Oct | 02:00 | Britain | Summer Time | British Summer Time ends | Clocks go back an hour |
The information here is liable to be updated at short notice,
as events are discovered, often hanging from church railings.
It is the intention that this provides as complete a listing of early music
in Cambridge as I can manage.
Please follow the links to the original information, which may be more accurate.
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