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.
| 2019 | time | place | style | series | title | performer | details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 15 Jun | 13:00 | Michaelhouse | Renaissance | Sacred choral works | Cantores Singers | Byrd, Tallis, Palestrina & Monteverdi | |
| Sun 16 Jun | 18:00 | private event | Baroque | Complete Bach - 11 | Francis Knights | Toccatas, II on the clavichord | |
| Sat 22 Jun | 19:30 | West Road | Baroque | Coronation Anthems | Collegium Laureatum | Handel, Lawes, Child, Blow, Clarke & Boyce | |
| Sun 23 Jun | 15:00 | Saffron Hall | Baroque | Recorder & Theorbo | Tabea Debus | with Alex McCartney Telemann, JSBach, Handel et al. | |
| Sun 30 Jun | 18:30 | Bateman Auditorium, Caius | Baroque | New Europe | German violin music from around the time of Bach. | Dorian Komanoff Bandy | with Dan Tidhar on Harpsichord JSBach, Schenk, Walther, Biber, Pisendel, Telemann & Anon. |
| Sun 7 Jul | 18:00 | Fitzwilliam CC | Renaissance | Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - 29 | Francis Knights | Byrd, Bull & Philips organ/harpsichord | |
| Sat 13 Jul | 19:30 | West Road | Baroque | CSR | St John Passion | English Voices | JSBach |
| Sun 14 Jul | 18:00 | private event | Baroque | The German clavichordists - 8 | Francis Knights | Schiedemann clavichord | |
| Fri 19 Jul | 19:30 | Catholic Church | Renaissance | CSR | O Hearken | The Gesualdo Six | Music from the British Isles from the C15th to C21st Tallis, Byrd, Cornysh et al. |
| Sat 20 Jul | 19:30 | West Road | Baroque | CSR | The Complete Brandenburg Concertos | Florilegium | JSBach |
| Mon 22 Jul | 19:30 | Jesus CC | Baroque | CSR | Goldberg Variations | Mahan Esfahani | JSBach - harpsichord |
| Wed 24 Jul | 13:10 | Jesus CC | Baroque | CSR | Trio sonatas arranged for two harpsichords | David Hill & David Ponsford | JSBach |
| Fri 26 Jul | 13:10 | Pembroke CC | Baroque | CSR | Viola & guitar | Musica Vera | transcriptions of works by JS Bach, Pachelbel, Buxtehude, JCBach et al. |
| Sun 28 Jul Sun 4 Aug | Girton CC | Summer School | CEM | Paris versus Versailles | Parley of Instruments | Baroque Summer School Marc-Antoine Charpentier & his Court Rivals | |
| Sun 28 Jul | 16:00 | Girton CC | Baroque | CEM | La Boutade | Parley of Instruments | French Chamber Music from Versailles to Paris |
| Wed 31 Jul | 19:00 | Emmanuel URC | Baroque | CEM | Charpentier & Couperin | Parley of Instruments | Pre-concert talk by Professor Graham Sadler 19:00 |
| Sat 3 Aug | 19:30 | Girton, Gt Hall | Baroque | CEM | Paris v Versailles | Summer School Students | |
| Sun 4 Aug Sun 11 Aug | Girton CC | Summer School | CEM | Les Cris de Paris | The Courtiers of Grace | Renaissance Summer School The Sounds of Court & City in C16th France | |
| Sun 4 Aug | 16:00 | Girton CC | Renaissance | CEM | Jouyssance vous donneray | The Courtiers of Grace | |
| Sun 4 Aug | 18:00 | private event | Baroque | Complete Bach - 12 | Francis Knights | Inventions and Sinfonias clavichord | |
| Wed 7 Aug | 20:00 | Emmanuel URC | Renaissance | CEM | City voices, Courtly airs | The Courtiers of Grace | Josquin, Le Jeune, Sermisy, Sandrin, Janequin, Certon, Lassus et al. |
| Sat 10 Aug | 19:30 | Girton, Gt Hall | Renaissance | CEM | Les Cris de Paris | Summer School Students | The Sounds of Court & City in C16th France |
| Sun 8 Sep | 18:00 | private event | Baroque | Complete Bach - 13a | Francis Knights | Goldberg Variations clavichord | |
| Fri 13 Sep Sun 15 Sep | Pavillion Room, Hughes Hall | Workshops etc. | CEM | Sisters of Ferrara | C16th polyphonic choral music of convents in Italy | ||
| Sun 15 Sep | 18:00 | private event | Baroque | Complete Bach - 13b | Francis Knights | Goldberg Variations harpsichord | |
| Thu 17 Oct | 19:30 | West Road | Romantic | CEM | Bespoke for Broadwood | David Owen Norris | music for the divided sustaining pedal; 1828 Broadway Grand Pianoforte |
| Sun 20 Oct | 13:30 | The Fitz | Renaissance | Fitzwilliam Virginal Book - 30 | Francis Knights | Byrd - harpsichord final concert of the complete series | |
| Sun 27 Oct | 02:00 | Britain | Summer Time | British Summer Time ends | Clocks go back an hour. | ||
| Sun 17 Nov | 18:00 | private event | Baroque | The German clavichordists - 9 | Francis Knights | Zachow clavichord | |
| Tue 26 Nov | 20:00 | Trinity CC | Baroque | CEM | Semele | CHOC | John Eccles' opera CHOC, AAM & CEM |
| Sat 7 Dec | 10:30 | Mill Road | Fair | Mill Road Winter Fair | various | ||
| Sun 22 Dec | 18:00 | Fitzwilliam CC | Renaissance | Lady Nevell's Book - 1 | Francis Knights | Byrd organ/harpsichord |
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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