Archive: Concerts in 2014
Monday 13 Oct 2014, 19:30
La Bretagna all'Italiana
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
La Serenissima
Adrian Chandler director
Mhairi Lawson soprano
Vivaldi Manchester Sonata
Veracini Sonata Scozzese
Boyce A Scots Cantata
Handel Un' alma innamorata, HWV 173
£25 / £20 / student standby £5
Box Office www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
01223 847330
Friday 12 Sep 2014, 19:30
Ravish'd with Sacred Extasies
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
Elin Manahan Thomas soprano
David Miller lute
Devotional songs by Purcell, Campion, Humfrey and Dowland
£20 / £15 / student standby £5
Box office www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
01223 847330
Monday 18 Aug 2014, 19:30
O Radiant Dawn: Stile Antico
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
Stile Antico
Music by William Byrd and James MacMillan
Box office www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
01223 847330
Tickets £25, concessions £20
Student standby (at the door only) £5
Wednesday 13 Aug 2014, 20:00
Awake! Awake! - The Intrepid Academy
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
Jennie Cassidy voice
Philip Thorby
English ballads and dances set for the plays of Shakespeare
Box office www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
01223 847330
Tickets £25, concessions £20
Student standby (at the door only) £5
Wednesday 06 Aug 2014, 20:00
Shakespeare after Shakespeare: The Parley of Instruments
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
Philippa Hyde soprano
Judy Tarling baroque violin
Julia Kuhn baroque violin
Rachel Stott baroque viola
Mark Caudle bass violin, baroque cello
Peter Holman harpsichord
Songs and instrumental music from Shakespeare's plays
Box office www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
01223 847330
Tickets £25, concessions £20
Student standby (at the door only) £5
Thursday 05 Jun 2014, 22:00
Music Ancient and Modern
Trinity College Music Society Nachtmusik
The Michaels Quartet
Music by Bach and student composer Alex Woolf
Free
Hot chocolate is provided after the concert
Monday 02 Jun 2014, 20:00
Ben Comeau
Trinity College Music Society
Ben Comeau
Piano music by Bach, Brahms and Liszt
£3 / £2 / free to TCMS members
Wednesday 21 May 2014, 22:00
The Gesualdo Six
Trinity College Music Society Nachtmusik
The Gesualdo Six
Gesualdo
Monteverdi Rimante in pace
Byrd Mass for Five Voices
Free
Hot chocolate is provided after the concert
Monday 19 May 2014, 20:30
Naomi Woo
Trinity College Music Society OCR Recital Series
Naomi Woo piano
Italian piano masterpieces
Free
Saturday 17 May 2014, 20:00
Jehangir Cama
Trinity College Music Society
Jehangir Cama
Piano music by Chopin, including the monumental B minor sonata
Free
Friday 16 May 2014, 20:00
Russian Treasures
Trinity College Music Society
Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
£8 / £5 / free to TCMS members
Thursday 15 May 2014, 22:00
Verklärte Nacht
Trinity College Music Society Nachtmusik
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht
arranged for string orchestra
Free
Hot chocolate is provided after the concert
Monday 05 May 2014, 17:00
TCCO
Trinity College Music Society
Trinity College Chamber Orchestra
Oscar Osicki conductor
Haydn Symphony No. 104
£3 / £2 / free to TCMS members
Saturday 03 May 2014, 12:00
O thou whom my soul loveth
Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice
Singer Pur
Claudia Reinhard soprano
Klaus Wenk tenor
Markus Zapp tenor
Manuel Warwitz tenor
Reiner Schneider-Waterberg baritone
Marcus Schmidl bass
Willaert Salve sancta parens - Virgo Dei genitrix
Gavin Bryars Da ciel venne messo nouvello
Dominique Phinot Surge, propera, amica mea
Ivan Moody Canticum Canticorum
Willaert Huc me sidereo - Pungentem - De me solus amor
Hans Schanderl Huc me sidereo
Gallus Peccantem me quotidie
Wolfgang Rihm Velum templi scissum est
Schütz Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt
£20 (£15 concessions) available from www.cambridgeearlymusic.org
Another programme with a broad sweep of composers: Adrian Willaert, Dominique Phinot, Jacobus Gallus, Jean de Latre and Jean Richafort are complemented by two more recent German composers, Wolfgang Rihm and Hans Schanderl. Featured composer Ivan Moody receives a performance of his Canticum Canticorum II. As always at the Festival of the Voice, a mixture of composers known and unknown, but presented in a compelling and inspired fashion by Singer Pur.
‘What seizes the ear are the thick weaves of counterpoint, and the dense and dissonant harmonies. To make this music speak the singers need a razor sharp sense of pitch and a focused, pure tone, which the young German vocal sextet, Singer Pur, certainly have.’ BBC Music Magazine
Saturday 03 May 2014, 19:30
The Hilliard Ensemble, Singer Pur, amarcord, Eo Nomine: Gala Concert
Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice
The Hilliard Ensemble
Singer Pur
amarcord
Eo Nomine
EO NOMINE
Monteverdi Ohimè se tanto amate
Wilbye Weep, weep, mine eyes
Schütz Sospir che del bel petto
Gesualdo Qual fora, donna
Tomkins Weep no more, thou sorry boy
Gesualdo Gioite voi col canto
Monteverdi Rimante in pace
SINGER PUR
Brahms Darthulas Grabgesang
Sting Fields of Gold
Cole Porter Every time we say goodbye (I die a little)
AMARCORD
Jean Cras extracts from Dans la montagne
THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE
Toshio Hosokawa Three Japanese Folksongs
THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE & AMARCORD
Roger Marsh Poor Yorick
THE HILLIARD ENSEMBLE, AMARCORD, SINGER PUR, EO NOMINE
Orlando Gough Hand over hand
£30 (£25 concessions) available from www.cambridgeearlymusic.org
The final concert in the Festival of the Voice epitomises the 40 years of The Hilliard Ensemble’s outstanding achievement. We bring together three generations of vocal ensembles, in a programme which crosses the ages and geographical borders. The dynamic new ensemble Eo Nomine sings Wilbye, Tomkins, Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Schütz. Singer Pur offer a Festival first with music by Brahms, Sting, and Cole Porter. amarcord sing Jean Cras and join The Hilliard Ensemble in a work by Roger Marsh; and we hear Japanese folksongs by Toshio Hosokawa. The climax of the Festival comes when conductor Sarah Tenant-Flowers directs a performance of Orlando Gough’s Hand over Hand, given by all four vocal ensembles.
Friday 02 May 2014, 18:30
A Hilliard Anniversary Album
Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice
The Hilliard Ensemble
David James alto
Rogers Covey-Crump tenor
Steven Harrold tenor
Gordon Jones bass
Singer Pur
Claudia Reinhard soprano
Klaus Wenk tenor
Markus Zapp tenor
Manuel Warwitz tenor
Reiner Schneider-Waterberg baritone
Marcus Schmidl bass
Anon. Vetus abit littera
Anon. Deus misertus
Sheryngham Ah gentle Jesu
Pärt And one of the Pharisees
Trad. Armenian Sharakans
Trad. Armenian Ov zarmanali
Trad. Armenian Hays hark nviranc ukhti
Trad. Armenian Amen hayr surp
Trad. Armenian Surp, Ter zorutheanc
Pérotin Viderunt omnes
Cornysh Ave Maria Mater Dei
Vache Sharafyan Lord who made the spring run
Ivan Moody Anástasis
£20 (£15 concessions) available from www.cambridgeearlymusic.org
To launch the festival, The Hilliard Ensemble has created a very special programme – testament, if any were needed, to their pre-eminence in the vocal world. 13th century French music, Pérotin, Sheryngham and Cornysh sit alongside traditional Armenian music, Arvo Pärt and Vache Sharafyan. The Ensemble is joined by Singer Pur for featured festival composer Ivan Moody’s Anástasis.
‘The Hilliards evoke such gorgeous sonic landscapes, there is such delicate complexity in their tones, that this really is beauty of a rarefied quality.’ Gramophone
Friday 02 May 2014, 21:00
Nah sind wir, Herr
Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice
amarcord
Wolfram Lattke
Robert Pohlers
Frank Ozimek
Daniel Knauft
Holger Krause
Bernd Franke Bach Personae - five voices in today's world
Anon. Inventor rutili
Pandolfo Zallamella Ingrediente Domino
Krzysztof Penderecki Benedicamus Domino
Anon. Ades Pater supreme
Giovanni Battista Stefanini Christus resurgens
Ivan Moody Chalice of Wisdom
Poulenc Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue
Anon. Deus, sator mortalium
Johann Walter Mitten wir im Leben sind
Marcus Ludwig Tenebrae
Anon. Te lucis ante terminum
Lassus Confitemini Domino
Sidney Marquez Boquiren Gloria
£20 (£15 concessions) available from www.cambridgeearlymusic.org
Founded in 1992 by erstwhile members of the world-famous St. Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig, five part ensemble amarcord present a programme of music from ‘the libraries of St. Thomas and amarcord’. Mixing the old and the new, they contrast 16th and 17th century works by Pandolfo Zallamella, Giovanni Battista Stefanini, Johann Walter (and Orlando di Lasso), with contemporary works by Krystof Penderecki, Ivan Moody, Marcus Ludwig and with UK premieres of works by Bernd Franke and Sidney Marquez Boquiren.
‘They were flawless in their shaping and consistency of colour of musical line, both in the meandering unison of plainsong and in the intertwining voices of Renaissance polyphony. They were also impeccable in balance and blend, the five voices like a five-stringed instrument, identical in all but range.’ The Irish Times
’…delivered with virtuosity and enthusiasm’ The Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday 26 Apr 2014, 20:30
Disney in Trinity 2: The Bells of Notre Dame
Trinity College Music Society
Emma Powell - Mary Poppins
Henry Jenkinson - Bert
Jonny Hyde - Baloo
Helen Charlston - Pocahontas
Paige Thompson - Ariel
Sam Oladeinde - Clopin
Rhianna Frost - Quasimodo's mother
Joey Akubeze - Frollo
Freddie Tapner - Genie
Lauren Hutchinson - Elsa
Emily Burns, Hetty Gullifer, Abi Gostick, Davina Barron - Muses
Janneke Dupre - Giselle
Alex Gebhard - Li Shang
Mark Nathan - Gaston
Cambridge University Pops Orchestra
Simon Nathan - conductor
Following the runaway success of last year's Disney concert, our fastest sell-out yet, the Cambridge University Pops Orchestra returns with a fresh selection of your favourite songs from Disney films old and new.
We've got toe-tapping tunes from an Edwardian fairground ("Supercalifragilistic") to the Indian jungle ("Bare Necessities"), tear-jerking ballads on land ("Colours of the Wind") and beneath the sea ("Part of that World"), and you will be blown away by the sheer power of "The Bells of Notre Dame" performed by a 90-strong ensemble of some of the best singers and players Cambridge has to offer. And those are only some of the tunes that will feature in this glorious cheesefest!
Free to TCMS members
Buy tickets at http://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on
Thursday 13 Mar 2014, 20:00
Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Trinity College Music Society
Lydia Caines violin
Chloe Allison clarinet
Jake Eady cello
Ben Comeau piano
Messiaen Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps
£3 / £2 / TCMS members free
Thursday 13 Mar 2014, 13:00
Trinity College Choir
Free lunchtime concert
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton conductor
Byrd
Tallis
Parsons
Bach
Morton Lauridsen
Owain Park (Junior Organ Scholar)
Admission free; open to the general public.
Wednesday 12 Mar 2014, 19:30
Mousai Singers
Trinity College Music Society
The Mousai Singers
Daniel Cook director
A recital of Lenten music
Howells Requiem
Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday
£3 / £2 / TCMS members free
Saturday 08 Mar 2014, 20:00
Trinity Singers
Trinity College Music Society
The Trinity Singers
Jonathan Pacey director
Laurence Williams bass
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Handel Zadok the Priest
Wesley Blessed be the God and Father
Parry I was glad
£8 / £5 / TCMS members free
Friday 07 Mar 2014, 19:30
The Angel and the Devil: Adrian Butterfield and Laurence Cummings
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
Adrian Butterfield baroque violin
Laurence Cummings harpsichord
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Violin sonatas by Locatelli and Leclair, in an unmissable performance by the UK's top baroque duo
Box office www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
01223 847330
Tickets £20, concessions £15
Student standby (at the door only) £5
Thursday 06 Mar 2014, 20:00
The 1605 Ensemble
Trinity College Music Society
The 1605 Ensemble
Charlie Hubbard director
Lotti Crucifixus
Lobo Lamentations for Holy Saturday
Purcell Hear my prayer
Victoria Tenebrae Responsories
£3 / £2 / TCMS members free
Monday 03 Mar 2014, 20:00
Amici Voices
Trinity College Music Society
Excerpts from Bach's St John and St Matthew Passions
£3 / £2 / TCMS members free
Wednesday 26 Feb 2014, 20:30
Ich habe genug
Trinity College Music Society Bach Cantata Series
Rachel Ambrose Evans soprano
Bach: Ich habe genug, BWV 82a
Free
Followed by Compline
Saturday 22 Feb 2014, 19:45
The Dream of Gerontius
Delphini Orchestra and Chorus
Delphini Orchestra and Chorus
Gareth Treseder tenor
Tania Holland mezzo
James Oldfield bass
Adrian Partington conductor
Elgar The Dream of Gerontius
Musicians from the University of Cambridge collaborate with leading professionals to present Elgar's choral masterpiece.
Promoted by Fitzwilliam College Music Society; supported by a grant from the Elgar Society
£9; students £4
Under-16s free
Tickets on the door or from www.adcticketing.com
Saturday 15 Feb 2014, 20:00
British Choral Masterpieces
Trinity College Music Society
A vocal octet of fresher choral scholars, directed by Owain Park
Britten Five Flower Songs
Finzi Partsongs
£3 / £2 / TCMS members free
Friday 14 Feb 2014, 20:30
Valentine's Day Concert
Dowsing Sound Collective
Dowsing Sound Collective
Love Light. Intimate. Unplugged.
For one night only, Cambridge's Dowsing Sound Collective presents a raw and ravishing unplugged set in the haunting acoustic of Trinity College Chapel. 120 voices plus instruments reaching under the skin of tracks by The Divine Comedy, Dry the River, Rufus Wainwright and more.
Part of the E-Luminate Festival
£8.50 / £6 (concessions £6.50 / £4) from thedowsingsoundcollective.com/valentine
Supporting the Dosoco Foundation
Wednesday 12 Feb 2014, 20:30
Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild
Trinity College Music Society Bach Cantata Series
Owain Park director
Bach: Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79
Free
Followed by Compline
Friday 07 Feb 2014 to Saturday 08 Feb 2014, 20:00
Britten - Curlew River
Trinity College Music Society / CUOS
Cambridge University Opera Society
Britten Curlew River
£8 / £5
TCMS special offer: members may purchase tickets at the concessionary rate on the ADC website: http://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/opera/curlew-river.aspx
Wednesday 05 Feb 2014, 20:30
Ich bin ein guter Hirt
Trinity College Music Society Bach Cantata Series
Jonathan Pacey director
Bach: Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85
Free
Followed by Compline
Wednesday 29 Jan 2014, 20:30
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Trinity College Music Society Bach Cantata Series
Owain Park director
Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4
Free
Followed by Compline
Saturday 25 Jan 2014, 20:00
Footnotes of Degenerate Music
Trinity College Music Society
Cast:
Podesta: James Proctor baritone
1st Senator: Louis Bickler tenor
2nd Senator: Elliot Fitzgerald baritone
3rd Senator: Kit Preston Bell bass-baritone
Duke Adorno: Michael Mofidian bass-baritone
Count Tamare: Michael Craddock baritone
Carlotta: Judith Lebiez soprano
Alviano Salvago: Alexander Gebhard tenor<
Lieder Singers:
Mary Galloway soprano
Gabrielle Haigh soprano
Maud Millar soprano
Camilla Seale soprano
Emma Simmons mezzo-soprano
Anna Wagner soprano
Ceci Mourkogiannis and Femi Oriogun-Williams Directors
Adam Cigman Mark Musical Director and Pianist
Kiki Betts-Dean Producer
An evening of lieder and opera by three extraordinary Austro-German Jewish composers, consigned to oblivion under the Nazis - Alexander Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker and Viktor Ullmann.
This is an attempt at cultural rehabilitation, but - more than that - it is an opportunity to reassess phenomenally beautiful music. In the mid-1920s, Franz Schreker was as popular with audiences as Richard Strauss, and had been acclaimed as Wagner's successor by the critic Paul Bekker; Alexander Zemlinsky was regarded as a great composer by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern; and Viktor Ullmann, one of his most promising students, had the prospect of a bright compositional future - a prospect which would end abruptly in Auschwitz in 1944. Can these figures have been relegated to the footnotes of musical history merely because of historical injustices? From the impressionistic delicacy of Zemlinsky's songs, to Schreker’s unhinged sensuality, to Ullmann's romantically tinged austerity - Footnotes offers a rare opportunity to hear them and make up your own mind.
The evening concludes with the UK premiere of Act II of Schreker's Die Gezeichneten (with piano accompaniment) a phantasmagorical look at the function of art in the midst of cultural and moral crisis, set in 16th century Italy. Alviano Salvago, the local crippled billionaire, plans to donate his paradise island to the city of Genoa, and dissociate himself from his violently libidinous friends. When he meets an alluring young artist, Carlotta, he is bewildered to discover new, romantic impulses. Indifferent to his physical disfigurement, she even offers to paint his soul. But he is not the only one vying for her attention...
£5 / £3 / TCMS members free
Friday 03 Jan 2014, 19:30
Musique Haulte et Basse
Cambridge Early Music Concert Series
Les Haulz et les Bas
Ian Harrison and Gesine Bänfer shawms, bagpipes, fiddle, dulcimer
David Yacus buisine, slide trumpet
Miriam Andersén voice and harp
Late medieval music for the loud and soft bands
Les Haulz et les Bas play music of the alta capella, the 'loud' wind ensemble of the middle ages and Renaissance. The ensemble's work has achieved international acclaim: they have won prizes at several international competitions and they are regularly present at Europe's most prestigious Early Music Festivals.
"...Laser-beam tuning and atomic clock timing"; "an outstanding alta band ensemble ... their improvisations and virtuoso playing dazzled listeners." - Historic Brass Society, New York
£25, concessions £20
available from Selene Webb in the Old Post Room, Whewell's Court
or from www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org
