Archive: Concerts in 2019
Monday 16 Dec 2019, 20:00
Lost in the stars ... that are aligned
Olga Stezkho piano
Sylvia Chan piano, voice
with Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
A concert on the theme of 'stars', bright and dark, little and big, sparking, bursting, wished-upon, lost, (re-)aligned, including
Bach (after Marcello) Adagio
Franck (arr. Bauer) Prélude, Fugue & Variation, Op. 18
Scriabin Préludes Op. 74
Scriabin Vers la flamme
Debussy Clair de lune
Yoshimatsu To a disappeared pleiade
Rachmaninoff Prélude Op. 23 No. 4
Debussy Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
Scriabin Piano Sonata No 10
songs by Debussy, Gounod, Weill and Hahn
and poems about stars read by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
£18/£14; £10/£6 concessions and students
available from lost-in-the-stars.eventbrite.co.uk
or by emailing tickets@theclassicalgroup.com
Sunday 15 Dec 2019, 20:00
Music for Advent and Christmas
Fairhaven Singers
Music by Josquin and Howells, and carols for audience participation
£18.00; £9.00 student/under 18
available from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-for-advent-and-christmas-tickets-68200229723
Tuesday 26 Nov 2019, 20:00
Cambridge Early Music
Eccles' Semele
Cambridge Handel Opera Company and Academy of Ancient Music
£30, £20, £10 (including a booking fee)
available from www.cambridgelive.org.uk/tickets/events/eccles-semele
Tuesday 12 Nov 2019, 20:00
Cambridge Music Festival
Natalie Clein
Natalie Clein cello
Cedric Perscia piano
Debussy Sonata for cello & piano
Kodály Sonata for solo cello, Op. 8
Debussy Three Preludes for solo piano
Clarke Sonata for cello and piano
£28, £22, £12
available from www.cambridgelive.org.uk/tickets/events/cambridge-music-festival-natalie-clein-cello
Monday 11 Nov 2019, 19:30
Cambridge Music Festival
Leonardo: Shaping the Invisible
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth conductor
Professor Martin Kemp speaker
Tallis Salvator mundi
Josquin Agnus Dei (Missa L’homme armé sexti toni)
Victoria Alma redemptoris mater; Unus ex discipulis meis
Monteverdi Era l’anima mia
JS Bach Art of Fugue No .1
plus music by Janequin, Howells, Rubbra and more
£28, £22, £12
available from www.cambridgelive.org.uk/tickets/events/cambridge-music-festival-i-fagiolini-vocal-consort-leonardo-shaping-invisible
Saturday 02 Nov 2019, 18:30
Even You Song
Cambridge Chorale
The children’s choir of The Grove Primary School Cambridge
Owain Park director
Joseph Wicks organ
Even You Song is an immersive work by Bettina Furnée and Lucy Sheerman, with new writing and digital projections, set to music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Candid responses from a series of interviews with twelve couples about a potential trip to the moon form the basis of a libretto to the format of Choral Evensong.
£15; £7.50 student/under 18
available from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/even-you-song-trinity-college-chapel-tickets-66685858197
Sunday 13 Oct 2019 to Sunday 24 Nov 2019, 15:00
Chaplains' Tea
Everyone is welcome to drop in and unwind with tea, coffee, cakes and friendly conversation.
Saturday 21 Sep 2019, 19:30
Palestrina: Music from the Song of Songs
De Profundis
David Skinner conductor
Palestrina Missa Sicut Illium
and motets from the Song of Songs
£16; £12 concession
available from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestrina-missa-sicut-lilium-motets-from-the-song-of-songs-tickets-64640838488
Friday 26 Jul 2019, 13:15
Organ Recital
Callum Alger organ
Buxtehude Toccata in d, BuxWV 155
Brahms Herzlich tut mich erfreuen
Brahms Herzlich tut mich verlangen (second version)
JS Bach Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei ’Ehr, BWV 662
Mendelssohn Organ Sonata in A, Op. 65 No. 3
JS Bach Toccata in E, BWV 566
Admission free / retiring collection
Sunday 21 Jul 2019, 13:10
Cambridge Summer Music Festival
San Francisco Girls Chorus
San Francisco Girls Chorus
Valérie Sainte-Agathe Artistic Director
Nicola Porpora Nunc Dimittis
Vivaldi Laetatus sum
Purcell With Drooping Wings from Dido and Aeneas
Carla Kihlstedt Herring Run
Philip Glass Father Death Blues
Richard Danielpour Parable II from Three Parables
Reena Esmail The Love of Thousands (new commission)
£6; £2 students/unwaged
Sunday 14 Jul 2019, 13:30
Cambridge Summer Music Festival
Come and Sing with Bob Chilcott
£20
available from www.cambridgelive.org.uk/tickets/events/csmf-2019-presents-come-sing-bob-chilcott
Scores of all works will be provided. At the end there will be an informal run-through that friends and family can attend.
Sunday 14 Jul 2019, 19:30
Cambridge Summer Music Festival
The University Choir Lille MUKO
Lille MUKO
Jesper Grove Jørgensen conductor
£16; £12 students/unwaged
from www.cambridgelive.org.uk/tickets/events/csmf-2019-presents-university-choir-lille-muko
Thursday 20 Jun 2019, 19:30
Midsummer Medley
Cambridge Development Initiative Orchestra
conducted by Matthew Gibson, St John's College
Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
Schubert Symphony No. 8 in b, 'The Unfinished'
Selection of popular film music
£10; £5 concessions
All proceeds raised by this event will support the Cambridge Development Initiative's health, entrepreneurship, education, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) projects in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. More information on CDI's lifechanging work can be found at www.cambridgedevelopment.org
Saturday 18 May 2019, 19:30
Cambridge Chorale
Cambridge Chorale
Academy of Ancient Music
Owain Park conductor
Bach Mass in B minor
£20; £15 concessions
available from adc ticketing
Saturday 11 May 2019, 20:00
Cambridge Early Music
Festival of the Voice
The Gesualdo Six
Owain Park director
The Flower of the Italian Madrigal
£25; £22.50 seniors; £5 students (available only on the door); under-18s free
available from Cambridge Live
Thursday 09 May 2019, 20:00
Cambridge Early Music
Festival of the Voice
Sollazzo Ensemble
Firenze circa 1350: Music from the age of the birth of humanism
£25; £22.50 seniors; £5 students (available only on the door); under-18s free
available from Cambridge Live
Saturday 04 May 2019, 19:30
Cambridgeshire Choral Society Concert
Cambridgeshire Choral Society
Richard Laing conductor
April Fredrick soloist
Simon Hogan organ
Vierne Messe Solennelle
Poulenc Gloria
Franck Panis Angelicus
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
£15; £5 students; £2 under 16s
available from Cambridge Live
Saturday 27 Apr 2019, 19:30
Jewels of Czech and World Music
Czech Technical University in Prague Academic Orchestra
Jan Šrámek conductor
Rachel Godsill soprano
Simon Godsill organ
Anna Michalcová flute
Krištof Pučejdl flute
Mouret Fanfares
Zelenka Salve Regina
Mozart Gallimathias Musicum
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker
Doppler Andante and Rondo
Smetana Waltz No. 1
Dvořák Biblical Songs Nos. 3, 4 & 10
Dvořák Slavonic Dance No. 8
Admission Free
Friday 05 Apr 2019, 20:00
The Royal College of Organists
Organ Recital
Daniel Moult organ
Admission free; retiring collection
Saturday 30 Mar 2019, 19:30
Fairhaven Singers
Fairhaven Singers
East Anglia Chamber Orchestra
Ralph Woodward Conductor
Beethoven Mass in C
Mozart Symphony No. 35
JOnathan Dove Sappho Sings (new commission)
£25; £17; £12/8 students
available from fairhavensingers.org.uk/2019/03/30/beethoven-mozart-and-dove-cambridge/
Saturday 23 Mar 2019, 19:30
The New Europe Society
Violin and Piano recital
Bogdan Vacarescu violin
Julian Jacobson piano
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 'Spring Sonata'
Tartini 'Devil's Trill' Sonata in g
Vitali Ciaccona
Beethoven The Ruins of Athens Op. 113 Turkish March & Chorus of Dervishes
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 17
Jacobson Orang-u-Tango
Chopin Nocturne, Op. 27 No. 2
Castelnuovo-Tedesco Concert Paraphrase on 'Largo al factorum'
£15; £10 concessions; £5 child/student
available from neweurope.org.uk/shop/virtuoso-violin-series-bogdan-vacarescu-julian-jacobson
Tuesday 19 Mar 2019, 19:00
Cambridge Early Music Concert
Sing Joyfully
Voces8
Monteverdi La Sestina
and music by Byrd, Tallis, Victoria, Britten and Dove
£25; £22.50 concessions; £5 student
available from cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/tickets/events/cambridge-early-music-presents-voces8-sing-joyfully
Saturday 02 Mar 2019, 17:00
CUMS Concert
Cambridge University Wind Orchestra
Bristol University Symphonic Winds
to include:
Maslanka Golden Light
Copland Hoedown & Lincolnshire Posy
£10; £8 concession; £3 student