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Lucy Cavendish Singers Lunchtime Concert

Aria di Armore (C)2008 Soleil Lisette
Lucy Cavendish Singers Lunchtime Concert
Emmanuel United Reformed Church

The Lucy Cavendish Singers were formed in 2008 and have rapidly acquired a reputation for intimate, powerful and heartfelt performances. Small in number but with a big sound, their wide-ranging repertoire spans every musical genre – from plainsong to traditional songs and from opera to musicals. This concert will include works by Mozart, Verdi and Duruflé, as well as Sondheim, Bernstein and Barber. It will also feature solo performers and small ensembles.

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Concerti for Christmas - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008

Concerti for Christmas - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008
Great St Marys Church
The Musical and Amicable Society

The Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 are delighted to welcome back this vibrant young period-instrument chamber orchestra for a Christmas concert. This year they will play Bach's Concerto for 3 violins, Vivaldi's Concerto for 4 violins, Telemann's Concerto for 2 violas, and Graun's Harpsichord Concerto.

 

L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Early Music Concert Series 2008

L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato - Early Music Concert Series 2008
Trinity College Chapel
Essex Baroque Orchestra ; Psalmody dir. Peter Holman

As part of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth, spearheaded by Christ's College, and in partnership with the Suffolk Villages Festival, the Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 present this performance of a Handel masterpiece, sometimes known as "Merriment, Melancholy and Moderation". Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" provide the text of the first two sections of this secular oratorio, while Handel's regular librettist Charles Jennens completed the set with "Il Moderato". Extolling the pleasures of the English countryside, this rarely-performed work contains some of Handel's most beautiful and memorable music.
There will be a pre-concert talk by Dr Jessica Martin, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, at 5.00pm in Trinity College Chapel. Admission to the talk is free.

 

FABELLAE - Savadi - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Italian stories from the early 17th century

FABELLAE - Savadi - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Italian stories from the early 17th century
Little St. Mary's Church

Fairy tales, adventure novels, Hollywood movies - stories in their many guises are a part of the fabric of our cultural identity, exerting a formative influence on our thinking and our values. In this programme we hear sacred and secular stories by Carissimi, Strozzi, Merula, d'India and others. From very different corners of Europe, the baroque harpist Marie Bournisien (France) and the two sopranos Kristine Jaunalksne (Latvia) and Ulrike Hofbauer (Germany) bring a highly unusual approach to this entrancing music.

 

FIRES IN PARIS - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Music from mid-16th-century France

FIRES IN PARIS - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Music from mid-16th-century France
St Edwards Church
Three members of Fires of Love, a versatile and unusual combination of voices and instruments, attended CEMSS courses, and now they are one of Scotland's leading ensembles specialising in Renaissance and early Baroque music. This concert focuses on the virtuoso musician, teacher, composer, arranger, and music publisher Adrian Le Roy. His amazing career coincided with the horrors of the French Wars of Religion, in which perhaps four million people were killed. The programme includes a group of songs with Renaissance guitar accompaniment, which are believed to be the first guitar songs published anywhere - a very distant forerunner of rock and roll.

MARIONAS - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Gordon Ferries (baroque guitar)

MARIONAS - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Gordon Ferries (baroque guitar)
Trinity College Chapel
A lunchtime concert by one of Scotland's rising early music stars. Gordon Ferries will play music of the 17th century by Spaniards Gaspar Sanz and Francisco Guerau, and by Angelo Michele Bartolotti, who was Italian by birth but whose music is French in style.

Song of Songs - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Stile Antico Early Music Vocal Ensemble

Song of Songs - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Stile Antico Early Music Vocal Ensemble
Trinity College Chapel

Prizewinners in the Early Music Network Young Artists Competition, 2005.
Sumptuous continental settings of the beautiful and erotic texts of the Song of Solomon. This rich selection of music by Victoria, Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus and others explores the way these texts enhanced Marian worship in the sixteenth century.

 

'Francesco del Liuto' - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Works for solo lute by Francesco da Milano

'Francesco del Liuto' - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Works for solo lute by Francesco da Milano
Little St. Mary's Church
"The sweet resonance of the harmony which is borne of the lute touched by the divine fingers of Francesco Milanese, by making itself heard in the soul, robs the senses of those who hear it" - Francesco Marcolini, 1536. Francesco Canova da Milano was one of the foremost Italian composers of the early 16th century; his contemporaries called him "Il Divino" and his name became synonymous with the lute. Jacob Heringman presents a recital of Francesco's works, taken chiefly from the Siena Lute Book.

Passacaglia - Music for the Sun King - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008

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Passacaglia - Music for the Sun King - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008
St Edwards Church

Eighteenth-century French music is amongst the most elegant and compellingly beautiful in the whole baroque repertoire. In an evening of enchanting music by Couperin, Marais, Bismortier and Rameau, Passacaglia will take you on a trip back on time to expereince the opulence of Versailles, home of the most famous monarch of all time - Louis XIV, the Sun KIng. The concert follows our Friends' launch party so please note the starting time is 8.30pm.

St Edwards Church

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