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SUNDAY 15 MAY 2016 Event 12

A CELEBRATION OF GOETHE JAMES GILCHRIST & ANNA TILBROOK TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Howard Theatre, Downing College PRICE £20 (£15 concessions, £5 students) Tenor James Gilchrist and fortepianist Anna Tilbrook perform settings of Goethe by Schubert, Schumann, Loewe, Zelter and Reichardt, the second set of Haydn’s Canzonettas and Beethoven’s astonishing cycle An die ferne Geliebte. Friends Festival Saver Supported by The Howard Foundation

SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2016 Event 13

SOUND HOUSE: Francis Bacon THE SOCIETY OF STRANGE AND ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Wesley Methodist Church PRICE £23 (£18 concessions, £5 students) This concert explores some of the seemingly magical and musical phenomena that philosopher Francis Bacon sought to explain against a backdrop of exquisite 17th century music performed on unusual and historically appropriate instruments. Friends Season Saver In partnership with Cambridge Music Hub

SUNDAY 15 MAY 2016 Event 11

LASSUS: Sacrae Lectiones ex Propheta Job VOCES8 TIME 1.00pm-2.15pm VENUE Jesus College Chapel PRICE £14 (£12 concessions, £5 students) VOCES8 present a programme of 16th-century music centred around Lassus’ Lectiones (1565), a melancholy and simply beautiful cycle which sets the nine readings from the Book of Job that were recited at Matins of the Office of the Dead. Friends Festival Saver by kind permission of the Master and Fellows

SUNDAY 15 MAY 2016

CHORAL EVENSONG THE CHOIR OF KING’S COLLEGE TIME 3.30pm-4.00pm VENUE King’s College Chapel PRICE FREE admission Stephen Cleobury directs the Choir of King’s College in music by Palestrina, including his Magnificat primi toni in 8 parts, Nunc dimittis quarti toni in 8 parts and Dum complerentur in 6 parts.

Cambridge Early Music, Box 111, 23 King Street, Cambridge, CB1 1AH, United Kingdom; Registered Charity Number 1127932 Trustees: Dame Mary Archer, John Bickley, Martin Darling, Professor Peter Holman, Annabel Malton, Professor David McKitterick and Mark Williams Administrator: Dr Christopher Roberts All images courtesy of the artists or their agents; Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), Venus and Cupid with a Lute-player, 1555-1565 © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; front cover image of VOCES8 Principal sponsor Corporate partners

The Howard

Foundation

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 Event 1

HAYDN: London Symphonies FLORILEGIUM TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Great St Mary’s Church PRICE £23 (£18 concessions, £5 students) This programme brings together Haydn’s “Surprise” and “London” Symphonies in their chamber version arranged for flute, string quartet and fortepiano by Johann Peter Salomon, together with Mozart’s beautifully idiomatic first flute quartet in D major K.285. Friends Season Saver Supported by The Galpin Society in memory of Christopher Hogwood

SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2015 Event 3

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons LA SERENISSIMA TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Great St Mary’s Church PRICE £23 (£18 concessions, £5 students) In their 21st anniversary year, La Serenissima present a programme of Vivaldi’s concertos, including his Four Seasons, performed using a new edition made by Adrian Chandler. The concert will also feature, for the first time since the 18th century, two of Vivaldi’s concertos for ‘prepared violin’, the violin in tromba marina. Friends Season Saver

FRIDAY 23 OCTOBER 2015 Event 2

CRY GOD FOR HARRY: Music from the Court of Henry V THE CLERKS, directed by Edward Wickham TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Jesus College Chapel PRICE £20 (£15 concessions, £5 students) To mark the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, The Clerks bring together works associated with the reign of Henry V, including some of the finest examples of sacred polyphony by Dunstable, alongside the Agincourt Carol. Friends Season Saver Part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas by kind permission of the Master and Fellows

FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER 2015 Event 4

SING WE YULE! JOGLARESA TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Great St Mary’s Church PRICE £20 (£15 concessions, £5 students) Celebrate Yule effervescently with Joglaresa - and chase out the chill from the Celtic fringes of Europe - with traditional carols, lullabies, dance tunes and wassails from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. With fidel, harp, bells, bagpipes and voices, Joglaresa ring in Christmas and New Year. Friends Season Saver

FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2016 Event 5

SCATTERED ASHES MAGNIFICAT, directed by Philip Cave TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Emmanuel United Reformed Church PRICE £23 (£18 concessions, £5 students) Magnificat bring to life compositions inspired by Girolamo Savonarola, the 15th century Dominican friar who preached passionately for political, social and spiritual reform in Florence. He decried over-elaborate sacred music, yet his writings inspired some of the greatest compositions of the 16th century, including Josquin’s exquisite Miserere mei, Deus and Byrd’s Infelix ego. Friends Season Saver by kind permission of the Minister and Churchwardens

VENUS AND THE LUTE PLAYER Faye Newton (soprano), Pamela Thorby (recorder), Susanna Pell (viol) and Jacob Heringman (lute) TIME 7.15pm (pre-concert drinks at 6.45pm)VENUE Gallery 7, The Fitzwilliam Museum PRICE £25 (£20 concessions) including drinks, from 01223 332904 or email education@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Inspired by, and reflecting, the combination of instruments shown in Titian’s “Venus and Cupid with a Lute Player”, members of the Northern Early Music Collective perform a programme of Italian Renaissance vocal and instrumental music. In partnership with The Fitzwilliam Museum

2016 FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE

THURSDAY 12 MAY 2016 Event 7

SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016 Special Event

LIGHT & SHADOW: Music at the time of Elizabeth I VOX LUMINIS TIME 8.00pm-10.00pm VENUE St John’s College Chapel PRICE £23 (£18 concessions, £5 students)

In this programme the award-winning vocal ensemble Vox Luminis from Belgium explores the rich heritage of music from the Protestant tradition and showcases some of the finest polyphonic masters from the era, including Tallis, Sheppard, Morley, Ramsey and Weelkes. Friends Festival Saver This concert is preceded by choral evensong at 6.30pm (FREE admission) by kind permission of the Master and Fellows

L’ENTENTE CORDIALE CHRISTOPHE COIN & RICHARD BOOTHBY TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE St Bene’t’s Church PRICE £18 (£14 concessions, £5 students) Music for two bass viols was popular first in England, home to some of the first great virtuosi of the instrument, including Locke and Simpson, and then across the channel, just as the fashion for it waned in England, providing a continuity of music from Ferrabosco to Couperin. Friends Season Saver Part of the European Day of Early Music by kind permission of the Minister and Churchwardens

OLD & NEW: Monteverdi, Gesualdo & Ligeti THE GESUALDO SIX TIME 1.00pm-2.15pm VENUE St Bene’t’s Church PRICE £12 (£10 concessions, £5 students) We are delighted to showcase this young and dynamic Cambridge ensemble. In this programme they perform madrigals by Italian composers, including Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Ligeti’s ‘Nonsense Madrigals’. The Gesualdo Six are St John’s Smith Square Young Artists for 2015-16. Friends Festival Saver by kind permission of the Minister and Churchwardens

SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 Event 10

FRIDAY 13 MAY 2016 Event 8

CONDUCTUS: The forgotten song of the Middle Ages THREE MEDIEVAL TENORS TIME 3.30pm-4.45pm VENUE Little St Mary’s Church PRICE £12 (£10 concessions, £5 students) John Potter, Christopher O’Gorman and Rogers Covey-Crump explore these forgotten Latin songs. Friends Festival Saver This concert is preceded by a workshop between 10.30am-12.30pm open to all singers. See www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org for details. by kind permission of the Vicar and Churchwardens

FRIDAY 13 MAY 2016 Event 9

BACH MOTETS VOCES8 TIME 7.30pm-9.30pm VENUE Trinity College Chapel PRICE £23 (£18 concessions, £5 students) Bach’s motets are considered to be amongst his greatest output both as artistic works and technical showcases. In this concert, four motets are programmed alongside music by Giovanni Gabrieli, Praetorius and Felix Mendelssohn, who was instrumental in the revival of Bach’s music. VOCES8 are our 2016 festival resident ensemble. Friends Festival Saver by kind permission of the Master and Fellows

SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016

CANTATA EVENSONG THE CHOIR OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE TIME 6.30pm-7.50pm VENUE St John’s College Chapel PRICE FREE admission The Choir of St John’s College and St John’s Sinfonia (led by violinist Margaret Faultless) under the direction of Andrew Nethsingha perform Vivaldi’s Magnificat and J. S. Bach’s Cantata No. 34 ‘O ewiges Feuer, O Ursprung der Liebe’.

CHORAL EVENSONG THE CHOIR OF KING’S COLLEGE TIME 10.30am-11.00am VENUE King’s College Chapel PRICE FREE admission Stephen Cleobury directs the Choir of King’s College in music by Palestrina, including movements from his Missa ‘Dum complerentur’ in 6 parts.

SUNDAY 15 MAY 2016

SATURDAY 19 MARCH 2016 Event 6