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Review: ‘Secret Knowledge of the Stars’: The Bruegel Consort: Sidney Sussex College Chapel

21 March 2025
Review: ‘Secret Knowledge of the Stars’: The Bruegel Consort: Sidney Sussex College Chapel

Review: ‘Secret Knowledge of the Stars’: The Bruegel Consort: Sidney Sussex College Chapel

21 March 2025

The Consort is the current recipient of the Stile Antico Ensemble Development Bursary 2024-26.


Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Benjamin Grosvenor: Brahms, Schumann, Mussorgsky, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

18 March 2025
Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Benjamin Grosvenor: Brahms, Schumann, Mussorgsky, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Benjamin Grosvenor: Brahms, Schumann, Mussorgsky, West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

18 March 2025

Celebrated pianist Grosvenor has said that it’s always a pleasure for him to perform at Cambridge.


Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Jordi Savall Trio: Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

17 March 2025
Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Jordi Savall Trio: Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Jordi Savall Trio: Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge

17 March 2025

Savall, a celebrated conductor, composer and viol player, is the distinguished elder statesman of early music.


Review: Two Violas: All Saints’ Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

17 March 2025
Review: Two Violas: All Saints’ Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

Review: Two Violas: All Saints’ Church, Jesus Lane, Cambridge

17 March 2025

The concert was performed by the violist duo Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner, and their piano accompanist Lynn Arnold.


Review: Academy of Ancient Music: Transatlantic Classical Masters: Nunes Garcia, Mozart, Haydn - West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

13 March 2025
Review: Academy of Ancient Music: Transatlantic Classical Masters: Nunes Garcia, Mozart, Haydn - West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Review: Academy of Ancient Music: Transatlantic Classical Masters: Nunes Garcia, Mozart, Haydn - West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

13 March 2025

The subject of AAM’s concert at West Road was José Maurici Nunes Garcia, who was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1767.


Review: Cambridge Early Music: Stile Antico: The Prince of Music: Palestrina in the Eternal City

07 March 2025
Review: Cambridge Early Music: Stile Antico: The Prince of Music: Palestrina in the Eternal City

Review: Cambridge Early Music: Stile Antico: The Prince of Music: Palestrina in the Eternal City

07 March 2025

The performance celebrated the five hundredth birthday of Palestrina, master of the co-called antique style.


Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Theatre of Voices: ‘Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe’ at Trinity College Chapel

03 March 2025
Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Theatre of Voices: ‘Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe’ at Trinity College Chapel

Review: Cambridge Music Festival: Theatre of Voices: ‘Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe’ at Trinity College Chapel

03 March 2025

Theatre of Voices were also visiting the city as part of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Cambridge Music Conference.


Review of Cambridge Early Music performing Time Stands Still: Songs of John Dowland and his Contemporaries

10 February 2025
Review of Cambridge Early Music performing Time Stands Still: Songs of John Dowland and his Contemporaries

Review of Cambridge Early Music performing Time Stands Still: Songs of John Dowland and his Contemporaries

10 February 2025

Peter Croton (lute) & vocal ensemble L’Isola at St Catharine’s College Chapel, Cambridge, 7 February, 2025.


Review of Academy of Ancient Music presenting Italian Legacies: Geminiani and his English Contemporaries

06 February 2025
Review of Academy of Ancient Music presenting Italian Legacies: Geminiani and his English Contemporaries

Review of Academy of Ancient Music presenting Italian Legacies: Geminiani and his English Contemporaries

06 February 2025

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 5th February 2025.


Review: Cambridge Early Music: Arcangelo: Schütz – The Christmas Story

16 December 2024
Review: Cambridge Early Music: Arcangelo: Schütz – The Christmas Story

Review: Cambridge Early Music: Arcangelo: Schütz – The Christmas Story

16 December 2024

Trinity College Chapel, Friday 13 December 2024.


Review: Mozart Requiem (Britten Sinfonia & Daniel Hyde)

18 November 2024
Review: Mozart Requiem (Britten Sinfonia & Daniel Hyde)

Review: Mozart Requiem (Britten Sinfonia & Daniel Hyde)

18 November 2024

Choir of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Friday 15 November 2024.


Review: ‘Transformation’: Academy of Ancient Music (Director Laurence Cummings). Viennese Virtuosity: Symphonies by Mozart, Haydn & Friends

14 November 2024
Review: ‘Transformation’: Academy of Ancient Music (Director Laurence Cummings). Viennese Virtuosity: Symphonies by Mozart, Haydn & Friends

Review: ‘Transformation’: Academy of Ancient Music (Director Laurence Cummings). Viennese Virtuosity: Symphonies by Mozart, Haydn & Friends

14 November 2024

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge. Wednesday 13 November 2024.


Review: Continuum (Director Harry Guthrie): Fifth Anniversary Concert

11 November 2024
Review: Continuum (Director Harry Guthrie): Fifth Anniversary Concert

Review: Continuum (Director Harry Guthrie): Fifth Anniversary Concert

11 November 2024

Saturday 9 November 2024 at St John’s College Chapel, Cambridge.


Review: Cambridge Early Music: Musikverein: The Revolutionary Drawing Room

28 October 2024
Review: Cambridge Early Music: Musikverein: The Revolutionary Drawing Room

Review: Cambridge Early Music: Musikverein: The Revolutionary Drawing Room

28 October 2024

The concert was part of the Cambridge Early Music concert season.


Review: Boris Giltburg (piano), Chopin and Rachmaninov

17 October 2024
Review: Boris Giltburg (piano), Chopin and Rachmaninov

Review: Boris Giltburg (piano), Chopin and Rachmaninov

17 October 2024

Cambridge Music Festival: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge: Wednesday 16 October, 2024.


Review of Cambridge Early Music’s performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers: Solomon’s Knot

10 October 2024
Review of Cambridge Early Music’s performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers: Solomon’s Knot

Review of Cambridge Early Music’s performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers: Solomon’s Knot

10 October 2024

West Road Concert Hall, Wednesday 9 October 2024


Review of The Academy of Ancient Music: ‘Transformation’: Charpentier, Actéon. Rameau, Pygmalion.

09 October 2024
Review of The Academy of Ancient Music: ‘Transformation’: Charpentier, Actéon. Rameau, Pygmalion.

Review of The Academy of Ancient Music: ‘Transformation’: Charpentier, Actéon. Rameau, Pygmalion.

09 October 2024

West Road Concert Hal, Cambridge, Tuesday 8 October 2024


Review: Le Roi Soleil, the King dances. Academy of Ancient Music

18 April 2024
Review: Le Roi Soleil, the King dances. Academy of Ancient Music

Review: Le Roi Soleil, the King dances. Academy of Ancient Music

18 April 2024

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge: Wednesday 17 April 2024.


Review of Cantoría: El Fuego

11 April 2024
Review of Cantoría: El Fuego

Review of Cantoría: El Fuego

11 April 2024

Cambridge Early Music, Jesus College Chapel, Wednesday, 10 April, 2024


Review of Tenebrae: Joby Talbot ‘Path of Miracles’

28 March 2024
Review of Tenebrae: Joby Talbot ‘Path of Miracles’

Review of Tenebrae: Joby Talbot ‘Path of Miracles’

28 March 2024

King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Wednesday 27 March 2024.


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