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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
On Friday The Cambridge Music Festival presented the Britten Sinfonia (Conductor, Daniel Hyde), with the Choir of King’s College Cambridge in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. The event was sold out, and hardly surprising given the pedigree of the performers with soloists Mary Bevan (soprano), Avery Amereau (mezzo), Andrew Staples (tenor) and Neal Davies (bass).
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
On Wednesday evening The Academy of Ancient Music and Director Laurence Cummings continued their ‘Transformation’ season of concerts at West Road with a performance titled ‘Viennese Virtuosity.’There were ‘Symphonies by Mozart, Haydn & friends’, a total of one each by Haydn and Mozart, and one each by two of their now less-familiar contemporaries, Vanhal and Dittersdorf.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
The young and distinguished vocal ensemble Continuum, founded in 2018 by their Director Harry Guthrie, performed a sequence of choral works, some familiar, others less so, in a concert at St John’s Chapel on Saturday evening to mark the 5th anniversary of their foundation. Continuum is dedicated to the performance of works either firmly established in the choral repertoire or under-performed, and also to the commissioning new ones.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
By John GilroyThe Cambridge Early Music concert season continued on Friday evening (25 October) at St Catharine’s College Chapel, Cambridge, with a programme focusing on the Romantic period, a period of political upheaval and bloody revolution, but one which also produced major composers writing for patrons and entertaining the drawing rooms of Europe.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
The much-anticipated, multi-award winning Russian-born piano virtuoso Boris Giltburg arrived at the Cambridge Music Festival on Wednesday evening to give a recital of works by Chopin and Rachmaninov. He was welcomed by a packed house at West Road Concert Hall and began his recital with Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
At West Road Concert Hall on Wednesday evening Cambridge Early Music presented the talented baroque ensemble Solomon’s Knot in a performance of Monteverdi’s Vespers, a powerful, at times almost overwhelming, devotional master work. Vespers was composed in the period that would soon mark Monteverdi’s departure from the Court of Mantua and his arrival as the maestro di cappella of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice which had engaged him, attracted by the success of his Vespers in 1610.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
Published: 14:28, 09 October 2024 In the first presentation of their new season (2024-25), under the title ‘Transformation’, the Academy of Ancient Music with Director Laurence Cummings presented concert performances of two short baroque operas, Charpentier’s Actéon and Rameau’s Pygmalion. The stories of both are derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a collection of myths united in their accounts of worldly change and transformation of various kinds.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
podcasts.apple.com | John Gilroy
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May 15, 2024 | 
publish.csiro.au | Lynette Mackenzie |Josephine D Gwynn |John Gilroy
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
cambridgeindependent.co.uk | John Gilroy
On Wednesday evening at West Road the Academy of Ancient Music, with Music Director Laurence Cummings and Baroque dance historians and performers Mary Collins and Steven Player, presented an enthralling concert, ‘Le Roi Soleil: the King dances’, exploring the sounds and sights of the glittering court of Louis XIV of France. These days ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ or a holiday visit to a Flamenco bar in Spain represent the somewhat marginal limits of choreography in popular culture.
