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Tag Archives: Cambridge

Clean, clear, and at a canter: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Cambridge University Gilbert & Sullivan Society

On a clean, largely clear stage, dotted with a few barrels and benches, a tidy vegetable stand to one side and a pub sign, The Four Bears, to the other,…

February 16, 2018 in Amateur, Gilbert & Sullivan, Operetta.

Mixed Bach: Bach Reconstructed from The Academy of Ancient Music

The more concerts you experience, the more grows your confidence in being able to pick a good one. And this promised to be good, given the exceptional skill of the…

April 11, 2017 in Concert.

Baroque this Christmas: La Notte di Natale with Spiritato! and Cambridge Early Music

A Christmas concert with a difference – and, thanks to superb playing from Spiritato!, an immensely enjoyable one. Cambridge Early Music offered a sumptuous feast of Italian Baroque music as their Christmas…

December 12, 2016 in Concert.

Autumnal vocal sparkle: Bach and Parry from Cambridge Chorale

As the autumn evenings begin to darken and lengthen, growing chillier and damper, we could all do with a little burst of beauty; and this short programme of three Bach…

October 25, 2016 in Choral.

Small palette, big picture: Handel’s Acis and Galatea in Cambridge

Handel’s “little opera” Acis and Galatea suffers from something of an identity crisis: it exists in three versions, and has also been put forward as a candidate for at least three genres:…

May 26, 2016 in Baroque, Opera.

Lucky Lieder dip: A celebration of Goethe from James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook

This evening of lieder, closing the Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice for 2016, included the chance to compare no less than four settings of Goethe’s iconic poem Erlkönig, the…

May 18, 2016 in Lieder.

Light & Shadow: Vox Luminis at Cambridge Early Music Festival of the Voice

It seems ironic that the bitter violence of Elizabethan England, a society splintered by religious persecution, should give birth to music of such exceptional poise and serenity as that of…

May 16, 2016 in Choral.

Truly, madly, but not quite deeply enough: Massenet’s Werther from English Touring Opera

Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther pitted religion against Romanticism in a battle royal for the soul of young Germany, which Romanticism won: Werther became a cult hero, even a fashion…

November 10, 2015 in Opera.

Strong and stylish: Handel’s Ottone by English Touring Opera

Ottone was a great success for Handel in his lifetime, and the ravishing beauty of its music and exciting, dynamic plot shows us why. The consistently high production values of…

October 29, 2014 in Baroque, Opera.

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