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West Road Concert Hall
11 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DP
England
Tickets
Prices: From £20.50 (£5 under 35s – AAMplify)
Book Tickets
Programme
William Lawes – Royal Consort No.1
Samuel Scheidt – Ludi Musici Part 1: Paduan Cantus IV
Samuel Scheidt – Galliard Battaglia, SSWV 59
Samuel Scheidt – Canzon super 'O Nachbar Roland', SSWV 66
Thomas Baltzar – A Prelude for the Violin
Thomas Baltzar – John Come Kiss Me Now
Dario Castello – Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno, Libro II: Sonata XIII
Dario Castello – Sonate Concertate in Stil Moderno, Libro II: Sonata XIV
Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger – Toccata arpeggiata XII
Christopher Simpson – Divisions for 2 Viols VdGS 3.28
William Lawes – Royal Consort No.6
John Jenkins – Newark Siege
Performers
Laurence Cummings – director / harpsichord
Programme Note
The Royall Consort of King Charles I was at the cutting edge of 17th century music, and today it lives again with Academy of Ancient Music.
King Charles I was a connoisseur of the visual arts, but he had exquisite taste in music, too, and the brilliant young composer and courtier William Lawes flooded the Stuart court with some of Britain’s – and Europe’s – most innovative (and ravishing) sounds.
Today Academy of Ancient Music celebrates an era of cavaliers and courtly dances, playing music by Lawes and his contemporaries from home and abroad. Elegant seduction, playful conversation and the looming shadow of civil war all find a voice, as the instruments of the Renaissance meet a flamboyant upstart called the violin. This is musical time travel: a whole evening in a vanished age, recreated through music. It’s witty, it’s elegant, and it touches the heart.
There will be a free pre-concert talk in the auditorium at 6.30pm.
