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Home to Cambridge University's Faculty of Music and ideally situated only minutes’ walk from the famous Backs and King’s College, West Road Concert Hall is renowned for its superb acoustic qualities.
Concert
Wednesday 9 October
Solomon's Knot, Cambridge Early Music
Solomon’s Knot gave an unforgettable performance of Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Trinity College Chapel last year, so expectations are high for their return to CEM with Monteverdi’s masterpiece. The Vespers combines the exalted and the sensual in a dizzying array of soaring choruses, intricate duets and solos, and instrumental writing so fresh-sounding it could have been composed yesterday.
Saturday 12 October
City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra
Two late Romantic masterpieces, and a beautiful work from a composer whose life was sadly brief.
Tuesday 15 October
Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert
The University’s flagship lunchtime concerts open with a talk by this year’s Artistic Director
Wednesday 16 October
Cambridge Music Festival
There is no-one better to perform Rachmaninov than Boris Giltburg. He plays six of Rachmaninov’s jaw-dropping Preludes and other works by Rachmaninov and Chopin.
