A response by Tweet to The Marian Consort's programme The Constant Heart during Cambridge Early Music's Festival of The Voice 2021

A response to The Marian Consort's programme at Cambridge Early Music's Festival of The Voice

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3 November

A response by Tweet to to The Marian Consort's programme The Constant Heart

As the light fades each afternoon these letters spell out our name for all of Cambridge to see. An indication that we are here in the lightest & darkest of times, literally & metaphorically. Keep an eye out for them if you find yourself on Downing Place/Downing St #findyourplace pic.twitter.com/aJkmVPugBH

— Downing Place Outreach (@Downing_Place) October 22, 2021

As given during Cambridge Early Music's Festival of The Voiceat Downing Place United Reformed Church on Wednesday 3 November 2021 at 7.30 p.m.

Bound to be a marvellous evening with @marianconsort, in Cambridge at @Downing_Place, proving a lovely venue for vocal and instrumental recitals !

The one regret with such programmes that arch over one span, i.e. with no interval, is enough mental space to compare and contrast ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 4, 2021

Bound to be a marvellous evening with @marianconsort, in Cambridge at @Downing_Place, proving a lovely venue for vocal and instrumental recitals !

The one regret with such programmes that arch over one span, i.e. with no interval, is enough mental space to compare and contrast ?

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 4, 2021

As #UCFF found then and since 'The Marian Consort impressed both with the beauty that one could discern in individual voices, and in the quality of the ensemble, fitting themselves to this performance-space (the nave and transepts anterior to the chapel proper at Jesus College)'.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 4, 2021

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Festival of The Voice - Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 November 2021 - all at 7.30 p.m.

Cambridge's Festival of The Voice - Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 November - all at 7.30 p.m.

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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31 October (updated 3 November)

Festival of The Voice at Cambridge Early Music -

Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 November - all at 7.30 p.m.

Three Concerts at Downing Place United Reformed Church, Downing Street

Formerly St Columba's (entrance now on the side, hence Downing Place = CB2 3EL)

Having heard The Marian Consort before, though not in their programme The Constant Heart, this is my personal choice of concert to attend – it would be a shame to miss them, so, although travelling NW the following day, I'm risking a night out (and maybe giving ad hoc help, if my CEM friends need it (I may also be around to help, before the gig, on Tuesday)) :

The Marian Consort explores loss and lament in sacred music by Tudor composers and presents new works by Ben Rowarth and Donna McKevitt in that context


Link to the gig-page here

£25.00 (no booking-fee, but donations are welcome)


There is also a combined ticket for all three concerts (Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 November), subject to availability - £70.00 (or £65.00 to Friends of Cambridge Early Music)



Fayrfax Quincentenary – Ensemble Pro Victoria

On the day before, Tuesday 2 November, there is a programme called Fayrfax Quincentenary, given by Ensemble Pro Victoria, since...

This year is 500 years since the death of Robert Fayrfax (probably the most important composer of the Tudor era ?).

Can confirm adrenaline levels rise when flailing next to delicate glass lamps! 🙈🤦🏼‍♂️
We return to Cambridge tomorrow for the first time since we left as students… do pay us a visit for some very special music! https://t.co/OP79nuBUp1

— Toby Ward (@tobychward) November 1, 2021

It has been a pleasure to open our #CambridgeFestivalOftheVoice tonight with @EnsembleEPV, congratulations for such an enchanting performance! #fayrfax500 pic.twitter.com/1o4HHnmhXN

— CambridgeEarlyMusic (@CambsEarlyMusic) November 2, 2021

Including this one, to open this year's Festival of The Voice at Cambridge Early Music, Ensemble Pro Victoria is celebrating Fayrfax’s canon with a series of concerts, plus, as well as videos and podcasts, a new recording of selected sacred and secular works.


The aim of this concert in Cambridge will be to offer not only a taste of all genres and styles in which Fayrfax was prolific, but also the chance to hear world-premiere reconstructions and some rarely-performed works.


http://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/booking/?event=Fayrfax%20Quincentenary

£25.00 (as above)



Echo (conductor by Sarah Latto)

On Thursday 4 November, the final concert in this year's Festival has Gorczycki’s Missa Paschalis as its centrepiece, but will interlace it with the work of composers who lived and worked in Warsaw and Krakow in the 16th and 17th centuries :


* Missa Paschalis – Kyrie – Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (1665 – 1734)

* Iniquos odio habui – Luca Marenzio (1553 – 1599)

* Missa Paschalis – Gloria

* Gaudent in caelis – Asprillo Pacelli (1570 – 1623)

* Missa Paschalis – Sanctus

* Ego flos campi – Vincenzo Bertolusi (c. 1550 – 1608)

* Missa Paschalis – Benedictus

* Laetentur caeli – Mikołaj Zielenski (1560 – 1620)

* Missa Paschalis – Agnus Dei


http://www.cambridgeearlymusic.org/booking/?event=The%20Polish%20Court

£25.00 ea.


As mentioned above, there is also a combined ticket for all three concerts (Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 November), subject to availability - £70.00 (or £65.00 to Friends of Cambridge Early Music)...



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Three Tweets about Tenebrae

Three Tweets about Tenebrae (during Festival of the Voice in Cambridge)

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9 May

Three Tweets about Tenebrae :

A concert at King's College, Cambridge, by invitation from Cambridge Early Music (in conjunction with Concerts at King's) for its Festival of the Voice,
on Friday 10 May 2019 at 7.30 p.m.

It was no surprise that @TenebraeChoir, performing during @cambsearlymusic's annual Festival of the Voice to-night at King's, were brilliant - but one had forgotten how gorgeous the tone-colours and individual voices are !

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 10, 2019

The Twitter-profile says 'passion and precision', but the passion could be there in a single voice, giving us the introductory word(s) to sections in the Requiem Mass, and in Nigel Short's conducting, maintaining a sense of the whole, but giving appropriate pauses.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 11, 2019

The acoustic was that of the antechapel of @Kings_College, which was accommodated perfectly by choir and conductor in performances that, since the texts were interpreted in such a way that a variety of dynamics and textures could be heard, kept the attention of a hushed audience.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 12, 2019

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