THE CAMBRIDGE SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL GOES LIVE
Thai Murray stars in the stunning line up for The Summer Music Festival (see programme)
Cambridge Summer Music Festival is back in glorious full swing and its line -up looks as luscious as it is bound to sound. Under the artistic direction of David Hill here is a cornucopia of internationally celebrated artists ready to perform in the city’s loveliest venues from beautiful College chapels to the vaulted grandeur of Ely Cathedral, the world’s best musicians are coming our way , famous veteran players and inspirational newcomers alike.
Fabulous Classico Latino on at the UC Botanic Garden as part of Sounds Green
Gardens are a theme. Everyone loved Sounds Green, where a sequence of zany and super fun performers turns the Botanic Garden into a multi generational picnic party with dancing children and jiving parents. It’s back. In fact Honey and the Bear begins on 6th July and then every Wednesday at 6.15 will reveal a new act from Prime Brass to Classico Latino . “This is a festival that truly has something for everyone and we can’t wait to welcome you to it’ says the Director.
Internationally acclaimed Aurora Orchestra will play at the Saffron Hall
Ambitious is surely the watchword.
Cosi Fan Tutte is the mini Glyndebourne extravaganza to open the Festival at Childerley Hall on 15th July; a stylish innovation to give the Summer Music Fest a glitzy ritzy start - followed up the very next day with a fun Family Concert at West road at 3 o’clock paralleled with what’s surely a crowd pleaser Elgar and Vaughn Williams at Robinson College in the evening.
The programme is so inventive and responsive it really is hard to fault. Fancy some international piano aristocracy ? Imogen Cooper will perform at West Road at the Festival midpoint 23rd July - imagine Schubert and Ravel rendered by one of the world’s greatest players?Or do you yearn for some awesome grandeur in your life? Mendelssohn’s Elijah will burst on the airwaves in Ely Cathegral on 26th July. ‘Led by Gabrieli’s Artistic Director, Paul McCreesh, Elijah promises an inspirational and uplifting evening of some of the most glorious music in the classical canon’ says the programme and it’s surely right .Or a quirky and memorable trumpet session par excellence with the inimitable Crispian Steele- Perkins ? He’s on at Queens’ College - twinned with a CS-P Master Class thrown in for good measure.
Crispian Steele Perkins and his amazing trumpet star in a sensational concert at Queens’
And if this sounds celeb -centred it is not. Yes there are Gillian Weir and David Hill at the glamorously transformed Old Divinity School and Martin Roscoe with Tai Murray ready to dispel the gloom of at Trinity College Chapel with their amazing duo but some concerts are less well known. The Gesualdo Six are stunning- on at OLM or the mysterious Mithras Trio at Sidney Sussex College (never been there?)
The Mithras Trio - part of the surprising line up at the Summer Music Festival
The whole fabulous shebang is rounded off with the legendary Aurora orchestra at the Saffron Hall on 31st July. Performing as if you didn’t know , from memory.
Your Cambridge Critique team will be at most of these events ready to bring you reviews - but among the amazing line up there must plenty to tempt you along in person,
Camilla George will be in the Botanic Garden as part of Sounds Green
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