Recital Series videos
Recital: 15 March 2021 – Orchestra on the Hill
Members of Orchestra on the Hill, the joint orchestra run by students at Murray Edwards, Fitzwilliam and Churchill Colleges, have created a video recital of chamber music ingeniously pieced together remotely.
| Dance of the Hours (from La Gioconda) | Amilcare Ponchielli |
| Choros No.2 | Heitor Villa Lobos |
| Pavane | Gabriel Fauré |
| G major Sonata for two cellos | Jean-Baptiste Barrière |
Performers:
Flutes - Lottie Anstee, Rosie Dunn & Emily Porter
Clarinet – Jeffrey Lu
Cellos - Adrian del Ser and Alexa Fung
Recital: 8 March 2021 – Cambridge Crossing Borders Recital
Xi Zhang – guzheng
Pieter Magusin – Slovakian folk music: an introduction with accordion
For more details about Slovakian folk dance and instruments please look at the Folk Dance Federation of California, South website.
Recital: 1 March 2021 – MEMS Members Recital
Alexa Fung – piano
Emily Porter – flute
Niamh Curran – voice
Recital: 22 February – Holly Smith (soprano) with Harrison Cole (piano)
| It was a lover and his lass | Madeleine Dring |
| Silent Noon | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| The Salley Gardens | Benjamin Britten |
| Vilja | Franz Lehár |
| Take O take those lips away | Madeleine Dring |
| Corpus Christi Carol | Benjamin Britten |
| Ophelia’s Song | Elizabeth Maconchy |
| Song to the Seals | Granville Bantock |
Recital: 2 November – Emily Porter (flute) with Noah Jay (piano)
2nd Year music student, Emily, presents a programme of 20th century flute works.
| Kokopeli | Katherine Hoover |
| Eight Pieces | Paul Hindemith |
| Homani | Wil Offermans |
| Suite Paysanne Hongroise | Béla Bartök |
Recital: 9 November – Ella Fraser (violin) with Julia DeLuca (piano)
| Violin Sonata in G major | Johannes Brahms |
| Prelude No. 1 | George Gershwin |
| Vocalise | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Banjo & Fiddle | William Kroll |
Recital: 30 November – Cambridge Crossing Borders Recital
This is the inaugural recital in what hopes to be a series of concerts featuring music and instruments from around the globe. Some performances could not happen due to lockdown, but we are pleased to present these two:
- Anna Ryan (shakuhachi) – Sokkan
- Dr Lucy Delap (uilleann pipes) & Clive Lawson (bouzouki & fiddle) – Irish Reels & Jigs
Inter Alios videos
Music & Words: 8 November – In honour of Black History Month
| We wear the mask | Paul Lawrence Dunbar |
| Steal Away | Traditional, attr. Wallace Willis, arr. Edward Eicker |
| Slaughters of Silence | Dani Ladipo (PhD student) |
| I know why the caged bird sings | Maya Angelou |
| Summer is Gone | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor |
| Remembering, Re-membering | Patricia Glinton-Meicholas |
| Deep River | Traditional, attr. Wallace Willis |
| The British | Benjamin Zephaniah |
| Lean on Me | Bill Withers, arr. Ewan Campbel |
Music & Words: 22 November – Music, when soft voices die
| Music, when soft voices die | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Music, when soft voices die | Rebecca Clarke |
| I am in need of music | Elisabeth Bishop |
| To be sung on the Water | Louise Bogan |
| To be sung on the Water | Samuel Barber |
| Music | A. S. J. Tessimond |
| The Sunny Side of the Street | Dorothy Fields |
| Peace I leave with you | Amy Beach |