Concerts
8/3/2019
In a special out-of-the-box manoeuvre, our next concert will be 'A Celebration of Video Game Music'! Come to Churchill Recital Room at 6:15 pm to hear all your favourite classic video game tunes, from Pokemon, Tetris, Super Mario, Angry Birds and more! We promise heaps of fun and nostalgia!
Programme:
- Skyrim
- In Dreams (Lord of the Rings)
- Red Dwarf
- Portal
- Pokemon
- Legend of Zelda
- Super Mario
- Angry Birds
- Tetris
24/11/2018
Well done to CURE on a successful concert at St Clement's Church as part of the Lunchtime Recital Series, based on 'Music from the Slavonic Tradition'. Many thanks to St Clement's for their hospitality, and we hope we helped raise some e xtra funds for restoration of the organ!
Programme:
- Tchaikovsky - March (Nutcracker)
- Dvorak - Slavonic Dances
- Tchaikovsky - 1812 overture
- Traditional - Již slunce z hvezdy vyšlo
- Traditional - Narodil se Kristus Pán
- Leontovych - Carol of the Bells
- Prætorius - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Traditional (Welsh carol) - Deck the Halls
- Bach - Chorales
- Traditional - Tetris theme
11/3/2018
Our Lent term concert will be held in Christ's College Chapel on Sunday 11 March, 1-2 pm. Come to hear a range of Slavic and American-themed pieces arranged around the theme of 'Journey to the New World'!
Programme:
- Traditional - Five Spirituals (arr. Steve Marshall)
- Steve Marshall - Four pieces for recorder sextet
- Dvorak - Slavonic Dance in F major, Op. 46 No. 4 (arr. Helen Hooker)
- Richard Stone - Animaniacs (arr. Ed Cree)
- Dvorak - New World Symphony, II. Largo (arr. Paul-Gustav Feller for solo treble recorder & piano)
- Joplin - The Entertainer (arr. Alison Lewin)
25/11/2017
Our 2017 Michaelmas concert will be held at St Clement's Church, Saturday 25 Nov, from 1 pm. The theme this round is the delightful 'Masquerade'! Come along to hear a slew of pieces eminently not written for recorders, played on (of course) recorders.
Programme:
- Tchaikovsky - March from the Nutcracker Suite
- Warlock - Capriol Suite
- Edward Cree - Sonata
- Taverner - Quemadmodum
- Koji Kondo - Super Mario Bros Theme
- Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
- Philip Buttall - The Lone Ar-ranger (with apologies to Rossini)
25/7/2017
Congratulations to CURE on a successful concert tour to London, where we performed in the lovely outdoor setting of Lloyd Square Garden. The weather was beautiful. Well done to everyone for their hard work rehearsing and performing, and a big thank you to the Oswalds for organising the whole trip!
Programme:
- Holborne - Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aires (My Selfe, Last Will and Testament, The Night Watch, The Honie-Suckle, The Fairie Round, Heigh Ho Holiday)
- Scarlatti - Suite for Recorder Quartet
- Davidson - Baroque Variations on the Vicar of Bray
- Harley Jones - Fugue-Fantasy on a Theme by Tallis
- Ross Edwards - Ulpirra
- Boismortier - Pastorale VI
- Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
- Koji Kondo - Super Mario Bros Theme
- Loueillet - Quintet in D minor
12/3/2017
Our 2017 Lent concert, "Back to the Future", was held in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College. All hail the record CURE size of thirteen performers, and for pulling off Schnabel's monumental work, Feuer und Eis, conductor-free with such a splash! Many thanks to the Bene't Club for hosting us!
Programme:
- Faure - Libera Me from Requiem, Op.48
- Vaughan Williams - Suite for Pipes (Intrada, Minuet)
- Bob Berry - The Cumbrian Sartor
- Pete Rose - I'd rather be in Philadelphia (Optometrist, Shoe Store)
- William Croft - Sonata No. 2
- Dietrich Schnabel - Feuer und Eis
- Anon. - Medieval dances: Trotto and Saltarello
- Bassano - Ricercate Quarta
- Elgar - Nimrod (arr. Denis Bloodworth)
21/1/2017
Our first non-Cambridge, non-London concert was held at St Neots Parish Church.
Programme:
- Byrd - Pavan and Galliard
- Faure - Pavane (Op. 50)
- Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks (Bouree, La Paix, La Rejouissance, Menuet)
- Hans Zimmer & Klaus Badelt - Pirates of the Caribbean (arr. Ed Cree)
- Telemann - Canonic Sonata I
- Bruce Pennick - Sea Songs
21/11/2016
A concert of solos and duets at Murray Edwards College
26/11/2016
Michaelmas Term Christmas Concert at St. Clement's Church, Bridge St., Cambridge
6/3/2016
Bach to Basics concert at Christ's College: die allerbeste Zeit!
30/11/15
A Piratical Christmas Concert at the Trinity College OCR. Thanks to our TCMS hosts, and to the audience and performers!
21/6/15
The second CURE summer tour concert was held at St Botolph's Church, Bishopsgate, in aid of Music in Hospitals.
Thank you to everyone who performed or came to watch!
Lunchtime concert at Peterhouse
29/11/14
Join us for our Michaelmas term concert on Saturday 29th November at 1:00 in Christ's College Chapel!
Our programme will include Pavans and Galliards by Holborne, a Telemann Canonic Sonata and some Christmas music from around the world.
Free admission - Refreshments will be served - Retiring collection
13/10/14
Join us for our freshers' rehearsal and pub trip!
Rehearsal: 7:15 - 8:45 pm, Selwyn College (room TBC)
Pub trip: 9:00pm, The Granta
Meet at Selwyn Porters' lodge at 7:10pm or join us at the Granta later.
For more information, or if you are running late, email recorders at cusu.cam.ac.uk.
22/6/14
Join us for the CURE summer tour charity concert
5:30 pm
St James' Church, Prebend St, Islington, N1 8PF
Free admission - Refreshments will be served - There will be a retiring collection in aid of Music in Hospitals
2/3/14
Come and join us at our next concert, Sunday 2nd March at 2pm in Downing College Chapel!
The programme includes:
- Capriol Suite - Peter Warlock
- Crucifixus a 8 - Antonio Lotti
- Manchester Welcome - Colin Touchin
Free admission - Refreshments will be served - There will be a retiring collection.
