Academy of Ancient Music has announced The Golden Anniversary – the Cambridge concert series for 2023-24 in which the orchestra celebrates its 50th anniversary. Across the year, we celebrate cherished triumphs past – beloved works by Handel, Vivaldi, JS Bach and Henry Purcell amongst others – while continuing to blaze a trail for historical performance, championing forgotten female composers at the court of Empress Maria Theresa, restoring noted abolitionist and freed slave Ignatius Sancho to the musical panoply of mid-18th century London society, and commissioning new works for historical instruments for the first time since the early 2000s.

As in previous years, the five concerts at West Road Concert Hall are initially open to Season Subscribers, with general booking opening later in the year.

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Tickets are available now for new and renewing subscribers. Priority booking then opens on 24 July, and general booking opens 31 July.

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22 November 2023 | West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Command Performance: Music for an Empress
18th century Vienna’s magnificent musical flourishing

24 January 2024 | West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
All six works in one gloriously life-affirming evening

6 March 2024 | West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
The Art of the Italian Concerto
From Vivaldi’s Venice to the splendour of Rome

17 April 2024 | West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Le Roi Soleil: the King dances
The art of dance at the pinnacle of the French baroque

25 May 2024 | West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Sons of England
Masterpieces that defined the culture of a nation

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