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Breaking Free - Martin Luther's Revolution: A Square Dance in Heaven

At 6.45pm this Sunday, 30 April, on Radio 3 you can hear the choir in a documentary examining Martin Luther's ideas about music and their influence on the development of German music. More information on the broadcast can be found here.

Ancient instruments star alongside voices in a concert being given by Caius Choir as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.

On Saturday 7 May at 7.30pm in St Pancras Parish Church, London, the aulos, the Deskford Carnyx and the Lochnashade horn will all be heard in new pieces for choir and ancient instruments.

The new choir CD ‘Chorus vel Organa’ is out soon! Meanwhile here is a short film made last year of the choir’s performance at the Palace of Westminster (see Illuminated Caius Choirbook comes to life at Westminster) featuring extracts from some of the music performed on the CD. The film was commissioned by the Virtual St Stephen’s Project (University of York). The CD will be available to purchase from 20th May.

A free public workshop exploring a new sound-world for choir and ancient brass; 4pm, Saturday 24th October in Caius Chapel.

The buzzing of insects, croaking of frogs and other sounds of the Amazonian rainforest will feature in a strikingly innovative concert of Brazilian choral music performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius in London this weekend.

Breathing new life into the long-unheard polyphonic harmonies of an illuminated Tudor choirbook would be a fascinating act of musical resurrection at the best of times. But to perform the music in as authentic a style as possible in the very (Royal) setting for which it was written 500 years ago adds a unique historical frisson.