Tickets now on sale for Cadenza at the 2026 Fringe!
Cadenza returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and to Greyfriars Kirk, with an evening of powerful and contemplative choral music including Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil
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Christmas 2025 concert tickets now available
Tickets for our Christmas Concert on 13 December 2025 with Castle Brass are now available via choir members or online at TryBooking. From timeless carols like Once in Royal David’s City and O Come All Ye Faithful to exquisite choral gems such as Rorate Cœli by Jacobus Handl and Jesus Christ the Apple Tree by Elizabeth Poston, the evening spans centuries of Christmas … Read more
Tickets Now On Sale for Cadenza at the 2025 Fringe!
We’re thrilled to announce that tickets are now officially on sale for Cadenza’s 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe concert — and this year promises something truly special. New venue: St Mary’s Episcopal CathedralDate: August 2025 (check listing for details)Book now: edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/cadenza-at-the-fringe This year’s programme is a vibrant celebration of jazz-infused choral music, featuring: With a top-tier … Read more
Christmas Concert Tickets Now Available
Tickets for our Christmas Concert on 14 December 2024 are now available via choir members or online at TryBooking. New for this year, our ticket price this year includes a concert programme! As always, you’ll have the opportunity to enter our raffle to win an incredible Christmas hamper and to enjoy some seasonal refreshments at … Read more
Fringe Concert Tickets Extremely Limited
Our Fringe concert this year is proving extremely popular, with the Fringe Box Office selling out this morning (Friday 23 August 2024). We are working to get a final tranche of tickets allocated to the Box Office for additional sales (so do try, and snap them up if you can!), but it’s looking tight… Sales … Read more
Beautiful Taladh Chriosta selected by BBC Radio 3
More radio play for our latest CD, Bright Star, as it was selected by Petroc Trelawney on his Breakfast show this morning. This was as a result of a request from a Cadenza fan, Ian Brockbank, who suggested Taladh Chriosta. Thanks Ian! You can find the programme on BBC Sounds at the link below, and … Read more
Complete your Christmas with Cadenza (for the first time this decade)
If you have followed Cadenza for a while, you will know how much we all enjoy our Christmas concert. Which is why we were disappointed to have to cancel our 2020 performance and run a reduced-length (and capacity) concert in 2021, both as a result of the Covid pandemic. However, for 2022 we are delighted … Read more
Lutenists past and present
The Dresden court employed theorbo players as early as 1590, and Antonio Lotti would have certainly have been aware of the player, Leopold Weiss, while in Dresden from 1717-1719. Weiss was described by his pupil Princess Sophie Wilhelmine, sister of Crown Prince Frederick, as the “famous Weiss, who excels so greatly on the lute, that … Read more
Recollections of the Foundling Hospital
Our Fringe concert this year contains a performance of Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem, including it’s famous final chorus Hallelujah. In this article Cadenza’s Secretary, Morna Fleming, provides a bit more background to the hospital based on a visit some years ago, as well as historical detail on the building itself and Handel’s involvement in it’s … Read more
Covid-Secure Christmas Cracker
For the first time since 2019, Cadenza are delighted to be back in concert. While the pandemic has prevented any performance from us, it hasn’t stopped us meeting and rehearsing (virtually at first, now in-person) and we have been chomping at the bit to show you the results of our efforts. And so, with pleasure, … Read more