Classical Alexandra Coghlan

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The Glories of Venice

Academy of Ancient Music, West Road, Cambridge, 14th April. The partnership between the Academy of Ancient Music and music director Richard Egarr has delivered 15 years of superb concerts. Now Egarr is moving on, but not before launching the orchestra’s digital concert series with a trip to 17th-century Venice. There will be music from Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi, the songwriter who blazed a trail for female composers. But at the centre will be the little-known Dario Castello-a contemporary of Monteverdi’s with equally impressive facilities for musical imagination and innovation.

Re-Wilding The Waste Land, I Fagiolini

Live from London; digital festival 22nd April. Robert Hollingworth and his vocal group I Fagiolini (above) mark Earth Day with a concert inspired by TS Eliot’s poem. Our own cycles of destruction and renewal, and relationship with our environment-both geographical and human-are the themes running through a new programme that brings together renaissance music by Victoria and Byrd with new commissions by Ben Rowarth, Joanna Marsh and Shruthi Rajasekar.