Media

Videos

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Photos

Music in the Flesh Workshop, Emmanuel College

Music in the Flesh Workshop, Emmanuel College

Photographs from our Cambridge Festival event, March 2026.
J. S. Bach, *St. John Passion* — Alton Priors, Wiltshire

J. S. Bach, St. John Passion — Alton Priors, Wiltshire

Photography from our performance at All Saints' Church, Alton Priors, Wiltshire, July 2025.
J. S. Bach, St. John Passion, Girton

J. S. Bach, St. John Passion, Girton

Photography from our performance in March 2024.

Words

Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology

My book reimagines the lived experiences of people making music—composers, performers, listeners—in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe. It explores how music affected and reshaped them in body, soul and spirit.

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An Improvised Audience With Bettina Varwig and Friends

A Reflection on our Cambridge Festival Event in March 2026 by James Waite.

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Creative Conversations

Creative Conversations

A blogpost by Bettina Varwig about our event LOVE BOMB.

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Bach in the Flesh at Girton

Bach in the Flesh at Girton

A blogpost by Bettina Varwig.

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What Music Could Do To Listeners' Bodies

A blogpost by Bettina Varwig for The British Academy.

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