Viva Lewes June 2015 Issue #105

on this month: music
Classical
Paul Austin Kelly’s round-up
We have an embarrassment of riches this month
with two chamber music festivals on the same
weekend: the Rathfinny Estate Festival and the
Lewes Chamber Music Festival. The former
features the London Conchord Ensemble, a
black tie ‘musical dégustation’ dinner, and a
concert with soprano Dame Felicity Lott, while
the latter celebrates the music of Haydn with
the London Haydn Quartet (see p33), as well as
recent works from composers Edmund Finnis
and Melanie Daiken.
Mezzo-soprano Sara Gourlay and pianist Nicholas
Houghton will perform works of Handel,
Gluck, Duparc and others.
Sun 7, 3pm, St Michael’s Church, free
Rathfinny Estate Chamber Music Festival Wine
tasting dinner and concert, Fri 12, 6pm, £175,
Piano four-hands tea recital, Sat 13, 3pm, £20, Gala
evening, Sat 13, 6pm, £60, Coffee concert, Sun 14,
11.15am, £15, Festival Finale, Sun 14, 3pm, £30
rathfinnyestate.com
Lewes Chamber Music Festival, Fri 12, 6.30pm,
St John sub Castro, £14, Fri 12, 10pm, Westgate
Chapel, £12, Sat 13, 11.30am, St Peter’s, Firle,
£14, Sat 13, 6pm, St John’s, £14, Sat 13, 9.45pm,
All Saints, £17, Sun 14, 11am, All Saints, £12, Sun
14, 2.30pm, All Saints, £14, Sun 14, 7pm, St John’s,
£14 leweschambermusicfestival.com
The Corelli Ensemble perform Vivaldi’s Four
Seasons featuring violinist Maeve Jenkinson.
Sun 14, 4pm, St Pancras church, £12,
corelliensemble.co.uk
Glynde Place Concert series continues with
rising star of the international piano scene
Louis Schwizgebel (pictured), a 2013 BBC New
Generation Artist. Sat 20, 7pm, Glynde Place,
£25, glynde.co.uk
Brighton Singers present songs of Vaughan
Williams, Copland and Matyas Seiber. Sat 20,
7.30pm, Court Gardens Farm, Ditchling, £10
Esterházy Chamber Choir offer a capella English
choral music conducted by Sandy Chenery.
Sat 20, 7.30pm, St Anne’s Church, £12
East Sussex Bach Choir perform Purcell’s The
Fairy Queen. Sun 21, 6pm, St John sub Castro,
£15/10, under 16s free
A-level students of the East Sussex Academy of
Music play a final concert together with orchestra,
choir and session bands. Wed 24, 7.30pm,
Town Hall, £6, £3
Bass-baritone Alex Roose and pianist David
Ollosson give a song recital, including Vaughan
Williams’s Five Mystical Songs. Thu 25, 1.10pm, St
Anne’s Church, free
East Sussex Community Chorus offer an evening
of opera choruses and solo ensembles featuring
Lynn Deacon, Niamh Kelly, Paul Austin
Kelly, Jozik Kotz with Carol Kelly, directed by
Nicholas Houghton. Sat 27, 6pm, Town Hall, £12
The Paddock Singers present an eclectic programme,
from Poppins to Pergolesi, featuring
his Stabat Mater. Sun, 28, 7pm, All Saint, £8
Photo by Marco Borggreve
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