Viva Lewes Issue #149 February 2019
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MUSIC<br />
Classical round-up<br />
SATURDAY 16, 7.30PM<br />
The Baroque Collective<br />
Period instrument ensemble The Baroque Collective, led by<br />
Alison Bury, are joined by the Baroque Collective Singers to<br />
perform the popular Gloria by <strong>Viva</strong>ldi and his equally glorious<br />
but lesser-known Magnificat. Handel’s Coronation Anthem Let<br />
Thy Hand be Strengthened and Overture to Rodrigo complete the<br />
programme. It’s directed by John Hancorn, with soloists Jenni<br />
Harper and Rebecca Leggett (pictured). Rebecca is an awardwinning<br />
and up-and-coming mezzo who started her singing career<br />
as a student at the excellent East Sussex Academy of Music<br />
in <strong>Lewes</strong> which, like all state-funded classical music education,<br />
is seriously under threat. This concert is sure to be popular, so<br />
don’t rely on tickets being available on the door.<br />
St Michael’s. £20 / £15, under 16s free, from <strong>Lewes</strong> Tourist Information<br />
or thebaroquecollective.org.uk<br />
PICK<br />
OF THE<br />
MONTH<br />
KLM Photography<br />
WEDNESDAY 6-SUNDAY 10<br />
Viriditas. A series of events celebrating the<br />
music and life of Hildegard von Bingen. Talks,<br />
workshop, meditations, a sound installation<br />
and culminating in a concert. See also page 37.<br />
ACCA. Ticket prices vary per event – see<br />
attenboroughcentre.com<br />
SUNDAY 10, 2.45PM<br />
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. Guest<br />
director Stephen Bell conducts the Prelude and<br />
Liebestod from Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan<br />
and Isolde, known for its harmonic sophistication<br />
which was unprecedented at the time. Also on<br />
the programme are Richard Strauss Four Last<br />
Songs featuring Welsh soprano Camilla Roberts,<br />
and Glière Symphony No 1 Op 8.<br />
Brighton Dome. £12.50-£39.50, 50% student/U18<br />
discount. 01273 709709, brightondome.org<br />
SUNDAY 17, 4PM<br />
Corelli Ensemble. Reprising its January<br />
concert at Seaford, the Corelli Ensemble is in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> performing a programme of Handel,<br />
Boyce, Warlock, Lewis and The Lark Ascending<br />
by Vaughan Williams, played by the ensemble’s<br />
musical director, Maeve Jenkinson. St. Pancras<br />
Church. £10 from corelliensemble.co.uk, £12 on<br />
the door. Children free<br />
FRIDAY 22, 8PM<br />
Poppy Ackroyd. Classically-trained musician<br />
Poppy Ackroyd creates percussive textures from<br />
traditional classical instruments, which she<br />
layers and manipulates digitally. The result is<br />
an interesting fusion of acoustic and electronic.<br />
She’s ‘a neo-classical force to be reckoned with’,<br />
according to Electronic Sound magazine. ACCA.<br />
£12. attenboroughcentre.com<br />
SUNDAY 24, 11AM<br />
Castalian Quartet with Daniel Lebhardt,<br />
Piano. The Coffee Concert series at ACCA continues<br />
to present high-quality music. This month<br />
the Castalian Quartet play Haydn String Quartet<br />
in C Op 20 No 2 and Elgar String Quartet in E minor<br />
Op 83, before joining with Hungarian pianist<br />
Daniel Lebhardt for Brahms’s dramatic and fiery<br />
Piano Quintet. ACCA. £18.50, concessions £16.<br />
attenboroughcentre.com Robin Houghton<br />
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