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MUSIC<br />
Classical round-up<br />
SUNDAY 19, 4PM<br />
Corelli Ensemble<br />
Now in its 30th year, the Corelli Ensemble’s theme for<br />
2018-19 has been ‘Sussex Composers’. This month’s season<br />
finale features Flint, by Ed Hughes, a celebration of the local<br />
landscape incorporating folksong. Also on the programme is<br />
the popular Holberg Suite by Grieg and <strong>Viva</strong>ldi’s joyful Guitar<br />
Concerto for which the Corellis are welcoming back master<br />
guitar player Paul Gregory.<br />
St. Pancras Church. £10 in advance, £12 on the door,<br />
children free. corelliensemble.co.uk<br />
PICK<br />
OF THE<br />
MONTH<br />
Photo by Yoko Ono<br />
4–26 MAY<br />
Brighton Festival. This year’s festival promises<br />
a number of highlights: Early Music vocal<br />
ensemble Stile Antico join with Syrian oud<br />
performer Rihab Azar for Songs of Longing<br />
and Exile (Friday 17th at All Saints Hove), the<br />
ground-breaking Chineke! bring their jazzinspired<br />
programme to the Dome (Thursday<br />
23rd) and Brighton Festival Chorus, with the<br />
Philharmonia Orchestra, perform Tippett’s A<br />
Child of Our Time (Sunday 26th at the Dome.)<br />
brightonfestival.org<br />
SATURDAY 4, 7.30PM<br />
Fundraising Concert in aid of the Friends of<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Victoria Hospital. An evening of music<br />
and song featuring Julia Bishop, Dirk Campbell,<br />
Lucinda Houghton and Paul Austin Kelly,<br />
among others. <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall. £15 to include<br />
a drink, from Baldwins Travel or Eventbrite.<br />
SUNDAY 5, 3PM<br />
St Michael’s Recitals. Soprano Hannah<br />
Limbrick and friends accompanied by Nick<br />
Houghton on the piano. St Michael’s, free with<br />
retiring collection. stmichaelinlewes.org.uk<br />
SUNDAY 5, 3PM<br />
Seaford Music Society Consone Quartet.<br />
Formed while students at the Royal College of<br />
Music, this award-winning ensemble will play<br />
string quartets by Boccherini, Beethoven and<br />
Mendelssohn. St Leonard’s Church, Seaford.<br />
£15, students £5, children free.<br />
seafordmusicsociety.com<br />
SATURDAY 11, 7PM<br />
Glynde Place Concert Series Quatuor Arod<br />
String Quartet. The BBC R3 New Generation<br />
Artists perform Mozart, Webern and Brahms.<br />
Glynde Place. £30, Under 16s £15. glynde.co.uk<br />
FRIDAY 17, 7.30PM<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra. The orchestra<br />
presents Weber Jubel Overture, Mozart Sinfonia<br />
Concertante for four winds and Schumann<br />
Symphony No. 3. Town Hall. £10 in advance, £12<br />
on the door, under 18s £5.<br />
lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
SATURDAY 18, 5PM<br />
Glyndebourne Festival. This gets underway<br />
with a fully staged La damnation de Faust by<br />
Berlioz. Il Barbiere di Siviglia opens on Sunday<br />
19th, billed as a ‘stylish, surreal production’ by<br />
director Annabel Arden. Glyndebourne Opera<br />
House. £15-£230. glyndebourne.com<br />
THURSDAY 30, 1.10PM<br />
St Anne’s Recitals Amalthea Duo. Klio Blonz<br />
(flute) and Siobhan Swider (harp) St Anne’s<br />
Church, free, with a collection.<br />
stannelewes.org.uk<br />
Robin Houghton<br />
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