Viva Lewes Issue #160 January 2020

CLASSICAL ROUND-UP: JANUARY
FRI 24, 7.45PM
Nicholas Yonge Society. In a town bursting with
choirs, orchestras and festivals, the Nicholas Yonge
Society quietly goes about its business of presenting
fine chamber music, something it’s been doing for
over 50 years. In this month’s concert, the Carducci
String Quartet will be playing quartets by Beethoven
(the Serioso), Britten (No 1 in D major) and Mendelssohn
(No. 6 in F minor). But the Carduccis have
a reputation for championing contemporary repertoire, and for this concert they’ll be joined by
Kate Whitley to perform her new Piano Quintet. Thirty-year-old Kate writes music for ballets,
choirs and orchestras and her works have been performed on Radio 3 and at the BBC Proms.
She also co-runs the Multi Storey Orchestra who perform in (you’ve guessed it) multi storey car
parks. Meanwhile the Guardian calls her music ‘unpretentious, appealingly vigorous and visceral’.
Take this opportunity to hear for yourself.
Cliffe Building, East Sussex College, Mountfield Road, £16, free for 8-25 year-olds, available from
Baldwins Travel, nyslewes.org.uk
PICK
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Photo by Andy Holdsworth Photography
SATURDAY 18, 7.45PM
Musicians of All Saints. The start of the new
year seems to be a good month for new music,
as the Musicians of All Saints continue their
second Living British Composers season. Ric
Graebner directs the players in a programme
that includes the second performance of his own
Clarinet Concerto (solo clarinet Steve Dummer)
and the first performance of a version of Guy
Richardson’s Houriya (Freedom). Alongside this
will be Mendelssohn String Symphony No.6 in
E flat major and Schubert Rondo for Violin and
Strings D.438 with Chris Phipps on solo violin.
Peter Copley introduces the programme in a
pre-concert talk at 7.10pm.
Southover Church, £12 regular, £9 concession,
under 18s free, mas-lewes.co.uk
SUNDAY 26, 11AM
Heath Quartet in association with Strings
Attached. Since winning the Royal Philharmonic
Society’s Young Artists Award in 2013 the
Heath Quartet have been earning a reputation as
one of the most exciting British chamber groups
performing today. At the Attenborough Centre
this month they’ll be playing string quartets by
Beethoven and Brahms. See page 39.
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts,
£18.50, concessions £16, attenboroughcentre.com
SUNDAY 26, 4PM
Corelli Ensemble. A typically exuberant concert
from the Corelli Ensemble features Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Handel Concerto Grosso
Op 6 no. 2 and Beethoven Romance for Violin in
F with solo violinist Maeve Jenkinson. Also in
the mix is John Rutter’s Suite for Strings, based
on British folk tunes. A warming way to see out
what often feels like the darkest month in more
ways than one.
St Pancras Church, £12 in advance from the website
or Lewes TIC, £14 on the door. Children free.
corelliensemble.co.uk
Robin Houghton
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