What's on in Lewes Baroquefest 2022
We hope you will enjoy the events in this years Festival, and also take the opportunity to explore the very historic, creative and colourful town of Lewes with its renowned antique shops, antiquarian bookshops, art and gift shops, and great cafes and restaurants! See you there!
"A Baroque Bouquet" | Trio ZAC
Wednesday 20th July | 18.30 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £15
Trio ZAC makes its debut in the Lewes Baroquefest with a pot-pourri of baroque music for bassoon, viola and double bass, to include Purcell: Prelude (from the Fairy Queen), Locke: The Flatt Consort, Handel: Larghetto and Allegro (from Trio Sonata in G minor for 2 violins) and Bach: 3 Part invention in C minor.
Zoe Shevlin - bassoon
Annette Isserlis - viola
Cecelia Bruggemeyer - double bass
"Purcell - anthems and songs" | The Baroque Collective Singers
Wednesday 20th July | 21:00 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £15
The Baroque Collective Singers make a welcome return to this year's festival with a programme of Purcell to include anthems Hear My Prayer, I Was Glad and My Heart is Inditing and the Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary. Soprano Alexandra Kidgell (The Sixteen) will sing a lively selection of Purcell’s songs.
John Hancorn - conductor
Alexandra Kidgell - soprano
Nicholas Houghton - chamber organ
"17th Century Strings" - Alison Bury, Julia Bishop, Catherine Rimer, Claire Williams
Thurdsay 21st July | 18:30 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £15
A wonderful evening of baroque chamber music for strings and harpsichord.
Composers to include:
Castello, Cavalli, Merula, Corelli and Vivaldi
Alison Bury - violin
Julia Bishop - violin
Catherine Rimer - cello
Claire Williams - harpsichord
Photo: Katie Vandyck
"Baroque Alchemy" | Piers Adams and Lyndy Mayle
Thursday 21st July | 21.00 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £15
Recorder virtuoso Piers Adams presents a stunning new project with his keyboardist partner Lyndy Mayle, combining the timeless sound-world of the baroque recorder with the universe of possibilities offered by 21st century synth technology. The programme features music by forgotten 17th century composers Montalbano, Pandolfi and D’Anglebert alongside baroque masters Handel, Telemann, Albinoni and Bach – including the famous Goldberg Variations as never heard before!
Piers Adams - recorders
Lyndy Mayle - keyboard
"A Garland of Arias and Sinfonias" |
Friday 22nd July | 18:30 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £15
Sinfonias by J S Bach, alongside his Organ Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor, sacred chorales and fugues and the famous Aria from the Goldberg Variations. Plus arrangements of Ukrainian and Romanian traditional music.
Emma Murphy - recorders
Rachel Stott - viola d'amore
Ibrahim Aziz - viola da gamba
"Late Bach" | Sebastian Comberti - cello
Friday 22nd July | 21:00 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £15
A wonderful evening of Bach for unaccompanied cello
Suite in d BWV 1008
Suite in C BWV 1009
Sebastian Comberti - cello
"Handel: Four Coronation Anthems" | The Baroque Collective and The
Baroque Collective Singers
Saturday 23rd July | 19:00 | St Michael's Church | Tickets £25
Handel’s four Coronation Anthems were composed for King George II in 1727; Zadok the Priest has been sung at every British coronation since and is a hugely popular baroque masterpiece. The Baroque
Collective Singers and The Baroque Collective perform all four Anthems and complete the programme
with two glorious choruses from Handel’s Messiah.
The Baroque Collective
Alison Bury - leader
The Baroque Collective Singers
John Hancorn - director
Photo: Giorgia Bertazzi