Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - The Baroque Collective and Singers, Lewes Sunday 19 February

Purcell: 
Dido and Aeneas; Chacony in G minor; Hear My Prayer; Suite in G major

The Baroque Collective
Alison Bury, leader
The Baroque Collective Singers
John Hancorn, director
Catrin Woodruff, Dido
Jennifer Clark, Belinda
Andrew Robinson, Aeneas
Helen Dewhurst, Second Woman
Liz Webb, Sorceress
Liz Kelly, First Witch
Katie Hawks, Second Witch
Janet Ormerod, Spirit
Tony Jay, Sailor



The Baroque Collective and the Baroque Collective Singers present a concert performance of Purcell’s most famous work and probably the world’s favourite opera in English. Dido and Aeneas tells the story of the love between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Carthaginian queen Dido, and of her subsequent suicide when he leaves to fulfil his destiny as founder of Rome. There is music of ravishing beauty, including Dido's famous lament 'When I am laid in earth', an evil Sorceress, a jolly sailor, and wonderful choruses for the Baroque Collective Singers. The first half of the concert features the Baroque Collective performing Purcell's Chacony in G minor and Suite in G major, and the Baroque Collective Singers performing Purcell's 'Hear My Prayer'.

Sunday 19 February 2017, 6.30pm
St Michael's Church, 158 High St, Lewes BN7 1XU

Tickets: £15 & £10 (Under 16s free) on the door or from Lewes Tourist Information Centre, 187 High St, Lewes, BN7 2DE.
Online tickets here.

Details on Facebook here.

The Baroque Collective - Handel and Bach

The Baroque Collective Singers and Players join forces for Handel’s magnificent ‘Dixit Dominus’, one of the great choral works of the baroque and a firm favourite with choral singers. John Hancorn conducts, with top baroque violinist Alison Bury leading. The concert also features Bach’s lively double-choir motet ‘Singet dem Herrn’ and a fine Trio Sonata by Handel.

Bach: Singet den Herrn
Handel: Trio Sonata Op.5 No.4
Handel: Dixit Dominus


Baroque Collective Singers
John Hancorn, director
Baroque Collective Players
Alison Bury, leader
Catrin Woodruff, soprano


St Michael's Church, Lewes
Sunday 21 February, 6.30pm
Tickets £15/£10, under 16s free
Tickets from: Lewes Tourist Information Centre or here. 

More on Facebook here.

Glorious Baroque

Sunday 29 March 2015, 6pm
St John sub Castro, Abinger Place, Lewes

Baroque Collective Singers
John Hancorn, conductor
The Baroque Collective
Nicholas Houghton, chamber organ

Vivaldi: Magnificat
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri









The Baroque Collective Singers and their conductor John Hancorn present a glorious concert of Baroque choral music. Domenico Scarlatti’s ten-part Stabat Mater is one of the great masterworks of the time, featuring soaring vocal lines and plangent harmonies. The Magnificat is one of Vivaldi's best-loved choral  works, brought to life in this performance by a quartet of string players from the Baroque Collective playing authentic Baroque instruments alongside the Baroque Collective Singers. Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri is a wonderful cycle of seven cantatas each addressed to a different part of Christ’s crucified body and will feature solos by members of the choir.


Tickets: £10 (under 16s free) available from Lewes Tourist Information Centre (tel: 01273 483448) or on the door

Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 - J. S. Bach

John Hancorn

East Sussex Bach Choir and the BREMF Singers will be joining together for a performance of Bach's B MInor Mass.  We will be joined by the wonderful Baroque Collective, led by Alison Bury, and the soloists  Georgina Stalbow, Rachel Lloyd, Nick Pritchard and Stephen Varcoe, all directed by John Hancorn.

The concert will take place at All Saints Church, Hove on Saturday 9 March, 7.30pm.

Tickets are available via the BREMF website, at the Lewes Information Centre, or by telephoning 07759 878562

Nick Prtichard

Alison Bury

Georgina Stamblow

Rachel Lloyd

     

Stephen Varcoe

ESBC & BREMF Singers