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Sing & Discover Online Workshop: Bach: Magnificat & Handel: Dixit Dominus

In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in with some of the choruses. Saturday 22 January…

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Friday 15 October 2021 at 8.30pm Lewes Town Hall Ruth Kerr, soprano Rebecca Leggett, mezzo soprano Paul Austin Kelly, tenor John Hancorn, baritone Lewes Concert Orchestra Baroque Collective Singers and Friends Ian McCrae, conductor

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Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle

Saturday 2 October 2021 at 6pm and 8.30pm St Michael’s Church, Lewes Tickets now on sale: 6pm performance here, 8.30pm performance here Rossini’s delightful Petite Messe Solennelle is full of memorable tunes, colour and drama, ranging from hushed intensity to boisterous high spirits. Alexander Kidgell, soprano Thalie Knights, mezzo soprano Simon Madge, baritone The Baroque…

Lewes Baroquefest: Handel: Dixit Dominus

Saturday 24 July 2021 at 6pm and 8.30pm St Michael’s Church, Lewes A thrilling programme of Baroque music featuring Piers Adams performing Telemann’s virtuosic Recorder Concerto in C major and Handel’s energetic and brilliant Dixit Dominus with the Baroque Collective, Baroque Collective Singers and a quartet of professional soloists. Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn –…

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Sing & Discover Online Workshop: Brahms: Requiem

Saturday 25 September 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/YYN In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Brahms’s Requiem. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join…

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Sing & Discover Online Workshop: Beethoven Mass in C and Missa Solemnis

Saturday 5 June 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/YYM In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Beethoven’s Mass in C and Missa Solemnis. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded…

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Sing & Discover Online: Mozart: Requiem and Mass in C minor

Saturday 24 April 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/YYK In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Mozart’s Requiem and Mass in C minor. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded…

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Sing & Discover Online: Haydn: Nelson Mass & Harmonie Mass

Saturday 20 March 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Haydn’s Nelson Mass and Harmonie Mass. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will…

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Sing & Discover Online: Bach: St Matthew Passion

Saturday 27 February 2021, 4-6.15pm Online via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/UNM In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Bach’s St Matthew Passion. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants…

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Sing & Discover Online: Handel: Messiah

Saturday 23 January 2021 4-6.15pm via Zoom Tickets £10. Book here: https://www.trybooking.co.uk/UNL In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Handel’s Messiah. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in…

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Sing & Discover Online: Bach: Christmas Oratorio

Join conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore in a musical exploration of Bach’s wonderful Christmas Oratorio on Saturday 14 November at 4pm. Discover the origins and cultural background, explore the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, and join in with several choruses. Sat 14 Nov 2020, 4-6.15pm: Bach: Christmas…

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Sing & Discover Online: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Purcell’s semi-opera Dido and Aeneas, the story of Dido the queen of Carthage and her doomed love for Aeneas, the prince of Troy. We shall look at the music in some…

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The Baroque Collective in Grange Gardens: Sunday 13 September 2020

Sunday 13 September 2020, 6-7pm Grange Gardens, Eastport Lane, Lewes BN7 1TL Tickets: suggested donation £10 Age 16 and under free Advance booking only Sir John Tomlinson, bass Alexandra Kidgell, soprano Piers Adams, recorder The Baroque Collective leader Alison Bury Baroque Collective Singers directed by John Hancorn Featuring arias and choruses by Handel, Purcell, Mozart, and…

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Myths, Mystique and Mayhem: Saturday 15 February 2020

Tales of love, marriage and murder, a heroic princess and a hymn to the rising sun. This concert of English and German partsongs features harpist Helen Arnold and pianist Nancy Cooley with the Baroque Collective Singers directed by John Hancorn and Tony Jay. Music for women’s, men’s and mixed voices by Brahms, Schubert, Haydn, Britten,…

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Handel: MESSIAH: Sunday 22 December 2019

Sunday 22 December at 7pm, St Michael’s Church, 158 High St, Lewes BN7 1XU Sally Matthews, soprano Rebecca Leggett, mezzo soprano Xavier Hetherington, tenor Brindley Sherratt, bass Baroque Collective Singers The Baroque Collective Alison Bury, leader John Hancorn, director