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IN TOWN THIS MONTH: MUSIC<br />
Classical Round-up<br />
Celebrating Shakespeare... and Sussex<br />
<strong>June</strong> promises to be a powerhouse for music in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> with more than enough for everyone,<br />
including a Shakespearian salute, a poolside<br />
orchestral serenade, and a full three-day chamber<br />
music festival.<br />
The very excellent Kantanti Ensemble starts<br />
things off with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2,<br />
a huge and important work given a new orchestration<br />
here for Kantanti by Iain Farrington.<br />
Glazunov managed to destroy the premiere of<br />
Rachmaninoff’s (pictured) first symphony by conducting<br />
it while in a drunken stupor, but we expect<br />
a more sober, if no less flamboyant interpretation<br />
from conductor Lee Reynolds. For the uninitiated,<br />
listen out for the themes used in Birdman and also<br />
Eric Carmen’s Never Gonna Fall in Love Again. Sat<br />
4th, 5.30pm, St John sub Castro<br />
Clarinetist Nick Carpenter and pianist Nicholas<br />
Houghton play an all-French recital, featuring<br />
sonatas by Saint-Saens and Poulenc, as well as<br />
Debussy’s Petite Pièce. Sun 5th, 3pm, St Michael’s<br />
Church, free<br />
An evening of Scandinavian works fills the<br />
Corelli Ensemble’s programme, including Grieg’s<br />
Holberg Suite and Elegaic Melody No. 2, a Sibelius<br />
Impromptu, and Swedish composer Dag Wirén’s<br />
Serenade for Strings. Sun 12th, 4pm, Cross Way<br />
Church, Seaford, £10<br />
Musicians of All Saints present two chamber music<br />
concerts this month - a quintet and a quartet, both<br />
comprised of MAS members. The first concert<br />
offers French composer Anton Reicha’s Grand<br />
Quintetto (1826) and also contemporary American<br />
composer Robert G. Patterson’s Bassoon in the Box.<br />
The quartet will play Haydn’s String Quartet No.<br />
1, Frank Bridge’s String Quartet No. 4 and will<br />
give the second ever performance of Sussex-based<br />
composer Guy Richardson’s Houriya.<br />
Sun 12th and 19th, 6pm, Hamsey Old Church, £10<br />
(u18 free)<br />
There are musical delights to be savoured at the<br />
fifth annual <strong>Lewes</strong> Chamber Music Festival, which<br />
this year serves up eight concerts over a period<br />
of three days. Further details can be found in my<br />
article on p37.<br />
Fri 17th to Sun 19th, various times and venues<br />
A Shakespearian Celebration is the title of East Sussex<br />
Bach Choir’s event this month. On the menu:<br />
extracts from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Michael<br />
Tippett’s Songs for Ariel, Thomas Linley’s Ode on<br />
the Spirits of Shakespeare and Vaughan Williams’<br />
ethereal Serenade to Music. There will also be appropriate<br />
Shakespearian readings interspersed by<br />
Jonathan Cullen and Niamh Cusack, and a special<br />
cameo appearance by the Wallands Choir. The<br />
conductor is John Hancorn, with pianist Nancy<br />
Cooley and organist Nicholas Houghton.<br />
Sat 18th, 7pm, St Anne’s Church, £12<br />
Finally, the <strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra will give an<br />
evening poolside performance at the Pells. The<br />
fare will be light and popular, and will of course<br />
include the crowd pleaser, Sussex by the Sea. Bring a<br />
towel. Fri 24th, 7.30pm, Pells Pool, £8<br />
Paul Austin Kelly<br />
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