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LEWES FESTIVAL OF SONG

Patron: Mark Padmore
Welcome to our song festival, a celebration of art-song which takes place in St. Anne’s Church in Lewes every July.
inspiring performers ~ beautiful music ~ thought-provoking programmes

Our Summer Festival 2024 is on Sunday July 7th

ONE DAY, THREE CONCERTS

1pm The Heart's Return with Nick Pritchard with Nancy Cooley

Schumann’s Liederkreis op.24, to poems by Heine
Fauré’s L’horizon chimérique and other late songs 
Poulenc’s song-cycle ‘Tel jour telle nuit’ to poems by Paul Eluard

4.30pm On the East Wind with Elizabeth Watts with Jâms Coleman

A selection of Richard Strauss, Schubert and Kaprâlová songs and Britten’s folk song arrangements.

8pm This Shining Night with Ellie Laugharne with Nancy Cooley, Florian Störtz

and string quartet Kate Comberti, Ellie Blackshaw, Sally Beamish and Sebastian Comberti

A journey through Samuel Barber’s beautiful songs which reflect his deep feeling for poetry. Our concert includes Dover Beach, and his famous Adagio in its original form for string quartet.

TICKETS ARE £18, OR BUY OUR ALL-DAY PASS FOR THREE CONCERTS FOR £45. UNDER 18S FREE.

Well done on putting on yet another truly fantastic festival, beautifully planned and full of very special moments.

-M.P.

Gorgeous programming, as usual - thought-provoking, mind-expanding, lovely! 

-O.G.

The programming & the performances are very special.

-L.Y.

The best ever song festival – so many talents and so much inspiring music on display. It was all world class, but if I had to choose a favourite from the whole thing it would be my personal love of the emotional Finzi settings of Hardy in James Newby’s wonderfully varied and insightful evening – what a talent! Or Alison Rose’s “Illuminations” – another favourite piece but in a spectacular performance with the Corelli – and wasn’t the tenor good!  You should be very proud and pleased to bring all this to Lewes.

-M.B.

What a treat yesterday’s lunchtime concert was.  I can’t thank you enough.  Fabulous repertoire – most of which I didn’t know – beautifully played and sung.  

-A.S.

What a huge success I thought the Festival was. Really interesting programmes and such well-chosen, brilliant young players. It was all delightful and last night’s ‘Illuminations’ was absolutely electrifying.

-J.H.

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