Bach & Handel at Lewes Baroquefest

Saturday 19 July 2025 at 7pm
Lewes Baroquefest
Lewes Town Hall

Our Festival Finale features three great masterpieces of the Baroque by J S Bach and Handel including Bach’s hugely popular Double Violin Concerto with Festival artistic director Julia Bishop and Alison Bury, former leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The Baroque Collective Singers are joined by their professional baroque orchestra, The Baroque Collective, and a fantastic line-up of soloists for Bach’s Magnificat and Handel’s Dixit Dominus.

Handel: Dixit Dominus HWV 232
Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor BWV 1043
Interval
Bach: Magnificat BWV 243

Alison Bury & Julia Bishop, solo violins
Lucy Cox, soprano
Jemima Price, soprano
Rebecca Leggett, mezzo soprano
Mark Dobell, tenor
Stephen Charlsworth, baritone
The Baroque Collective
John Hancorn, conductor