The Baroque Collective Singers present large-scale baroque concerts with our professional baroque orchestra The Baroque Collective in intimate venues in the heart of our local community in Lewes, East Sussex. We work with international soloists and nurture young professional singers, and perform at the highest level. These concerts need extra funding to enable us to pay our wonderful professional musicians and soloists.

The Baroque Collective Singers present a contemplative programme of Lenten motets and John Stainer's The Crucifixion. The first half of the programme explores motets for Lent, Holy Week and Easter from across Europe – Lotti and Palestrina from Italy; Victoria from Spain; John the Fourth from Portugal and Rheinberger from Germany – and span the centuries from renaissance polyphony to nineteenth-century romanticism. Stainer’s The Crucifixion (premiered in 1887) is a deeply moving Passion cantata whose lyrical choruses and heartfelt solos have inspired audiences for generations. The Crucifixion is described as a 'Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer', and tells the story of the final days of Jesus's life, including his Seven Last Words from the Cross. Programme: Victoria: O vos omnes Lotti: Crucifixus John the Fourth: Crux Fidelis Palestrina: Ave Regina Coelorum Rheinberger: Abendlied Interval Stainer: The Crucifixion The Baroque Collective Singers John Hancorn, conductor Andrew Wicks, tenor Andrew Robinson, baritone Nicholas Houghton, organ